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Meanwhile, Back In Alabama Home Problems Erode EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE 6. MONDAY, MAY 3, 1972. Wallaces Credibility My, How He Has Grown! The Other Wallace Today In History Out of Whack THE INTEREST shown by Governor Shapp in -the operations of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board raises the possibility that a critical and serious look into the methods and policies of this Agency is imminent. The governor has asked for a freeze on liquor price increases until a review into marketing and pricing policies is completed. This stems from a proposal of the Board to raise prices on 510 items, 'ihe increases to range from a penny to $4.62 a Uxittle.

At a public hearing on the proposed price boost Wa policy only recently forced on the board) testi-ftnonv was introduced which prompted the governor to make this comment: I am concerned that our state store system appears to fare badly in terms of efficiency when to other state liquor distribution systems. We have higher sales at higher prices to the "Consumer, and yet generate lower profits. Some-ithing seems out of whack in such an operation and Jhis most certainly warrants investigation. vC At the hearing the Pennsylvania Attorney General testified that while the states gross liquor revenues were nearly twice the amount of gross liquor revenues taken in by either New York or California Pennsylvania made less money than neither of them. "California chalked up nearly $50 million more profit and New York, netted $77 million more profit than did this state.

expenses in the two larger states were both less than $6 million in the year while Pennsylvania had operating expenses of $315 million. There is another PLCB policy which bears looking into, what Gov. Shapp called tax on a tax. It works like this: The purchaser of a bottle of liquor pays the wholesale tax which includes federal plus an 18 per cent emergency tax, plus a six per cent sales tax, plus a 48 percent markup. For wine, the pyramiding process is similar except that the markup is 58 percent.

Pennsylvanias system was devised nearly 40 years ago when the 18th Amendment was repealed. It was intended to encourage moderation by controlling the sale of liquor and wine by the bottle, and eliminating private profit in the sale of bottled goods. i Its success in the first area has been minimal. its elimination of competition it has given Pennsylvania consumers higher prices than in -most states. At the same time, as the attorney general has pointed out, operating expenses are higher and profits to the state lower than in neighboring states.

Assuredly it is high time for a review of the whole system. The Governors Review Task Force made a variety of suggestions to increase efficien- cy and bring a higher return to the state. Another recommendation was to select an alternate system for retailing and distribution, while at the same time retaining the licensing and control activities of the board. Certainly now is a good time to McGovern Backed The 1948 Insurgent schools and last year, accord: ing to the Department -of Health, Education and Welfare, Alabama was 50th among the states in money spent per pupil in the public schools The federal agency said that Alabama spent $489 per pupil, based on average daily attendance, while such states as Vermont, New York, New Jersey and Minnesota spent more than $1,000 per pupil. In that year the average teachers salary in Alabama was $7,376, almost $2,000 a year less than the national average of $9,265.

Health And Welfare The situation was similar in health and welfare services. According to federal figures, Alabama ranked 49th among the states in general welfare assistance last year, paying destitute families $13 a month compared to a national aver4 age of $112 a month. And in 1970, the state ranked 46th in doctors per 100,000 population: Alabamas 86, the national average was 163, Alabamas 86. Mental hospitals and schools for retarded children have fared so poorly that a federal judge has ordered the state to improve them immediately. Judge Frank M.

Johnson Jr. ordered 70 improvements to be made, including an iih crease in psychiatrists at mental hospitals from four to 42, and the establishment of an adequate education pro-g a the retarded patients. Per Capita Income In per capita income the state was 48th in 1970, with a figure of $2,828, just as it was in 1960, with a figure of $1,489. Only residents of Arkansas and Mississippi had a lower income. And the people of Ala bama paid a higher percentage of their incon.3 in taxes than the people in 29 other states.

The average state and local tax per $1,000 income nationally i fiscal year 1970 was in Ala bama, the figure was $72.11. -t For while Wallace has kept property taxes low, he has added to consumer taxes by a total of $70.5 million between- 1963 and 1967. Currently, Alabamians major taxes are a 4 per cent state sales tax; a 2 per cent city sales tax; a 12-cents-a-pack cigarette tax; a seven-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax, and a graduated personal and corporate income tax ranging from 1.5 per cent to 5 per cent. (C) N.Y. Time Newt Strvlc pay), and health and welfare services about where it was 10 years ago.

In other words, Alabama has needed the gains it has made just to stay even. Although Wallace has been a strong supporter of law and order, Alabamas murder rate has for years been much higher than that of the nation as a whole. The murder rate is high throughout the South and Alabamas over-all crime rate is well below the nationss but in the Wallace era statistics show little improvement in Alabama. The governor says he is the friend of policemen and firemen and the enemy of welfare loafers. But his home town of Montgomery pays policemen and firemen only $500 a month to start only four other cities in the nation with more than 100,000 people, one of them Mobile, pay less in either category and it was recently disclosed that a number of city policemen were using food stamps to buy groceries.

A member of the department estimated that at least half of the force were eligible for the federal welfare program. Marginal Wages Much of the new industry Wallace has lured to Alabama has paid marginal wages. They are real cats and dogs, a lot of them, and they only locate in Alabama because of the low pay scales, said one state union leader. From 1960 to 1970, the wages of the average production worker in Alabama rose from $1.92 an hour' to $2.86. In the same period the national rate rose from $2.26 to $3.36.

And while Wallaces strong stand against court-ordered school integration and compulsory busing has given Alabama a segregationist reputation equal to that of Mississippi, it has failed to stem the tide of integration in public schools. Pupils are bused for racial purposes in almost every school system in the state. And private schools set up to avoid integration remain underfinanced and unaccredited. State's Standing Low Meanwhile, whether or not Wallace has been ineffective in putting his rhetoric into practice, his tenure as governor has done little to raise Alabamas standing in relation to other states. While property taxes in Alabama, for example, are indeed the lowest in the nation about $40 a year on a $10,000 home property taxes help pay for By MARTIN WALDRON MONTGOMERY, Ala.

While Gov. George C. Wallace continues to run up big votes in his race for president, his troubles in Alabama refuse to go away.1 The governor may have highlighted the domestic problems bothering the average voter this year taxes, school busing, law and order, the economy but he has not made much headway, his critics at home are saying, toward solving the same problems in Alabama. Coming Under Attack Moreover, he is coming under increasing attack because of the business dealings of a number of his top lieutenants, past and present, and of his brother. Several close political friends have been indicted or are being investigated by federal grand juries.

And executives of companies doing business with the state are complaining privately that they are being pressured to contribute ever growing amounts to his presidential campaign. George Wallace has been governor or has controlled the governors office in this state for eight of the last 10 years. During that time he has pictured himself as being in the vanguard of a new wave of populists whose goal is to give the ordinary working man an even break with the big corporations. He has described himself as a champion of tax reform, pointing to Alabamas low real estate taxes, and he has told audiences far and wide how he has taken Alabama out of the mud, raised teachers pay and brought new industry into the state. Last year alone, according to a list of accomplishments compiled by his campaign staff, Wallace and the legislature authorized several new medical programs; removed the state sales tax from prescription medicine for persons over 65; approved bond issues to begin $600 million in new highways, and passed a new insurance code, air and water pollution controls, a new drug abuse law, and an increase in workmens compensation to $55 a week.

Just To Stay Even Yet, with all of the progressive programs that the governor claims credit for in Alabama, national indices show that the state remains at or near the bottom in average per capita income, school expenditures (including teachers By The ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Monday, May 8th, the 129th day of 1972. There are 237 days left in the year Highlight By KEVIN P. PHILLIPS WASHINGTON Can George McGovern shrug off attacks on his 1948 support of radical third-party Presidential candidate Henry Wallace? Many Washington observers think so. They feel that people confuse Hen- Wallace with George Wallace, which makes the Henry Wallace harmless. Phillip McGovern- connection Todays In History On this date in 1945, President Harry S.

Truman announced in a broadcast that World War was over in Europe On This Date In 1541, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, discovered the Mississippi River at a point near the present city of Memphis, Tenn. In 1846, the first battle of the Mexican war was fought at Palo Alto, Tex. In 1884, the 33rd American president, Harry S. Truman, was born on a farm near Lamar, Mo. In 1942, the Pacific war battle of the Coral Sea ended in a victory for the Allied nations.

In 1958 hostile demonstrators abusive to Vice President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon during a visit to Lima, Peru. TEN YEARS AGO: Mrs. John F.

Kennedy christened the nuclear submarine Lafayette at Groton, Conn. FIVE YEARS AGO: Former President Harry S. Truman was not well enough to celebrating his 83rd birth-attend a party in Kansas City celebrating his 83rd birthday. ONE YEAR AGO: U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers said he felt that prospects for reopening the Suez Canal and a broad peace settlement in the Mideast were improved.

Todays Birthdays Italian movie director Roberto Rossellini is 66. Writer Edmund Wilson is 77. Thought For Today As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines Joseph Wood Krutch Krooch, American writer, born 1893. As Rogers Flew Back Mood Aboard A Secretarys Natures Beauty It would be unfair not to say a kind word about the weatherman. While it may have been only an interlude between periods of rain, the weekend produced a combination of days that make May such a delightful, wonderful month.

While the warm sunshiny weather was made to order for householders to catch up on their spring chores, Saturday and Sunday were ideal for enjoyment of the greening valleys, mountains and meadows. Everywhere one looked, it seemed there was a blooming bush or tree. The dogwoods were especially resplendent in their pink and white beauty. Where apple, cherry or peach trees were massed their collective beauty was breathtaking. It was a weekend to pay homage to Natures floral beauty.

Plane Called Relaxed For the moment, this is probably true. But the South Dakota Senator can expect to have the Henry Wallace episode thrown at him again and again until it sticks because the 1948 insurgent and McGovern are birds of a feather, and McGoverns persisting admiration for Henry Wallace only underscores the similarities. McGovern served as a delegate to the 1948 Progressive Party convention. He was 'recently quoted in Time magazine as telling his biographer, Robert Anson, that he still believes in what Wallace was trying to do: I felt than as I do now, that U.S. foreign policy was needlessly exacerbating tension with the Soviet Union.

.1 liked what Wallace had to say about foreign policy. I still think he was essentially right. Here, then, is a sketch of the essentially right views and activities of Henry Agard Wallace. By way of back- ground, Wallace had been Franklin D. Roosevelts Vice President from January, 1941, to January, 1945, but was dropped from the 1944 ticket for his leftist views.

In 1946, he was thrown out of Harry S. Trumans Cabinet. Nominated In 1948 Wallace was nominated for President by the new Progressive Party at a late summer, -1948 convention in Philadelphia (attended you will remember, by young George McGovern.) Former CIO general counsel Lee Pressman, who later admitted that he was a Communist, drafted the platform, which called for nationalization of utilities, railroads, merchant shipping and big banks, as well as stopping the draft, liquidation of our bases abroad, scrapping of our atomic stockpile, the abandonment of the Truman Doctrine and the end of aid to anti-Communist foreign governments. Accepting the nomination, Wallace called for the U.S. to solve the 1948 Berlin Blockade problem by withdrawing from Berlin: The Cold War has al ready brought death to millions of Americans.

diverting money from domestic health and welfare). His oft-repeated theme was American warmongering and refusal to work for peace. Earlier in spring 1948 testi-m before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he went so far as to say that the security of the United States is not threatened except from Washington. Assailed By Truman Shortly after Wallace was nominated by the Progres-' sives, he was also endorsed by the Communists (whose plank-by-plank platorm turned out be practically the Wallace refused to repudiate Communist support, and President Truman bluntly assailed Wallace and his Communists. As the campaign moved into autumn, Wallace became nearly hysterical.

In Minneapolis, he denounced Winston Churchill as a racist and an imperialist. He attacked the Marshall Plan as run by corporations for the benefit of corporatons and said that Americas policy was born out of a fear of peace and a dream of world conquesst. Our crusade was as deceitful as Hitlers. Will less people die under a false slogan if it is spoken in English rather than in German? Wallaces 1948 running mate, Idaho Senator Glen Taylor, went even further. Nazis are running the U.S.

government. So why should the Russians make peace with them? If I were a Russian at the Moscow Conference, I would not agree to anything. In later years, Henry Wallace came to realize that he was something of a dupe. Whether George McGovern has come to the same realization remains doubtful in light of his words to Robert Anson, son. Backgrounds Similar The striking thing about Iowa-born Henry Wallace and South Dakotan George McGovern is their great similarity of background and out look.

Consider the applicability to McGovern of this Henry Wallace description penned in 1948 by New Republic editor William Halan Hale: here is grassroots morality and intellectual eagerness, applied Christianity and a keenness to experiment, an unusual combination of Iowa folksiness and world-ranging cu-riousity. Fighting militarism, monopoly and race-hatred, he emobdied much of what was best in Americas tradition. More cynical observers might raise another parallel: simplistic views and woeful naivete. Henry Wallace and George McGovern come out of the same bag of soft-headed Farm Belt radicalism. It is not surprising that McGovern backed the misguided Iowan in 1948, and American voters might want to ponder the extent to which the spirit of Henry Wallace still guides the McGovern candidacy a quarter of a century later.

(C) Kiig Future Syndic! Todays Talk Good Will Thoughts For it is God's will that by doing right you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. I Peter 2:15. What the world has to eradicate is fear and ignorance Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian statesman. GRIN AND By Lichty (From the Collection of the Late George Matthew Adams) What is your Good Will worth? A business is often gauged by its Good Will. Why then cant it be applied to each one of us as humans being? Good Will is an intangible thing, like the soul it cannot be seen but it has a purpose.

Our Good Will can be so pronounced that it can be felt by all with whom we have contact. The Good Will of a person may be so evident that it becomes an asset in friendship and in business, and in all that we do. Its in our face, our talk, and our attitude toward life and all its problems. Its 'an accumulative thing that may keep growing with the years. It marks the man or woman.

Many businesses carry an item on their books which they term as Good Will. We can do the same, but carry it in our character and instead of having it reduced from time to time, like a business, it can grow more and more valuable as we develop in mind and heart. There is another kind of Good Will that is not associated with the commercial one, and that is the one that is a silent messenger and we introduce as we go from place to place carrying hope and cheer and making ourselves welcomed everywhere to all who may meet us. Peace and Good Will toward all men was the message sent out from the birthplace at Bethlehem, and it has given light and hope to all the world since that holy event. Influence is Good Will and has brought happiness to millions.

We can be agents of Good Will and be the means of scattering it far and wide. We can share our blessings making our own enriched. We can be a lamp lighter in an often darkened world. that Vietnam marked a critical point at which the U.S. must take a decisive stand.

He told the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels last Friday that the U.S commitment to Western Europe would be called into question if the Americans gave up on South Vietnam. He said that the Russians had to bear a responsibility for the war because of their failure to restrain the North Vietnamese. Except for the British, the allied response has been-largely mute, but Rogers feds the allies sympathize in general and would not oppose any further American action in Vietnam. i (C) N.Y. Times New Service POTOMAC FEVER i The Nixon administrations Latin policy has been critfr cized by OAS as one of benign neglect.

If Latin Americans think theyre neglected, they should check with Canada. Senator Kennedy has In troduced legislation that would designata Chap paquiddick as part of a national park. Do you suppose they'll erect statues? Lockheed Aircraft Corp. shareholders are being asked to raise executives pensions to a maximum of $65,000 a year from the present $40,000 limit. Taxpayers comment: Only if they retire right now.

i 4" Mayor Yorty has predieted the North Vietnamese drive through the demilitarized zone will fail if wa continue bomb ing Haiphong and Hanoi. Did ho do that by himself pr con suit Joanno Dixon? startling happening on the ground in Vietnam to warrant a crisis reaction. But he said that the North Vietnamese were clearly regrouping and preparing for an all-out attack on Hue and other cities. The purpose of the attacks, he believes, is to bring down the South Vietnam government and Nixon has said he would not tolerate this passively. A major step up of American air attacks against North Vietnam such as renewed bombing of Hanoi or Haiphong could imperiel the Moscow trip.

Such actions might so tie up Nixon and his aides that there might not be enough time to prepare adequately for the visit. Rogers said that he did not know what would happen in coming days. Rogers said that the odds McCloskey, the State Departments spokesman who is also a friend and confidant, back with him to Washington. He left the other members of the official party in Bonn directing them to wait there for instructions. At one point in the flight, Rogers said that the odss were 65 to 35 that he would return to Europe Monday night or Tuesday to resume the tour, which was broken before visits to Paris, Rome and Madrid to cover.

The trip has bee increasingly clouded by events in Vietnam. 'Malignancy" Of Vietnam Some aides have expressed concern in private about what one of them call the malignancy of Vietnam, which was again threatening to dominate American foreign policy considerations and that the carefully worked out efforts to improve relations with Moscow and Peking might be set back drastically. But Rogers has not shared their disquiet, and instead, has echoed Nixons contention By BERNARD GWERTZMAN ABOARD AIR FORCE 86971, Over The Atlantic The mood aboard Secretary of State William P. Rogerss plane was surprisingly relaxed Sunday despite the sense of drama caused by President Nixons decision this morning to summon him home from Bonn. Rogers sipped lemonade, joked with the crew, told the four newsmen aboard about his college boxing days, joined his wife, Adele, at bridge, and remarked how glad he was to hear that Bobby Fischer -had agreed to play against Boris Spassky in Iceland for the chess championship.

Rogers has been one of Nixons closest friends and advisers, and all signs suggested that the president was again at a crucial moment in his career and wanted Bill Rogerss advice along with that of his other top aides. Brief Message The brief message that ordered Rogers interrupt his eight-country, eight-day trip, during which he was briefing allies before Nixons Moscow visit, did not say more than that the President wanted to discuss the situation in Southeast Asia. Rogers who has kept abreast both of the situation in Vietnam and more important, of Nixons mood, has suggested strongly during the first five days of the trip to Iceland, Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg and West Germany that Nixon was ready to risk his career and his reputation to stem the North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam, and was ready to use everything short of nuclear weapons to do so. Nothing "Startling" After going over Hie latest intelligence reports sent to him in Bonn Sunday morning, Rogers said (here was nothing Registered U.S Potent Office Published every morning except Sundoy at Eight West King Lancaster, Pa 17604, by STEINMAN A STEINMAN, INC. Pounded 1794 Founded 17W John F.

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