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I Can't See Him Scaring The Elephant9 The Lexington Leader Saturday July 15 1972 Ktntutlt 0 MsW and large Doty RapubJicaa Newspaper Publiihed By Tbs Lexington Herald-Leader Co 229-239 West Short Street Lexington Kentucky 40507 FRED WACHS Editor and General Manager Thomas Adams Assistant General Manager Edward Moores Advertising Manager William Watts Circulation Manager Thomas Buckner Promotion Manager John Stoll Publisher 1914-1959 Henry Hornsby Executive Editor William Hanna City Editor Stephen Palmer Assistant Editor Marks The Censor Viewpoints 0f 0ur Readers autos roe viewpoints Latter aheuM ita mar than SSO ward typawrttten and daubteapaeatfL Longer latter may ba adllad te BO ward or reacted Latter must contain the nama address and phene number at ttia writer Pan names will net ba used far publication Published tetter WIN Inctuda ttw nama and address at ttw writer Mimeographed totter carbon copies latter tram attier publication and latter sent te public attic ial ar parsons otlwr 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restrictions on X-film advertising The MPAA publicly downplays their importance stating that papers with no movie-ad controls account for more than 96 per cent of daily circulation in the country The case against restrictions has strong advocates inside the newspaper industry The Des Moines Register asserted that "If newspapers attempt to close theaters by declining advertising they are assuming the function of the legislatures and courts in determining what the public may see We doubt it is in the public interest for newspapers to assume that Nor is the ad ban proving effective in cutting patronage In Hammond La where the only daily paper refuses to advertise both and (children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian) movies the manager of the Ritz Theater says: "If anything the ban makes people more curious about what showing It may even have helped attendance You know how people are" In that statement may lie the key to understanding the concern Porno exploitation is on the rise and talk of legal restraint is in the air The abusers of modern-day latitude in public entertainment are reviving the old specter of official censorship Are Health Hazards charged with malfeasance and misad-ministration In Denver during May at the United Presbyterian General Assembly this writer observed several evening sessions that lasted beyond and beyond the capacity of many delegates that had begun their day with 7 am breakfast meetings in the hotels At the close of one late adjournment a clergyman from California collapsed while waiting for the elevator By the time the emergency squad arrived he was dead In New Mexico last year a noted elder attending a church convention in Rochester NY died upon his return Few people young or old are prepared for the exhaustion and emotional upheaval that accompanies these national meetings There are many sources of tension and uneasiness resting upon the churches and one fresh injection is a massive amount of business that must be conducted on the national leveL Twenty and 80 years ago the churches did not have the money or membership or strategy to weigh what is now set before them Furthermore the grass roots movement has demanded complete and at times absurd accounting of all boards agencies and committees that function for the denominations An enormous amount of time is spent reviewing the actions and policies of top officials As a result conventions are choked with reports speeches and surveys Budgets descend like autumn leaves Parliamentary floor fights and docket hassles flourish The people on the platform scold the delegates and each other It is not a pleasant time to serve church as a delegate to a national church convention But then there is always the political convention and that makea the ecclesiastical enclave look rather tame and moderate after all From Soviet Snags ONE OF THE SCENES in Clockwork Orange" which earned the movie an rating from the Motion Picture Association of America shows a man being kicked in the groin Jack Valenti president of MPAA reacted like the man in the movie when as "A Clockwork Orange" was about to open in Detroit last April the Detroit News banned ads for X-rated films Valenti hammered out a statement declaring that the issue in the Motor City "is baric tothe very rostrums on which this free society rests It is the principle of the right to know the people's right to be informed and to make their own choices" The movie industry contends that the designation meaning that no person under age 18 may be admitted is not to be equated with "dirty movies" the unabashedly pornographic films that keep many old theaters in business The ratings are called "a guide to parents" on what movies their children should or should not see The symbol on an ad is a red flag signifying sex nudity or violence in a film but by current mores these are permissible in films with artistic merit "A Clockwork Orange" which portrays decadence in a futuristic society was chosen by the New York Film Critics Association as best movie of 1971 Explaining its new movie-ad policy the Detroit News said in an editorial: "In our view the motion picture industry is using pornography and prurience to bolster theater attendance we do not want to assist them in the process" The News' action did not deliver an immobilizing blow to Detroit moviegoers quest for either prurience or artistically portrayed violence Its competitor the Free Press accepts and prints ads for X-rated films And the News itself lists Church Assemblies By REV DAVID POLING During the put four or five yean church convention took a sharp turn from an experience of inspiration and fellowship to an ordeal of pain and physical suffering Much of the social conflict and disruption of the decade have been absorbed by the churches When national church assemblies meet these issues come into week-long focus with hot debate and deliberation Confrontation tactics employed by dissident groups have added more tension and uncertainty The fun and fellowship of other years has been overcome by the heartache and perplexity of modern difficulties and alarms It is not being argued that the religious community should be spared the grief and anxiety of the world Indeed of all organizations it should be the company that is involved in the affairs of men and nations offering help comfort and understanding The crunch that is hurting the church and surfaces at the large church is the exhausting schedule and elebaata program that aU but engulfs those delegates who attend For some time tills was an occupational hazard expected of politicians and diplomats who struggled with time-zone change and grinding dockets But now the churches have vast national and international gatherings and their par-' tidpanta are subject to tho same pressures and liabilities In Dallas last month the African Methodist Episcopal Church convention representing some two million members went through a grinding week-long convention On the final night Bishop John Douglas Bright 56 of Philadelphia fell from the stage and was pronounced dead momenta later victim of a heart attack An earlier session lasted more than seven hours as delegates argued into the dawn over whether or not to suspend one of their leaders We Could Profit teers and women in need of the services Seeing human needs being met by expanding clinic hours and referral services is evidence of progress Working in an historic part of downtown Lexington and living in the beautiful Bluegrass region of Kentucky is a reward in itself Working with Planned Parenthood has also made me more aware of the other social agencies available to those in need of assistance It has also made me more aware of the workings of the state and national legislative processes I wish to take this opportunity to urge you both private individuals and businesses to continue your moral and McGovern Ponders More Refund Plans By JACK ANDERSON MIAMI BEACH Sen George McGovern would like to finance the presidential campaign without getting obligated to the big contributors He therefore is considering the possibility of refunding all political contributiona over $1000 at the end to the campaign The idea was suggested by hia zealous campaign treasurer Henry Kimelman who promised to seek out enough $1000 contributions to make the wholesale refund possible McGovern is enthusiastic about the idea but he is also eager to avoid running up a huge' debt He has maMged to get through the presidential primaries which have cost him a cool $6 million without going into the red He is withholding his approval to the refund idea therefore until he is convinced feasible -Footnote: In an effort to hold down convention costs to $155000 financial managers cut off room service for all campaign workers' An order for tea and soup therefore was -routinely rejected An exception was made -however when the hungry man identified himself He was George McGovern Plain Talk politically astute Sen Abe -Ribicoff has advised George McGovern bluntly to stop listening to the theories to his economic advisers As a member to the Senate Finance Committee Ribicoff has economic credentials of his own He also sits on tight little board of top advisers He urged McGovern to translate his economic ideas into plain talk that the voters can understand In private memos and conversations Ribicoff contended that most Americans would welcome -the simplified restructured tax system that McGovern advocates if they could only understand what talking about Ribicoff invited McGovern to read Fletcher novel Dark The dark horse candidate in the novel suggested Ribicoff was saying the same things as McGovern but saying them better Slip Of Hand Through a comedy to errors the Democratic Party went on record at first with a flagrantly anti consumer plank borrowed from tha conservative wing to the Republican Party The plank opposed setting up an agency to intervene in behalf to citizens against federal agencies which is regarded as one to the most important consumer measures in Congress Here's what happened: During the final marathon session of the Democratic Platform Committee before the convention opened at Miami Beach North Carolina's balding persuasive Dave McConnell sought to amend the consumer plank He cotended that the plank would lead to interagency squabbling He recommended therefore that the new consumer agency be restricted by two little words This would limit the authority merely to an advisory role as a of the It was midnight and the committee members were exhausted But Rep Bella Abzug D-NY and young Jim Rosapepe a Virginia delegate recognized that McConnell's seemingly innocent little words would completely gut the measure They raised furious objections and McConnell withdrew his amendment But weary Phil Zeidman the executive secretary underlined instead to lining out the words on hia work sheet The goto was missed by the typists copy readers policy checkers proofreaders and printers Thus the formally printed Democratic platform amazingly endorsed the conservative -Republican view Zeidman had no idea of the blunder until we asked him why the Democrats had suddenly reversed their position in Congress and come out against the consumers Zeidman painstakingly went over the transcripts to the proceedings and discovered that his wavering hand had almost sabotaged the Democratic consumer position The platform error then was immediately corrected Tipple Plans Yippie leaders Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin are planning to give the Republicans a hot reception at their convention in August For the benefit to electronic snooping devices the chief Yippies met with their unpredictable -lieutenants at their gaudily -postered headquarters in Miami Beach and discussed elaborate plans for the GOP convention Then the plotters slipped outside and drew up a secret -new schedule of events Their aim: To turn Miami Beach into a yipping cavorting carnival when the sober sided Republicans come to town in August Friend With a five year Jail term hanging over his head mine boss Tony Boyle must be longing for some support from his eld friend Hubert Humphrey Just four years ago Humphrey stood hand in hand with Boyle on the platform to the mine convention and told the delegates that Boyle had given him the idea to run for President enthused Humphrey one snd only Tony Boyle good to be with you I am mighty glad to rub shoulders with this fellow Tony Boyle He has been giving me advice and counsel for a long Beside advice and counsel Boyle also gave Humphrey's campaign $30000 which a federal jury decided had been take? illegally from the union treasury From Our Files By JOHN MARTIN Today In 1962 A time bomb exploded in St Peter's Basilica -in Rome which was empty at the time The only damage was to a wall facing City police canvassed businesses to determine if any were staying open in violation of the Sunday closing law They were to be warned the first time and arrested if found open on subsequent Sundays Periodic skirmishes of small-unit forces -formed the substance to the Vietnam War in 1962 A headline Fate Could Decide The Future of All Southeast summarized official thinking to the importance to holding the line against the guuerillas Today In 1947 The 16-nation European Economic Conference approved a cooperative effort to speed the conti- recovery under the Marshall assistance plan The attorney general Issued an opinion that the city's proposed ordinance against transmission of race results to handbooks was valid I but probably impractical Today In 1937 Sen Hattie Caraway Was the first woman elected to the Senate and the first to become a committee chairman She was from Arkansas and succeeded to the seat of Sen Joseph Robinson when he died Dr Edward Murrary was elected president to the Rotary Club Frank (Buzz) Borrics a graduate of 1 Kavanaugh High School in Lawrenceburg became assistant football coach at the Naval -Academy Today In 1922 Federal narcotics agents seized $1500 worth of morphine in an alley to North UmestoM Street and arrested one man CRIME STOPPERS Have you over dreamed of a day when there would be no lawlessness? Well the day is here! Roll out the red carpet to usher in the new era! At last our lawmakers have found a way to eliminate crime so simple I imagine why no one ever thought of it before How? WeU make everything legal and then there be any crime legalize abortion legalize gambling legalize marijuana and then mitigate the penalty for all else that used to be ca 1 1 crime (murder assassination attempt larceny rape kidnaping) so that those poor depraved souls who are sick enough to commit such an act might be institutionalized and rehabilitated to be returned to society to commit again what the Puritan segment of society still chooses to call crimes No longer can we allow a Jury of 12 honest citizens to invoke the death penalty upon the poor souL Why to do so would be murder Nor can we allow him to be Imprisoned for life without chance of parole Why that would be cruel and inhuman punishment! That would be depriving him of his constitutional rights! Well whatever happened to the rights of the law-abiding citizen? and justice for offer him the same rights that the criminal vociferously demands? Justice if it can offer no protection for the innocent can no longer instill fear in the guilty Without laws the enforcement of the same and punishment for their being broken there is no and for anyone CAROL FECK Derrick Ridge Rd Zoe Ky PLANNED PARENTHOOD I feel I cannot leave Lexington without expressing my thanks to the many individuals in this area who have made my stay in Lexington so pleasant Working at Planned Paren-hood has brought me into contact with many wonderful board members staff volun srv financial commitment to Planned Parenthood to see that needed clinic services can be expanded Besides offering services in the area of birth control to those in need (on a sliding scale charge) Planned Parenthood offers free referral information pamphlets and library reference material for all aspects of family planning Please continue to give Planned Parenthood your full support ANGELA HEARING Past Director Lexington Planned Parenthood Center 10623 Renton Ave South Seattle Wash still life Checkmates Self fact that chess is not either historically or intrinsically an interesting spectator sport Such vicarious enjoyment as chess games provide comes from leisurely study of the move-by-move account not from watching Fischer knit his brow in throught or lick his chops in fiendish anticipation of crushing an opponent's ego Maybe at some future time there will be enough fans around to support chess in the fashion to which Fischer would like to be accustomed But right now there are not And no exploiting capitalist is getting rich on talent This makes it doubly unfortunate that London Investment banker James Slater saw fit to add $125000 to the world championship purse For Fischer's threats to quit the match bordered on extortion and his bluff should have been called This would have been painful for whose costly preparations for the match Fischer held hostage But it would have put Fischer a fatuous graceless man in his proper place that of someone who happens to be a genius at a trivial pastime Now though we have the confrontation Fischer has at times tried to make 'sis match with defending world champion Boris Spassky a Cold War kind of crusade good tod American versus godless Russian Communist But ha was not so dedicated to the crusade that he was willing to wage it for a mere $100000 He was not so proud that -he would not apologize to the Russians to save the match and his money And he was not smart enough to realize that if he had just quietly won the championship he would have earned the respect and probably the financial rewards he demanded so prematurely Go Boris Fischer Kind Of By RALPH NOVAK We have seen over the past few days the creation of something new in chess the Fischer gambit This is where you threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue and-or pick up your chess board and go home unless you can have your own way A true inspiration to the youth ot America Bobby Fischer has shown us that these tactics work in this greed-smudged real world performance the prelude to the world chess championship match in Iceland should not have surprised us He has after ail never said he was sensitive poised considerate modest generous admirable or intelligent He has said only (though many many times) that be is tha best chess player around in Brooklyn tha United States the world and presumably the universe Let us assume that nets right The next question is so what? Fischer seems to be operating under the belief that because we pay our athletes and entertainers outrageously large sums of money we should do the same for chess players From his point of view this is reasonable of course But from everybody it is super-arrogant nonsense That we are foolish enough to sanction paying Tom Seaver $125000 a year to throw baseballs is no Justification for our being foolish enough to sanction paying Bobby Fischer $200000 for shoving a bunch of toys around for a month For one thing there is the theory For another there is tho matters outside their competence Party interference even when it succeeds in forcing an inefficient manager to resign or to change hia methods has had unsettling effects among tho workers Professional relationships have been destroyed Production is suffering Each side blames the other Despite all this local party committees are reported working on ways to intensify their supervision economic analysts see a basic un-solvable conflict here They are certain that these difficulties will deepen and that Increasing party interference in the details of local factory production will lead to greater Inefficiencies regardless of what brilliant technological break-throughs Soviet scientists achieve This will make the Russians Increasingly conscious of their arms burden and (if analysis hero is correct) of their need for UJS management and development skills Growing dependence on the United States should make the Soviet Union more cooperative if US negotiators are bard nosed the theory here runs But the Soviet representatives are going to be tough bargainers whether talking about arms economics or political settlements in such places as the Middle East and Asia The theory there is that the growing Soviet economic problems will not make Russian diplomats easier to negotiate with Talks that should take two years may take five But the Soviet difficulties may make agreementa more likely in the end if we argue from military and political strength as well as economic By RAT CROMLEY President aides count on the unfortunate results of Leonid latest economic experiments to push the Soviet Union into greater accommodation with tho United States these next five years If then current boggles become increasingly serious and experts predict they will Brezhnev's economic problems could be a strong force for an effective follow on agreement covering all major strategic arms and hopefully calling for cutbacks as well as ceilings Brezhnev's immediate problems began as the result of a decision he made about two yean ago in part to solidify his position as first secretary through increasing party control over the economy and in part to remedy tho growing productivity problems that plague Soviet industry agriculture and mining The Communist party has always been supreme in economic direction setting quotas prices and priorities This has been bad enough for economic efficiency Brezhnev has gone a step further given the party committees In each local factory strong direct say in day-to-day operations The word now coming out of the Soviet Union is that this shift is not working well Factory managers complain their authority is being undermined They strenuously object to party interference in the selection of foremen superintendents and department heads in work assignments and in training methods Party workers in each plant find themselves required to police their superiors on technical -4.