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Helter-Skelter Trimmings for Demo Fling Cdar lUpicb aj4 Editorial Page Monday, July 10, 1972 Life-Style Puzzler By Art Heusinlcveld Gazette Editorial Page Editor MIAMI BEACH Disunity among the Democrats is nothing new, and this convention's blooming of disunity has started off as if to beat all records. What one is not quite ready for on first exposure to Iowa's part in the brawl, at least is the rare flowering of madcap disorganization that seems to have embellished the disunity. This is not particularly anybody's fault. Iowa is not alone in showing it. In fact, in an assembly so uncommonly reform-compounded of youths, women, blacks, Chicanos, Indians and rainbow haberdashery that the naked eye can hardly tell the delegates from demonstrators, disorganization seems as natural as breathing.

Iowa's delegation shares space in the cial hair (such as in processing or serving food), the local commission is concerned about the stereotyping some employers use in rationalizing their hiring and firing decisions. Further, the commission is disturbed over the exclusion of youth culture adherents from public bousing and public accommodations. And it is greatly concerned over the imagined automatic link between long hair and illegal possession of drugs. Judge Oxberger did not exaggerate when he observed that the length of a mate's hair is an "emotionally charged" issue. If the strictures of the case before him prevented his pinning down the relationship between life style and creed, the state needs a test case mat will bring clarification.

Art Heusinlcveld barren tables. Explanation: way to save money. Democrats hard-up tins year. And at an afternoon black caucus in the Fontainbteau with Shirley Chis-holm's cheering section, one of the brothers gives a newsman friendly tip: Don't let the "media" tag around your neck (a form of credential) bang too loose. Tuck it under your lapel, or someone in a crowd will yank it off and use it to get into the convention hall.

Keep it out of sight completely in Flamingo park, the demonstrators' campground. Lose it and you can't get another. Enter McGovern Back at the Saxony for Iowa's first delegation caucus, unorthodox deportment blossoms too. George McGovern comes in and starts a speech about helping him keep aH 271 delegates from California because it's unfair to "change the rules of the game after the game is over" then interrupts to recognize an Iowan whose arm is sticking up. The delegates condemn him for a vote one time wherein McGovern seemed to favor 14 (B), the Taft-Hartley act's provision letting states pass right-to-work laws.

"I was wrong," McGovern says. "I regret I made a mistake." "You'll support repeal of 14(B)?" "Absolutely," the senator pledges, resuming honeyed sentences of praise for Harold Hughes' reform commission leadership, concluding with a plea that Iowa produce a vote to seat "the 271 delegates which I won fair and square." Another visitor receives the chairman's nod to make a pitch. On behalf of the Gay Liberation lobby, a young man wearing a white-striped blue sport shut and jeans solicits Iowa's support for measures guaranteeing nondiscrimination against the homosexual community. All this time, sitting on wrought-iron chairs wih floral filigree, the Iowans are soaking up a summer evening's humid atmosphere at white-top tables moistened with refreshments from a bar at the rear of the off-lobby chamber. Purple drapes behind a gate-type filigree of iron painted white provide a background for the speakers' table.

Underfoot: carpeting. oew '-in on 6C BODY -v mum yni i ivuw THOUGH it has more important cases to investigate, the Iowa civil rights commission must consider complaints involving discrimination based on length of hair. This, in essence, was the ruling handed down last week by Polk county District Judge Leo Oxberger. Complainant against the state commission was Thomas Mohr of Des Moines, who had taken his grievance to the commission last year when his employer at an Ames pharmaceutical firm, advised him to trim his hair or lose his job. Having refused earlier to review similar complaints, the commission turned down Mohr, thus prompting his filing against the commission in district court.

At first glance, Judge Oxberger's decision appears to give crucial direction to bom the state commission and focal human rights commissions whose jurisdiction in cases relating to hair length and life style has remained undefined. While he did not recommend how much tune be spent in such matters, the judge affirmed that they merit consideration. Yet the judge's ruling apparently stops short of linking hair-length discrimination with creed provisions in the state and local statutes. It is in this ill-defined area where commission workers need clarification. The Mohr complaint was not a test case, because it was based on alleged sex prejudice rather than creed discrimination.

That is, Mohr filed Ins complaint with the state commission on grounds that women employes are allowed to wear their hair whatever length they choose. The possible violation of creed provisions thus was not an issue. State commission holdback notwithstanding, human rights workers in Iowa are working to provide help in cases involving apparent life-style discrimination. In Cedar Rapids, for example, the human rights commission some time ago declared itself a friend of persons victimized by such prejudice. Aware mat some employers have sound reasons for restricting long hair and fa rami AW Stayskal ocean-fronting Saxony hotel with Wisconsin's contingent.

The Saxony contributes to the helter-kelter tone. A newsman's call to the switchboard in request of room-number data brings word that by order of the chief operator, no one's number can be given on the telephone. One request for a connection to the Iowa headquarters room and another for the room of Senator Harold Hughes (the1 Iowa group's chairman and a Muskie supporter) promptly put the caller on a line to a press man for McGovern in the same hotel. Economizing And then a look-in at the Fontaio-bleau hotel, the whole convention's uptown action center, brings another shock: Unlike numberless conventions of the past, this one offers to the daily press no machines on which to type dispatches. There are only two or three chairs in a dimly lit basement area of Coping with Flab LIGHT of presidential assistant John Ehrlichman's assertion that "flabby questions" are one reason President Nixon engages in far fewer Q-A sessions with the press than did his predecessors, we sharpened an ear for the flabbies at bis last rare conference June 30.

There were 21 questions altogether. The only one we'd rate as unadulterated flab came from a woman reporter: "Mr. President? Sir, I sir, you've taken care of many of the problems of Peking and Moscow and had some agreements and now you seem to have made some great progress with the war. I wonder what areas of the world you'd like to work on next." To which the President replied: "Well, I don't want to go to the moon." This suggests that Mr. Nixon need not fret about the limp inanities at future sessions with the press.

Their frequency is very low. And Mr. Nixon clearly knows the system to apply in dealing with them: Get a flabby question, give a flabby answer. tion a little bit, so us little oP country boys can tetf what's going on?" A need to name replacements for a rules committee Iowan who couldn't come and for four alternates who also stayed home breaks the caucus into groups for answers from four corners of the room. And near the end symbolically, perhaps? an item of bad hews intensifies the disarray.

"The luau was canceled tonight So after this you're on your own." In diamond pattern, one tone of yellow and four of lavender. Around square, floral-iron pillars: plastic flowers with a white light bulb illuminating each one's center. A window wall with white transparent curtains filters fading daylight from the right A male delegate (green sport shirt) stands a bit unsteadily and lets the chairman hear his problem: "I don't understand all this. I mean, would you guys slow down the conven- Despiie Sag, Intrinsic Strength McGovern Scores as Symbol of Contentious Contender May. And, by 43-32, voters now disagree with the criticism feat George McGovern "has a flat, uninteresting personality." However, in May, a larger 45-28 took exception to such a statement.

Finally, by the public denies ical exhaustion the match promises. Yes, exhaustion. A Temple university bio-kinetic experiment has shown that chess is as physically taxing as a strenuous round of boxing or football, though Boris hardly threatens Bobby with the roughing up be might get from Muhammad AH or Dick Butkus Bigtime chess is a sport indeed, al though the bookbound ghost of Frank Merriwell must wonder what's got into Bobby lately. But perhaps the chess wizard can engineer a double comeback by beating Boris after five earlier losses and earning belated sportsmanship honors as well. TIOSE who doubt that championship chess is truly a sport should review the recent conduct of U.S.

Chess Master Bobby Fischer, who has fussed, fumed and stewed with all the recalcitrance of a big-league baseball player. First the setting of the world chess championship match Reykjavik, Iceland rankled Bobby. Then it was the proposal to use nonfluorescent lighting in the sports arena. The last barrier to the showdown with world champ Boris Spas-sky was Fischer's displeasure over the winner's pot, set originally at $78,000. Perhaps Bobby's eccentric behavior owes to the tremendous tension and phys- Louis Harris By Louis Harris The Harris Survey AS A RESULT of his striking string of primary victories, Senator George McGovern is now a familiar figure to 75 of the nation's electorate.

For example, 67 of tiie voters admire toe South Dakota senator for having "the courage to say what lie thinks even if it is unpopular," up from 63 who felt that way in May. By and large, McGovern evokes a positive response from most voters. However, the bitter primary struggles have not left his public image untarnished: The number of voters who agree with the statement that "McGovern deserves credit for being against Vietnam before others" is 50, while 29 disagree. This latest division is not quite as good as the 54-21 positive split McGovern enjoyed in May. By 45 to 23 voters give the South Dakotan high marks for being a "fighter for tax reform who wants to help the working man." In May, however, the public agreed with the same statement by a larger 48-14.

By 42-34, voters feel that McGovern has a "sincere, appealing personality," but this is down from the 46-26 margin he showed in May. By 38-34, a slim plurality believes that George McGovern "stands for the right kind of change in the country." This question was not asked in previous Harris Surveys. Thus, with the exception of public admiration for his courage to be outspoken, Senator McGovern did not materially improve on the initial positive impression he had made on the electorate in the latter stages of the battle for the nomination. At the same time, some of the negative aspects about the South Dakota senator have been increasing: The most striking reversal has been over toe charge that McGovern has "too extreme, liberal views." At latest count, by 41-33, a plurality of the voters agree with that statement Back in May, by a narrow 33-31, a plurality disagreed with the same statement This switch illustrates a damaging turn to the McGovern cause. By a slim 39-38, voters agree with the statement that McGovern "does not inspire confidence as a President should." Back in May, by 36-33, voters rejected that criticism.

However, by 38-36, another small plurality disagrees with the charge that "McGovern wants to change things too much." This question was not asked in McGovern at 5 'Greek' Sifts Demos Change three-way race, 45 to 33, and by 16 points hi a two-way race, 54-38. In May, McGovern was behind by no more than 5 points, 40-35, in a three-way contest and by 7 points, 48-41, in a two-way contest. However, there is one result in the current survey findings which might mean more in the end than all the rest: The 38-34 margin by which a plurality of toe voters express the view that "George McGovern stands for the right kind of change." A breakdown of toe results of that question reveal a pattern of potential McGovern support that could make him a formidable contender by November. The cross-section of 1,401 voters was asked between June 7-12: "Do you tend to agree or disagree with the statement that Senator George McGovern stands for the right kind of change in this country?" Dis- Not Agra agree sure Total voters 38 34 28 By region East 44 27 29 Midwest 37 39 24 South 25 40 35 West 48 28 24 By age 18-29 54 28 18 30-49 36 30 50 and over 32 36 32 By education 8th grade or less 33 23 44 High school 34 36 30 College 44 35 21 Union members 39 30 31 By politics Republicans 25 46 29 Democrats 44 28 30 Independents 44 35 21 By religion Protestants 29 40 31 Catholics 38 35 27 Jewish 62 21 17 Perhaps the secret of McGovern's success in the primaries was his ability to become the personification of "the right kind of change" at a time when the country clearly was ripe for this kind of challenge. Only in the South does McGovern fail to score as the symbol of acceptable change.

If he is the Democratic nominee, and if McGovern nan translate the inclination of the young, independents, the college-educated, Catholics, and union members into hard votes in the months ahead, the arithmetic of the election might wind up a good deal closer than it is today. Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate the claim that McGovern is a "one-issue man only Vietnam'' On this score, he has improved since May, when the public disagreed with the one-issue image by a lesser 43-28. Basically, after a tremendous surge forward in both public recognition and respect from April to May, the McGovern impact has slowed down on the positive side and new doubts crept in as a result of the bitter California primary. This trend was further reflected in the trial heats the Harris Survey conducted between Senator McGovern and President Nixon and Gov. George Wallace on a third-party line.

As reported earlier, the latest Harris Survey shows McGovern now trailing the President by a 12-point margin in a Senator McGovern By Jack Anderson MIAMI Jimmy the Greek, the nation's No. 1 odds maker, favors George McGovern to win the Democratic presidential nomination, with either Idaho's Sen. Frank Church or Arkansas' Rep. Wilbur Mills as bis running mate. The Las Vegas oddsmaker, who prepares his political odds exclusively for us, rates a McGovern-Church or McGov-ern-Mills ticket evenly as an 8-to-5 favorite.

Hubert Humphrey, with McGovern as his running mate, is given only an 8-to-l chance. And Ted Kennedy, with Mills in the second spot, is a 10-to-l bet Like most other experts, Jimmy the Greek in his first ratings for us 11 months The People's Forum Near Tragedy: Who's at Fault? Jack Anderson ual. There were no brake linings left and the drums were scored severely. The auto dealer turned us away when we asked for reimbursement. Who's at fault; the state auto inspection laws or the dealer? I wish to faring this to your attention.

Another young family may not be as lucky as we. Sarah K. Neff Marion Humphrey-McGovern, 8 to Kennedy-Mills, 10 to Muskie-McGovern, 20 to Kennedy (with Hollings, Sanford or Georgia's Gov. Jimmy Carter), 30 to Humphrey-Jackson, 30 to Muskie (with Jackson or Minnesota's Sen. Walter Mon-dale), 30 to 1.

McGovern (with Kennedy, Carter, Alabama's Gov. George Wallace, Indiana's Sen. Birch Bayh, or consumer-advocate Ralph Nader) 50 to McGovern (with Humphrey, Iowa's Sen. Harold Hughes, Louisiana's Gov. Edwin Edwards, or Brooklyn's congresswoman Shirley Chis-holm), 100 to Muskie (with Wallace, Hughes, Harris or Alaska's Sea Mike Gravel), 100 to 1.

Any other dark horse combination, in Jimmy's book, would be a 50-to-l shot. SENATOR McGOVERN is pondering whether to throw the vice-presidential nomination wide open if he is nominated for president. Most of his political managers are opposed. But young idealists are urging him to let the Democratic convention choose the running mate for the first time since the stormy 1956 convention in Chicago. Then, with the party in disarray, Adlai Stevenson let the delegates choose.

They picked the late Senator Estes Kefauver over his dashing rival, Senator John F. Kennedy. The move helped unify the party, but didn't keep Stevenson from being swamped by Dwight Eisenhower. With party unity again in tatters, McGovern spoke to Frank Mankiewicz recently about following Stevenson's ex-ample. Mankiewicz brought up the subject of an open convention.

McGovern, musing a moment, said: "Well, there's got to be a way to do something about unity." Then, the senator laughed and added: "On the other hand, throwing it open might tear the party apart." But then, after a moment of silence, he turned to Mankiewicz and said: "Listen, I'm still thinking about a nonpolilical guy for vice-president United Feature Syndicate To the Editor: I was involved in what could have been a fatal incident on the highway with my husband and our two small children. Our brakes failed without warning. This car was purchased with a full inspection guarantee at the beginning of April. This incident happened just two months later. A Linn county garage did the repairs and saved the bad brakes, which had to be completely replaced.

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Pugh 2541 avenue NE ago made Senator Ed Muskie a l-to-2 favorite to win the nomination. Jimmy rated McGovern's chance as remote. But over the months, the amazing Greek has been far ahead of the pundits and pollsters in detecting the voting trends. He called the key Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio and California primaries almost on the nose. He was alone in forecasting, correct-i ly, that Humphrey would come within five percent of upsetting the favored McGovern in California.

Now here are Jimmy's odds at the sMrt of the Democratic convention: McGovern (with Church or Mills), 8 to McGovern (with Muskie or Washington's Sen. Henry Jackson), 5 to McGovern (with Florida's Gov. Reubin Askew, Illinois' Sen. Adlai Stevenson ill, South Carolina's Sen. Ernest Hollings or Norm Carolina's ex-Governor Terry San-ford), 6 to 1.

Children's Hospital To the Editor: Sunday, July 9, the ESA groups of the Cedar Rapids area are sponsoring a Bike Marathon to benefit St. Jude Children's Research hospital. ESA has selected this hospital as their national philanthropic project this year, and they hope to raise a million dollars nationally through the Bike Marathon. St. Jude Children's Research hospital in Memphis, was founded by Danny Thomas and has now been in operation for ten years.

It is the first and only hospital established for the sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research into catastrophic childhood diseases: leukemia and other forms of cancer, malnutrition, sickle Forum Letters The Gazette's editorial page welcomes readers' opinions. Letters should deal with issues or events, not personalities. Short ones sticking to one main topic draw the best readership. Wordage limit is about 400, one letter a month per writer. All letters are subject to shortening, none published anonymously.

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