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148 It 17 Taw 4my Volunteer Action Better Than Talk I 1 Sty? Kattaaa (Eitij afattra (The Morning Kansas City Star) Th Kansas City SUr Company Owner and Publisher MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press exclusively is entitled to use for republication all local news published herein as well as all AP dispatches Lights Camera Sound and Little Else MM Congress are without their problem-solving ideas Senator Muskie for example is knowledgeable and fired up about pollution and the quality of the environment He has before Congress some proposals of his own But those ideas presumably reflect the Democratic were noticeably absent Sunday It was on the whole just a matter of pointing with alarm Most people we would guess hoped for more But perhaps considering the state of disarray of the Democratic party nothing else was possible Because it does not control the White House it is a party largely without leadership Its national chairman Sen Fred Harris quit just a few days ago Its theoretical chieftain Hubert Humphrey speaks as nothing more than a defeated candidate who may try again in 1972 Moreover the or most of mi Capitol Hill were conspicuously absent before the cameras Where were all the committee chairmen one wondered? There were articulate and attractive young lawmakers their segment introduced by the aging Speaker McCormack as though to pinpoint contrast The viewer probably was glad to meet them and he did But beyond that the Democrats suffering financially and lacking a personality to rally the had little else to offer Except to say that pollution crime and inflation are bad Not even the Republicans would dispute that not quite certain whether the big TV spectacular was show biz or politics In either case it was a presentation that left something to be desired As show biz it was more dull than original patterned as it was after some of President own campaign shows of 1968 As politics it emphasized the weakness of the party's leadership and its lack of positive approaches to the issues that were emphasized The Sunday show was to be an answer to Mr Nlxot state-of-the-Union message Or so it was billed The response proved if nothing else that the Democratic party is marching largely to the beat of the same drummer The issues discussed were the issues which Mr Nixon had emphasized: Inflation pollution and crime But what to do about them? We heard in all honesty no solid answers in the taped interviews with citizens and comments by an assortment of representatives Sod senators And it was odd to say the least that one issue was hardly mentioned: Vietnam The administration for the moment at least has muted that drumbeat So the party its cameras roving the nation selected those domestic matters which seem to be pothering the people But if this was to be the official answer to the President it was a very incomplete answer Mr Nixon also talked about inflation pollution and crime in his report on the -Ration 'This is not to say that individual Democrats in More than 300 employees of the Chase Manhattan bank in New York have formed the Chase Volunteers for Community Action working in day care centers supervising playgrounds and doing a variety of other jobs Here one member Alyson Banks tutors school children as part of the program of the Upper Harlem Street academy might have beea a motivating factor in the The bank found an added benefit number of vohm-teersvwbo had been considering leaving Chase Manhattan have decided to stay because they bad become so involved in the the official said MANY PROJECTS deal with the urban crisis person to person A national group of volunteers the Revitalization corps was begun in Hartford Conn in 194 and spread across the country The Los Angeles corps was set up after the Watts riots in a $30-a-month former barbershop The small shop buzzes on weekends when advertising copywriter Burt Wilson opens up and some of the 400 to 500 volunteers arrive for duty Most of the volunteers in the corps are white a fact Wilson said is unique among organizations in Watts is no politics and no money involved so no threat to other groups and is the only white program able to exist in the black Wilson said The corps does more than just paint houses One recent Saturday for example 20 members of Temple Solael at Woodland Hills Calif escorted 15 youngsters ages 6 to 11 on a trip to the Marine Museum an aquarium at San Pedro kids never get out of the Wilson said we came here there were kids never been on a freeway never seen the ocean With the $2000 it has spent in the last few years Wilson figures his group has accomplished more than a government agency could have with $200000 VOLUNTEER EFFORTS in hospitals also account for many millions of man hours of work each year At Grady Memorial hospital in Atlanta for instance 300 volunteers run a wide gamut -of programs Students from Emory university clean wards move stretchers and do other similar jobs on Friday and Saturday nights Deila Royston a staff nurse at Grady and clinic co-ordinator said the volunteers the care we can give I think many of these women want to be involved in the problems that are relevant to society One of the volunteers Ellen Bloom 27-year-old mother of two works each Monday at the hospital as a hobby therapist stay home go shopping take care of my she said I feel like sacrificing anything don't think that anything I could do with my two or three hours is half as important as what I do State university a home economics major became so involved in running a co-operative grocery in a poor area that she switched courses to major in social a change that set her a year behind in school One thousand employees of the National bank in Portland Ore donated 147400 hours in one year of volunteer work The Over-60 Employment service in Montgomery County Md found jobs for 721 elderly applicants in 1967-68 fully 70 per cent of all who sought work In Lansing Mich 200 families called work on a one-one basis with 200 welfare families with children teaching games and school work wives helping their counterparts with budgets cooking and sewing and husbands encouraging their opposite numbers to obtain more education or training for a better job The Volunteer Adviser Corps Indianapolis with 2500 volunteers helped prepare for job applications 3009 persons originally rejected and sent to the corps by 75 local firms Of the 3000 some 85 per cent landed new jobs and kept them at least six months Still other statistics show the scope of the volunteer spirit: There are 600003 active members of 24000 volunteer fire departments upon whom 47 per cent of the population depend to protect their homes There are 550000 volunteers working in 2728 hospitals THE FEDERAL government now is moving to tap this treasure of donated time and talent by enlisting citizens in as President Nixon put it small splendid efforts that make headlines in theneighbor-hood newspaper instead of the national In April Nixon formed an office of voluntary action under George Romney secretary of housing and urban development It includes a clearing house where groups can get on how to organize si'ccessful volunteer nroiects Nixon also aDDointed Max Fisher a Detroit industrialist and leader of several chilan-thrcnic ptouds in Michigan as his special consultant on voluntary action men now are assemblin' the onvate National Center for Voluntary Action Aiding the effort are six corporations including Marathon Oil companv and organizations as the Urban Coalition and the Chamber of Commerce In an interview Fisher sad that not all meaningful volunteer efforts are selfless: many volunteering fills some void in their life such as widows or women whose children are grown We think of it as en- By Frank Murray (Associated Ptm Writer) Wayne Freberg spent Saturday paint brush in hand coping with the urban crisis The 45-year-old co-owner of a La Mirada Calif foundry joined 10 other volunteers in sprucing up the home of an elderly couple who had taken in six children from a broken home They painted the bouse lavender with yellow colors which go nicely with two houses across the street that had been painted shades of green by the volunteers previous weekends For 35 of the last 40 weekends Freberg has brought his energies to the Watts section of Los Angeles giving up his usual golf game to join a group known as the Revitalization Corps I GOT FED UP with intellectual discussions with my neighbors on race he said fires were getting hotter and talking doing any Freberg is among tens of millions of citizen volunteers who donate a treasure of time and talent to unpaid and unheralded for the betterment of their country and community Evidence of this volunteer spirit can be found in all parts of the nation from a prison at Walla Walla Wash to a kindergarten in Columbia from white volunteers cleaning trash-strewn Harlem streets to black volunteers shoveling mud from flooded homes in Los Angeles suburbs An estimated 57 million Americans volunteered to work for nonprofit agencies in 1968 the American Association of Fund Raising council said 20 million more than a dozen years before The major national health agencies alone count more than 30 million volunteer workers These range from $100000-a-vear business executives who lend their organizational skills to national campaigns to busy housewives who knock on their neighbor doors soliciting and dollars for medical research THE VOLUNTEER efforts often work hand-in-hand with organized charities An estimated $703000000 was given in 1968 to United Fund and Community Chest drives across the country More than $300-000000 was given to 35 health charities and the overall total giving was $15800000-000 to organized charities The donations of money however only blend with the volunteer efforts of individuals and groups across the country efforts such as: Janet Cole one of 10000 student volunteers at Michigan Clay County to Vote Modern Way lightened As Nixon phrased it when he named Fisher: is a remarkable and little-appreciated fact that for practically every one of the great social ills that plagues us solutions have been found by citizen volunteers who have devised programs that actually work in their own AT THE UNIVERSITY of South Carolina 1500 students are signed up for volunteer activity off campus Headed by Robert Alexander 30 a furloughed Methodist minister the program sends volunteers to mental hospitals and local schools One group of nursing five white girls and the Negro who organized taught a course of nutrition and health for black housewives want to change things: this gives them a the vice-president Charles Witten said of the student volunteers parents complain kids get so involved in the volunteering they miss classes But some kids get more out of this than they ever get out of a classroom Education is more than a said Vice-President Witten James Tanck 25 now on the White House staff as director of the national student volunteer program estimated that 250000 of the 7 million college students work as volunteers in activities other than traditional tutoring lot of college students feel uptight about going on off-campus while they're on campus getting a rather sterile he said not interested in doing the puffy things like collecting money for the United Fund They want to get their hands dirty doing something instead of throwing $10 into the A dozen students at Columbia spent an afternoon proving words They scrubbed floors washed donated dishes and cleaned up the big old home that is now Richland House a home for youngsters considered by the courts just one step short of reform school 4 The cleanup squad was from the Circle club sponsored by the local Kiwanis and manned fcv students Aftelr Richland House opened its doors Circle members were ready with sports programs and trips for the home's 15 boys MANY EXECUTIVES and the companies they head have found it good business to give more than money to charity One illustration is the group of 300 voluneers at Chase Manhattan bank in New York the Chase Volunteers for Community Action who work in day care centers supervising playgrounds or as hospital and clinic aides or tutors our top management down we have a very definite social said a bank official is after all our community Possibly the riots that occurred several years ago many election officials had begun to wonder why they had agreed to serve In those elections when the results were close it was always frustrating to have the outcome delayed for hours or into the following day But that was not the principal reason for the change-over Voting machines insure the secrecy of each vote After the lever is pulled there is no way to check back to determine who voted for whom The possibility of fraudulent elections is substantially reduced since it is far more difficult to rig a machine than to stuff a paper ballot box Also there is no way for a voter to void his ballot by making incorrect or confusing markings All of these advantages and others will now become available to the voters of Clay County It is little wonder that the public was eager to abandon hand-voting and hand-counting in favor of modern election processes Kansas City Jackson County and other area electioh districts have been using electronic machines for years On April 7 Clay County will also catch up with progress Red Asian Farms ous in undeveloped Communist countries such as China and North Vietnam These nations are mainly agricultural In order to develop their industries they require food surpluses to sell abroad and thus obtain foreign exchange But their stubborn peasants who want to produce for themselves and their families are not co-operating The dictates of communism on how farms shall be organized and tilled run counter to human nature So there's trouble in the agricultural communes of China and North Vietnam Both governments are loath to introduce the semicapital-istic incentives which up to a point have worked for the Soviet Union But the experience of the Russians should tell the Asian Communists that compromise is inevitable They are going to have to let farmers share in the returns of their labor to some extent or they are never going to obtain all the food their people need dtiJbliL UahASL (da Jodaip As far as the east is from the west so far hath he removed our transgressions from Psalm 103:12 The long tedious hours of hand-counting pa-jjer election ballots are now over in Clay County Thus an era which stretches back for 150 years will come to an end April 7 when the new electronic machines will be used in that county for the first time Probably no one will be as relieved as the men and women who serve as election judges and clerks With population growth plus the rapid increase in special elections what used to be a rather routine job has been turned into a task of nightmare proportions The presidential election in 1968 offers a typical example Shortly after 10 that November eve ning complete unofficial returns were available from all of the 445 polling places in Jack-son County In Clay County the work had scarcely begun By that hour only three polling places had- reported It was not until 3 the following 20 hours after the polls had that the final tally was available in Liberty By that time we suspect Foot-Dragging on Farm troubles in Red China and North Vietnam have a familiar ring Chinese peasants according to Red Flag Journal are asking that more be distributed to the individual as a reward for reaping In other words they want some kind of a personal reward for their hard work in the' fields In Hanoi the complaint is that farmers have not bothered to put the -full amount of available paddy land into rice production with the result that their output is barely rising Local projects are accused of general mismanagement and a failure to abide by state production schedules To Russians an old story Collective farming with the yields going to the government has never worked very well In the Soviet Union 5-year food production plans repeatedly have failed to meet their goals The Russians have had to import much wheat to make up for grain shortages The that Karl Marx proposed for agriculture have proved unequal to their tasks Russia has had to depend on the small private garden plots of millions of farmers and factory workers for a major share of its food production The problem can be recognized as more seri- FORTY YEARS AGO Secret Pact in Perspective Chronic Indigestion Around the conference table at Yalta 25 years ago were Premier Stalin (second from left) President Roosevelt (second from right) and Prime Minister Churchill (the top of his head showing at lower left) By John Doohan The Star's Librarian From The Star and Times February 10 1930 St Joseph virtually was assured of a Western league baseball club for 1930 with the expected transfer of the Topeka franchise to the Missouri city (The St Louis Cardinals owned the franchise) Aroused by the reign of hoodlum savagery marked by a dozen murders shootings and robberies Chicago police swooped down on gangland haunts and by nightfall a thousand suspected persons were behind bars A MacDonald of The Star's staff told WDAF listeners last night how he discovered three love letters in Wes- -ton Mo that had been written by Abraham Lincoln MacDonald said they were written to Mary Owen Mary refused proposal and later married Jesse Vineyard and they moved to Weston The fourth theft of a church bell in this vicinity in the last few weeks was reported to the police yesterday The Rev George Hargis pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Harrison ville reported the bell of his church missing Other thefts from churches nave occurred in St Louis and Blue Springs and in Cedar Vale Kas A1 Espinosa of Chicago for the second consecutive day shot below par golf to win the $2500 Houston open with a 281 Most of the larger cars including Packard Marmon Roosevelt Lincoln Dodge Cadillac Chrysler and Pealess are equipped with radios this year Traffic lights will be put into operation tins week at five locations: Fifteenth street and Ben-ton boulevard Thirty -first street and Robert Gillham road Thirty-first street and Troost avenue Armour boulevard and the Paseo and Thirty-ninth street and Troost avenue Marion Talley prima donna who now is a farmer said she will discontinue the musical scholarship fund established in her name Harry Culver president of the National Real Estate Board who has flown his own plane in and ottt of some 600 airports told MeElroy city manager be could not resist congratulating the citizens of Kansas City on the Kansas City air-pot do not make the By Tad Szulc 1970 New York Times News Service) Washington Two senior surviving participants in the Yalta conference reminiscing a quarter of a century after that historic effort to shape the postwar world see it as a landmark in United States diplomacy despite the criticisms it later drew It was 25 years ago that President Roosevelt Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill met for eight days in wartime secrecy at Livadiya near the Black sea resort of Yalta from February 4 through February 11 The meetings some involving all three leaders and others between Roosevelt and Stalin alone produced three basic and still-controversial sets of decisions Averell Harriman and Charles Bohlen the two ranking American survivors of the conference agreed in separate interviews here that Roosevelt had no choice but to go to Yalta and sign the accords on Eastern Europe the Far East and the United Nations ON EUROPE the conferees agreed to carve a defeated Germany into four occupation zones and to establish a government in Poland that would include non-Communists from the Polish government-in-exile in London On the proposed United Nations an accord was reached on the veto system in the security council and on the admittance of two Soviet republics the Ukraine and Byelorussia as United Nations members On the Far East the Soviet Union pledged to enter the war against Japan three months after Germany surrendered In exchange Moscow was promised control of Southern Sakhalin the Knrile Islands an occupation zone in North Korea and a naval base at Port Ar-" thur Manchuria The United States and Britain also agreed to recognize Outer Mongolia as an independent entity Because of the war the agreements were secret They were not made public until 1947 BOTH Harriman and Bohlen based their conclusions about the conference on the facts that at that point in World War II Japan was still a power in the Pacific the atomic bomb had not yet beat tested and the Soviet armies were rolling into Eastern and Central Europe Harriman a top adviser to Stalin sent a cable to Roosevelt on July 19 after allied armies landed in Normandy on June 6 and the Sbviet Union fulfilling a Teheran commitment attacked on the Eastern front to prevent Germany from shifting troops to the west Harriman noted that this was one wartime agreement Stalin kept As he set in the living room of his house in Georgetown Harriman recalled the other day that after Yalta Poland became the most frequently discussed topic of his many meetings with Stalin The premier be said argued that the Soviet Union must have To Stalin he said a meant a government fully controlled by the Soviet Union But Harriman remarked is easy now to crtt icize Roosevelt and Churchill for accepting the terms we subsequently found to have meant other to the Russians Harriman added that be bad been than Roosevelt that the agreements in Europe would be carried out by Moscow But be said we had agreements been blamed for all the postwar Yalta we would have Churchill made a supreme effort to come to an with Stalin about the postwar world but that the Soviet Premier quickly on his commitments Bohlen 65 who completed bis long diplomatic career when he retired as ambassador to France in 1967 took the view that the map of Europe would look exactly the same today if the Yalta conference had not been held Speaking at his office in the Georgetown section of Washington Bohlen said that Eastern Europe became Communist from Western weakness but from the harsh of the advancing Soviet troops Bohlen is writing his memoirs including his role at the Yalta talks where he served as the liaison official between the officials in addition to interpreting for President Roosevelt THE PROPOSAL for a conference of the three leaders to resolve postwar problems was born at their meeting in Teheran Iran in November 1943 Bohlen recalled that the original plan was to bold a conference in November 1944 immediately after the United States presidential elections The preparatory conversations were set in motion when Roosevelt as the United States ambassador to Moscow and Bohlen who served as the interpreter remain convinced that Western setbacks in Eastern Europe and the Far East resulted exclusively from breach of his word They contended that it was a myth to say that Yalta was a or that it was the United States inflexibility afterward that brought on the cold war The theory of a has been expounded by such United States non-Communist historians as Charles and Mary Beard as well as by many Eastern European leaders in exile THE OTHER VIEW that the United States became too hostile to the Soviet Union has been expressed by the so-called revisionist historians basically economic determ inists and critics of what they regard as American imperialist policy in the evolution of the cold war have tried to rewrite Harriman said it matter The fact i that these agreements were made and the truth is that agreements cannot be enforced except through military Harriman now 78 years old said that fact of the matter is that Roosevelt and man but they sometimes un-the make him and that is why I have no hesitancy in your wonderful port upon I have A I 4.