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Welcome to the weightlifting team Atgait titt TftgNtt LO)grty-tlCoflnthmii ftHkk 07 PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS, INC. Ill E. Van Borea. Photnli, JMM MIMrtafo Failure of controls rL Still alive and kicking In Wash- 9nfeon if the hypothesis that ernment can save the free prise system from confusion, and preserve the free flow of goods to Americans through The latest proof Is the Senate's 3 vote directing President Nixon impose fuel allocation measures i by, mid-August. ig precisely this reliance on "i controls which forced the nation the current fuel crunch, and, moreover, the additional mlsman- agement of virtually every other managed by how controls, have worked in petroleum, Washington controls limited "'Imports of foreign fuels, thereby available supplies.

'i Washington controls restricted of new thereby limiting processing of available petroleum. 011 Washington controls restricted 6f shore exploration for new ''''Sources of petroleum, thereby 1 Uting hew supplies. Washington controls have delayed construction of Alaska pipeline, thereby stalling delivery of new fuel supplies from North Slope fields. Washington controls restricted the use of amply available coal for electric generating power plants, thereby forcing the use of ly short oil. The recitation of mismanagement can be extended into agriculture, where controls on land banking and subsidies kept land idle at a time of food needs; where controls on overseas grain.deals have inflated food prices and created shortages.

If allocation fails, the next step is actual rationing. America's free enterprise system has fallen to various levels'of inefficiency and Confusion since government decreed itself a ner in business, through regulations and controls. One control tacked onto another by government simply is an illustration of how successive failures are added to previous and called solutions. -qo "Now, here, you see, it takes an running you can do, to keep in wsfbe same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" The Queen to Alice Alice's Adventures in Wonderland it) 3 1 was no income tax ib author Lewis Carroll wrote that hncpassage in the middle 1800s.

Big dollar bite But how prophetically it applies 1 the inability to stay abreast of much less get ahead of it. IK- The blame lies with the skyrocketing cost of government. And i part of government's enormous results from poor coordina- -rvition of budget requests at the fed- level. feep. John Cpnlan, this noted that 40 cents of every dollar earned in the United States goes to some form bfgov- Vn ment tax Conlan and 54 other 'congressmen are sponsoring a bill to tighten the budgeting of govern- funds and eliminate duplica- "'Xs for what's happened to purchasing power, the U.S.

Chamber of Commerce unveiled some findings this week which amply demonstrate the erosion of the dollar at home. Using 1963 as a base, the chamber found that a family of four with an income of $10,000 per year had $8,454 remaining after federal taxes. Now, in 1973, only 10 years later, the same family a i $10,000 would find that its purchasing power had eroded 42 per cent because of inflation. So, according to the chamber, to have the equivalent buying power of the $8,454 available in 1963, the same family of four would need to end up with $12,005 after taxes or a gross income of $14,304. Thus, as the family earns more, federal taxes take 49 per cent more than in 1963 $2,299 vs.

$1,546 and inflation reduces the dollar by 42 per cent in purchasing value. The family trying to run faster to stay in place might well want to drop a note to its congressmen about the proposed $53,125 salary (a 25 per cent hike) which lost in the House this week but will come up again next year. Abortion fraud phoniness of civil liberties- religious freedom arguments for permissive abortion has become TP crystal clear with the by the American Civil Union that it intends to sue to force private as well as public hospitals to perform abortions. 'The move was announced by the 11 ACLU acting jointly with the National Association for Repeal of Laws. The statement re- that action has already be- in nine states against public -'hospitals but that the groups would "eventually bring suits" v' against private, including Roman Catholic, hospitals.

the debates oVer abortion legislation we were constantly told liberalization would advance cause of religious freedom. V. -Denominations that believe i abortion to be immoral would no 'longer be imposing their particular creed on the rest of society. A law, it was argued, would be permissive and not interfere with anyone holding religious objections to. abortion.

This argument was never convincing because litigation such as is now being filed by the ACLU was perfectly foreseeable. It was, in fact, foreshadowed by the ruling of a court in Montana which ordered a Catholic hospital to perform a sterilization operation over the religious objection of the clerics who ran it. The local ACLU affiliate participated in that action, which was prior to the U.S. Supreme Court decision. So now takes the form of a drive to compel Catholics and others to participate in abortions in blatant opposition to their religious beliefs.

We believe it is an obvious question of whether a religious organization is to be permitted to practice its beliefs unmolested by ernment or spurious defenders of "civil liberties." in i Rescue in space a the 12 years since the ed' States hurled astronaut Alan Shepard in a then-primitive Mer- cury space capsule 302 miles down the Atlantic missile range, America has dominated space explora- What kept us ahead has been the technical genius of spacecraft design and near-flawless training of astronauts to take over when machines fail. The three Skylab II astronauts now orbiting the earth face the most critical emergency of the space program. Fuel leaks in the propulsion system of their capsule may trap them in space, with res- by another space vehicle their orily hope. The space program has always '( considered this a possibility, and methods for rescue have beende- Republic editorial Mrtowilit Tanl Greenbcrg Fulbright nationalism once more in full flower veloped, tested and kept at the ready on each mission. In this case, another Apollo craft would be launched into orbit, then rendezvous with the Skylab, The three astronauts would then transfer by space walk into the rescue capsule, and return to earth.

The imperiled astronauts have shown their professional cool, They've quietly acknowledged, the crisis, and gone about their tasks conducting scientific work while colleagues on the ground prepare the rescue vehicle. It is an anguished moment. But the genius of America's astronauts to survive tight situations in the past is a reassurance that Skylab II will also be a successful mission. In his last novel Crippled J. William Fulbright began to slouch'toward idealism.

Between the usual lines of real- poll tik there appeared a strain of concern for international law, morality, justice. But now, in a speech before the American Bankers Association, he warns against "idealistic meddling" in foreign affairs. Not that the bankers needed any such warning, but it's good to see Fulbright back in a role in which he seems more comfortable, and more genuine. What made the senator feel like his old self again? The Jackson Amendment, which conditions trade concessions to the Soviet Union on its relaxing emigration restrictions. The senator wouldn't impose any such condition because, as be told the bankers: "Learning to live together is the mostimpor- ant issue for the Soviet Union and the United States, too important to be compromised by meddling even idealistic meddling in each other's affairs." The assumption that idealism must be Victor tttesel a disturber of the peace is conventional enough, perhaps because it usually goes as unexamined as it did in the senator's remarks.

Let's take a closer look at this assumption. To restrict free exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union to goods, and to exclude people and ideas, is to confuse learning to live together with a business deal. Trade does not necessarily lead to peace. It can also lead to hard bargaining; rivalry, dependence, even to war. The history of American trade with Japan on the eve of.World WarII should have taught us that.

Idealism, if itim-. proves understanding, may lead to peace. Fulbright's charge that supporters of the Jackson Amendment want to revive the Cold War is just cheap rhetoric; Henry Jackson long has favored greater trade with the Soviet Union. Nor is it likely that 77 senators and 185 members of the House the total number of the amendment's sponsors at last count share any nostalgia for the Cold But there is a much broader, and more serious gap in the senator's foreign policy. An essential test of a foreign policy is how well it fits the character of the people it is intended for.

The senator's amoralism may be quite realistic for some textbook power or ordinary empire, but is scarcely realistic to expect Americans to forego an Interest hi freedom or even action on its behalf. The words of the Declaration of Independence are still a standing provocation to every form of tyranny, as Jefferson intended them to be. As opposed to European nationalism, to be an American is not primarily a matter of birthplace or race, but a state of mind, a set of ideas. Just the other day, Sen. Fulbright himself suggested that American pressure be used to restore democracy in Greece.

Surely that's as much Idealistic meddling as asking that the Soviets ease up on emigration restrictions. The essential distinction between the two cases is not the extent of the meddling but the size and ideology of the two countries. Perhaps the contradiction can be explained by a healthy respect for power, but not by any consistent opposition to idealistic meddling. More questions for Dean-about Gyp DeCarlo Before long there will be many new strange i to the mystery of the freeing from federal prison of the man the Federal Bureau of Investigation has long believed to be a methodical gangland executioner the reported capo in the Genovese-Catena Mafia family, Angelo "Gyp" DeCarlo. Certainly the spotlight will be on for.

mer presidential counsel John Dean III. It is he who put the commutation petition of the alleged underworld execution, er on President Nixon's desk for a swift and perfunctory signature. Dean will be questioned by special Watergate, prosecutor Archibald Cox, it the usual authentic sources are, as usual, correct. Shortly Sen. Henry Jackson's ace prober, Howard Feldman, chief counsel of the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, will grill Dean, or haps already has secretly.

One of the mysterious twists is why the utterly incorruptible U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Herbert Stem, smasher of more corrupt city governments than any prosecutor in history, decided to probe the freeing of DeCarlo on Dec. 20, 1972. Stern isn't a man to waste his time. He has too many crusades going.

What has Herb Stern found? Why is he passing his report on to Cox? If Stern is sufficiently fascinated by the release from the federal pen of a Mafioso there must be more here than the perfunctory springing of DeCarlo because the latter had cancer of the prostate which spread, DeCarlo's petition was sent along last year by a young Atlanta attorney, Robert L. McHaney, who says he got the case as "a bounce-off referral" from another attorney in Atlanta. McHaney wouldn't name the bouncer-off. Nor how much he was paid. Nor why McHaney had to wait from December 1972 to late April '73 for his fee.

We all are supposed to believe this was all very routine. Gyp DeCarlo has cancer. It traditional to send a man home to die if he is "terminal" But this is no ordinary man. DeCarlo on tape, via a bug in his office, "The Barn," is judged by the federals to be violent, a sadistic beater of opponents and a student of fashions in mob executions. The story supposed to die by drowning because of a leak of a probe which disclosed that Frankie Sinatra, who sprang from the gut of Jersey swamp musclehood to stardom and who has been reported a friend of bosses of New Jersey, New York and Chicago mobs, had nothing to do with springing DeCarlo.

Well, who said Sinatra did? Sinatra has been running shy of New Jersey. Furthermore, the singer-actor would not jeopardize his new prominence in Washington to make a fix for a bugged man like DeCarlo. And DeCarlo has more important contacts, it is reported. Gyp DeCarlo goes back deep into New Jersey politics meaning national political power for decades. The 71-year-old white-maned alleged boss of a small Mafia unit of his own was more than a capo for the late boss of bosses, Vito Genovese.

DeCarlo was an Intimate. He-worked closely with such men as the late Longy Zwillman (who supposedly hanged himself in his posh Jersey home). And this means mixing with powerful political figures who invested hundreds of millions of dollars or stole them or mixed sion The originator of Fulbright Scholarships should not have to be told that ideas can be powerful, too, once unleashed. The senator dedicated his latest book to "those of my countrymen and those of other countries whose participation in educational exchange has helped to change thft rules of the game." That is the aim of the Jackson Amendment, too. To set ideas in motion.

To change the of the game. in international finance and the moving of securities. Zwillman was an ally of Meyer Lansky, 71, just on trial for income tax violations involved in alleged skimming of cash from "markers" (lOUs) given by junketeers to gangsters during flying gambling trips to London. This combine, in turn, was tied in with the New England Mafia. not only did DeCarlo run the usual rackets gambling, loan sharking, prostitution, hijacking and floating crap games but also labor and waterfront rackets.

It was in DeCarlo's "Barn" that a labor racketeer, Louis Saperstein, who goes way back to the late '40s, was beaten until "his face was purple, his tongue bulged and he was pleading for mercy." -Saperstein (who died not long after of arsenic poisoning) was the forerunner of today's crooked pension and welfare operators. He supposedly clipped almost $1 million from one Laundry Workers fund. In January 1970, DeCarlo was tried on six counts of extorting money from Saperstein including demanding $5,000 a week in interest on a loan. So tough was DeCarlo's reputation that no one entered the courtroom without submitting to electronic search, He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in March 1970. And 21 months later, this reputed killer walked free because of cancer.

Why? Certainly he could have been held until what appeared to be the last month of his life and then furioughed. But he would not have been free of all obligations as he is now. He is ill. He is reportedly "walking death." But he is not mentally ill. He is doing business.

He is under surveillance by the New Jersey State Commission on Investigation. He is watched by the FBI and the U. -S. attorney's office. He meets his old friends.

He eats out. And he has been free over seven months now though he could have been held in "soft" prisons such as Danbury, or Milan, Mich. The truly nationally significant question is: Why, when Dean spotted the routine treatment of Gyp DeCarlo, reputed killer, did he not send it back for probing by the FBI or analysis by Herb Stern or criminal division chief Henry Peterson? rocked by attack of righteousness A storm gathers around the notion that lawyers Implicated In the fate scandal should be Investigated by their various associations, and possibly disbarred. Watergate has pretty much been a lawyers' show. Anybody watching it must bef careful lest he go away babbling like a barrister.

The strongest urgings for professional discipline were uttered by Sen. Walter F. Mondale, up in Duluth at the recent Midwest Attorneys General Conference. Mondale professed to be most shocked of all by the spectacle of the former attorney general of the United States, a man charged with upholding the laws of the land, stating with little remorse on nationwide television that his highest commitment was not to the law but to Richard Nixon's re-election. John Mitchell has given a frightening meaning to the term law and order." In arguing for a tougher code of conduct for lawyers, especially those in government, Mondale ticked off a list of lawyers In the Nixon government who made "the Dean's list, a term that has been given a new and sinister meaning recently." He added the "name of one additional lawyer whose involvement has yet to be determined, ultimately by the American Richard M.

Nixon Also huffing and puffing on this question was J. D. Lee, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, at their convention in Miami Beach. Lee declared, "There is no censure too strong for these lawyers the legal' profession, whether we like it or not, is right smack in the middle of it (because lawyers participated willingly in) a massive attempt to sabotage the very process of democratic election." In Albany, N.Y., Frederick C. Stimmel, president of the National Organization of Bar Counsels, said he was putting the lawyers-involved-in-Watergate question on the agenda at his organization's convention next month.

Fred Grabowski, the bar counsel for the District of Columbia, where many lawyers alleged to have done wrong on Watergate have, their practices, said he is investigating allegations involving 50 of these lawyers. That's a doorful of names. And we must remember that the coolly sanctimonious John Dean III is supposed to have told President Nixon that 10 lawyers, including some in the administration, could be indicted in Watergate and the-cover-up. Well, all right, you righteous barristers, let's see you go to work on your own. You haven't done much of this in the past, and now you've stuck your necks out.

I think that any lawyer who broke the code of ethics because of his involvement in Watergate ought to be disbarred, too. But I would also like to see these indignant spokesmen for legal ethics, particularly Sen. Mondale (because he's a politician and can lip off more frequently than the rest), apply their same high standards for that swatch of radical lawyers who played guerrilla theater in courtrooms across the republic a few seasons back. Lawyers like William Kunstler made a mockery of the legal process. Other than a few mutterings about their bad behavior, movements to disbar these scoundrels were nil.

No question that some lawyers are little more than white-collar pirates, and commit sins like the rest of us. Nixon's Watergate gang includes some real smoothies in the legal profession who could be characterized as button-down hoodlums. But if the bar associations are going to kick hell out of those lists of 10 or 20 or 50 lawyers who sinned on Watergate, they had better complete the housecleaning and throw out other defilers of the courtroom process as well. How about it, Sen. Mondale? Or would that hurt you politically? Totbty 9 note Columaitt William Satire ia the New YwkTtateteUiilytMtn; A great libertarian goal use to be that every man, rich or poor, should have the right to legal counsel.

But Lowell Weicker, a lawyer himself, last week gave the back of his hand to the 430,000 attorneys and law students in America when he told a witness without counsel on nationwide television that he didn't need a lawyer in the Senate hearing because he had been telling the truth. Thus, Weicker's Law: If you hire lawyer, you must be a liar..