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MAX LERNER THE ARGUS Nations solve problems in different ways MONDAY, JULY II, 1172 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Founded in the year 1851 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Official Paper City of Rock Island NEW YORK, N.Y. Jhere are three diverse stories I hae been following, and with 'V the Democrat-i comention 7 swooping down .4 on me I i dont 'want- to A 4 -f abandon any "of them. So The J. W. POTTER Publisher Democratic convention on its own Second, by ending Chinas status as a pariah nation, Nixons action cleared the way for Tanakas policy of moving closer to i Not even Henry Kissingers belated trip to Tokyo was able to undo what was already done.

final case history the jangle over the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess match is Reykjavik, Iceland Is no great shakes compared to tho others. Yet it, too, got Involved with Great Power prides and politics. The Americans have come to accept the crotchets of, Bobby Fischer with amused resignation. The Japanese would probably have been puzzled by him but would move with the matches. But for the Russians, his antics became a matter of national honor and world prestige.

They' seem to have taken it harder than they took President Nikons mining of th North Vietnamese harbors before his Moscow trip. After all, no practical. power is volved in the tournament, only pride and prestige. (Copyright 1972, Los Angeles Times) But not too late in terms of an attempt to use political muscle. That is what the Stop McGovern coalition tried to do on the credentials commit- tee.

It was a contest of power, and for a moment the Govern had the power. The McGovern people expressed their outrage loud and while the message didnt come through to the federal district court, it 1 come -through to the circuit court of appeals where two of the. three judges have usually fceen liberal in their ruling. The McGovern nomination is all but clinched. The circuit court, by choosing to break the traditional court prudence in staying Out of the political' thicket, may have invoked an avalanche of such political anneals to thd courts in the future.

McGoverns lieutenants had earlier tried in vain to strike a -logrolling deal with Richard Daley on California and Illinois. Thus the McGovern position became less a moral one than one of practical politics. Unless he finds a way of quieting ancL.enragement of Daley and all the other Daleys, both in the Democratic Party and the labor movement, hjs triumph-will exact a heavy toll in the campaign itself. My second Case history' is, Row the Japanese the contest between the Fukuda and Tanaka factions for the post of president of the Liberal-Democratic Party, and there- -fore the post of prime minister of Japan. Unlike the American case, where the circuit court refused to consider the Democratic Party a law unto itself, the political party in Japan -is accepted as the crucial arena.

For months the contest between the two leading contenders Foreign Minister Fukuda and Trade Minister Tanaka had, been' carried on by man-. euvering inside the 'leading party, not in open convention but behind the scenes. White Prime Minister Kak-uei Tanakas victory spells a break with the traditional ties to American policy, it may be argued that President Nixon was responsible for that victory. In two senses. First, Nixons trip to Peking, and the Nixon shock in Japan that followed his failure to keep his close ally informed of it, undercut Prime Minister Satos prestige and that of his foreign minister.

The Democratic National Convention, opening tonight at Miami Beach, will be master of its own fate, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court which said it didnt have t.me to probe into the partys convention fights. The Daley organization in Chicago was still pursuing its court fight to win instate-ment of its delegates based on Illinois elec-tion rules, but all the interest now, shifts to the convention. Although Daley and Sen. George McGovern lost in the credentials committee and Supreme Court, if only by negation in the latter, there is a strong movement among the so-called pros to see that both are upheld on the floor, with Daley getting his here are some notes on a trio of ways of re-sowing a contest, each characteristic of the nation involved.

One is the fracas between the McGovern and Stop McGovern forces over the California and Illinois delegations. On balance, I feel McGovern was right in his. California claims. True, the alfor-nothing California rule goes against the logic of the quota- or ratio principle that McGovern has championed. Also he had fought the all-or-nothing proposal originally, just as Humphrey had favored it After the election they both reversed their fields.

But -the point is that by the time the election was held, both camps had accepted the total victory rule. It was too late, legally or morally, to chal adopt new rules- and guidelines to insure a fair selection of delegates. Nor can we recall a convention in'which favoritism and chicanery didnt play their roles. It is ironical that ad attempt by the Democrats to end them has only dramatized them. In recent years the South has generally been the victim of delegate rulings, the convention often seating black delegations or black-and-white delegations which had no elective claims but were put together in rump sessions.

The argument then was that the blacks had long been denied their legal rights in the South and only high-handed methods could redress them. Delegate victories and strong anti-segregationist party pronouncements were given the blacks as sort of sops to their pride. Now the black delegates want more than sops. They want the vice presidency. They want an assurance of Cabinet jobs.

They wadt their fair share of all the top jobs 50 Chicago delegates and McGovern the whole California delegation. Powerful appeals are going out for harmony based on compromise. We cant recall a convention. Democratic or Republican, in which the convention itself wasity arbiter of its own disputes. All of this legal fighting resulted from the Democratic National Committees decision to lenge it later.

4 in Washington. They will play a loud and RUSSELL KIRK I dont mind change in my favor prominent role in the convention: The real Ho Gen. Giap facing day of reckoning? Almost certainly, Gen. Vo Nguyen. Giap has failed in his massive invasion of South Viet- he turned to a friend and said, He was a great patriot and we mourn him; and moments later, All those who do not low the line which I hive laid down will be broken.

How anyone who professes to be an idealist can chant, Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, in honor of this man- is beyond our imagina-. tion. Does simple decency count for nothing The lighter view Everybody who has served in the White House agrees that the presidents job is unbearable almost as unbearable as being defeated trying to get it. One of the most idolized revolutionaries of the 20th century was Ho Chi Minh, the North Vietnamese Communist leader who died in 1969, and one of the most complimentary books ever written about him is simply called Ho, bv David Halberstram, former war correspondent of the New York Times. There is no denying that Ho gave the world an amazing demonstration of how a colonial people could be organized to gain their independence and implanted In them a spirit that overcame the great French nation and has tested the steel of Ihe United States.

But is that everything? Sukarno did much the same thing in Indonesia and turned out to be a phony who bankrupted the nation and almost delivered it to the Communists. Hitler gave the German youths the spirit that enabled a dying German aviator to raise his right hand in salute and cry Heil, Hitler, and die happily. But we know the crimes that Hitler com--mitted. Halberstram and hastily skips over, Hos cruel side. Fop instance, on page 71 he relates how Ho when he was waging his fight against the French turned in to the French surete the names of other Vietnamese patriots simply because they were rivals.

He allowed Commander Giap to liquidate rival nationalist elements. Regarding one leader who had been slain. such a scale? Indeed, can General Giap himself be sure that he will remain in command of North Vietnams army? In revolutionary countries, merciless generals like Giap remain tolerably popular, no matter how heavy the losses their troops sustain, so long as they continue to win battles. Even before the blocking of his present offensive, Giap was disliketf by many of the Communist leaders in Hanoi. His campaign has cost North Vietnam terrible sacrifices.

May he be removed from com-. mand? To remove a commander whose authority over the whole army has been absolute is, an awkward undertaking. lYfet just that has been done by other revolutionary regimes, in- case of need, and already may be a possibility discussed secretly by men who sit in -the seats of the mighty in Hanoi. With Giap deprived of command, the peacq negotiations at Paris might turn serious. (Copyright 1972, General Features Corp.) Sen.

Hubert Humphrey, it is revealed, is the top fee collector among members of Congress who make the lecture circuit He is willing to advise the Democratic Contention for nothing, however, especially on whom it should nominate for president. nam. South forces have relieved the beseiged capitals of An Loc and Kontum; still 1 impor- fttfSMH the South Vietnamese ret-ken a considerable portion hf the province of Quang Tri. About a fourth of North Vietnams soldiers have been killed or seriously wounded, since their Easter offensive began- and' Gen. Giap has next to no reserves.

He has lost most of the tanks with which he began the campaign, and much of his artillery. His supply lines have been so seriously damaged by bombing and the mining of North Vietnams ports that he has been compelled to abandon his intended assault upon Hue. 'It is clear that Giap miscalculated -badly. He underestimated the Will to resist of South Vietnams soldiers. He overesti--mated the' effectiveness of his armored forces.

He did not allow for President Nixons determination to support South Vietnam by new strategy and more efficient weapons. Fbr a decade, Giap has been pending southward vast levies of conscripts from North Vietnam; very few of those unfortunate soldiers have lived to return now his decimated divisions are made up, in large part, of boys so young that almost no other state would think of drafting them. Behind his North Vietnam lies devastated. Its economy half paralyzed. A bcok by the John Birch writer, Gary Allen, which is distributed to GOP contributors, claims that President Nixon is a tool of an international leftist conspiracy.

That leaves it to Lar America First Daley of Illinois to keep the conservative banner from drooping in the dust. Turning back The Argus files, VIRGINIA PAYETTE- Computers no supreme beings One hundred years ago Andrew G. Tellene and John Smith drowned in Moline when they swam to the head of the wing dam and were swept into the stream by a swift current Fifty, years ago Gov. Led Small visited Rock Island. His pleasure boat, the Illinois, docked at The foot of 17th St.

Twenty-five yars ago A merry-go-round, known as miracle wheel, was placed in operation at Long View Park. DAVID LAWRENCE- Convention wont reveal all it should about man it names computers help, doctors will conquer disease sociologists will plan better ways to live geologists, will forecast earth-ouakes and floods and farmers will grow enough to feed the whole world. Geneticists will probably even figure out the right formula of chemica computations that will help the machine give them the recipe for producing human beings to order. But, for a while yet, we can gaze at the stars and know theres still a bit of mystery left in the outer galaxies and cuddle the miracle of a baby without wondering which computer was his dad. WASHINGTON Amid the HubeA'Humphrey and Edmund moment in the whole election It remains possible for Giap The 'yheel hol( from, to confusion which- has emerged MUskle, and Gov.

George Wal- But as the news from to withdraw his troops back 60 children. in the complex process of choos-- lace. If the National Conven- Miami, Beach and the stories troops riorth of the Demilitarized Zone Ten years ago and into Laos and 'Cambodia, William T. Diviney ar-as he did after the failure of in Rock Island to assume the, Tet offensive, four years his new duties, as manager of ago. But if he does so, can he the Iowa-Hlinois Industrial Dees er resume the offensive on velopment (Copyright 1972, By United Feature, Syndicate, ing delegates tion offered an opportunity, about the battles over wjnjfol for the Demo- lor each man to make a car delegations are being read cratic Nation- exposition of his views on in the press and heard on -the al Convention, 'different aspects fit domestic simple and and foreign policy, the delegates all important would be better able To deter-f.

a 0 r' jnine which of the individuals has been jover- seeking the nomination is most looked how, qualified. do' you find Since the people of the coun- the best-quali- try would be watching on tele- fied man in the party and vision ad Atoning to tour -powerful official post in; Any ect him as the presidential naor addresses, the convention free government in thfe wurid. would become a Yet election is obtained -by nominee? Other editors say Tax freeze, politics ot the Democratic Convention 'Next time a capricious computer fouls up your credit, be tolerant. That incredible concoction of wires, magnets and transistors may turn out to be the only thing that can save us from ourselves. Scientists get carried away, you know, in their quest for knowledge.

The 7 minute the crack one If I cosmic code, they cant I Wait to get on with the Virginia iav next discovery. And the computer has always been their most valuable tool Up to a point. But its that point that may be postponing the dreaded Orwellian era. Because every time the intellectual geniuses get to the brink of the unlocking the final secrets of the universe, the computer blocks them by revealing how much they have yet to learn. This frustrates scientists, but it also means that maybe man-made humanS really ARENT just around the comer.

And that it might be a while yet before we conquer the mysteries of the Creators master plan. Somehow, thats a comforting thought. -Scientists, of course, would call this heresy of the worst kind. They thirst for complete understanding of all nature, visible and invisible. But thats when the computer kicks into reverse.

all their brilliant formulas them around in its innards. and spits out strange new phenomena they cant explain until they make up a whole new set of theories. Advances that would be impossible without the brain box are popping up in every field. Partly because pencil and paper qal-cuiations would take so long nobody would ever attempt it, and partly because the computer -does things that just cant be done any other way. And while we may not always understand how it works, we all benefit Jrom the results in communications, agriculture, space exploration, etc.

Whats more, dazzling as these accomplishments are, were still in the pioneer period. The day is coming when with the (Chicago Daily News) While we have long advocated realistic measures to hold the line on real estate taxes, 'we do not regret the recent death in the Illinois House of the bill to place an arbitrary two-year freeze on the collection of such levies. The measure was redolent of election-year gimmickry, and posed a threat to many communities were preset services are inadequate or must be expanded rapidly to accommodate soaring population growth. Sooner or later, there must be genuine relief the homeowner and others squeezed by constantly increasing property taxes. Federal revenue sharing' now in the works in Congress will help, as would a-redistribution of the state tax burden along more equitable lines that, will permit a greater rebate to local taxing bodies.

The tally virtue of the freeze proposed by Rep. C. L. McCormick (R-Vienna) was that it w-ould have forced reluctant local governments to keep total expenditures within present limits for the next two years, 'leading to the elimination of bureaucratic deadwood and other economies. But such moves should be left up to local taxpayers to decide for themselves rather than mandated by the Primaries are held in various states under laws which are by no means uniform, but evt- I dently the results can be re- vised by a party which can award 1 a majority of delegates to an aspirant who makes a better showing than someone else may be given the benefits of a taka' all rule.

The are being made by a- Credential. Committee, which can be over- ruled by the convention itself. When a system commits the delegates to vote a certain way'-and denies them freedom to pick the best man, then a convention is merely a struggle -between two or three individuals. whose pre-convention -campaigns have managed to build up delegate strength. The country knows something about all of the candidates, to be sure, but in the Demo- methods that could prove harmful to country.

How $iuch-experience has the would-be candidate had in the executive departments of the government? What does he know ajbout current legislation? Is his familiarity with the nations domestic and foreign policies? -What is his knowledge of the complex problems and issues that affect economic recovery on the one hand and the maintenance of peace on the other? It has been thought that national conventions should not be left to pick a candidate by themselves and that -primaries would aid in the process of selection, but it isnt turn- ing out that way. The party organizations in the' various states still control the choice of delegates, and the candi-: dates are involved in a political. game from the moment a on-vention opens until it closes. (Copyright 7v Publishers-Hall Syndicate) BROTHERLNG The least of these my brethren. 1 Matt.

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