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12 Hazleton Standard-Speaker, Tuesday, August 31, 1971 HAZLETON Jeffrey Hart Self-Betrayal Speaker Standard- Continuing the STANDARD-SENTINEL, Established 1866 and THE PLAIN SPEAKER, Established 1882 Published Daily Except Sundays Rnd Holidays by Standard-Speaker, 21 North Wyoming Street, Hazleton, Pa. 18201 Telephone 455-3636 Frank Walser, President and Publisher Frank H. Walser, Assistant Publisher Paul N. Walser, Public Relations Director William D. Morgan, Managing Editor Harry J.

Sandrock, Advertising Direcl Dominic A. Antonelll. Day Editor Harold F. Snyder, Circulation Manager Jerry Gallagher, Night Editor Member Audit Bureau of Circulation General advertising representative: Bottlnelll Gallagher, 12 East 41st Street, New York City: 549 West Randolph Street, Chicago, 111.: 501 Liberty Trust Building, Broad Arch Streets, Philadelphia, Park Avenue Building, Detroit, Michigan; 345 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa-Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled to the use for republication of all the local news printed In this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. Drive Carefully; School's Open! N-63 We're not pro-Protestant Lt.

Paul Clancy, a 26 year and anti-Catholic. We're just anti people who shoot at us. old British paratrooper in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Activists7 New Strategy limitations on the power of gov-1 ernment, the rule of law, religious and artistic freedom, and so on but not a word about the complete annihilation of these things in China interruts the oohs and ahs of Reston's dispatches, which, in effect, toss overboard at least temporarily the meaning of his entire moral and in tellectual life. Another, equally pathetic, example.

If Miss Susan Sontag stands for anything it is Surely avant-garde art, for things like the new novel and the new film, for personal liberation and moral experimentalism, for chic of various kinds, and for advanced and idiosyncratic adventures in taste. But she is also ga-ga about the Cuban revolution, despite the fact that the Cuban Communists have negated every one of the things she has always seemed to favor. Not long ago in Ramparts magazine, she defended the Castro regime in a kind of "Epistle to Those Who Do Not Understand." The Cubans, she concedes, are "a little uptight about sexual morals" and have rounded up "several thousand homosexuals in Havana." (What would be her attitude if that had happened in the East Village?) In Cuba, "work" is central to the ethos. (Overboard goes her chic hedonism.) The army plays a "growing role" in Cuban life, and the trend is toward "more discipline, more organization," notes Miss Sontag, long-time foe of the Pen-tagon, militarism, and the military-industrial complex. The influence of ideology is pervasive, patriotic rhetoric ubiquitous, and artists and intellectuals have a "pedagogical" function to perform i.e., they have to praise the regime.

(That doesn't sound like Alain Robbe-Grillet.) The young are under "great pressures to keep their hair short." Taste is everywhere bad in architecture, in the film, everywhere. In other words, Cuba is the negation of everything Sontag has heretofore affirmed. And yet Cuba is just great, because it is "revolutionary." The saccharine dispatches James Reston has been filing from Red China represent only the latest example of a phenomenon I find peculiarly melancholy the tacit disavowal by an intelligent person of his own long and deeply held values, a self-betrayal undertaken in order to praise an alien regime with which the writer is temporarily infatuated. During the 20's and '30's, similarly, we had a ludicrous parade of ostensible democrats to Moscow, and We were inundated with paeans to the marvelous things the Russians were doing. We even had the hilarious spectacle of fatuous progressive persons making pilgrimages to the mummified corpse of Lenin in Red Square.

Now we have Reston in Peking coming on like some kind of Innocent Abroad. The Chinese, we hear, "are consciously engaged these days in the common life of rebuilding the nation and even in reconstructing themselves. This country is engaged in one vast cooperative barn-raising. They work at it night and day with a pride and persistence that are astonishing." They "have plain old-fashioned steam engine railroad trains. with big red wheels and red cow catchers and engines that pant and snort in the station and run with a red glow through the night They are always telling you how much better things are than they used to be" The "corners of their mouths like the corners on the roofs on their buildings, now turn- up in a constant smile." The "people one meets seem remarkably simple, unspoiled, courteous and ap-pealingly modest." All this might be true enough.

It is quite possible for a totalitarian regime to accomplish a good deal. After all, Adolf Hitler built the autobahns and Benito Mussolini drained the marshes and made the trains run on time, and doubtless there were plenty of enthusiastic Germans and Italians on the scene too. But Reston has always been some sort of moderate liberal who presumably believes in things like individual freedom, a free press, some The Poor Man's Philosopher sympathetic law offices on the latest intelligence they have gathered on grand juries. It may all be speculative, but it feeds the activists' purpose. A piece of literature entitled "It Could Be You" is a guide to grand jury resistance.

It gives this advice to those who feel they are given immunity from prosecution: "Your freedom to remain silent can be ordered away by courts, generals, presidents and congressmen, but you can still keep your mouth shut if you choose. There may be rough consequences without doubt they will threaten a trial and imprisonment. But the fact is that there is no painless way to create social change." The fact is, these men and women continue to agitate and work for revolution here and for the ceasing of a war that is fast coming to an end. Their purpose is not to end the war sooner, but to arm North Vietnam with weapons they can use to make harsh terms for the peace. The grim new game antiwar activists have discovered is frustrating grand juries.

Convinced that ten or more grand jury investigations are under way across the country, which they claim are primarily political instruments with which the Justice Department hopes to break the back of the peace movement, the activists have developed the strategy to defeat it. The message is "don't talk." Even at the risk of imprisonment for civil contempt for 18 months, the potential life of a grand jury, new resistance is telling its members to keep their mouths shut. They insist that the grand juries are being used as fishing expeditions to obtain information the FBI failed to confirm in its own investigations. Recently subpoenaed witnesses and their lawyers met behind closed doors in Manhattan to exchange tactics on non-collaboration. Others collect and disseminate information to underground newspapers and Yourself Some Daydreams Trash Into Recreation Get a Prussian haircut and wear a monocle with it.

Learn to play the harmonica and become a wandering trouba-dor under the windows of lovesick housewives in the nearest suburb. Ride over Niagara Falls in a big tractor tire. Start a floating crap game in the boss's office as soon as he leaves for an afternoon of golf. Have a fourth martini for lunch and see where that gets you. Give your best girl a rhine-stone engagement ring and see how long it takes for her to find out it is even phonier than the sender.

Tickle the south end of a north-going mule with a peacock feather. Develop a new breed for ter- XI Trashmore is one answer to the growing problem of what to do with all the junk the world throws away. The trash is compacted into about 100 pounds per cubic foot, spread one layer on top of another, then topped with a covering of dirt from the bed of a man-made lake at the foot of the mountain. The trash is not buried because water is struck not far below the surface. Not only are rats banished there is no open space they can use for living quarters in the compacted trash -the whole is converted into a soap box derby ramp, an amphitheater seating 10,000 for outdoor theater and concerts, along with tennis courts, picnic grounds and baseball diamonds.

The trash becomes new ground for recreation. The accumulation of 1,000 tons of refuse a day for 5V2 years is making a "mountain" 72 feet high, 800 feet long, 100 feet wide, 15 per cent dirt and 85 per cent garbage into a grassy, landscaped recreation site that will give 400,000 people pleasure instead of fumes and disease. The pile has been dubbed Mt. Trashmore. It is located on the Virginia BeachrNorfolk Expressway within sight of the Atlantic Ocean.

Its success is so immense that a feasibility study is being made now to see if the Chicago area is ready for a similar but even bigger pile a high mountain Within sight of Lake Michigan. In 1969, the Health, Education and Welfare Department partially funded the prelect to demonstrate man's ability to do omething positive with his garbage. Mt. In Washington Wage-Price Lid-Will It Work? Empty Hospital Beds Hal Boyle NEW YORK (ff) The measure of a man isn't what he does so much as what he dares to daydream doing. One may be a prisoner of routine without being a slave to it.

The unfettered mind looses the leash of the fettered body and roams the world a rebel. In our fancies we are indeed free. The deskbound, prim-faced secretary transposes herself in fancy into another Cleopatra float-, ing on a luxurious barge down the Nile. The anemic office boy turns himself into a roaring tiger in a harem. However, if a man can't invent his own daydreams, he can at least borrow the daydreams of others until he becomes strong enough finally to dare his own.

Here are a few daydreams deeds of derring-do you are welcome to practice on: WASHINGTON (NEA) The term "freeze" clearly has psychological value in President Nixon's current wage-price clampdown effort. But it is likely to prove something of a misnomer. Complete rigidity in wages and prices is hard to come by. The controls applied in World War II generally are remembered as highly effective. In fact, prices rose about 21 per cent over the four war years.

And, while the National War Labor Board effectively restrained wage rates, it steadily approved a variety of fringe benefits whose net consequence was to raise compensation for U. S. workers in many fields. Indeed, the very phrase, "fringe benefits" was invented in 1943. Furthermore, the pressure for higher wage rates was eased by the fact that actual earnings levels rose on account of long wartime hours, premium pay for overtime, night work and weekend duty.

In four years, average weekly earnings in manufacturing nearly doubled. In the Korean war, the last "Mrs. Nixon. am be of nvent Bruce Biossat 186,560 hospital beds in this country unoccupied. That is 6,784 beds more than was unoccupied in 1969.

Today, the American Hospital Association says, more than one bed in'five stands empty. Because an unoccupied bed costs two-thirds as much as an occupied one, the bill for these vacant beds is now running, more than $10 million a day. All this is serious" enough, but the real harm is that thousands of Americans are "walking sick," either avoiding care for lack of funds or getting poor care in less expensive ways. Hospital bed costs will have to be drastically reduced before the average American will readily sign up for one. Simpler care, pooling of equipment for certain types of illnesses in certain hospitals, could be the answer.

Recession unemployment and lapsed health insurance policies of the jobless have brought about a sudden reversal of a trend of the last 25 years. In many cities across the country hospital beds are now empty. They are costing the government and health insurers, to say nothing of the hospitals, millions of dollars. Other factors have contributed to the trend. Hospital overbuilding is one.

Drastically changing ways of medical care is another. Perhaps the major factor, other than lapsed health policies, is the government's pressure to keep patients out of expensive beds to hold down runaway costs of Medicare and Medicaid, and prepare for broad national health insurance. On an average day in 1970, there were mites that will eat anything made of plastic but get sick at the taste of wood. Breach a contract to bleach a brunette. Take a cannibal to lunch during National Brotherhood Week.

Sell a rug to an Armenian. Have your palm read by Ali McGraw. Listen to a television talk-show featuring an hour and a half of silent conversation. Catch that big fish that is always getting away from other fishermen. Think of an idea to put in the office suggestion box that will make the president of the company think of making you an executive.

Remember, any daydream can turn a swivel chair into a white horse. "The economy has developed an increasing resistance to downward pressures on prices. Consumer prices did not decline after World War II, or after the Korean conflict, as they had after earlier wartime periods. "Instead, they rose almost every year after 1946." Government studies, incidentally, demolish the notion that the 1969-71 "recession" is unique in exhibiting strong inflationary pressures along with declining employment and slumping business. Federal economists count four previous recessions in the period from 1946 through 1968.

And they say the long-term upward "price creep" kept right on through two of those economic dips. The point of all this would seem to be that a great deal of rigidity afflicts the price structure on the bottom side. Government officials ascribe this to Washington's efforts to stabilize the economy and prevent recessions. We have had a few of these setbacks, but they have tended either to be mild, or just briefly or selectively harsh in their impact. Unemployment now, for instance, ranges around six per cent.

Yet that figure can hardly be used to define "recession," inasmuch as the rate has exceeded five per cent in 11 of the last 25 years. But, while official tinkering may thus prevent the worst excesses of deflation and a 1930's-type of depression, the upward pressures on prices are very hard to curb. Long-term contracts with built-in rises are today a standard feature of the landscape. Business normally hikes price to offset the wage gains, and sometimes goes beyond. Part of labor's complaint today, of course, is that Nixon has put scheduled wage rises in limbo but that some businesses already have lifted prices to cover these future higher costs.

The hostile clamor over the 90-day freeze suggests how hard it is to slow the upward spiral. Only dreamers talk of halting it altogether. Markin Time A book is more than printer's ink. It is a friend, who helps me think. In a short time, I can obtain What took him many years to gain.

Luther Markin Lamb, M.D. Allergic to Alcohol action, (antihistaminics are sometimes used for sleeping pills) combines with the depressant effects of alcohol. I don't really advise people to drink if they should be taking antihistaminics for any reason, such as hay fever. I strongly agree with your decision to just forget the whole thing. Dear Dr.

Lamb A friend of mine had V.D. when she was married 52 years ago. She had no treatment, but since there is so much talk about it, she is worried sick, can't eat or sleep. She is over 70 now and has been in good health all her life, but wonders what could happen to her. Could she be worrying for nothing? Dear Reader How would she know she had V.D.? The correct diagnosis is usually made by a doctor with a microscope or laboratory tests.

Unless she was seen by a doctor, I don't think she even knows if she had V.D. or not. If a doctor made the diagnosis, she was probably treated. There are a lot of causes for a discharge, or a sore besides VJ). I can't begin to speculate if she would have trouble after all these years, not knowing if she really had V.D.

or was treated. Inadequate treatment of syphilis can result in brain damage showing up in later years. As the effects of age influence the mind, people sometimes imagine all sorts of things, including thinking they have had V.D. This could be the problem. The only sensible course is to see a doctor.

If she has any important effects from V.D., he will be able to find out Please send your questions and comments to Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D., in care of this paper. While Dr. Lamb cannot answer individual letters, he will answer letters of general interest in future columns. Barbs By PmL PASTOkET Never go to bed on an empty' stomach you'll sleep much better on your side.

Seeking standing in the Ride the rush-hour buses. Tens of thousands go to col leges learn. quite a few less go to The fellow who wants to break a lot of records needn't be an athlete. He probably has three teenagers. 1 4 Lawrence Some Are Dear Dr.

Lamb I read your recent article on alcohol and some of its effects with great interest. I feel liquor bottles should carry the same type of warning as cigarette packages do. I am not a heavy drinker and recently decided to quit entirely as alcohol was not agreeing with me. At times, when I drink, my face becomes deep red, my heart beats rapidly and the top of my body breaks into red blotches. This continues for about two or three hours after I have quit drinking.

This condition is very embarassing when out for dinner with people and they get quite concerned about my well-being. Frankly, this condition worries me and so I do not drink any more. My doctor says I am allergic to alcohol. He prescribed an anti-histaminic as a remedy before drinking, this seemed to help for i awhile, but then its effect seemed to make me unbalanced with only one or two bottles of beer. To be able to drink or not is not my biggest concern.

I just wondered how many other people suffered the same way and what your thoughts are. Dear Reader My thoughts are that you are wise to stop drinking altogether. Yes, there are people who are allergic to alcohol with similar difficulties. It is rather rare. I don't blame you for being concerned.

Anitihistaminics are fine for some allergies, but in the case of alcohol, their sedative Three Minutes With the Great Books FREUD How the world's leading psy-choanalysist spent his final years is recounted in the Great Books of the Western World. With the award of the Goethe Prize in 1930, when he was also given the freedom of the city of Vienna, Freud reached what he described as "the climax of my life as a citizen." But soon afterwards, Freud notes, "the boundaries of our country narrowed, and the nation would know of us no more." Upon the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938, Freud's books were burned, the Psychoanalytische Verlag, directed by his son, was destroyed, and his passport confiscated. For years Freud had lived in virtual seclusion, largely because of the development of a cancer of the mouth which caused him great pain. He was finally allowed to leave Austria in 1938 after the payment of a large ransom. With his wife, a nephew, and his daughter, Anna, he went to England, where another of bis sons lived.

He died on September 23, 1939, in Hampstead, London. E. Mason Denison The Pennsylvania Story Republicans Helped Shapp Get Tax They Refused to Give Ray Shafer time reasonably tough wage-price control authority existed, consumer prices climbed 13.1 per cent between the first half of 1950 and the second half of This time, acting under a much weaker law, Nixon is attempting to restrain the upward wage-price spiral without resort to the massive "control bureaucracy" used in those earlier situations. It stands to reason that the lid will not be very tight, even if top labor leaders were cooperatingwhich they are not. Studies of price trends by the U.S.

Bureau of Labor Statistics make it plain that it is difficult in the modern era not only to stop the upward flow of prices and wages, but to induce any kind of downward movement. Between the 1914 outbreak of World War I and 1920, U.S. prices doubled. But after that they dropped sharply for three years, and stayed well below the 1920 peak for two decades. But after World War II, price behavior took on new configurations.

As a government analysis notes: 197! by NEA, lite; anv assistance in oromotina On paper this might appear to be something of an open road for Keystone State Republicans in view of the state income tax enacted during the Democratic Shapp Administration except for the fact that had it not been for Republican support there would be no income tax! Offhand it would seem that Pennsylvania's legislative Republicans have managed to box themselves into a corner to a. fine fare-thee-welL Of course, the GOP argument is that the income tax support was needed to assure tax relief for Pennsylvania's business community, a relief unquestionably needed and overdue for the economic good of the state. However, such argument means little, if anything, to the average voter (the "little fella" who puts the individual lawmaker in office) who is more concerned and familiar with other items closer to home than tax relief for the business community! But when you talk income tax that's something the "little fella" will become very familiar with, and in all probability will vent his feelings at the polls next year. Then the question recurs: who made the income tax fellow Democratic members to pass the bill on their own. Far from it in fact administration Democrats have 11 more members than the 102 required to pass any bill (including the income tax).

And this brings up the second point of irony namely, that Pennsylvania Democrats in the election last year continually harped on the theme that Republicans didn't know how to run the state, that everything had been fouled up because of GOP rule, etc. Yet irony of ironies, when given the chance to run the show, Democrats demonstrated they couldn't do the job themselves after all and instead had to rely upon Republicans to get the job done! Is this to be the pattern during the remaining three and a half years of Mr. Shapp's reign? If so, Republicans certainly would be woefully remiss if they fail to capitalize on it On the other hand, a time for a change opening will come next year when afl 203 6 eats in the House of Representatives and half the 50 seats in the Senate will be on the fall ballots Although Republicans cannot knock out the governorship next year they conceivably could remove Democrats from control of the House and Senate. HARRISBURG There is a touch of irony (among other things) in the manner in which Pennsylvania's lawmakers have given the Keystone State's taxpayers their income tax. The action last week in the House of Representatives illustrates the point namely, that had it not been for 12 Republican votes in the lower chamber, the income tax measure would not have passed.

The irony however lies in the fact that while Republican lawmakers made it possible for the levy to clear the House during the current Democratic Shapp Administration they refused to provide even one vote in favor of the levy when (fellow) Republican Governor Raymond P. Shafer wanted it during his tenure. In fact, the Shafer Administration couldn't even find a Republican legislator willing to sponsor the bill yet within the short space of two years, Republicans have managed an almost complete flip-flop and not only supported the levy but also provided the critical votes to Insure Pennsylvania's taxpayers the privilege of paying 'he income tax. Ia the House it wasn't a question of the Democratic Shapp Administration not having enough your hasbanas legacy of parks' program, don't hesitate to cdl upon met'.