The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 7

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specifically approved and appropriated therefor by the The question on the House side was whether the Hollings ban would survive Pulling the other way against Hollings and Stratton were all the top members of the Big Team On the a Ready Now Shall We Fischer Seems To Be Jlliil 'id 1 1 lit 1 1 'i 1 III fill flillll I'liPf'li FOR SECOND SPOT McGovern Still Hankers For Teddy il'PlH Ill'll" li Mi fMirMUlil ON THE TICKET Democratic donnybrook has switched sides at the 1972 convention He has promised to support his 1968 adversary Hubert Humphrey of all people Intimates say the erstwhile pied piper of Chicago resents losing his following to George McGovern Back in 1968 McCarthy used to tell his associates he was four years too early The new political tide would crest he predicted in 1972 But now McGovern is riding the tide and McCarthy has been stranded on the shoals Shortly before the crucial California primary McCarthy showed up at Hubert apartment The quixotic McCarthy was fairly bristling with hostility toward McGovern McCarthy called McGovern a to the anti-war movement expressed distrust of foreign policy and promised to back Humphrey in California The only thing predictable about Mc in By JAMES KILPATRICK Washmiton Star Syndlcata WASHINGTON It is not often in our town perhaps especially in our town that anybody beats City Hall We are ordinarily captives of custom and precedent and one such tradition is that on Capitol Hill what the Big Mules want the Big Mules get But on June 28 a notable event occurred Under the urging of a little-known congressman from upstate New York Samuel Stratton former mayor of Schenectady the House rebelled against its leadership states with no state minimum wage law that Alabama allows a low maximum payment of only $55 a week in work- compensation and unemployment benefits But the council apparently has now received new signals Aides of Sen Ed Muskie were among the first to detect the change They reported to Muskie in a private memo: Alabama Labor Council which strongly criticized labor record in the past believes that in 1972 Wallace right down the line for comes from Barney Weeks who is head of the state Labor Council He feels that Wallace was very important in achieving gains in comp unemployment comp and occupational health and safety Labor Council opposed Wallace on minimum wage and on the property tax classification package in 1971 but in general Weeks says: cannot fault him this everyone is haunted by the fear that mind itself is falling into ruin after so many centuries of splendor You do not have to go to thinkers or gurus to find the opinion that we are all technique and no creation every man and woman has personal doubt about our science technology business about our money our values The loss of cultural roots and values is a daily and personal phenomenon and the sense of loss of purpose is personal people talk about it as their own problem IT IS personal in fact And it is made dreadful in part because the great machinery of the world is working well perhaps better than ever including the political machinery Dangers that threatened humanity throughout its history are receding: diseases are being side the extension project had the sup- port of Vice President Agnew Majority1 Leader Mansfield and Minority Scott In the House proponents included Speaker Albert Majority Leader Boggs Minority Leader Ford and such barely less impressive potentates as Mahon Poage Patman Holifield Hays Stag gers Blatnick Colmer and Mills These gentlemen hold the power to bind and loose and 99 times out of a hundred -their wishes prevail But on the 28th when they called the roll up yonder it was 197 for Strat- ton-Hollings and only 181 for the Big Mules The majestic west front of the US Capitol will be preserved It will not be destroyed transplanted expanded and prettified with picture windows not for a while anyhow At least $30 million more likely $50 million will not be spent Where Hollings comes from such a triumph is known as a' great day in the THE leadership richly deserved the rebuke Its conduct was as arrogant as its case was weak The controversy began some seven or eight years ago when we first began to hear stories that the west front the side that looks down the Mall toward the White House was crumbling and danger of In the course of time the stories proved if not wholly false at least vastly overblown The old wall indeed has cracked but competent engineers say it can be restored and -made permanently secure for perhaps $15 to $20 million The Jericho threats and warnings provided a brassy cover-up for elaborate plans then hatched by the leadership In the name of serving the tourists it was proposed to create whole acres of addi- tional space an auditorium a cafete- -ria other restaurants galleries of bath-'' rooms truck platforms bus loading facilities suites of hideaway offices and meeting rooms Preliminary plans went forward The idea was to confront both -chambers with a fait accompli Hollings and Stratton had nothing on 1 their side but right They made the point reasonably that the Capitol never was intended to serve as a convention and tourist center It is a working func- tional seat of our legislative branch Visitors are welcome but they cannot take the place over They argued with telling effect that a valid need for meeting i rooms could be met simply by a reallo-' cation of existing space They contend-' ed perhaps with some exaggeration that usable new space under the plan would come to a staggering! $368 a square foot Finally they urged considerations of history and aesthetics It worked Firmness good tempers' and a reasoned case prevailed The Big Mules probably will haul up their project again they get to be Big2 Mules by giving up but for this much of a victory the taxpayers owe Hollings and Stratton their thanks A DANGER OF FALLING ANGELS Were Asking Too Much Of Our Politicians Bv JACK ANDERSON United Feature Syndicate GEORGE McGovern still stubbornly believes that Sen Ted Kennedy will accept second place on his ticket McGovern has told his top aides that he think Kennedy would turn down a strong personal appeal to serve Campaign treasurer Henry Kimelman who encouraged McGovern to make the race when others said he have a chance is also convinced McGovern can talk Kennedy into taking the Vice Presidential nomination Kimelman came to Miami Beach last Thursday soliciting odds on a McGovern-Kennedy ticket But Meyer Feldman who heads the McGovern for President campaign organization is more skeptical As one of the late President most trusted advisers and an intimate in good standing of the last surviving brother Feldman has already made a pitch to Kennedy to take the second spot on a McGovern ticket KENNEDY agreed to campaign for McGovern and made specific suggestions how he could best help to elect McGovern But the senator from Massachusetts firmly rejected any possibility of accepting the Vice Presidential nomination The Kennedys have a strong sense of family loyalty and Ted Kennedy is now head of the clan He feels keenly his responsibility to be a strong father figure to his own three children and lps late brother 11 children The senator noted that it was a difficult time for young people to sort out their values The children he said had first call on his time Footnote: Kennedy took off for Massachusetts where he will spend convention week Aides confide however that keeping open the option of making a appearance at the convention Some top aides came to Miami Beach where they have cautiously sounded out delegates about drafting Kennedy as the standard bearer if a stalemate should develop between McGovern and the Stop McGovern forces This undercover effort has been so loosely organized however that it obviously have personal direction EUGENE McCarthy the hero of the young and the unwashed at the 1968 i I nf if iiwuiii hit iri' rniiiiiiiiiiiw Parting Shots Post-election commentaries and analyses are invaluable After all the voter is entitled to know why he did what he did New fishing lures are endorsed by leading fishermen have more confidence if leading fish would pronounce them irresistible If labels on cans and bottles must be clearly understandable how about clarifying the names of rock groups? BILL VAUGHAN pi hi i i il ml 111711 ii Commence Mr Spassky? i Carthy is his unpredictability But even Humphrey was startled to read a few days later that McCarthy had endorsed McGovern in California But on the eve of the convention McCarthy was back in touch with aides Again McCarthy declared he want McGovern to become President and faithfully promised to speak out for Humphrey on the convention floor THE LABOR chieftains who have bitterly fought Gov George Wallace for the loyalty of the blue-collar voters show signs of softening their attitude Alarmed over popularity blue-collar neighborhoods the unions campaigned against him in 1968 and again in the 1972 primaries The Alabama Labor Council took the lead in proclaiming anti-labor record in Alabama The council pointed out that Alabama was one of only eight dous decaying winged statues: Caduta We all live under this of to be sure Politics cannot restore personal civilization and it is doubtful that politics can restore a common life without personal civilization and common culture In a single generation there has been a swift decline in the personal honor and respect people customarily paid one another: the preacher is now a blind anachronism the doctor a money-grubbing pill-pusher the lawyer an unprincipled conniver the politician a successful maniac the journalist a cynical sermonizer of little belief the mechanic an ignorant and lazy cheat the builder an evil wizard of bad work the teacher a smooth tempter teasing innocence with alien ideas the businessman a common thief the scientist a brilliant and dangerously perverse manipulator LISTEN to what people are saying about one another so many of them use dreadful words Can they possibly be speaking of reality? Even if they are not you have to conclude that ours is the kind of life which increasing numbers of people find it necessary to withdraw from in order to understand That keen poet Pom Clark writes: is crowding me and I have no room to Is the indecision a pause in the pursuit of personal independence and personal decency? Most of the great institutions in which personal life has expressed its culture are declining Religion lost much of its force over the individual before its churches began to decline in the last decade: literature had grown massive in bulk but flabby long before the libraries ran into financial troubles poetry led the other creative arts into private sometimes secret places and audiences giving the illusion that language itself is becoming a deep private mystery The condition of the schools and universities is infamous enough while public officials can claim that the young are the brightest and best-educated people ever successful attempt 4 Flotsam is wreckage from a sunken ship jetsam is cargo thrown overboard to lighten a distressed ship 5 Abode and residence are identical 6 A paradox is a seemingly contradictory statement that may be true 7 All falcons are hawks 8 Maze and laby- rinth are identical 9 Prosody is the study of poetic meters and versification 10 A footman is to a butler as a waiter is to a maitre hotel 11 A bobcat is a lynx a puma Is a cougar 12 sHilful masterful is domineering cjs are more aquatic toads are more terrestrial 14 Identical 15 Identical 16 Moose are called elk in Europe 17 Kith are friends and neighbors kin are relatives 18 Identical 19 Deprecate is to curse depreciate to disvalue 20 Spruce is a Prussian pine wii'n in li fi iv i' Okeechobee Joe says ready to vote for the first man 1 who promises to make insur- ance companies write their policies in a language the peo- pie can understand without a law degree conquered life lengthened food improved communications extended the danger of accidental destruction in war abated Yet when a leader points to a glimmer over the horizon we all have to wonder whether we are seeing a glow from the walls of the world burning down or the rise of a really new day You hear increasingly the complaint that politics now is fantastic that Mr sermons are deceptive that Sen programs are unbelievable that old reliable party leaders are dead dogs that the whole undertaking is Well it might be it has been often before But the much greater danger is that the hard everyday perception of the people might give way to fantasy and to fear We could then see the rise of politics as religion We could be seeing just that right now PLAIft FASHIONS FREE PARKING AT ALL JM STORES! By BRUCKNER Of Th Los Angeles Times NEW YORK It is bad for a nation when the politicians take their art too seriously but worse when the people exaggerate it It is a great art with a great place in life and there is no excuse for the low standards stupidity egotism and misconduct of many political leaders But perhaps no politician can really satisfy expectations anymore The popular standard of leadership has taken on a religious aspect and is involved with the idea of benevolent omnipotence We have loaded down civil politics with a great moral weight of unreasoning hope That is a dangerous enthusiasm for politics has never created a community at best when it works it is a means of cooperation and fair governance MR NIXON has learned over the years to talk less like a politician and more like a priest and he is much criticized for this effort to convey an illusion of deep but plain speech But his style reflects a shrewd political judgment He oversteps sometimes and gets stiff or pompous but on the whole the style works For most people seem to be looking not for a political leader alone or for a set of promises a man can keep Performance is not the standard anymore We look for assurance for comfort It used to be said that this is the age of rebellion but it may not be the sign of the times may be fear apprehension So many people approve when leaders assert what they call authority but what may be really restriction and manipulation without regard to legitimacy The sign of the times appears on a barricade surrounding the old Basilica Santa Maria Della Salute Venice its walls and roofs studded with tremen 7 A falcon and a hawk 8 A maze and a labyrinth 9 Prose and prosody 10 A butler and a footman 1 A bobcat and a puma 12 Masterly and masterful 13 A toad and a frog 14 A town and a township A hue and a cry 16 A moose and an elk 17 Kith and kin 18 Might and main 19 Deprecate and depreciate 10 A spruce tree and a pine tree ANSWERS: 1 A camel has two humps a dromedary only one 2 A mule is the offspring of a donkey and a female horse 3 Assault is attempt to injure battery is a COOL GEOMETRICS 2000 Our soft dress by Harmony Fashions follows body lines easily with a sash at the dropped waistline and pleats at the hem Arnel triacetate jersey in black and white or navy and green from a collection in sizes to 24 'A MRS MARSH SHOP at all jm stores STRICTLY PERSONAL Tuvins Fraternal Or Identical odoiitltUl By SYDNEY HARRIS Publishers-Hall Syndicate going to do a little something different in the way of a word quiz today Here are 20 pairs of words that are similar in mean-ing but some pairs are identical while others have areal difference! Can you tell the identi- cal twins from the twins that are only fraternal? a camel and a dromedary 2 A donkey and ri mure I 1 3 Assault and Harris battery 4 Flotsam and jetsam An abode and a residence 6 A paradox and a contradiction 11010.