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Tht Pragren-lndcx, Friday, August 2, 1968 Logie Versus Stability? Views expressed by Governor Reagan and Mayor Lindsay before GOP platform writers offer a. neat contrast. The governor recommended a firm defense against communism abroad and declared, his belief in sound finances and law and order at home. The maj'or advocated a flexible foreign policy, including ending "this unwanted war" in Vietnam, and stressed the need for reforms at home to cure city ills and poverty. The contrast is too clear to require laboring.

It can be found in the Democratic party as well, the difference being that its conservatives have influence in Congress and in state governments while liberals or leftists monopolize the national show. The differences among Humphrey, McCarthy, Rockefeller, Lindsay, are less than dramatic. Logic would seem to require a realignment, with persons who hold one set of convictions moving into one party and those who hold a different set of convictions identifying themselves with the other. Except for rare individual cases, that does not happen. Politics is not exclusively logical in its working out.

Also, we are as- Eured often that the present condition of all shades of opinion represented in each party is preferable to a two-party system would hinge upon an ideological dividing line. Our somewhat mixed-up situation is supposed to be a factor making for national stability. If that is true, the present would foe a poor time for divesting ourselves of such stability as we still have. Status Note In the extraordinary outpouring of Nelson Rockefeller advertising we notice a page of supporters described as "Who's Who for Rockefeller." The names are those of celebrities. Their proclaimed preferences are supposed to make an impression upon lesser folk.

The pitch, for what it may be worth, has become commonplace, but it is the sequence of categories of celebrities which interests us. They are listed in the following order: arts and entertainment, academic, athletes, clergy, doctors, and lawyers. Both sides and all aspirants round up artists and entertainers as sedulously as they can. Time was when such persons avoided political involvement, but now they take to it like ducks to water. It means additional publicity, ivhich for them is the breath of life, plus a bonus in the form of an impression of intelligence, earnestness, and commitment.

Professional athletes are not far behind. The order of the categories presumably is determined by the prestige which attaches to them. But how did the people called "academic" thrust themselves into second places, between arts and entertainments and athletes? How did "clergy," which used to have a respectable but sedate connotation, plunge ahead of doctors and Iaw3'ers? We infer that "academic" and "clergy" are moving up in the scale of values because of the social activism which characterizes many of the persons who may be so described. Because doctors and lawyers are often equated with success, as shown in occupational preferences expressed by the young, it is surprising to find them bringing up the rear. some of be laughing all the way to the bank, but.

if they wish to regain or to retain status in the American scheme of things, they should study the improved ratings of "academic" and "clergy." Or Are Parents Surrendering It? One of our columnists, a most thoughtful one, Russell Kirk, is usually agreed with easily, but when he writes that the schools are usurping authority there are reasons for dissent. He quotes a concerned parent at length. She is opposed to the schools offering guidance since "it sometimes has disastrous results." She does not think it is wise for pupils to be told "they must solve the problems of the world" nor that "their parents have made a mess of the world." The columnist thinks that the public schools are attempting to do things which they are unable to do well and failing to do what was "their primary task." He notes a tendency in the schools "Toward social indoctrination" by teachers not equipped for it. According to him, children are "being used by educationists as instruments of social change." His idea is that parents are the childrens' guardians and not the teachers. In the word "educationist" a slur can be detected, but let that pass and consider the question "Are Schools Usurping Authority?" with which the column headlined.

Experienced teachers, educationists if you please, have been disturbed for years over the increasing number of parents willing to turn over the guidance of their children to the schools. How many parents who objected to the ruling of the Supreme Court in regard to the reading of the Bible in the schools took over that responsibility? For that matter how many parents read the Bible to their children previous to that decision? How many times have teachers had difficulty finding the reason for a child's a-social behavior only to discover that be was the product of a broken home and his behavior was the result of his home environment? If cleanliness, health habits, polite language and respect for authority were taught generally in the homes the teachers would, we suppose, gladly give up guidance in those qualities and spend more time in academic instruction. Some of the criticisms of the columnist and the quoted parent may be fair to a degree. Both are thinking about the child who comes from a home in which making such instruction unnecessary in the school. Unfortunately a great many homes neglect this training.

In some in which both parents work the time and opportunity for this training is lacking. Possibly if the schools did not find it necessary to give this type of training a better job of instruction might be given in the fundamentals than the one complained of in the column. If the children are being told that their parents have made a mess of the world's affairs and that the solution of the world's problems rest on their shoulders it is not difficult to agree that the teachers are going too far in their efforts to develop a sense of responsibility in their charges. On the ot hand, weren't those who are oldsters now told in their youth that every Amrican boy had the every American boy had the rather heavy responsibility? That Old Retrain DON OAKLEY: Birth Control Vs. Population Fact Chicago THESE DAYS: For The Next Balance Of Payments Crisis By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Pope Paul's long-awaited encyclical on birth control, insofar as it applies to members of the Roman Catholic faith, is essentially a private matter involving the individual, his conscience and those he looks to for spiritual guidance.

However, the pope's appeal to world leaders to disavow 'practices contrary to natural and divine law" is of concern to all men and all nations, for we all inhabit the same world. It is an increasingly crowded world and one which we are beginning to realize has a finite amount of resources and a limited capacity to heal itself of wounds inflicted by men. Overpopulation is not an immediate problem in most so-called developed nations, where birth rates are falling or ave stabilized at low levels. But in most countries of Asia, Africa and Latin which include about two-thirds of the world's just overpopulation but runaway population is the specter that haunts mankind. In Mexico, Peru, the United Arab Republic, Iran and the Philippines, for examples, current birth rates still exceed 40 per 1,000 population By contrast, in the United states, the rate declined to a record low of 17.9 last still high enough to ensure that the problems of housing, education, congestion, pollution and just plain social friction will still be with us as far ahead as we can see.

Birth control, by whatever means it is practiced, is not the exclusive solution, of course. In underdeveloped countries, where agriculture-b a economies have traditionally placed a premium on large families, the availability of contraceptives too frequently means that people may now have large families by choice, not by chance. Industrialization, or the social structure which industrialization fosters, would seem to be the key to curbing excessive population growth, if the history of the West is a guide. But the countries of the West entered the industrial age with much smaller population bases and at the time when the death rate from disease stayed close behind the birth rate. When medical advances began pushing down the death rate, industrialization was already having its effect on the birth rate.

There was also the safety valve of America vast 'area, which provided room for millions of Europe's "huddled masses." It is sometimes forgotten that birth rates in the underdeveloped world are no higher than they have ever been historically. The problem of overpopulation arises because the West has brought the benefits of modern medicine "death them, drastically slashing their death rates since the end of World War II, without providing them with the corresponding means or incentive for lowering their birth rates. The world is in for a long, hard pull before it gets over the hump of the population crisis. It is nothing less than a bootstrap operation that must raise tfce living standards of two-thirds of the world by the end of the century world population will have at least the level presently enjoyed by the other one-third. Since Paul VI has not spoken "infallibly," it may be for a later Pope to reflect again on what is divine will and divine plan a this juncture in human history.

The troubles in France have let the U.S. off the hook insofar as the current integrity of the dollar is concerned. It is not that the dollar is exactly trusted, but that the franc is distrusted more. Since the law of relativity works in financial matters as in all others, foreigners are no longer rushing to get rid of their dollars. This means that our adverse balance of payments is not hurting us so badly as it did before the Sorbonne students rioted against President de Gaulle.

The respite we have received, however, may be only, temporary. Sooner or later the battle between those who want to solve our problems by expanding trade and those who advocate a return to economic isolationism will be resumed. The protectionists who want quotas on steel products, the oil men who would penalize Venezuela in favor of domestic producers, and all the other advocates of a limitation of imports, have been turned down, at least to date, by this particular Congress. But when new men have been elected, with the probability of a different Congressional leadership, the exclusionists may very well be in command positions. The only effective way of pulling their teeth is to revive a general world prosperity that will provide profits for everybody regardless of the question of imports.

Unfortunately, the Johnson its Congressional done nothing of a practical nature to close the balance of payments gap. We still do well in market- ing agricultural products abroad, we still sell Boeing and Douglas airplanes to foreign buyers, we still lead the world in such things as computers. But when it comes to merchandising a wide variety of smaller items produced by smaller companies, we are strictly minor league. Vance Hartke of Indiana, who is generally on the trade expansionist side in spite of his commitment to the import quota demands of his home state's steel industry, comes up from time to time with good ideas for putting this country in the black on its foreign trade account. Long ago he interested himself in the proposals of New York exporter Eugene Lang, head of the Resources and Facilities Corporation, who advocates giving special tax incentives to small business export corporations.

A Hartke bill embodying Mr. Lang's ideas has finally been introduced in the U.S. Seriate, perhaps too late for actiori this year, but ready for full discus- sicn whenever the position- of the dollar is sufficiently precarious to light a fire under the type of legislator who always fiddles until Rome is really burning. The Hartke bill would grant certificates of tax-exempt eligibility to small export corporations with a paid-in capital and surplus equal to at least $100,000, with the stipulation that not more than 20 per cent of the stock would be owned or controlled by any particular member of the organization. The idea would be to encourage five, six or even a bigger number of small U.S.

manufacturers to put their ex- port business into the hands of a company specifically geared to marketing products, patents and general know-how abroad. Under the terms of the Hartke bill, income derived from the foreign trade performance of an eligible small export corporation would be exempt from taxation up to $250,000 annually. An important proviso in Hartke bill would permit the exchange of U.S. patents, copyrights, secret processes and trademarks, and franchises for stock in a foreign corporation without exposing the newly acquired equity to immediate taxation as income. The temporary tax examption permitted to a "qualified equity investment" of this nature would apply only to the first $30,000 worth of stock received.

Eventually, if the stock were sold, the proceeds would be taxed at the point of repatriation of the money. Senator Hartle thinks there may be at least 200,000 small manufacturers in America who might be earning good money abroad if they could only find a satisfactory way of pooling their efforts. But the small manufacturer with only his expertise to sell isn't going to take a paper equity position, in a foreign concern in exchange for patents and advice if he has to pay a big tax on it out of capital. Nor is he going to try to sell his products in a foreign market if he must do it all by himself, with no help from people with knowledge of foreign languages and foreign methods of doing business. HAL BOYLE Commenfs: Many Shoes Bring Puzzling Problem WASHINGTON: It might be fair Ip add to the headline and have it read "Are Schools Usurping Authority or are Parents Surrendering It?" THE INDEX APPEAL FOUNDED 3865 THE PROGRESS FOUNDED 1688 Published every weekday afternoon and Sun- 6av morning by The Progress-Index.

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Communists (as well as some strange voices in Washington) long have proclaimed advertising to be economic waste. Why increase the cost of goods by spending money on advertising? Why the sudden change in official philosophy? In a word, the change was caused by people. In the last decade the average Russian has begun demanding his fair share of the nation's consumer goods. As the Russian state-controlled economy strained to meet the demand, the controllers reached a startling conclusion: Competition could make more goods available to the average man than state of a belter quality a better price. Advertising was the next logical step.

Without advertising in some form, competition cannot exist How is the average man to know which goods are of the best quality at the best price if there is no advertising? Can we expect more change? Once the marketplace is freed by competition and advertising, the taste of freedom by the average citizen must sooner or later lead to a government of freedom. Nixon's Appeal To GOP: Promise Of Party Peace By BRUCE BIOSSAT MIAMI BEACH (NBA) Agents of Richard Nixon who spread the word of his new Gallup Poll edge over Gov. Nelson Rockefeller back to state Republican leaders by wire and telephone actually had a broader inevitability of Nixon's nomination. One aide who talked to leaders in more than half a dozen moderate stales where Rockefeller leads in delegates or has strong representation said he found substantial acceptance of the Nixon message. What came up in these talks, the aide said, was the question whether, in the light of their particular needs in state and local races this fall, it would be better to hold their heavy Rockefeller delegates counts firm or make some sizable gesture toward getting on the Nixon bandwagon.

The outlook for Nixon may or may not be as sharply defined as his agents sought to portray it around the national circuit. But there is no doubt the favorable Gallup Poli was a blow both to Rockefeller and to California Gov. Ronald Reagan. Rockefeller's release of countering private poll results from nine key states and Reagan's hard push to break open Nixon's southern stronghold could have offsetting effect, but fighting back is difficult at this state. The trouble for Nixon's rivals is that he has proved himself in the polls and the presidential primaries, where it was widely predicted last winter he be weakest.

Faced with that clear evidence, they are hard pressed to discover effective new argument. The truth is that his big primary victories and his surprising poll showing only put the cap, albeit a necessary cap, on the more fundamental reasoning used from the outset-to advance Nixon's 1968 cause. Nixon and his managers presented to party leaders at all stages the argument that he would be the most acceptable nominee because he could be the unifier, the peacemaker, the great center buffer between the Republicans' warring right and left factions. Painted a moderate while sen- ing as his party's widely acccpt- Our Yesterdays FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY: City of Petersburg took title to three buildings on Sycamore Street between Courthouse Avenue and Jail Alley, intending to raze them and use the land for a parking lot. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: Dinwiddie po-'se searching for escapee from State Road Camp in county.

Members of area Home Demonstration Clubs attending Institute of Rural Affairs at VPI. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY: No pickets in front of local Woolworth store although 200 others were being picketed by CIO Wholesale and Warehouse Workers Union. management refused to recognize the union for collective bargaining. Forty-five men recruited U.S. Army in Petersburg during July.

ed 1960 preidential nominee, and owning credentials with the right wing for his stalwart 1964 espousal of the Barry Goldwaler effort. Nixon saw himself uniquely qualified for this kind of 1968 campaign. It worked better on the right, where he quickly built a powerful base, than it did on the left. But, essentially, it worked. of the two factions could agree that Nixon was more suitable than the candidates visible at opposing ends of the party spectrum.

Nixon always has understood, as have his managers, that for many Republicans he is second choice. But he worked on the theory that neither side could hope to get its first choice or endure the choice of the opposing faction. He offered himself as both a tolerable and a necessary compromise for countless party people describable as "for Nixon after Reagan" or "for Nixon after Rockefeller." He used the fear of the one against the fear of the other. Always he pictures himself as the man in the middle, free of enemies, bent on purging no cne from the party's ranks, able to hold the structure together in a promising GOP year. Curiously, in a quest for stakes so high it usually produces unimaginably, cruel in-fighting, Nixon's campaign in 1968 has therefore been given at least the surface aspect of sweetness and light.

He has made himself appear almost an ambassador of goodness, to the point of disbelief, in a Republican party that he believed had Us fill of rule-or- ruin, purge-minded cruelty in 1984. I By JOY STILLEY NEW YORK (AP) One of these days I'm going to get around to counting my daughter's feet. I recall that she came into the world with exactly the right number but somewhere on the way, along with pennants, stuffed animals and phonograph records, she must have acquired a few more extremities. I base this assumption on the number of pairs of shoes that litter Gay's room at the end of the day. No matter how bare of footwear the floor was in the morning, by bedtime an array that would do credit to a retail establishment has made its appearance.

Jumbled together, often far removed from their mates, are sneakers, sandals, boots, high heels, flats, shoes with buttons and slippers with bows. Even operating on a full-time shoe-switching schedule it would be difficult to go through that much footgear in one day if she possesses a mere two feet. I can come to but one other conclusion in the light of the state of her boudoir by nightfall is, that she doesn't go to school, study, watch television, play records, eat, talk over the phone or visit with friends. She obviously occupies her time solely with changing from one outfit to another. Piled on her bed, strewed over the floor, tossed on her dresser, draped over her phonograph, hanging from her music stand, cascading from half-open drawers, are clothes.

Skirts, sweaters, dresses, sweat shirts, slacks and socks mingle in tangled confusion on every surface. She wanted an extra bed in her room, ostensibly so that she could have friends in to spend the night. I suspect the real reason is so that she can add the clulter on her bed to that on its twin and thus temporarily clear a spot for sleeping purposes. Gay claims her method of maintaining her wardrobe is the most practical way. "When the closet is empty," she explains, "I just hang everything up at once.

Besides, I can get dressed much faster with all my things in plain sight." Meanwhile, when her haphazard filing system is in full operation, I visit her headquarters as seldom as possible. I really must speak to her about her lack of tidiness. But first I'd better locate the shoes I'm going to wear tomorrow. Let me think I remember seeing one of them near the bed, right in with the black pair and the brown ones. And its mate perhaps it's in the corner of the bedroom, under the pile of laundry.

Hal Boyle is on vacation Barbs n. ROY CROMLET WASHINGTON (NBA) Fcf several months, activist have been laying the groundwork for protest or disruption at National Democratic Conventios late this month in Chicago. The evidence thus far is that these plans are so jerry-built and unco-ordinated that serious trouble could be held in check through careful preparatory groundwork by police and convention officials. But the clutch of hot heads assembled in Chicago outside the convention halls will be so large that if security measures are slipshod, one incendiary incident could erupt in serious, sustained violence. Reportedly, several hundred trained antiwar activists plan a "crash-in" much like the attempt to storm the Pentagon in the 1967 march on Washington.

The planners want a confrontation with the Chicago police. At gatherings in Baltimore, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference distributed handouts promising a renewal of their protests in Chicago. Lowell Rhein- beimer, a leader of the Chicago Area Draft Resisters, has announced a demonstration. The National Mobilization Commitlea to End the War in Vietnam plans "massive protest demonstrations" throughout the convention period. The committee's demonstrations co-ordinator, Rennia Davis, is attempting to organize a coalition of New Left and anti- Vietnam war groups.

The National Conference for New Politics says it will bring demonstrators. The Youth International Party (Yippies) reportedly is organizing a "festival of life" for convention time. It is said the militant, violence-prone, all-Negro Black Panther Party, based in California, will be present. Rumors, so far unconfirmed, are prevalent in way-out circles that two groups named "Provo" and "Mota" plan to "flood the convention area" with ha- lucinogenic drugs. The Students for a Democratic Society are preparing an "expose" time for the convention.

It they complete preparations, SDS members will distribute information "on who the Democratic national committeemen are, what their financial interests are and how this affects their political decisions." The aim is to "expose the power behind" these men. Some SDS men hope to march with posters, each showing the photograph of a convention delegate and listing his corporate political connections. The June state convention of the Communist Party USA, Illinois District, adopted a motion that complete party support would be given nonviolent protest demonstrations sponsored by activist groups during the convention. If the militant leaders have their way, very little of this effort, apparently, will aim at influencing the nomination of a particular presidential candidate. Most simply want to "expose," protest, gain publicity or notoriety.

By CARL KOVAC The next time you grump over one of those tornado watches, consider how you'd feel if the weather report had come true. Puzzle: Where do the types you see in convention pictures hibernate in non-political years? No, Gwendolyn, the notary's seal doesn't live at the zoo. An outdoor girl is one who closes the bus window so that her hairdo will be just right for riding in an openconvertible later in the day. A pessimist is a fellow who has had to associate closely for a long time with an optimist. One way to prevent shirt collars from soiling is to wash the nrck.

mm WORLD 196t by NEA, ftc. when it's all over, or lose, from do you suppose get more help. China or America?" Lesson From Tragedy The circumstances and significance of Cleveland's recent racial violence should be food for thought and study for some time to come. Taking a statistical view of battle, the snipers who ambushed and killed three policemen- came out on the short end. Seven of their own number were killed, wounded or arrested.

Weapons and a stockpile of ammunition were confiscated. And they failed to spark a ghetto-wide uprising. But if their aim was to intensify fear and distrust among blacks and whites alike, in the process of killing as many cops as they could, then they undii- niably achieved their purpose. This marks the first clear instance of Wack militants openly, deliberately and without provocation attacking police. They employed the age-old tactic the ambush, decoying their victims into their line of fire and shooting them down with great accuracy from carefully chosen positions.

They might have taken a chapter from Ho Chi Minh's guerrilla handbook. Indeed, their proclaimed leader, Fred (Ahmed) Evans, was quoted after his arrest as saying they were followers of Ho Chi a soul brother of ours and we believe in his philosophy." Like those carried out by the Viet Cong against countrymen and foreigner alike, this ambush left terror and frustration i- its wake. Dissension ripples through police ranks. One white officer has resigned. Others they will be a long time forgetting what they feel was a slap in the face when Mayor Carl Stokes, a Negro, pulled white officers out of the trouble area.

Cleveland's misfortune is a practical illustration of how easily few can wreck havoc among many. It can happen eibewhere. The lesson for all of us, black and white, is that we must not permit a handful of fanatics, of whatever color, lo shape cur attitudes toward the real problems confronting us and to determine our destiny..