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Our View Platforms Compared It is easy to put down the platforms of the Republicans and Democrats as meaningless documents of no importance. But that would be a mistake. The platforms tell a great deal about the nature of the two national parties. There is a basic difference, even though party candidates always seek to appeal for votes across party lines. It is revealing to compare the platform adopted in Kansas City with the one adopted in 7 ew York City.

On the economy, which is certain to be a key issue in the November campaign, the Republicans leave the generation of new jobs to the private sector. The Democrats promise government action to reduce unemployment. The Republicans would fight inflation by ending deficit spending. They reject wage and price controls. The Democrats promise a strong domestic council on wage and price stability.

On taxes, the Republicans propose new tax incentives for business investment. The Democrats seek a complete overhaul of the tax system to eliminate loopholes. On defense, the Republicans favor a period of sustained growth in our defense effort. The Democrats emphasize pursuit of arms control agreements and propose a reduction of $5 billion to S7 billion in defense spending. On energy, the Republicans favor ending price controls on oil and newly discovered natural gas.

The Democrats support restrictions on the right of major oil companies to own all phases of the petroleum industry. On a number of controversial issues, the two party platforms take opposing stands. National health insurance--the Republicans are against it, the Democrats for it. Gun control--the Republicans oppose federal registration of firearms, the Democrats seek to strengthen controls over manufacture, sale and possession of handguns. Abortion--the Republicans support a constitutional amendment against it, the Democrats oppose such an amendment.

Busing--the Republicans support a constitutional amendment forbidding assignment to schools on the basis of race, the Democrats support mandatory busing to achieve racial integration in schools as a judicial tool of last resort. Even this short summary displays the basic difference in the two platofrms. The Democratic platform can fairly be described as liberal; the Republican, as conservative. But don't expect the promises of either platform to be carried out promptly by the nominees of that party if elected in November. There are many practical reasons why that would be impossible, and perhaps undesirable.

Human Interest My Dream Island White House Angry By ROBERT E. LESTJ Courier Editor Someone must be off their rocker. Today I received in the mail a 270-page beatiful catalog titled "Previews Guide to Fine Real Estate." It is a catalog of what the firm calls "exceptional" real estate offerings. To give you an example of what "exceptional" is, the first home listed goes for only $2,750,000. Of course, "Edgewood Ranch" includes 161 acres of which 113 acres are devoted to a citrus operation.

But no kidddng, if you're in the market to buy a school or institution, the book is almost invaluable. For example, a 400- acre institution at Honesdale, can be picked up for only $1,950,000. Just the thing for those who often have unexpected house guests. The institution has 128 bedrooms. Other Pennsylvania listings include a "lovely 22-acre estate with an 11-room residence in Penllyn for just $425,000.

Of course it has a swimming pool with flagstone patio. The house includes custom designed woodwork, paneling and moldings. Its main two-chimney section has two wings with shuttered windows. Four fireplaces are faced with marble. Really, quite a steal.

Or if you would prefer to live in Waynesboro, we just happen to have a 107-acre farm with fine old stone house for just half a million dollars. Sorry, no pool here, but it does have a fresh-water pond stocked with blue gills and trout. Oh yes, it also has a two-level stone barn. You say you always had a yen to go to a prep shcool. Whv not just buy one.

The former Nyack Prep School is on sale for $595,000. Or, if your tastes run to military schools you can buy the one at Aledo, 111. for It will house 160 students. If you lean towards religious in- stitutions, you can buy the Mount Alvirno Academy, a Catholic high school for girls at Maryville, Missouri, for just $750,000. But mostly the book lists homes, like the Dean Martin estate at Bel Air.

Calif. This little 16-room Tudor-style tidbit goes for $1,200,000. But the book did touch a tender spot. I have always wanted to own my own island--and now is my chance. There is a little island in the Virgin Islands for only $3,320,000.

That was just a wee bit too high, so I'm seriously considering a 36-acre island near Antigua, West Indies. It's only $350,000 complete with beach house and row boat. There's also an interesting one in the Bahamas, Fowl Cay of Exuma Islands. It has three residences and only $660,000. But the real bargain in islands is the Island of Nawaci in the Fiji group.

Listen to this "A romantic uninhabited island with the privacy and lure of the South Pacific" for only $150,000. If it wasn't for the attraction I have for islands. I would be torn between the "revolving round house" at Wilton, Conn, and the "house of tomorrow here today" at North Salem, N.Y. The revolving round house is just that. The house is built on a pedestal and the entire thing rotates in 10 speeds.

It stands 12 feet off the ground and took three years to build. A real bargain at $835,000. The house of tomorrow here today looks like a test tube on its side. It has been compared to a modern Crystal Palace and a Greek temple. House Beutiful called it "an all-white 70-foot Plexglas cylinder." Frankly, it looks like a transparent Quonset hut to me.

But, for $250,000,1 guess they can call it what they like. Carter's Transition Team Talking With Nixon Hatchet Man Out Of The Past SIXTY YEARS AGO The first case of infantile paralysis is reported in The five-year- old victim is reported to have only a mild case. Street Commissioner William McCormick's force has threatened to go on strike for higher wages. The men, according to a city official, are dissatisfied, and feel that their work is cihr Daily (Cmtrar I 7 W. Apple Cnnntllsville, Pa.

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Aaron Coughenour, a patrolman on the local police force is preparing to resign his position to accept another job. Coughenour will become a fireman at the Yough brewery. FIFTY YEARS AGO Approximately 700 adult and 150 children's tickets are sold in Connellsville for the annual outing of the Milton L. Bishop Post of the American Legion to Kennywood Park. Most of the places of business downtown close in recognition of the event.

Three special trains carry' picnickers from the city to the park. Members of the city's volunteer fire department complete plans for their upcoming trip to New Kensington where they will attend the annual convention of the Western Pennsylvania Firemen's Association. The state construction company moves its tools into West Washington Avenue in Mount Pleasant, where work will begin on the street's excavation for its permanent improvement. Concrete will be poured from Eagle Street to First Street. By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERTNOVAK WASHINGTON--Anger and apprehension swept through the Ford White House when presidential aides learned that Jimmy Carter's transition team was consulting a certain expert: Frederick V.

Malek, one of Richard M. Nixon's most feared hatchet men. The apprehension stems from well- founded White House suspicions that Malek, now senior vice president at the Marriott gave Carter transition chief Jack Watson the old Nixon blueprint for taking over the government by- replacing political appointments in 60 key slots. "In effect," contends one Republican, "Fred identified his own people, many of whom are still in their old jobs. Now, of course, these people are marked for quick execution and replacement." Malek and Watson both told us they met in Washington on transition problems- including political jobs to be filled--about two months ago.

a meeting initiated by Watson. Both say they have no plans for future Both deny reports that they met again in Atlanta Aug. 9 (though Malek says he was in Atlanta that day on Marriott Business). Whether or not the Malek-Watson meeting was a one-shot affair, it deeply worries Republicans because Malek maintains ties with key figures in the Ford White House. That includes senior White House aide Jerry Jones, Malek's former deputy.

The fact that Watson solicited transition help from Malek can be ascribed either to naivete or to cynicism. Malek, 1972 deputy chairman of CREEP (the Committee to Reeled the President), was one of the most feared operatives in the Nixon administration. A footnote: Malek, out of politics for the 1976 campaign, told us he is helping neither Carter nor President Ford. Behind Connally's Anger The real reason for John Connally's unconcealed anger during the Republican convention in Kansas City last week can be traced to Richard Cheney, President Ford's top White House aide, who completely forgot to give Connally an urgent message. Evans Novak When Connally showed up at the White House on July 27 to endorse Ford, the President asked him to be one of three party superstars to make a nominating speech for Ford (the other two: Vice President Rockefeller and Sen.

Barry Goldwater). Connally accepted with alacrity. One week later, on advice of top campaign Copley Servici aides, Ford decided that using his three big guns at the same time was a wasteful allocation of talent. He ordered Connally, Rockefeller and Goldwater scrubbed as nominators and scheduled Connally for a speech Tuesday evening, Aug. 17.

Cheney, however, neglected to inform Connally. Thus, when Mary Louise Smith, Republican national chairman, telephoned Connally Aug. 10 and asked if he would like to address the convention Aug. 17, he said no thanks, he would rather nominate the President Aug. 18.

Mrs. Smith, who had never been told about the original plan, was thunderstruck. Word quickly leaked out from the Republican high command that Connally was playing hard to get and embarrassing the President, leading to anti-Connally news stories. Not until Peter O'Donnell, former Texas Republican chairman who went to Kansas City with Connally, complained to the President Ford Committee (PFC) was it discovered that Cheney had never informed Connally of the schedule change. For Connally, that was par for the course.

Ever since Ford's primary campaign began, Connally has blamed White House staffers for one of the most badly organized campaigns in modern politics. Although pleased by the selection of Texan James A. Baker III as new PFC boss, Connally's confidence in the Ford White House remains near rock bottom. Lonely Schweiker There was only one explanation for not inviting Sen. Richard Schweiker to the podium in the carefully contrived show of good fellowship between President Ford and the Reganites the last night of the Republican convention.

The President had a completely open mind, despite Schweiker's humiliating putdowns of Jerry Ford as just not up to the job of chief of state. But Ford operatives, after a careful canvass, decided that if Ronald Reagan's chosen running mate ever showed his face on the podium the convention would (as one told us) "rock with boos from Ford men who see Dick as a traitor and Reaganites who see him as an enemy." Schweiker himself was sitting with Reagan when the President dramatically waved his arm and invited Reagan to the podium. Schweiker waited, expectantly and hopefully, for a similar summons but it never came. In that fraternal setting so carefully stage-managed by Ford's operatives, Schweiker was the odd man out. His Finest Hour Regan Dedicated to Cause Larger Than His Own Candidacy By PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Proof that Ronald Reagan is a man with the potential to rise to the opportunities that fate brings was demonstrated at the closing session of the Republican National Convention.

Reagan had rejected two invitations to address that Thursday session because, gentleman that he is, he did not want to encroach on President Ford's evening of glory or delay his acceptance speech scheduled for prime-time television. When, at the very end of the session, Ford spontaneously turned the microphone over to Reagan, the former actor starred in one of the most dramatic moments in political history. Reagan demonstrated that he needs neither ghostwriters nor prompters nor long preparation nor rehearsals in order to deliver a masterful, meaty, relevant and eloquent speech. Reagan showed that he clearly understands that his 1,070 delegates had not come to Kansas City because they are pawns of the political patronage system willing to do the bidding of their bosses, or even just because they like Reagan personally or believe he is a more attractive candidate. Reagan's speech showed that he understands that his supporters came to Kansas City because there are major moral, patriotic and political differences between Ford and Reagan, and that those differences were not erased by Ford's 117- vote margin of victory.

Reagan diplomatically but firmly used that exciting moment before the assembled delegates to point with pride to their tremendous victory in forcing into the platform a foreign policy section which repudiates the core of the Kissinger-Nixon-Ford foreign policy, namely, detente, the sellout agreements with the Soviets, the deliberate snub of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the betrayal of the Captive Nations at Helsinki. That needed to be said because, when the Ford forces capitulated late Tuesday night to the Reagan minority report on foreign policy, they thereby avoided a roll Phyllis Schlafly call vote which would have visibly brought home to the television viewing audience the fact that the Republican National Convention had gone on record against those crucial features of the Kissinger policies. Finally, Reagan's brief closing speech showed that he understands that the overriding issue of this 1976 election is the survival of America in the face of the gigantic Soviet missile threat, and that how we meet this challenge in the months ahead will determine whether our country is still around during the next century. By the conspicuous omission of Gerald Ford's name, Reagan made it clear that the survival of America does not depend on the election of Gerald Ford over Jimmy Carter. Reagan emphasized that the challenge to our country's survival can be met only if his supporters continue to work together for the same principles and policies that brought.them to Kansas City.

Ronald Reagan's finest hour was the leadership he displayed in defeat and his dedication to a cause larger than his! own candidacy. i If his supporters will follow his example, swallow their disappointment and continue the battle that he has led during the last year, they can bring about the same changes in the Kissinger-Ford policies in Washington that they so successfully forced in the Kissinger-Ford policies in Kansas City. Ed Newman's New Book Necessaryandessential for Hopesandaspirations By GEORGE F.WILL WASHINGTON-My father shaves with a razor. I shave with a "shaving that is what Gillette Company calls it. My sons probably will shave with a a i i a depilatory modules" (razors).

This gloomy thought came to me as I stood, shaving system in hand, the morning after reading Edwin Newman's new book, "A Civil Tongue," out in October. Newman believes the collapse of the English language is not what Henry Kissinger calls a hypothetical situation that does not actually exist. Rather, it is fas one stylist says) a solid fact that hews to actuality. Two years ago Newman published "Strictly Speaking," his first book on the cliches, pomposities and errors that are ruining the language. Since then readers have been sending him examples that may have escaped his eyes and ears.

The New York Times asks, "Will Paris Talks Produce Dialogue?" Mayor Beame praises New York as a "pan- ethnic city." Dubuque, Iowa, has a "law enforcement center," not a jail. All things self-defeating have become "coun- terproductive" or (among doctors) "countertherapeutic." Sociologists say a family is a microcluster of structured role expectations, or a bounded plurality of role-playing individuals. Murder is an escalated interpersonal altercation. Grandiose language is used to disguise tiny ideas, or to clog the ears of inconvenient listeners. Thus when the CIA wants to "terminate with extreme prejudice" (kill) it can use its "nondiscernible microbionoc- ulator" (poison dart gun).

The prefix "non" is especially uninformative. It is not reassuring to know that the gunk in your coffee is is a "nondairy creamer." Now that you know what it is non, what is it? The suffix "wise" is'-familiar. For example, there was this note in a program at New York's Lincoln Center: "Dvorak was a late bloomer, compositionwise." But the suffix "ize" is gaining favor, as in Jimmy Carter's suggestion that Democrats "prioritize" their platform. Obviously Carter will feel at home in Washington, where a woman who wants to be ordained in the Episcopal Chruch says: "I will not let the church inferiorize me." In Washington, the House to maximize our efforts for a i a i major successful triumph in a i i a establishing a benchmark thrust material," not evidence. And the at this watershed position.

Capitol Police serve notice: "Vehicles will be parked chronologically as they enter the Tooled-up with a data base, Newman is operationally ready to be a viable cutting edge. His book can leverage an ongoing conceptual attack on the parameters of language abusivity. "Language is plunging Such gibberish is necessaryand essential (in Washington, one word, according to Newman) for the hopesandaspirations (also one word) of politicians like Rep. Daniel Flood who should downward to its lowerst nadir" get a portion of Newman's and a fatal slaying of it may royalties. Here is Flood cresting: loom.

This should be (as "At issue is a budding military President Ford said of inflation) program that six months ago in the universal enemy of 100 per the first blush of prototype flying cent of the American people. It looked merely huge but now should not be taken (as the looms as the fighter plane plum Associated Press described the of the century." Ah, swing low, Laotian government taking looming plum, over the fruited things) in calm stride. Newman's plains. high-profile posture on The publishers of Newman's remediation, languagewise, is a latest'book have asked me for a meaningful commitment that comment suitable for printing on establishes him as a presence the dust jacket. Here goes: and a role-model for his media "Individuals who have wit- peer group, nessed Newman in television- type ambiances know he uses "In this time frame we are at a oral and verbal communication Rubicon.

Hopefully, Newman's skills good. Now he has written a important book will not be back- lengthy but not-too-lengthy burnered, but will be a essay-type book that should springboard to rekindle good convince each and every one of us usages. Otherwise (in the words of Henry Wallace) the ship of state may sail down untrod paths, as the language dies by leaps and bounds. Being time-constrained, I can only say that when this book interfaces with the reading public, it will generate for Newman massive outputs of admiration feedback." GRAFFITI PAGE SIXTEEN THE DAILY COURIER, CONNELISVILLE, PA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1976.