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With temper tantrum HMD Semocrat'fierolD K3BJS9AKS Sen McGovern foils into trap Tf WASHINGTON, D.C. Sen. George McGovern surely will rue the day he let loose that verbose outburst of temper after the Democratic Credentials Committee stripped him of 151 California delegates. With his angry threat to bolt the party if the full convention backs the committee, McGovern played right into the hands of Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey and others who claim he is surrounded by extermists who want to ruin the Democratic party if they 'can't rule McGovern's angry if-I-don't-win-count-me-out attitude is bound to intensify the "stop-McGovern" efforts of powerful forces in the party; Even if, by court ruling or some other means, he gets back those 151 delegates and wins the nomination, he has dealt a severe blow to chances that even a halfway united Democratic party can push him into the White House. Humphrey just had gone on CBS's "Face the Nation" to charge that a "narrow, ideological elite" around McGovern was in danger of wrecking the Democratic party when the committee began its deliberations. Pressed as to whom he referred to, the Minnesota senator likened some of McGovern's supporters to "what I call the Dixiecrats, the segregationists, the bard-liners, the White Citizens Council. There was a group that wanted to have their way; they didn't get it. Now there's another group that is going to have their way, and if they don't get it, they say they threaten to bolt the party." Asked if that made McGovern's supporters extermists, Humphrey replied: "It makes them impractical, and it makes They're not free AN CSS9CSSECT Glenn L.

Jackson Prtsidtnt Glenn C. Cushman Publisher Page 4 Even chess is Eugene's U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials aren't the only big athletic events this week. Just look at what's happening in Iceland. Yes, the jousting and warm-ups there apparently give almost as good as show as the Olympic trials.

The chess match won't begin until Sunday at the earliest. But it seems American chess champ Bobby Fischer has been prepping like an Olympian for his series with world titleholder Boris Spassky of Russia. Fischer drank nothing stronger on his flight from New York City than a glass of milk. Upon his arrival in Iceland, he promptly went to bed. Spassky cancelled the first game; But was Fischer awakened to hear this surprising news? No.

A chess official said, "I didn't want to upset Bobby's metabolism by waking him up." The official probably knew of Fischer's daily routine of a a the brightest things about his image the aura of honesty and morality-. He knows that if winner-take-all was bad politics in 1968 when Sen. Robert F. Kennedy took the whole California delegation although he beat Sen: Eugene McCarthy; by only a small margin, it still is bad politics in 1972. So he protesteth a bit too much, is irony in the fact that McGovern's erstwhile ally; McCarthy, is one of his challengers regarding the California delegation and that McCarthy was smiling his way around Washington after the 151 votes were taken from McGovern, exclaiming that "morality in the Democratic party is at an all-time Clearly, one man's "smelly cynicism" is another man's morality.

McGovern is a fine man who manifests the most decent of instincts, but he strains credibility a bit when he gives off wounded cries that suggest he learned only last Thursday mat 'politics Is a mean, sometimes dirty business. 7 The Democratic Credentials Committee ruling came hard on the heels of a deal McGovern had made with three black politicians that a couple of other presidential candidates have described in the same caustic terms used by McGovern to characterize the California deal. Few things better illustrate the hard, unsentimental nature of big time politics than that deal in which Rep. Louis Stokes of Ohio delivered to McGovern eight black delegates who had been pledged initially to the "favorite-son" candidacy of his brother, Carl Stokes. Carl Stokes admits unhesitatingly that Humphrey was extremely helpful in un Promises, Auld long syne I 'Keep lousy stamps and give low prices' 1 SH gets money's worth If 5.v Sweet Home voters, who have to pass upon a $912,749 proposed city budget today, are like those elsewhere.

They don't like skyrocketing costs in government. Thus, they should be pleased with their proposed budget. It would increase city spending only $6,785 for the year which started Saturday. That's less than one per cent. Property taxes would increase slightly more than one per cent over last year.

But they still would be in line. Taxes on a $15,000 home would go up only $1.20 from last yearjust 10 cents a month. This is reasonable in view of the higher cost of government nearly everywhere. Sweet Home residents will get their money's worth from additional street work and water-plant improvement. And they should note that city salary increases will be only three per cent rather than the 5.5 per cent allowed under federal pay rules.

The city will be making do with much of John Buchner Extcutivt Editor Neil Felgenhauer Auociait Editor Bob Rodman Ntwt Editor Howard Messmer lusintss Manager Thursday, July 6, 1972 bloody calisthenics, swimming, tennis and bowling. And he probably was aware of a study Temple University made a tew years ago. Researchers hooked up 12 chess players to fancy medical gear. They measured pulse rates and a lot of other things supposed to show how much energy the chess nuts expended. They found a chess match to be as strenuous as boxing or football.

Of course Fischer's big interest in the Iceland series is money. He wouldn't play until he was guaranteed more than generous cut. Spassky appears to be steering the match into diplomatic contest between Russia and the United States. But this pregame tension can't go on for long. Any Olympic starter knows you can't keep runners at the starting line indefinitely without someone jumping the gun.

It should be no surprise to see Fischer and Spassky squeeze real blood from their pieces once their duel gets under way. its present equipment rather than purchasing new. The Sweet Home city budget is trim. Voters should have no hesitation approving it today. They're ready Two approaches will be used to help prevent violence at this year's national political conventions in Miami Beach, Fla.

The Army will have up to 3,000 paratroopers camped near town. The YMCA will dispatch 100 professional social workers to the streets to quell rumors and smooth relations between police and street people. The street workers should help prevent a tragic reoccurrence of the 1968 Chicago, 111. riots. But they alone may not be enough, even with smooth police work.

That's why it makes good sense to have the troops ready-simply to show that massive rioting won't be tolerated. AILBAG do not see how any thinking person can truthfully say that the Communists do not have any part in the chaos that is upsetting our nation. You say it can't happen in the U.S.A.? Let me tell you, it happened to many great nations in the past and we are not an exception. So, what is the remedy? Get back to what we were as a nation under God. Let's start in our homes, churches and schools.

For it is the great people and not a certain religion or the natual resources in our land which made this country great. In God we Trust. Let's have a new rededication of ourselves to God and country. Get involved in every phase of our life. Stop being a part of the silent majority and stand as a man strong and brave as our forefathers were.

There was a story about a young man in Napoleon's army whose name was also Napaleon, but he was a coward. It was told to Napoleon and he called the young man to himself and said to him, "Young man, you have a great name you should be proud of and you are a coward. Either you change your ways or you change your name." Yes! America ladies and gentleman-we have the greatest form of government on earth. We are free Americans. Let us remind ourselves that freedom isn't free.

It cost a lot of lives In the past and still is costing today but, thanks to God, they have not died In vain. Let's evaluate our name and what we stand for that we may be "One nation under God, Indivisible, with liberty and justice' for all." For every nation divided against itself is brough to desolation. Joseph Novak 203 Green Acres Lane Albany MAILBAO: Albany tmrni HkiU nwfcn an to-vftfd to writ is tt Mtiltwf Start Mtra irt mar tlktly to tw pubitoiiHTtw Milmum to tM Mr. Tyjwrltlf Mlrt irwutd fcuhl pod Ertilrtir mm hit iht ddrwM tnd totoptwiw mimiwr tt On wiilw ind Hjrrd by Urn wnur Th rtfM to ronrfw to rwvrvfd Think you totton, umW nwt clr rumtunrfi, ind parity do not qualify far Millhog UMfO I covering money for his 1967 campaign for mayor of Cleveland. After Stokes won," achieving national acclaim as a first Mack chief executive of a major city, Humphrey brought him to Washington and gave him a crash course in how to get money out of the federal government.

The truth is that, on Humphrey's orders federal officials Jiterally drafted Cleveland's applications for money, the same officials approved the applications and the same officials shipped off the money to Cleveland. -This kind of support, directed bjf Humphrey, was crucial to we nrsi six months of the mayoralties of both Stokes -and Richard Hatcher in Gary. forS neither man had had any experience a( getting funds or administering the affairs of a city. last week when it appeared that McGovern had the nomination wrapped up, Louis Stokes abandoned Humphrey and pledged the Ohio delegates to McGovern. Louis Stokes says' flatly "I gave Humphrey the state of Ohio in primaries by delivering my district tov him," adding that he felt a clear right and obligation to deliver those delegates to McGovern in the interest of helping black -people.

So McGovern and his key advisers have known long time that presidential politics is a ruthless game. It lends itself to plenty of resentment and revenge. But the system usually is pretty hard on the players who declare that if they don't win, they'll take ball and glove and go home. promises and now we're out on our butts." "But we didn't really mean for them to work within the system," the bald man said. "That was just a figure of speech like 'have a nice day' or 'give my best to your "Of course we didn't mean it," someone else said.

"We meant they should work within the system, but do it by working for us." "Gentlemen," Charley said. "Our biggest mistake was not that we told them to work within the system, but that we never knew what the system was all about. Not one man in this room ever dreamed By ART BUCHWALD someone else could use the system as wa did to control the party." "Well," wld one pol, "I think It'a a pretty lousy system if anyone can take It over just because be has more votes." "The thing to do now," one pol said, "is to change the system to It can't happen again." "It'a too late," said Charley. "Well," said Big Al, "we can't sit around here blowing cigar smoke at each other. What do we do?" "Thla li what we do," Charley said.

So down to Miami next week and emonatrate." "We can't even get Into the convention hall." a pol protested. "In the streets, dummy." Charley said. "in streets." H- ,1 them what I would call people that would either rule or ruin, and I do not believe that the Democratic party can afford It is understandable that McGovern would be angered by the challenge to California's winner-take-all system. He knows that every candidate knew the rules long before the primary was held. It is not surprising that McGovern could regard the nDemocratiCi Credentials Committee ruling as "corrupt," "cynical." "an incredible, rotten, stinking political steal," "smelly," By CARL ROWAN PvblhhervHaU Syndicate "spiteful" and all the other adjectives and expletives he threw forth in his moments of fury." fy? But McGovern was thought to be too cod a customer to portray himself as leader of a rule-or-ruin clique expedally when the California issue still was in doubt.

He burned a few political bridges that he surely will need to recross before November-presuming he has not given the stop-McGovern forces enough leverage to succeed. McGovern's outburst tarnished one of wonder why women have put up with it this long. And, of course, the insult only is part of the price tag. Someone, after all, has to pay for the paper, ink and glue; someone has to pay for the printing presses, the booklets, the catalogs, the dispensing machines; someone has to pay for the redemption centers and the personnel. Someone has to pay for those rare books up at Yale.

The great majority of trading-stamp transactions are undertaken by women. And there is a reason for this. Men have, through the years, learned to expect adequate reward for their labors. They have learned the value of their time. And most men would find the whole collecting licking-pasting-saving process both childish and ludicrous.

This was the gist of a letter I sent to one of the supermarkets, the Grand Union Co. The response doubtless the Standard Form No. 101 Trading Stamp Letter came from Mrs. Wanda O'Keefe, manager of -customer relations. "Actually, we do not increase prices because of stamps," she wrote.

"They are a part of what has proved to be a most effective advertising-promotion program, and their cost is considered part of the promotion budget The great majority of our customers like and save stamps and, so long as this is true, we expect to continue to offer them." At the bottom of Mrs. O'Keefe's stationery, in small type, are the names of the seven companies that belong to the Grand Union family; one company is Triple-S Blue Stamps. It is not invariably true that the great majority of customers like and save stamps. A 31-store supermarket chain in St. Louis, Mo.

asked its customers whether they wanted trading stamps or lower prices the vote went six to one against the stamps. And when they dropped trading stamps, the stores also dropped prices about two per cent. Rep. Lester Wolff, who for eight years has battled trading-stamp companies in Washington, reckons the cost to consumers at $1 billion a year and says that without stamps, "every 'American family could have the equivalent of one week's groceries free every year." Wolff said recently that he had seen some signs of progress. Most major trading stamp firms have agreed informally to stop trying to persuade people that their product Is "free." Wolff favors a plan that would permit customers a simple choice either the trading stamps or a cash refund.

I would go further. There was a banner at a 1966 demonstration that summed up my sentiments with eloquence and precision: "Keep your lousy stamps and give us low prices." I think the stamps should be taken and, along with all those gas-station coupon games, placed In a very large hole in the ground and buried. ege Rlbam) Bemocrat-ggralD jf Is anyone here going to Miami? By MIKE McGRADY Times-Post Service I am kept alive by moments of small rebellion. The latest such moment occurred the other day at the supermarket check-out counter. My wallet contained two $20 bills and the tab came to $37.57.

1 stood there, thinking it was fortunate that I had not sprung for the sirloin, when the change was returned. It came to $2.43, along with the usual assortment of trading stamps. My custom is to take the stamps and hand them to the woman standing next in line. But not this time. This time I took the stamps and, before the widening eyes of the check-out girl, shredded them into tiny fragments.

"But they're free," she protested But they're free, the store manager explained a few moments later. But they're free, the supermarket executive explained in a letter responding to my more formal complaint. But they're free, the insult is only part of the price tag the shoppers all say. The sad truth is that they're not free. What had prompted my small outburst was a news item in the morning newspapers.

Yale University just had received a gift of $14 million from the trust fund of the late Frederick W. Beinecke. According to the story, this was the largest single gift to the university since a 1970 gift of $15.2 million from another Beinecke, the late Edwin Beinecke. It was mentioned that much of the money was earmarked for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and, finally, that the Beineckes had amassed their vast fortune through the sale of Green Stamps. While I have nothing against business acumen, and even less against philanthropic displays, I cannot shake this image of thousands no, millions of housewives patiently licking their trading stamps so that some featureless 19-year-old Yale sophomore can have the undeniable pleasure of reading Chaucer in the original.

The assumption that women have nothing better to do with their time than count up stamps, lick them, paste them into booklets, preserve them and carry them over to a redemption center where they can be traded In on the latest Teflon-covered whatever It's such a monumental Insult to intelligence that you Under "vSff It can happen in America WASHINGTON, D.C. The old Democratic pros were sitting in a smoke-filled room. No one was smiling. "Is anyone here going to Miami?" There was silence. "I ran for delegate," one pol said, "but I was beaten by a kid who plays drums with a rock group called the 'Meat "Huh, I ran for delegate and was beaten by a 19-year-old girl who turned out to be a guy, after the votes were counted." "I've been going to Democratic conventions for 30 years, 20 of them as chairman of my delegation," a white-haired pro said.

"I've given my all to the party. There isn't a judge in my state who doesn't owe his job to me. There isn't a federal marshal or a postmaster who can't say Big Al wasn't the greatest friend he ever had. When the people wanted roads, they came to me; when they wanted housing, Big Al was there; when they wanted a little something to tide them over, they knew my door never was closed. This time, when It came to choosing a delegate to the convention, what did they do? They elected a black woman jockey." 'Jen, All It's not going to be the same Democratic convention without us." "What happened to all of us?" a bold, florid man asked.

"What happened?" "IH tell you what happened!" a man with a diamond stickpin in his tie shouted. "Wa did It to ourselves!" "How'i that, Charley?" someone asked. "Remember when the kids wert acting up and raising hell around the country?" "Who doesn't?" "Remember what we told them? We told them Instead of demonstrating In the stretut and closing down the schools that they should work within the system," "That'll right," Big-AJald. "I rem ember myicU saying thla Country waa lo designed that you could get anything you 'wanted by working within the ystem.w "Well, that's what the little itlnkcrt did. They decided to work within tht system, To the Editor: In May 1919 at Dusseldorf, Germany, the Allied forces obtained a copy of some "Communist rules for revolution." Nearly 50 years later, the Reds still are following this rule.

As you read this list, stop after each item and think about the present-day situation where you live and all around our nation. Quote from the Red rules (A) Corrupt the young, get them away from religion, get them interested in sex, make them superficial and destroy ruggedness. (B) Get control of all means of publicity, thereby: Get people's minds off their government by focusing their minds on athletics, sexy books and plays and other trivialities. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance. Destroy the people's faith In their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt and ridicule and obloguy.

Always preach through democracy but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possibly. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent. Foment unnecessary strikes in vita) industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders. By spacious argument, cause the breakdown of the moral virtues, honeslv. sobriety, continence, faith In the pledged word, ruggedness.

Cause the registration of all fire arms on some prrtcx with view to confiscating them and leaving tht population helpless." Thai was quite a list wasn't it? Now, stop and think how many of those rules are bclnyarried out In thla nation today? We Jslt "'err.