The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 18

The Sacramento Bee Published weekday afternoons and Saturday and Sunday mornings Locally owned and operated for 120 years JAMES McaiTCHY founder editor 1857-1883 McCLATCHY editor president 1883-1936 WALTER JONES editor 1936-1974 Vol 39651 Tuesday August 9 1977 ELEANOR McCIATCH'I president McCIATCHY editor I Editorials 4 Kill It Now WELiE GIVE ME YOUR TIREMOUR POOR YOUR HUDDLED MAGGES AS LONG AS THEY CAN PROVE NEYVE BEEN IN THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY FOR SEVEN YEARS YGolluER1HUEDYDTERDTIMAREDGG1VOUR POOR I A5 THEY 0 VENEYVE BEN firgtf4t1 CM PRO -2 :14 1 I 1 1 I I SF LINE l' 0 ES As LONG IvRENY ylLELAERGsALIN 15: i 4 Adt too- e4 1 Illiduk is 4r :::1 '-1 i 1 I -v 1 iigigalit tlatikA a 7' -y-4- 4 11 1:: 1 -1 i 41 di11047 o' i li it one of the basic questions involved in the current debate on the bill to extend collective bargaining to employes of the University of California and the California State University and Colleges systems is this: Can the faculty members of an institution of higher learning participate in an industrial-type collective bargaining system and still maintain its high standards of academic freedom scholarship and independence? The answer is no The adversary situation in collective bargaining would cause relations between the faculty and the administration to deteriorate It would undermine the quality of the university's teaching research and public service The faculty members now share in the governance of the university with the administration This "shared governance" would be the first casualty of a collective bargaining law The administration of the university would be on one side of the table the representatives of the faculty and other employes would be on the other No matter which side prevailed the public and the students would lose It is noteworthy that none of the 48 leading public and private universities in the United States which are members of the prestigious Association of American Universities has a collective bargaining agreement with a unit that includes the main faculty of the institution Beside the fundamental matter of the incompatibility of high academic standards and industrial-type collective bargaining the bill has other shortcomings For one thing the scope of the bargaining is too broad The bill excludes nothing from collective bargaining Under the measure as now written anything can be put on the bargaining table class size hours spent on research conditions of granting tenure would be negotiable and probably would be negotiated Another flaw in the bill is that the supervisors such as chairmen of departments are also included under the collective bargaining agreements This means a strike could bring two of California's three great public higher education systems to a halt The bill AB 1091 by Assemblyman Howard Berman D-Los Angeles is scheduled to be heard before the Senate Education Committee tomorrow The committee would do higher education in California and the public a favor by voting it down Statute Of Liberty Return To Returnables Insight Dollar Doldrums LIN 1 9197 By Joseph Kraft ft It takes no team of solid waste experts to determine that once again summer has been a banner season for glass metal and flip-top We see it in the woods alongside the road we encounter it at the beach in parks and on the streets What is to be done? Some states Oregon Maine Vermont and Michigan have passed laws banning nonreturnable bottles and cans But in California despite efforts by Sen Omer Rains D-Ventura and the late Assemblyman Edwin Z'berg the legislature has turned down bills which would have required refundable deposits on all soft-drink and beer containers Rains' bill was voted down in the Senate Finance Committee and is dead for this year So we must turn to the federal government for help in banning the throwaway Fortunately there seems to be new sentimentin Congress for an environmental cleanup of solid waste material Rep James Jeffords R-Vt and Sen Mark Hatfield R-Ore have introduced bills that would require refundable deposits of at least 5 cents on beverage containers and would ban pull-tab can openers The principle here is that the cost or luxury of discarding containers should be paid for separately at the counter and not be part of society's bill for solid waste collection and disposal The principle is sound In Oregon where there has been a mandatory deposit law for five years 90 per cent of the cans and bottles are taken back to the store People would rather return the container and get their money back than throw it aside Studies show that consumers would save $2 billion a year by borrowing containers rather than buying them and that returnable bottles and cans would save the nation more than 70000 barrels of oil each day because each returned container saves the energy required to manufacture four or more disposable containers The Oregon law proves that the returnable bottle law works It's time we all cashed in on the savings States American imports during the first four months of 1977 were up nearly 20 per cent from the countries of the European Economic Community and one-third from the underdeveloped world The American lead unfortunately has not been much followed by the other economically strong countries notably Japan and Germany which have been running foreign trade surpluses of seven and three billion dollars annually But under US pressure Tokyo and Bonn have agreed to let their currencies appreciate against the dollar thus m4ing their exports slightly more expensive and their foreign imports a little cheaper In consequence there has been a steady fall of the dollar against the Japanese yen and the German mark WASHINGTON "It's still there" Secretary of the Treasury Michael Blumenthal Said after a visit to the country's gold store at Ft Knox Ky He wasn't just whistling "My Old Kentucky Home" either For foreign economic policy constitutes one area where the Carter administration has unmistakably outperformed the Ford administration This country's vast economic power is now working for rather than against as in the recent past the rest of the world A side effect of the new emphasis has been-a slight drop in the value of the dollar relative to other currencies Because these dollar doldrums have spread confusion which threatens to subvert the whole new policy acts of reassurance like the visit to Ft Knox and words of explanation are in order of higher tariffs Financial interests I have warned that theT might be obliged to raise interest rates in order to prevent a flight from dollar holdings by foreign investors In fact the President's special 1 trade representative Robert Strauss has taken care of the legitimate protectionist complaints by special arrangements limiting exports of shoes and television sets to this country The right way to bolster the dollar as Secretary of the Treasury Blumenthal keeps saying is for this country to conserve on energy while Japan and Germany expand their 4 domestic economies in ways that open 4 the door to imports from the US and other countries But the intuitive response to a drop in the dollar and a rise in the trade deficit is that the US is getting poorer So the panicky warnings gain currency and all American officials are obliged to keep educating everybody to see that the present policy helps the world toward recovery that is ultimately in the best interests of the United States Cs 1977 Field Enterptises ME FALLING dollar has combined with the huge trade deficit to give some people notably interested parties the jitters Protectionist interests have argued that American industry is becoming uncompetitive and needs the support 10 A Third Chance 'An Act Of Self-Destruction' Recent federal reports on abuses against individual privacy offer added reason for approval by the California Legislature and Gov Brown of a state privacy act The governor twice has vetoed bills peeking to control information gathered by state agencies Instead he issued an executive order which he said achieved the same goal We don't think he did A Senate-passed bill SB 170 proposes restrictions broader than the executive order's and thus assures greater legal protection against indiscriminate use of information in state files about private citizens The measure comes before the Assembly Ways and Means Committee for a hearing tomorrow Reporting it to the Assembly floor for expected passage would give Gov Brown a new opportunity to sign a sound and necessary piece of legislation into law Editorial From: St LOUIS PC3T-OI5PATCH Air Bags In Stages A GOOD STARTING point is the $40 billion surplus which the oil export countries grouped in the OPEC cartel figure to derive this year from the enormous hike in prices they have imposed on the world since 1973 The OPEC surplus this year as in the past is a kind of tax on all oil-consuming nations It promotes slowdown by reducing purchasing power and demand for goods It promotes inflation by raising prices on energy which directly affects all other prices Thus the oil price increases have combined with the business cycle and the demands of the welfare state to put most of the world in bad economic straits for the past three years Though there has been an inevitable bounceback from the recession of 1974-1975 the recovery has been extremely slow The 24 relatively rich countries grouped in the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development are expected to raise their gross national product by only 4 per cent during 1977 In Western Europe unemployment is actually growing THE US ALONG with Japan Germany Holland and Switzerland is one of the very few countries to escape the general economic blight Growth during the first half of this year has been over 6 per cent and inflation is holding steady at around 6 per cent while unemployment has been coming down slowly So this country is far better equipped than most countries to absorb the huge fuel bill imposed on the world by the oil cartel The Ford administration did not accept this responsibility It obliged other countries to pay their fuel bills by borrowing from private sources a measure which deepened recession and weakened the delicate network of international credit The Carter administration has accepted the responsibility of economic leadership It has allowed this country's imports to soar to the point where the annual trade deficit is now running at $25 billion In the process however other countries have a chance to improve their economies by selling to the United I Transportation Secretary Brock Adams has ordered a phasing in of air bags or other passive-restraint safety devices in new automobiles over three years beginning with 1982 models If Congress declines to override the decision as we hope will be the case and if the order is not fought in the courts the toll of death and injury on the highways ought to be significantly diminished The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has estimated that air bags would save more than 8900 lives a year and prevent 500000 injuries Mr Adams's timetable requires A statement by Fred Wertheimer vice president Common Cause on the Senate defeat of congressional public financing SENATE REPUBLICANS by insisting on the status quo for financing congressional elections have made it abundantly clear that the privileges of the rich and the influence of powerful economic interests reign supreme in the Republican party Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker has rejected the role and importance of the small campaign donor in order to preserve the ability of big campaign givers to buy political influence Sen Baker's spurious argument that this is an anti-Republican bill has been wiped out by Southern Democratic senators Their strong opposition to congressional public financing has been based on the obvious fact that it would mean substantially increased competition from Republicans in the South For the same reason fear of having an adequately financed Republican challenger Sen Hathaway of Maine joined in the filibuster to kill this legislation Sen Hathaway is obviously willing to have the nation suffer the present corrupting system of financing elections rather than face a 1978 Republican opponent financially able to run a competitive race Sen Hathaway's ultimate decision to support the filibuster follows a successful campaign fundraiser held in June THE MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY for blocking the public financing proposal rests with the moderate Republicans of the Senate the so-called Wednesday Club These senators most of whom originally committed to vote for cloture and the bill been broken by Minority Leader Baker He has successfully forced them to abandon their principles and corn mitments and publicly demonstrate their lack of personal independence Special praise must go to those Republican senators who stood firm and voted their beliefs in particular to Sen Mathias (Md) and Pearson (Kans) who voted for cloture on the first ballot When cosponsors of a bill such as Sens Case (NJ) Heinz (Pa) Javits (NY) and Schweiker (Pa) Join in filibustering against their own legislation they have reached a stage where they do not stand for anything When freshmen senators such as Sens Chafee (RI) Danforth (Mo) and Heinz (Pa) completely ignore their clear campaign commitments less than seven months into their term they demonstrate to their constituents that their words are meaningless BY SELLING OUT their personal views on this fundamentally important issue the Senate's moderate Republicans have committed an act of self-destruction Their influential role in American an poltics so important during the past two decades has now been SACRAMENTO'S PAST THE FILES OF Sacramento that full-size cars be equipped with the restraints in 1982 models intermediate and compact models in 1983 and mini-size cars in 1984 That will strike many Americans as a cautious schedule for the mandating of so beneficial a safety measure But it is far more in the public interest than the Ford administration policy which was to temporize on the theory that the public wasn't ready for air bags The Ford policy produced an agreement with the industry for the voluntary production of some bags on some cars in laso and 1981 as a "demonstration" The Adams timetable has been criticized in some quarters as giving priority to the safety of those motorists who can afford to buy the larger cars and of course that is the effect if not the intent The administration contends however that development of an air bag system for smaller cars has proven to be a more difficult task perhaps so But at least the mandate is for a date certain however far off which gives the in dustry more than enough time to adjust Congress ought to allow Mr Adams's order to stand Highway Commission are constructing the subway the city is building the levee and gates for the flood control I FROM T1 1 001 years Agc The Sacr The old barge Swallow is being pumped out at the foot of street and will then be towed below the city and broken up for fire wood 0 The plans for the subway at Brighton as submitted by the State Highway Commission were approved by the Citytof Sacramento While the Southern Pacific Co and the State 04-440410900011060601001101104111MosIMMIN FkOM 25 Years Ago Sacramento within 90 days will have available what is considered by civil defense experts the most modern air raid warning system in the nation This was assured last night by the city council in awarding a contract to the Robert Zievers Co 'f sokodolooloolhoomomolottomoomorothommtsofftedhowsubtmotket.