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4,41, THL ccEA-r CHANiP1CNSHIP 4 erifafitric Li, 4 McGovern's Big Chickens Three Helpful Slates Could Cool Off Later Editorial Page. Saturday, July 15, 19:2. OtIc ICIAL PAPER, CITY OF SPOKANE. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. SUBSCRIBER TO UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Soil-Saving Fight Intensifies 1 i 44111 4 i- :.:,1 2 l' 1.,,,, -4 s' 159 ,.....,1,,,,,,..:,,.,.,..,,,1 ..,:4, fr 1 4 '7.

I 1 1 I I more intensive tilling and other lac can make the odds still tougher in any single year. Proposed for the Columbia-Snake region, a huge new long-range, three-state program is gaining support. IICW leaflet from the U.S. Geological Survey: deals on a broad scale with "sediment pollution." "Each year," it informs, "we spend more than $125 million to dredge about 33 million cubic yards of sediment from U.S. harbors and Nvaterwaysenough sediment to fill almost 200 million railroad cars." Reservoir capacity also is reduced.

A finger is pointed not just at the problems of farmlands, but at "earth laid bare during construction." This pithy advice is attached: "By far the most economical and effective sediment-control measure is careful planning to minimize disturbance of the natural ground cover and to do so over the shortest period of time." In brief, gentlemen. dig with judgment and handle with care that dirt is a precious commodity. A geologist talking recently about the formation of unusual land features in this region, such as the Palouse hills, was asked afterward when it all happened. Ills smiling response was that it is happening right now, and he was not being wholly facetious even though most of the Palouse soil was deposited perhaps 59,000 years ago. When a dust storm blows in, for instance, a little more of it is happening.

But just as the wind giv eth. and taketh, the waters also taketh away. They've been doing so for a long time, and that's still happening too. Speaking further of Palouse farmlands in particular, soil loss in Whitman County has been estimated in a range of from 16 million to 22 million Ions annually in the past decade. And the look of the situation is that, for a lot of the Inland Empire, 1972 is one of the more severe erosion years.

The fight to save lands from erosion all kinds of lands. everywhere makes progress. but it is a battle against heavy odds, conservationists can testify. Certain weather patterns, 1 (I T. phi tu Pr fly CARL T.

ROWAN MIAMI BEACH As the forces of Sen. George Mc. Govern roll on, it is easy to develop a misleading euphoria. It is tempting to embrace the hope, or rush to the conclusion, that McGovern's brash new political force will sweep the nation the way it has blitzed Convention What no one ought to overlook is that the very states providino McGovern's remarkable victory here are the states that offer such ominous portents for the future. If California, New York and Illinois were securely in McGovern's pocket next November he would have 180 electoral votes, or 43 per cent of the 270 votes needed to win the Presidency.

Alas, what came so easily in this July convention may never arrive at all in the November election. The huge New York bloc which put McGovern over the top in the critical California credentials was a gift. Out of financial distress or disastrous political misjudgment, Sen. Ilubert H. Ilumphrey didn't really challenge McGovern in New York.

President Nixon will hardly be as charitable. Ile is already after New York in a big way. The Jewish vote and Jewish money have long been critical factors in winning New York. Nixon has moved assiduously to strip the Democrats. As for Illinois, this convention voted to take the old fox, Richard Daley, out of the chicken coop, but it may have replaced him with a hawk.

Which is to say, McGovern's electoral chickens in Illinois may not come home to a happy roost in November. California has been critical here. So it also will be in November with two of McGovern's most controversial policies bearing heavily on the disposition of 45 electoral votes. It is here that economic woes might be Nixon's undoing, for the economic sufferings and dislocations of the incumbent's policies have been near-disastrous to many thousands of Californians. But McGovern could take Nixon off the hook if he persists in talking of military budget cuts in a way that seems to presage massive new shutdowns of factories and military bases.

McGovern has pulled off one of the truly incredible victories in the nation's entire political history. Only fool would sell him short now. But it is a bigger fool, surely, who does not awaken to the reality that 700 delegates from three states here are a long, hard way from 130 electoral votes in November. (Copyright 1972) aree tion ales the in 180 to nay wer mge 'eat- iritable. Ile is ave long been on has moved take the old pp, but it may is to say, Mc-nay not come also will be in controversial of 45 electoral on's undo- ons of the to many look if he I way that l' factories incredible 37.

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Fischer grouses about lights, action. cameras. Spassky grouses about Fischer. They both fretted about the size of the squares on the chess board, and the colors of the squares. They worry over food, exercise, prize money, starting times, stopping times and undoubtedly the weather in Reykjavik.

Chess is not likely to push professional football out of the picture, nor, for that matter, grand opera. Its luminaries, however, Bobby and Boris, have put what is possibly the world's slowest game into its fastest-rising era since an early version came spreading across Europe along about the 13th century. The world is beginning to learn that it didn't a thing about prima: donna conduct before chess became one of the highest-paying games of humankind. No operatic soprano on record could have been more temperamental than the men now playing champion ship matches in Iceland. The more re.

strained champion, Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, offered just enough samples of high volatility to prove .7, that if necessary he can hold his own in any test of gamesmanship. ernable Bobby Fischer of the United States is putting the most famous of temperamental entertainers and corn: petitors to shame. By comparison, a golfer growling about camera clicks around the green i I I 4 i 4. 11 0 ht a 4. 9,, no legal basis for them.

We must consider them to be acts of hostility." Kampelman suggested that O'Brien had favored McGovern because he knew the Humphrey forces would remain loyal to the party but feared the McGovern forces might bolt. The only explanation for O'Brien's rulings, snapped Ka mpelman, was "that the chairman has submitted to acts of Califon denied that there had been any "intimidation." "The use of that word is charitable," shot back Kampelman. The final roll call on the California seating confirmed that O'Brien's rulings had been essential to McGovern. Without them, he would have been 11 votes short. Then the Stop McGovern forces would have won and the McGovern bandwagon would have started to break down.

(copyright, 1972.) Can He Win? Pundits Called Wrong in Views on McGovern vern Spokane 1 1 60 Years Ago $15,000,000 greater than last year, Next, the Main Event McGovern Beats High Odds, but Faces Still Higher Ones v. From Spokane Daily Chronicle July 15, 1912 James J. Corbett, Once famous pugilist and holder of the worlds heavyweight championship, will visit Spokane next fall or winter. Corbett has just been booked for a tour of the Sullivan-Considine vaudeville circit and during the trip will appear at the local Empress theater. THAT it is only a question of time until Ilyard will be annexed by Spokane is the opinion of Mayor Jared flerdlick.

"It has happened in other similar cases and it will in this," declared Mayor lierdlick. Opposition to annexation is very strong at the present time although many citizens realize that it may take place some day. Pil RI hers Lodg( been es Li will game nishei COI servic (Ma al dent area, from Mrs Born Tenn sa, IV, same She here the 1937 vi dale. Mrs the Sun Mrs. kane, sell, ansion SPO tional ment meet ond area Sept.

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KILPATRICK factors the strength of his own organiza MIAMI BEACH It still is hard to be- tion, and the weakness of his opponents. The ieve. Just six months ago this weekend, weakness was fortuitous; the strength vvas correspondents who traveled through New his own. It ought not be to minimized. As an Hampshire with George McGovern traveled organizer, as a political tactician, Mc; with a political cipher.

Now we will travel Govern has to command respect. He put 11 with the Democratic nominee for president this thing together, in caucuses, in prima, of the United States ries, in tireless labors here in Miami. From There may be, in the shopworn phrase, a the moment the first gavel fell Monday great human story behind this. It has not night, his claim on the prize could not be yet emerged. McGovern has come on so denied.

It was a work of great skill. slowly and steadily, in the fashion of a plas- Where does he go from here: The short tic extrusion, that one keeps waiting for answer is: Nowhere. Granted, one can write Where does he go from here: The short answer is: Nowhere. Granted, one can write 1 4. By JACK ANDERSON MIAMI BEACHGeorge McGovern.

Ik'011 the presidential nomination in the Fontainebleau suite of Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien before the convention opened. McGovern needed a favorable ruling from O'Brien on two key procedural questions. If O'Brien had ruled against him, McGovern would have been short of the votes he needed to win the crucial California credentials fight. He was accompanied to' O'Brien's suite by Connecticut's astute Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, a key member of McGovern's political braintrust.

They urged the beleaguered chairman, for the sake of party unity, to rule for McGovern. Choosing their words carefully, they reminded O'Brien that McGovern's supporters were essentially the same people who had been shut out by the 1968 Democratic convention: They had worked long and hard for the nomination in 1972. If they should feel that they had been cheated again by a parliamentary ruling, they might split the party apart. Threats Avoided McGovern and Ribicoff were careful to make no threats but merely to describe the mood of their zealous followers. O'Brien said he didn't intend to continue as party chairman.

Ile has served without salary and he must get back to earning a living, he said. McGovern and Ribicolf suggested pointedly that O'Brien shouldn't want to leave a splintered party as his legacy. The chairman got the message and later ruled McGovern's way. One ruling gave McGovern 120 California delegates but denied his opponents the remaining 151 delegates for the crucial vote on seating the California delegation. The other ruling permitted the issue to be settled by a majority of delegates eligible to vote, rather than a majority of the full convention.

This was worth another 70 votes for McGovern. Humphrey's Man Angered Representatives of all the presidential candidates were summoned to a secret meeting party counsel Joseph Calif a and parliamentarian James O'Hara announced O'Brien's decision. Max Kampelinan, representing Hubert Humphrey, blurted angrily: "I just want you to communicate a message to the chairman from the Humphrey campaign committee. His rulings are appalling. We can Nee Zatifornia creden- vite.ei I 1 I ii.

7, 1 .1 1 1 4 4 0' 0 I. 1 By TOM BRADEN MMMI BEACJI, Fla. With the nomination of George McGovern, a once-in-a-generation event has occurred in American politics. It has been 24 years since the American people were asked to decide an election on an ideological basisthat is, to choose between left and right. That was the choice they had to make in 1948 between Harry Truman and Thomas E.

Dewey when, to the astonishment of every political pundit and prognosticator, Truman won. It was a battle of ideology. Truman was asking the American people whether they believed in labor's right to a union shop. He was asking whether they believed in government aid to hospitals and the beginnings of a government health service. Ile was asking whether they believed in federal aid to local schools, Back in 1948, Truman's answers to those questions seemed pretty left-wing.

So do George McGovern's answers to the questions he is asking. Do Americans want to quit and get out of Vietnam or do they want to win this war they have been fighting? Do Americans want to spend most of their taxes on armaments? Are schools more important? Do Americans believe in the progressive income tax they enacted back in the days of Woodrow Wilson? Do they wish to continue to tax those with high incomes and those with middle incomes at about the same rate? Issues Are of the Left and Right These are the issuesthe basic issuesas between George McGovern and Richard Nixon. In terms of 1972, they are issues of left and right, and just as in Harry Truman's day, the pundits and prognosticators are saying that the left cannot win, Maybe I ought to be counted out as a pundit and prognosticator. But I'd like to go on record as saying I think they're wrong to say McGovern can't win. I think they may turn out to be as wrong about McGovern next November as they have been wrong about McGovern all along.

The talk in Miami was of the terrible blow dealt by the defeat of Mayor Daley. What would happen to McGovern in those Chicago wards which Daley commands? The talk was of the frightful insult dealt to the Italia and the Poles and the Irishall the ethnic blocswhen the McGovern reforms seated a convention made it instead on the basis of sex and age and race. The talk was of George Meany and the insult which had been inflicted upon labor by the fact that the convention had no "labor bloc." I think the questions McGovern is asking and will ask the American people cut deeper than the Daleys, deeper than the ethnic blocs, deeper than the old Establishment and deeper than George Meany. (Copyright, 1972.) nation of nt has oc- 24 years le an elec- between make in E. Dewey pundit and isking the )or's right pelieved in ings of a ether they questions vern's an- ietnam or ghting? taxes on icome tax Tilson? Do .1 incomes me rate? between ns of 1972, in Harry are say- undit and saying 1 in.

1 think Pvern next 3overn all dealt by en to Mcrn pley co- 13i cemsltaadwi iehalleit Ice. which the con- will ask vs, deeper blishment 1972.) TO FULLY bring "Hello, Miss Spokane," which the Ad club hopes to make the official Spokane song of the future, before the citizens, a day will be selected next week on which every orchestra, chorus and gathering in the vicinity will be asked to render the new song. The song will be officially announced to the public at the Ad club meeting on July 17 and steps will be taken then tending toward the adoption of the song officially by the city. THE East Sprague avenue paving project received a hard blow this afternoon when 10 property holders, who had originally signed the petition asking for the work, requested that their names be withdrawn. In addition, the faction of the property holders opposed to the improvement filed another strong protest against the work.

It is believed that today's development will effectually kill the work for this year. more to appear. We know little, so far, of what makes him laugh or weep or cry out in rage. He has spun into view like a rousel charger, caparisoned in computerized 1: tape, more of a symbol than a man of flesh and blood. This will change.

One thinks of Wendell Villkie, Alf Landon, Barry Goldwater, even of Adlai Stevenson. In the national view, they too began as nonentities, as enigmas. The remarkable thing about McGovern is that he achieved his triumph in a field once crowded with names far better known: 1 Humphrey, Muskie, Jackson, Lindsay. He ran them into the ground. Ratings Low, but Organizing Pays 4, 14.

0 4 TIM the "plague of black caterpillars" which frightened South Side property holders last month will return in the fall is the prediction of the state agricultural experiment station at Pullman. No danger to cultivated crops is to be feared, states a bulletin just issued by the station after an investigation, THE PROJECT of constructing a paved road from the center of the city to Fort George Wright, by the joint aid of the city, county, state and federal authorities, is announced as the plan of the Spokane County Good Roads association for next year, according to Secretary F. W. Guilbert. The proposed road is to some extent dependent upon whether the heavy teaming done over the route can be stopped.

Such heavy traffic as is at present the rule would, in the opinion of the good roads men, make an expensive highway, hut a short lived affair. a scenario. If McGovern's young volunteers can register millions of new voters and then get them to the polls; if McGovern can make peace with the old pots and the leaders of organized labor; if he can modify his own early image as a far-out extremist; if his debt-ridden party can raise the necessary money; if he can rally black support in key states; if Richard Nixon falls into catastrophic blunder if all this develops, while the economy drifts and the war goes on: Yes, McGovern could make it in November. Victory Seems Too Much to Dream It is too much to imagine. McGovern's coalition is stuck together with paper clips, Band-aids and hairpins.

His support among intellectuals is based not on empathy, but on default. His young amateurs produced a marvelous job in the preconvention maneuvering, but the presidential election itself is a different horse race. here McGovern will need professional help, from organized labor, from elected public officials, from governors, mayors, fellow members of Congress. The party has great resilience, and the party is hungry. But at this juncture, to speak of a McGovern victory is to speak of miracles.

Candor compels these observations. Candor equally compels the admission that virtually all of us in the press galleries of Miami were wrong about McGovern before. We never believed he could win this nomination; and he won it. For the moment, let a word of tribute suffice: Ile earned this lonor, and he fought the good fight. Let him oest up now for the main event.

(Copyright, 1972). Six months ago, the prospect seemed impossible. He rated three to five per cent in the national polls, and he had languished at that level for a solid year. In New Ramp, shire he was no more than GeorbT Who? Ile was then wandering about hotel dining rooms, shaking hands with customers, wait, ers and busboys. He ignited no fires.

Ms victory was largely a product of two ONE of the machine gun re. ccived by the local national guard company was tried on the Fort Wright range yesterday by a detachment from the guards. Some fairly good scores were made considering that it was the first time the local company has ever operated a machine gun. Northwest Verse The Neiqhbors The Call of Summer Ey LAURENCE E. ESTES (t By George Clark X': it" 14(7 11 ih Aici, A orge Clark VI) I I A A tit it," 11 elr (..::: ,,111 I A i (h.

-I I A ao Oh, I have waited Fo very long For the winds to soften and fade, The days to warm and the clouds to go WHETHER or not the transcontinental automobile route, after reaching Spokane, shall take the Columbia route or the Snoqualmie pass route to the Coast will be the vital question to motorists of this state to be decided by A. 1 Westgard upon his coming visit. Westgard, who represents the American Automobile Association, covered most of Montana last week and is due soon In Spokane. The Snoqualmie pass route will be the shorter, but the American Automobile Association officials believe the Columbia river route will be more practicable at all times of the year. 1 'i I it I 1 a 1.

..1 PROMINENT local Chinese are heartily in favor of aiding the new Chinese republic through contributions of tnoney. This sentiment was expressed freely by prominent Chinese merchants and businessmen today. The local Chinese headquarters at 1120 Front avenue is in receipt of communications from San Francisco to the effect that the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of that place started a movement to finance the new republic by assessing every Chinese in the United States a month's income. That my heart is almost afraid feel the call of the summer The low bills encircled in haze seemed wrapped in moments of grandeur; The lilies exultingly blaze. I hear the bells in the distance As the train leaves the station gate; The summer days are calling me.

And my cid, old loves must wait! 0 1)rt, 1, 12b e4-1 13--s- clo- s.1 1.,1 i. (Jr) 1 I' o' 1' 4 ,,4 .0 it, al 1 1 et, 1, tz 4 .7 10 a c. 'e4fv 11L 14'-11' I ---t -44, 14, i le ey, VII' 'Is vi'l 1, 1..1,) .,) a', 1 1) Ili 1-- vs, Or dr -r The Trembling Flame By LAURENCE E. ESTES Tonight the fire burns bright. But less than a year ago There was no fiery light, Nor embers that softly glow.

Cold the ashes on the grate, And silent the dreary place; Loneliness came to wait For a 10Ver'S fond embrace. kr Ov Sunset morrow, 10.41 o.r Sookar toss that aster warm. hinh ton south, North Fair night, aS Mona gire tempero' porter Columbi. Fliohes hours, ir rain or I enciln( SPOKAN Airpor Alhnrnto Amhorac Atianio etilinot Poky. putwo Pill-n' hir arm irveind nivilio 1.) rrt rolt phrsta Ft Worth Gronville Howie HOlerla tionolutU Elsr Sunset morrow.

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Slip Did It With a Smile By PEE SHAVER Little tasks, Herculean tasks, She trade all seem worthwhiin; She brightened every life she touched. She did it with a 8 mile. FIGUR CS given out by the state tax commission today show that the assessed valua tions as fixed by the body for the railroads of the state for '3912 will be more than Oh, may flame of your desire Be not likened to an even fire That will tremble, that will doubt, That will lessen and go out! "Daddy's is the sandwich with two 4,, PM110.ftMO.10.010..1.MlieWf 11 i. I 11 '1 11 1616,04 PMr.