Public Opinion from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania • 28

CHAMPIONSHIP MATCK Moson Denison Shapp's New State Budget Unparalleled HARRISBURG Governor Shapp's $3.2 billion spending document for the Keystone State for fiscal 1972-73, finally PUBLIC sxs OPINION PAGE 1 ipil cleared last week by Pennsylvania's legislative sleuths, unquestionably is a classic in spending unparalleled in the history of William Penn's province. For those who might care to debate the point, the simple Thursday, July 13, 1972-Page 28 Fischer 'Checkmates' Himself vc v.r We have seen over the past few days the creation of something new in chess, the Fischer gambit. This is where you threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue andor pick up your chess board and go home unless you can have your own way. A true inspiration to the youth of America, Bobby Fischer has shown us that these tactics, work in this greed-smudged real world. Fischer's performance, the prelude to the world chess championship mato'i in Iceland, should not have surprised us.

He has, after all, never said he was sensitive, poised, considerate, modest, generous, admirable or intelligent. He has said only (though many, many times) that he is the best chess player around, in Brooklyn, the United States, the world and, presumably, the universe. Let us assume that he is right. The next question is, so what? Fischer seems to be operating under the belief that because we pay our athletes and entertainers outrageously large sums of money, we should do the same for chess players. From his point of view this is reasonable, of course.

But from everybody else's it is super-arrogant nonsense. That we are foolish enough, to sanction paying Tom Seaver $125,000 a year to throw baseballs is no justification for our being foolish enough to sanction paying Bobby Fischer $200,000 for shoving a bunch of toys around for a month. For one thing, there is the two-wrongs-don't-make-a-right theory. For another, there is the fact that chess is not, either historically or intrinsically, an interesting spectator sport. Such vicarious enjoyment as chess games provide comes from leisurely study of the move- by-move account, not from watching Fischer knit his brow in thought or lick his chops in fiendish anticipation of crushing an opponent's ego.

Maybe at some future time there will be enough fans around to support chess in the fashion to which Fischer would like to be accustomed. But right now there are not. And no exploiting capitalist is getting rich on Fischer's talent. This makes it doubly unfortunate that London investment banker James D. Slater saw fit to add $125,000 to the world championship purse.

For Fischer's threats to quit the match bordered on extortion and his bluff should have been called. This would have been painful for Iceland whose costly preparations for the match Fischer held hostage. But it would have put Fischer, a fatuous, graceless man, in his proper place, that of someone who happens to be a genius at a trivial pastime. Now, though, we have the confrontation. Fischer has at times tried to make his match with defending world champion Boris Spassky a Cold War kind of crusade, good old American versus godless Russian Communist.

But he was not so dedicated to the crusade that he was willing to wage it for a mere $100,000. He was not so proud that he would not apologize to the Russians to save the match and his money. And he was not smart enough to realize that if he had just quietly won the championship, he would have earned the respect and, probably, the financial rewards he demanded so prematurely. Go, Boris. Andrew Tully Black Democrats Split MIAMI BEACH As he surveyed the divisions among black delegates to the Democratic National Convention, Rep.

Ronald Dellums, the chic black activist from California, was angry and bit Coming Up Roses, Would You Say? United's Duval Corp. dropped "sulphur" in 1970. Also in 1970, St. Joseph Lead Co. became St.

Joe Minerals Corp. American Zinc Co. disposed of "lead and smelting," at least in title, back in 1966. In 1968, Liggett Myers removed "Tobacco Co." and replaced it with "Inc." The next year American Tobacco Co. became American Brands, and the year after R.

J. Reynolds substituted "Industries" for "Tobacco Co." Shakespeare to the contrary, a corporation by any other name oft-times smells sweeter. What's in a name? A heck of a lot in this day of environmental consciousness, especially when the names contain words like "sulphur," "lead" and "tobacco," says the Wall Street Journal. Texas Gulf Sulphur for instance, will be just plain Texas Gulf, if stockholders approve this April. Two other major sulphur producers have already dropped the word from their corporate handles.

Freeport Minerals Co. supplanted Freeport Sulphur Co. last year, and Pennzoil tion. TIME USUALLY HEALS the Democratic Party's internal wounds. But over the generations, white Democratic leaders have, accustomed themselves to the compromises of realism.

The black delegates here are a different breed. Due in part, perhaps, to their relative political naivete, they stand on principles. Among the blacks, the "New Politicians" were always for George McGovern The Old Politicians mostly were for Hubert Humphrey period. The Chisholm people were for Chisholm period. Abernathy and Wiley are interested only in getting more money for the poor.

The New Leadership includes the more glamorous types the mod Dellums, Georgia state Rep. Julian Bond, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, Mrs. Martin Luther King, and the Chicago Evangelist and social reformer, the Rev. Jessie Jackson.

The Old Leadership consists of most regular party members, labor leaders and a sprinkling of older clergymen who came out early for Hubert Humphrey. Shirley Chisholm presides over the Chisholm bloc, just as Abernathy and Wiley own their factions. TIME MAY BRING THESE DIVERSE ideologs together, too. But time has seldom had a tougher job. The various black leaders are too new to the struggle for power to have learned the maneuvers neces-.

sary to form a coalition. Moreover, as several black delegates noted in different words after their caucus on the credentials fuss broke up in pandemonium, black politicians may not forget as easily as their white counterparts the ugly things that are shouted at national conventions. Party regulars, labor leaders and the Chisholm people are still discussing with hot outrage Dellums' denunciation of their "Stop McGovern" coali-. tion as a cabal of "cynical, diabolical forces." Mrs. Chisholm's supporters especially resent Dellums' inclusion of their heroine in that "cynical, diabolical" group.

THUS THE DEMOCRATS' chances in November could be hurt badly. Although blacks comprise only about 8 per cent of the electorate, they make up 30 per cent of all so-called "strong" Democrats. Ninety-four per cent of the blacks who voted in 1968 went for Humphrey. If this vote is reduced by even, say, 20 per cent, the Democrats are in trouble. An angry Dellums was shooting from the hip when he warned that the blacks could help win reelection for Richard Nixon.

But unless some black leader can get the various brawling blocs together in the next three months, Nixon's recently renewed efforts to woo the black vote could pay fat dividends. ter enough to utter an ominous warning. "If we blacks don't watch out," he said sadly, "we'll wind up helping Dickie Nixon get reelected in November." At the time, Dellums was outraged by the refusal of a caucus of most of the more than 450 black delegates to support George McGovern's bid to regain 151 disputed California delegates. But as this convention neared its end, his words could not be taken lightly. For, as of today, the black Democrats could be even more divided than the white Democrats.

There are only two substantial factions among the whites the New Politicians and the Old Politicians. Those same factions split the blacks, but their unity is further endangered by the so-called "Poor Politicians" of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and George Wiley, executive director of the National Welfare Rights Organization, and the small but vigorous bloc of blacks who supported Rep. Shirley Chisholm's bid for the Presidential nomina- Jack Anderson fact is that there never has been a budget this high before; in fact there's never been one even remotely approaching it. About the closest you can come to Mr.

Shapp's fiscal nightmare is the last one he turned in for the just ended 1971-72 fiscal year of $2.9 billion that one also, as might be expected, another record-snatcher. BUT EVEN THAT SHAPPIAN tome, which at the time brought tears and threats of fiscal bloodshed, was only a few odd shillings under the $3 billion-mark while his newest document is some $300 million higher. But Mr. Shapp however has outdone every last one of. his predecessors on the taxpayer magnitude front with his new $3.2 billion offering, no matter how you look at it whether it be from sheer size, or simple At this point it is doubtful that rnorethan a handful of Pennsylvania taxpayers' grasp even remotely the tremendous upswing that has taken place on the Keystone State budget front, and of course the parallel tax front, within the space say, of the past decade.

FOR EXAMPLE, IN CONTRAST to the Shappian budget of $3.2 billion for fiscal 1972-73, just ten short years ago the Governor's budget proposal at that time was a few farthings under the billion-dollar mark. In fact the budget that year was projected by the then Governor Lawrence (like Mr. Shapp, a Democrat, by the way) at a (comparatively now) paltry $998 million for the fiscal year. But even that was a 13-month fiscal year, due to the change in the closing of fiscal years from May 31 to June 30. In other words, just a decade ago the budget for Pennsylvania was less than one-third of that i offered by Governor Shapp.

OF COURSE ALONG WITH this upsweep in spending has gone a corresponding filching from Keystone State taxpayer pockets again, a somewhat sterling fact which unquestionably i only a handful of tax contributors fully realize or grasp. Actually, within the space of four years tax' gifts from Pennsylvania's loyal band of contributors to the bureaucratic tax pot have climbed more than $2,000,000,000 (that's billion). Expressed another way, the tax increase alone (Juring the four-year span is more than double the full General Fund budgetary proposal of ten years ago. FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT find it difficult to adjust their bifocals to the tax increase figure, it is perhaps worth recalling that during Governor Shafer's sojourn in the gubernatorial rose garden, taxes increased by some When "businessman" Milton Jerrold Shapp took over the reins last year he immediately enjoined his fellow Democratic lawmakers running the Legislature to enact a $1.5 billion tax increase program, which with diligence and dispatch they proceeded to do throwing in of course the pandora's box personal state income tax. Add these together and the tax increase comes to something like $2,300,000,000.

Do You Remember? 50 YEARS AGO J. Frank Faust of Cleveland, Ohio, is elected principal of the Chambersburg High School at a yearly salary of $2,325. 25 YEARS AGO York firemen entertain Southern Pennsyl-' vania Association. Robert W. Fahnestock, Cumberland Valley Fire is vice president of the group.

Joseph P. Tubridy, Fred Castrilli and the Rev. Louis A. Creeden of Corpus Christi Parish attend the Southern Regional Holy Name Union in Waynesboro. Boy Scouts collect over 14 tons of paper and 700 pounds of rags in their 33rd paper collection and 31st rag collection.

Temperatures: 86 65. 15 YEARS AGO Results of the study of Chambersburg participation in Operation Alert shows needs of Civil Defense wardens. County Commissioners employ George Eshelman of town to remove the diseased shade tree from the northeast corner of the Courthouse plaza. Frank H. Sweigert becomes new commander of the Knights of Pythias at installation services.

Deaths: Elizabeth Jane Butts, Shippensburg; William H. Bittinger, Temperatures: 90 64. MMMlMM II I II I mil I IN YOUR OPINION their Maker, when an animal of any kind is dead, they're dead, that's all. If it was inhuman to kill this cow then it was more 'imbovine' for the cow to hurt humans. Policeman Kiser is to be commended for his action.

It is well for Miss Foust to be concerned how animals are treated, but with this type of animal it is kill or be killed. MR. A. D. WENGER R.

R.7 A Refund from George MIAMI BEACH Senator George McGovern would like to Cow Shooting In regard to the cow shooting July 6, Miss Nioma Foust seems to have forgotten' there were two men injured one of which was my father, who might have been killed. A straying cow running through the streets of Chambersburg could have injured many other people. Officer Kiser had no alternative but to shoot the cow. In my opinion, Officer Kiser should be commended for saving injury to many people. MRS.

WILLIAM PINE 812 Stanley Avenue finance the presidential campaign without getting obligated to the big contributors. He, therefore, is considering the possibility of re Glamorous Claims In a time space of less than two weeks there has been two tragic and disastrous floods Rapid City, South Dakota and Northeastern United States. It is an established fact that two cloud seeding runs were made before the torrential rains at Rapid City. It is suspected that the same kind of tampering was undertaken with Apes after it developed into a tropical storm. The practitioners and the scientists who tamper with the atmosphere promote their image with glamorous claims of how cloud seeding is a benefit to the ecology and man.

On the other hand, they shun talking about the disastrous effects and they even clothe their operations in secrecy if they suspect that there will be adverse effects. I suspect that those responsible for the two cloud seeding runs before the storm at Rapid City would like to erase this evidence from the record. How ridiculous for the Institute's Head, Professor Dennis, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, South Dakota School of Mines Technology, to publicly say that the two cloud seeding runs had "totally and absolutely nothingjto do with the storm that hit Rapid City2Ljjiy sane person would ask, why the experinnif nothing can come out of them? If nothlffgan come out of cloud seeding then there must be an enormous waste of funds that could be better used elsewhere. And now the East Coast is in the midst of digging out of the debris left by the torrential downpours of hurricane Agnes. We of this organization suspect that this tropical storm was seeded in the Gulf of Mexico.

Scientific literature suggests that seeding such a storm may intensify it. We also suspect that the same was true for Camille in 1969. Ferguson Hall of ESSA (now NOAA) told a group of our organization several years ago that any agency (bureau) of the government will never tell the truth about cloud seeding, and our experience has confirmed this. We of South Central Pennsylvania, adjoining Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia have for over a decade witnessed the disastrous effects of cloud seeding which causes drought in one area and torrential downpours 90 to 100 miles downwind. We as a group want natural weather, not the kind that someone in high places think we ought to have.

EDMUND R.HILL Vice-President Tri-State Natural Weather Association, Inc. Quick Quiz PLAIN TALK Connecticut's politically astute Sen. Abe Ribicoff has advised George McGovern bluntly to stop listening to the hifalutin' theories of his economic advisers. As a member of the Senate Finance Committee, Ribicoff has economic credentials of his own. He also sits on McGovern's tight little board of top advisers.

He urged McGovern to translate his economic ideas into plain talk that the voters can understand. In private memos and conversations, Ribicoff contended that most Americans would welcome the simplified, restructured tax system that McGovern advocates if they could only understand what he's talking about. SLIP OF HAND Through a comedy of errors, the Democratic Party went on record at first with a flagrantly anti-consumer plank borrowed from the conservative wing of the Republican Party. The plank opposed setting up an agency to intervene in behalf of citizens against federal agencies, which is regarded as one of funding all political contributions over $1,000 at the end of the campaign. The idea was suggested by his zealous campaign treasurer, Henry Kimelman, who promised to seek out enough $1,000 contributions to make the wholesale refund possible.

McGovern is enthusiastic about the idea, but he is also eager to avoid running up a huge' debt. He has managed to get through the presidential primaries, which have cost him a cool $6 million, without going into the red. He is withholding his approval of the refund idea, therefore, until he is convinced it's feasible. the most important consumer measures in Congress. During the final marathon session of the Democratic Platform Committee before the convention opened in Miami Beach, North Carolina's balding, persuasive' Dave McConnell sought to amend the consumer plank.

He contended that the plank would lead to interagency squabbling. He recommended, therefore, that the new consumer agency be restricted by two little words, "amicus curiae." This would limit the agency's authority merely to an advisory role as a "friend of the court." It was midnight, and the committee members were exhausted. But Rep. Bella and young Jim Rosapepe, a Virginia delegate, recognized that McConnell's seemingly innocent little words would gut the measure. They raised furious objections and McConnell withdrew his amendment.

But weary Phil Zeidman, the executive secretary, underlined instead of lining out the words "amicus curiae" on his work sheet. The goof was missed by the typists, copyreaders, policy checkers, proof readers and printers. Thus, the formally printed Democratic platform, amazingly, endorsed the conservative Republican view. Zeidman had no idea of the blunder until we asked him why the Democrats had suddenly reversed their position in Congress and come out against the consumers. Zeidman painstakingly went over the transcripts of the proceedings and discovered that his wavering hand had almost sabotaged the Democratic consumer position.

The platform error was immediately corrected. What proportion of silver does German silver contain? A None. German silver is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc. What is the longest bone in the body? A The femur or thigh bone. How many of the United Nations Security Council seats are permanent ones? A Five of the 15 are permanent.

Where in the Bible is the Golden Rule of Jesus? A The Golden Rule is in the seventh chapter of the Book of Matthew in the New Testament. What is the world's largest lake? A The Caspian Sea. The name is a misnomer as it is really a landlocked lake and so classified by oceanographers. In Great Britain, what term corresponds to the term "legal holiday" in the United States? A Bank holiday. What is the most valuable food fish in the world? A The herring is the most numerous fish caught by man for food immense quantities are netted by North Sea trawlers.

What is the source of moonlight? A The sun. Moonlight is reflected sunlight. 1 1 BERRY'S WOBLD Family Prayer By BEN BURROUGHS PLEASURE The state of pleasure comes to us In many different ways we may derive if from a smile or spreading kindly rays it is a feeling of great joy a kind of ecstasy that lingers in the hearts of all the ones who pay the fee a great delight that fills our days with happiness and cheers the most sought alter thing 1 know that's wanted thtmigh the years and though it comes in many forms to each it is a treasure and so I say to my friends tell me what is your pleasure. Potential Killer I would like to comment on Miss Nioma Foust's interpretation of Policeman Kiser hooting a cow, a cow that was no house pet, but enraged animal running violently on the loose, a potential killer of Humans regardless ot their age. She could have run down small children crippling them for life, or even taking the life of a Human being who must face the hereafter, maybe prepared or maybe not prepared to meet Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.

(Psalm 55:22) PRAYER: God of mercy, we pray for those who are burdened by life. Sustain them by the assurance of Thy presence. Lift them out of their distress. May all of us have faith in Thee so that we may not be overcome by discouragement. We ask in Jesus' name.

Amen. "Now comes the part I like best in political campaigns when they all tell you whatever you want to hear!".