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Widening Crack? The Spoilsman-Review EDITORIAL r.GI'. Tuesday, 4, 1972. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS LORD HARLECH, former British ambassador in Washington, has come to the assistance of JOHN LENNON in his legal wrangle with the U.S. Immigration Service for permission to live in America. The immigration service has opposed Lennons application for permanent residence in the United States on the grounds of a drug conviction in London in 1968.

Harlech has written U.S. authorities defending Lennon, a former Beatle. DR. YANG CHEN-NINH, Nobel-prize-winning physicist from New York, is visiting his relatives in China. Yang, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957, has met with" top Red Chinese officials, including Premier CIIOU EN-LAI, who hosted Yang and his relatives at a banquet Saturday night.

Yang is Albert Einstein professor of physics at New York State University, Stoney Brook, Long Island. Kentucky Gov. WENDELL FORD, operated on a week ago for a weakened three-inch segment of his main abdominal artery, may be able to leave Methodist Hospital Thursday, an aide says. THOMAS PRESTON, the governors press aide, said Ford continues to make excellent progress and stiU hopes to he able to attend the opening session of the Democratic national convention in Miami Beacft July 10. while we try our best to follow the terms of any agreement.

A mortal blow has been dealt that view singlehandedly by U.S. chess player Bobby Fischer, The much-heralded match of the century was scheduled to begin Sunday between Fischer and the current holder of the world chess championship, Russian grandmaster Boris Spassky. Reykjavik, Iceland, had been settled as the site of play, and the financial terms had been mutually agreed upon months ago. At the last minute Fischer failed to appear for the oiening game, and demanded changes in the monetary arrangements. It was said he wanted more money, and a British banker reportedly offered an additional $130,000 of his own money if Fischer would show up for the match.

A highly unusual two-day delay has already been granted by the head of the World Chess Federation, Dr Max Euwe. If Fischer had failed to show up for the second time, he could have forfeited the right to challenge Spassky as well as disappointing the many chess enthusiasts around the world. Indications now are that he has accepted the banker's offer. lie has already done considerable damage to our reputation as a country which honors the agreements we enter into. In many countries of Europe chess is one of the most popular of national pastimes, and the worldwide interest in this match made it a highly visible international contest.

Summary: This sort of behavior is about on a par with sweeping the chess pirrea onto the floor when the game doesn't go exartiy to one's liking. We Led I lie Wav havf been an independent nation for 138 years exactly. It is somewhat remarkable that as long as the idea of national independence has been around, it has never been more sought after in the world than it is today. It is only in approximately the last two decades that the idea of independence has swept most of black Africa. It is only a little longer than that that India has been independent of Great Britan, and only this year did the country we now rail Bangladesh gain its independence from Pakistan, which is itself a new count The movements of mdrprndrme become blurred, and not every tevolution is a true independence movement Particularly where control of a government is snatched by one clique from another, it is sometimes a matter of getting rontrol of the loot rather than throwing off the oppressor's yoke.

Many cruel regimes have gained control of a people in the name of independence, and that is not true independence. The idea is a durable one, however. The best evidence is the fart that at great personal danger some artists and some scholars in the Soviet Union are expressing intellectual independence What they write cannot he published in their own country, but more and more expressions of independent ideas are being made against the will of the Soviet establishment. Revolution may come either through overthrow of the ruling system, or through liberalization of it. The Soviet Union is keenly aware of the need to improve the quality of life within its borders and this need has been capitalized by President Nixon in his dealings with the Russian leaders.

The British system against which thr American colonies rebelled has been steadily democratized. Today the English-speaking world probably enjoys the highest degree of self-determination anywhere, although the unruly American rebels of 1776 could not wait for indrprndenre to arrive in an evolutionary way. After tiie American colonies won their independence, they underwent a painful period of learning how to govern the new nation that had been created. It is useful for us to remember this in evaluating the independence movements now under way around the world. Some of tho emerging countries have made a frightful mess of self government, hut they are learning just as we learned.

Independence, more Ilian anything else, is a state of mind and a quality of spirit. It is an indispensable part of the American way. Me should wish others well in their pursuit of It. Summary: The essence of America Is tho Independence that we rrlebrate twiav. JULES WITCOVER Unily an Elusive Goal as Demo Stress Grows l.K'ITERS TO TIIE KDITOIt The Spokesman-Review Forum all of the teachers, whereas I think anybody that has looked into the problem and realizes tion in insisting on hiring back when you have a levy failure of this magnitude, that it is an impossibility to hire back everyone that has been laid off.

Further, they make no mention of the hiring back of the non-certificat-ed personnel, who in my estimation, are as equally important in running a school district as our certified teachers. It appears to me also that the school board has made several attempts to negotiate with the SEA, coming up with what I consider reasonable proposals, and these are met with absolutely no consideration on the part of the Spokane Education Association. I would like to again express my opinion, that I feel the extra-curricular program in its entirety is an important one to the education process as any other aspect of a full educational program and should be reinstated in the budget. I urge everyone who feels this way to write to the members of the school board and express your views. GEORGE E.

DODDS. 1810 Thirty-ninth. Needed Help Spokanes riverfront park and Expo 74 will he accessible to everybody, including the handicapped, according to plans being made by the City of Spokane. Unlike many other ureas of the city where facilities are not geared to easy mobility for those with physical handicaps, the central riverfront park will include a special set of path arrangements. Glen A.

Yake, assistant to the city manager-engineer, has said not only the contour of paths but the material of which they are fashioned will be easy for people on crulches and canes or in wheelchairs. Ramps will lie used instead of steps wherever possible. While the most immediate effort of such planning will be to make the Expo '74 site convenient, a lunger-range goal is in mind. Changes in the ritya building code are being implemented. While these are not as numerous as might be hoped, some improvements have been brought about and it is not unreasonable to hope many more will be approved for inclusion in our code.

Wider doors to public buildings, doors which can be opened easily by people in wheelchairs and some effective meang of reshaping or eliminating curbs are amongn suggestions. Handicapped people are entilled to public facilities which serve their needs. Summary: Spokane is showing foresight for its future facilities. The opinions and statements expressed in this department are those of the letters' authors and do not hear any relation to The Spokesman-Review editorial poluy. To he published, letters must hive the signature and address of the writer.

Only a representative sampling of those received tan be published and none can be returned. Address letters to The Forum, The Spokesman-Reiiew. AtteniplingToo Mitch I felt most disturbed in visiting the Mamto Park greenhouse. Weeds in the dclphiium beds were waist high and new flower beds were being planted. I really dont understand the thinking of this.

If our park system cannot take care of the flowers they now have and the grass in the parks I most certainly do not feel they should be spending additional funds to plant more areas that one day will have the some treatment. Doesnt it make you wonder what our river beautification project will look like in a few years? DONNA BLOOD. M418 Adams. depth of the bitterness. Charges of political hypocrisy" were thrown back and forth, each side predicting a Nixon victory in November if the other prevailed.

Some young McGovern women cried as the vote was announced. And the committee's decision Friday evening to oust Daley and 58 other uncommited members of the Illinois delegation did not help party unity. Chicago Alderman Edward Burke, one of the 59 delegates stripped of their seats, vowed that the Daley forces would go to Miami Beach. You are going to see one whale of a floor fight," he said Saturday. For McGovern who did not attend any of these various committee hearings and votes the mood as well as the credentials vote was a measure of the problem he faces at the convention and beyond.

Had there been no credentials fight, McGovern still would have had major missionary work to do among those many old-line Democrats who see his tax and welfare reform ideas as radical, and who see him and his young army as zealots with whom they cannot do political business. Now, he must try to nail down the nomination without widening the breach, deftly avoiding the pitfalls of 21 minority platform planks along the way. Having slowed him in the California credentials fight, his foes are likely to use the platform as another way to bring about convention confrontation, especially if the credentials committee vote on California is sustained. The McGovern forces through the long 1972 delegate hunt have been extremely cool, showing they could discipline themselves when necessary. But that discipline got badly frayed around the edges in the California credentials fight and will face a sterner test at Miami Beach.

Copyright, 1972, L.AT.) WASHINGTON If he is to have any realistic chance to defeat President Nixon in November, Sen. George S. McGovern must repair the severe intraparty damage wrought by the credentials fights and allay the fears of old party regulars toward him, his views and the more zealous of his followers. Winning the nomination, obviously, must be the first order of business, and the McGovern camp already has undertaken the job of finding new delegate strength to replace the 153 California delegates lost, temporarily at least, in the credentials challenge. The animosities generated by the credentials fight shattered McGoverns hopes of breezing through the pre-convention committee hearings, minimizing the blurring intraparty differences and generating general goodwill along the way.

In the first two important committee deliberations, on the platform and party rules, the McGovern forces deftly found a middle road. The results didnt please everybody and certainly not Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace but courtesy and cordiality marked the talks. Then came the credentials hearings.

At first they too started innocuously enough. McGovern stood aloof while a womens representation challenge in South Carolina went under, and while challengers of Mayor Richard J. Daleys slate from Chicago fought on their own. But on Wednesday, the McGovern forces chose to make a test in behalf of two black delegates in Georgia. They mobilized their troops and won.

The effort, however, only antagonized many southern delegates. The next day, they joined the anti-McGovern California challenge with undisguised glee, some shaking their fists and cheering when McGovern went down on that one. The debate on the California challenge finally unveiled the Poor CIios Move It has almost bprn axiomatic during the long rold war that the Soviets regard treaties and agreements as just many arraps of paper, to be honored only when convenient, of tlie Times that the locks are a terrific recreational experience. I submit that true environmentalists will consider the over-all, lasting impact that the casual brushing aside of the power potential of the Spokane Falls dam will produce. We have been threatened within the next decade by power brownouts in this region.

The alternative to brownouts is more power production. If we do not produce this power hydro-electrically, we must seek other sources. Two alternatives for power production are available; thermonuclear power production, and thermal-electric plants. We have been warned of water pollution in the first case, and we know that air pollution is a certain result in the second. Hydroelectric power generation is the only non-polluting source of energy, and even the small amount of power produced at the Spokane Falls plant will make a difference in the over-all picture.

The EPA report which Mr. Reynolds urges us to read makes no mention of other functions performed by the four Washington Water Power Company dams on the Spokane River. One of these dams forms Lake Spokane (formerly Long Lake) along the shores of which many Spokane residents are now buying recreational property. Elimination of this dam ends the recreational future of this lake. Another dam, Post Falls, controls the level of Lake Coeur dAlene in the dry summer months.

Elimination of this dam would leave the shores of this beautiful body of water in a real mess, subject to vast seasonal variations, and destroying valuable shore line property, including several state parks and national forest campgrounds open to the public. And the EPA report makes no mention of removal of the City of Spokanes upriver dam, which provides hydroelectric power for pumping the Citys water supply. Someone more emotional than I suggested that the solution to this latter problem would be to have the citizens get their water from the river in buckets. I can only ask if the City will be driven to erect a thermalelectric generating plant, to pollute the air instead of impeding the free-swimming trout? Gentlemen, lets not be emotional! Lets look at all the facts, instead. Ecology is nothing new; it has existed since the world began.

It is only the Instant Ecologists, with their sure-fire cures for the worlds ills, that are new. And they usually fail to look at all the facts, with the result that many of their proposed cures are worse than the disease. Lets not fall into the fad-trap of Ecology Now. ROBERT H. KLUCKHOHN W1934 Gardner HOW TO KEEP WELL Tobacco Additives Under Fire EDWIN L.

DALE. JR. Some Social Security Taxes Up 41 Per Cent Look at Rig Picture I note in the Forum of July 3 a plea by Edward A. Reynolds of the Spokane Audubon Society for non-emotionalism on our consideration of a hydro-electric dam at Spokane Falls. I agree that we should view this matter coldly and factually, but I submit that Mr.

Reynolds and the Sierra Club (and I admire the latter for many of its fine past accomplishments) should become a little more factual in their considerations. First, Mr. Reynolds refers to a recent article in Sunset magazine on the Willamette River. I quote from that article: Two developments within the last 10 years helped make the Willamette Parkway scheme feasible. First, a series of reservoirs near its headwaters modified the rivers rampages, in which flood waters rose as much as 30 feet in 24 hours.

These reservoirs, even though the age of miracles is not past, had to be created by new dams, and these dams were built on the Willamette and its tributaries The article goes on with its second point, which was the cleaning up of pollution. Apparently this clean-up can be accomplished with dams in the river, which the Environmental Protective Administrations report would have us believe is not the case. The Sunset article also goes on to refer to the 5-chambered locks around Willamette Falls, which, like Spokane Falls, are dammed, and produce power for a mill, and suggests Dr, Von Detlen will attempt to on-attrr questions perfoininjr to the pretention of disease if lefferj ore ad-dresei to him in core of The Spokeu-tnan-Ketieio and are accompanied by return stamped envelope. SEA Rebuffs In reference to your article of June 29, 1972, concerning the report of the school board meeting held on June 28, I wish to comment on several items in this article inasmuch as I was in attendance at that meeting. First of all, and I quote from the article, majority sentiment seemed to be against him," in reference to John It.

Warn presentation. This is an assumption on the part of the reporter and in my opinion, certainly is not true. We have to consider, that also per your article, there were 200 citizens in attendance. However, approximately two-thirds of these people were teachers and of course they are currently following the Spokane Education Association line, which is using extra-curricuiar activities as a weapon to force the school board to meet their demands. Further, I felt the a i tide presented only one side in that you quoted only Mr, John Christianson, of the SEA, and you mentioned nothing of the comments made by the parents, several of whom had some very salient points during the course of the meeting.

Mr. Christianson's comment, that the SEA is opposed to funding extra-curricu-lars until 156 teachers are rehired, is the same old line that we have been hearing from the SEA since the levy failure. As was stated by several parents in attendance, none of whom were quoted in the article, it is felt that the extra-curricular activities are part of the basic program and are not frosting on the cake as Mr. Christianson puts it. They are an important part of a youngsters basic education.

This has been expressed to me by the overwhelming majority of the parents with whom 1 have discussed this matter. I feel that these viewpoints should also be aired in the paper, I personally have attended several school board meetings and it appears to me that the reason for the non progression in negotiations is as a result of the SEA rubber stamp" poi- tis that develops after heavy smoking. Others believe that smokers develop a microscopic lipid (fatty) pneumonia that leads to the malignancy. Doail Skin It. writes: What is the cause of an excessive amount of dead skin on the feet? Reply Dryness, if the skin otherwise is lear.

This condition is common after age 40, especially among tlio.se who bathe frequently. arious skin disorders, such as eczema or ichthyosis, are associated with scalling. Clouded Len Mrs. If. writes: Can a person see a latavact in another persons eye? Reply Yes, but only when the lens heroines so clouded it looks like a milky white marble through the pupil of the eye.

It is best sen when live light shuies in the eye because of the reflection of the cataract. Stomach Pol R. K. writes: Would a polyp in the stomach cause symptoms? Reply Not necessarily, unless the polyp becomes irritated, inflamed, or malignant. Occasionally ulcer develops in a polyp.

Stomach Splashes W. L. writes: What would cause the liquid in the stomach to splash around when I walk? People next to me hear it. Reply A noisy stomach usually means it contains more than the usual amount of air, allowing fluids to splash back and forth. The sound is louder when the stomach is close to the aiapnragn, which acts as a sounding board.

DENNIS TIIE MENACE By Ketcham ing toward 8 per cent as was scheduled for later yeai'J under the old law. The rise in benefit payment as more people retire, plus the new cost of living escalation, will be. financed wholly out of the steady rise in earnings in the economy, plus the upward slide of the wage base. The tax rate will remain at 5.5 per cent indefinitely. The system will be more progressive or at least less regressive than before.

The tax on the lower-paid workers already more than the income tax for many of them will stop going up after next year when it reaches 5.5 per cent. All of the added financing will come from the better-off, thanks to the higher, and rising, wage base, plus the modest tax increase on any worker as his pay goes up even though his earnings are still below the wage base. Under the former law, the tax rate on all workers and hence, obviously, the lower-paid would have risen above 5.5 per cent next year and crept on upward toward 8 per cent. The bill is not all pain for thp better-off worker either. The much higher wage base is not all loss because it means much higher benefits for him or her after retirement.

The exact amount is impossible to calculate, depending as it does on the workers present age and the unknown amount by which the wage base and the benefit level will escalate upward between 1974 and the time of retirement. But a monthly benefit of more than for a man and wife is likely or a worker now in his mid-30's and earning at least $12,000 whose salary goes on. rising with the general wage level. That compares with a man-and-wife benefit of $324 for the man who retired last week and had always earned the wage base amount durinff his working life. (Copyright 1972.

NYT.) WASHINGTON The Social Security bill rushed through Congress and signed by President Nixon last week has major, and not widely known, implications for all employers and for the millions of high-salaried working men and women in the country. For employers, the bill will mean higher costs next year and thereafter, though perhaps not quite as much increase in costs in later years as would have occurred under the former law. For those whose earnings are at least $12,000 a year, the bill means a 41 per cent increase in Social Security taxes in the next two years from $468 in 1972 to $660 in 1974, with a tax of $594 in 1973 in between. These same amounts, of course, must be paid by employers meaning that both businesses and industries with a high salary scale will be hit hardest. But more important for the relatively affluent workers and only for those workers Social Security taxes will go on rising indefinitely, a little each year.

This is because of the little-noticed provision for escalation of the Social Security wage base to finance the new cost-of-living escalation of benefits for those who are retired. Starting from $12,000 in 1974, the wage base will rise each year according to a formula linking it with the general wage level in the economy. In the mid-1980s it could easily reach $20,000, meaning a tax on the worker and his employer of $1,100 each. The news is not all bad, however for employes and the better-off workers. For the first time, the creeping rise in the Social Security tax rate will be halted.

At 5.2 per cent this year, it has become a significant cost for employers. After an increase to 5.5 per cent next year for both employer and employe, the rise "will cease, instead of mov By DR T. R. YN DELLLN Blackfat tobacco is welt named; it is both black and fatty After processing, a light mineral oil (canopus oil) and petroleum jelly are added resulting in an almost black, heavy moist leaf. The leaves which are sold intact, are cut into strips and rolled in cigarette paper.

Since 1870, blackfat tobacco has been imported into Guyana (formerly British Guiana) from Kentucky. And as might be expected, for many generations, Indian immigrants and East Indians and their descendants developed a chronic lung disorder exhibited bv dry cough and shortness of breath on exertion These were the people who zmoked blackfat tobacco. Those who chewed cr smoked jt in a pipe never developed lung disease. Furthermore, tins particular lung disorder did not occur in those who used unadulterated tobacco The casual relationship of the tobacco never was suspected, even though the lungs looked as if the victims had inhaled liquid paraffin or a similar mineral ml. Apparently the oily material in the leaf invades the lungs causing minute areas of fatty pneumonia.

After 10 years, there is enough residual scar tissue to disable the respiratory system. Considerable deposits of black pigment also can be seen in the lung tissue. The medical condition has been dubbed blackfat tobacco smokers lung. The lesson to be learned is that additives in cigarettes may vaporize as a result of the heat of the burning tobacco. It is the chemical in the vapors that dews the harm.

In many countries, it is illegal to add anything to tohacco except water. As with other tobaccos, many yean before lung occur. The damage is minimal, but continuous. Apparently these people do not live long enough to develop lung cancer. Soma authontiea beLievt the lur.g ranecr is a complication of the brom Iri THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW S-MftJaUa m.4 at Vrm.

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