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i to Injuse eamre rage Democracy with Youth Fervor SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1969 15-A -JLL. Wo Rustic Sen. Russell Takes Global View I' sity, and industry. And because of disorders and the war in Vietnam, some educators are now reviewing the contracts their schools have had with government and big business. While no one would argue that the university should merely do the bidding of business and government, it is probably a good thing for scholars to have a voice in defense, or foreign and domestic policies as long as they maintain independence.

The University of Michigan's Wilbur Cohen has made monumental contribution to social reform. And in the Nixon administration another U. of M. professor, Paul McCracken, will be in charge of economic policy. But isn't it also possible, perhaps as a teaching technique for universities to send qualified students into agencies of local, state, and national government, to study them and thus practice nonviolent "participatory democracy?" Pan! Rand Divon, chairman of the ITC, has called the report "scurrilous." As important as who is wrong or right, Is the fact that instead of picketing the FTC or taking over Dixon's office, the students exercised their right Indeed their duty to inquire critically into the operations of a branch of their government.

THE STUDENTS have already had an effect. Despite Dixon's attack on the report, the day before it was released the FTC, anticipating the students' criticism, announced new restrictions on advertising claims. Nader is now quietly forming a permanent group of raiders, and next summer he expects more students to look into outher areas of government and industry. On the campuses many students and faculty members strain against the love triangle of government, univer But hi; effectiveness and his ability to in the democratic process are the points of this little essay. And now that he has begun to spawn groups of little Naders, it would be well for representatives of industry to understand where the action is going to be.

Under Nader's tutelage, a group of graduate students with high intelligence and impressive credentials took a close look at the Federal Trade Commission. They brushed aside the cobwebs of this stuffy institution, opened the windows, and came up with an exhaustive report last week. They made pests of themselves during th.ir investigation last summer, as they questioned officials, harangued them for information and demanded to see public documents. We make no judgment on their report, which was very critical of the FTC and its performance on behalf of the consumer. Understandably, what was then French Indo-China, Russell played an important part in thwarting such a move.

THE COMOHNDER of the USS Pueblo would also have been better off if he had followed the advice of Sen. Russell and scuttled his spy ship. The repatriated Pueblo crewmen have now confirmed that they were unable to destroy all the super-secret electronic gear on their ship. Only a few sensitive instruments, tapes and papers were destroyed. The rest was turned over to Russia by the North Koreans for careful analysis.

This Included the highly secret instruments that the United States uses to track Soviet submarines. With this equipment, a spy ship can tell one Soviet sub from another by the dis-tincMve noise its engines make under water. The dozen American spy ships still operating throughout the world have been ordered to keep a safer distance from hostile shores. The Pueblo, for example, hasn't been replaced off the North Korean coast because of the risk. This has restricted U.S.

ability to monitor one of the principal Soviet submarine and shipping corridors In the Far East. Despite all the precautions, however, insiders admit that the United States probably could not stop a hostile power from seizing another spy ship. In the last analysis, the commander would have to take Sen. Russell's advice and scuttle the ship. WASHINGTON The public saw a face presiding over the Senate as the Electoral college ballots were counted that of Richard Brevard Russell of Georgia, new elder statesman of the Senate.

It was a stern face which gives Russell the appearance of being tougher than he is. Actually he's a compassionate human being, who has been known to go out of his way to help a small dog get through the revolving door of the Senate Office Building. Russell was elected to the Senate in the same year Franklin Roosevelt was elected President, 1932. He is 71. and has served in the Senate 36 years as of Sunday.

Sen. Russell was born in Winder, population 5,555 and still lives there. In his domestic outlook he is rural-minded, but when it conies to world affairs he is a far-sighted statesman. He makes few speeches, works from within. Last week Russell made a statement which surprised many diplomats that the United States should resume diplomatic relations with Red China.

When two nations talk together, he said, they don't make war. Russell has been consistently opposed to the war in Vietnam. Russell has been consistent. Some Senators allow themselves the luxury of inconsistency; more so in private, where they are not recorded, than in public where they are. In 195-t when Vice President Richard Nixon said the United States would land troops in BY SAIL FRIEDMAN Fre Prtu Washington Staff WASHINGTON The current bag, as they say, is "participatory democracy," a rather pretentious slogan which has had its effect from Prague to New York to Berkeley to Tokyo.

Put simply, it means there are growing number of people, led by a vanguard of the young, who want to participate in the decisions now being made for and about them by bureaucracies, corporate structures, establishments, institutions, governments, even machines. Because human beings need to be aware of their own. usefulness, and power throughout the world millions now seek to affect their communities, and the systems, values, and traditions which govern their lives and perhaps the manner of their deaths. THEIR SEARCH, often desperate, disorganized, and directionless, takes many forms: Street revolts, wild new music, excursions into the euphoria of pot and speed, overthrowing a dictatorship, crusading for a McCarthy, praying for a Wallace, defying a Pope, taking over a university. Some of these symptoms of rebellion are unseemly.

Worse, they are ineffective. Lately, however, one of the nation's most effective rebels has come up with a novel way of storming the bastions of the establishment. The rebel lead-er In this case is Ralph Nader, and a band of students called "Nader's raiders." Even after battling him for so long, representatives of industry cannot figure Nader out. They want to know his angle, for they believe if they can discover what Nader is really after (it must be money, power, or position, they are convinced), they can fight him more effectively. It is a tragedy ot our times, one which proves what the young rebels have been saying about us, that we cannot believe a man can crusade without first having a personal, selfish angle.

Nader's adversaries are correct in believing they can fight him better by understanding him; but they seem unable to understand that he has no angle except a belief that the individual cannot leave his destiny to any impersonal, private or public corporate establishment. This is not to say that Nader has always been correct in his positions. Like most reformers, his views are one-sided and often exaggerated, if not downright wrong sometimes. THE OTHER WW AfcoUTj 5TRIp5 OF a EXCTNCr IMNOMATloM 5Pi THe5E TWO STKIP5 MASKlNfr TAPE STPrTriAkN MiV rciMci ADT I na Ci Ac -tabc- am-tui- A UlOdc OP ART BetNG EXHIBITED At yw7 aricKy rmuic cuNNUiystUK, I rtooR. rvpr teacet i must see it.

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Or HKl. Jl INVINlly. --r ANOTHeR WINa OF Ttf ET Sentiment Growing For Strike Curbs BY EARL WILSON Talker -Type Stripper Stalks A Husband Some Basic Causes Of Student Protests 1L It is a worldwide problem. The big news out of Great Britain is that Barbara Castle, the Minister of Productivity and Employment of Harold Wilson's Labor Government, has proposed legislation which ould seriously hanlper just any old anybody's right to strike just any old time. One can Imagine the shock.

Barbara Castle comes from the left wing of the socialist party. It Is as though John Kenneth Gal-braith came out for a balanced budget, and Eugene McCarthy for the resumption of the bombing of North Vietnam. Among the proposals of Mrs. Castle is the cooling off period introduced in the Taft-Hartley Act, denounced at the time as the "slave labor act," and vetoed by President Truman who incidentally won reelection a few months later. THE PROPOSAL with the biggest clout would make work contracts legally enforceable by either party, so that if Management A contracted with Union to do work over say a two-year period, and Union struck before that two-year period, A could go to the courts and ask for damages.

It would appear elementary, except that one needs to remind oneself that elementary rights have simply not existed in the labor union field for years, and it is taking a long hard experience with reality (conservatism's best friend) to bring on reforms which, ironically, are now evolving in a labor government. The psychological ramifications of reform at this level are enormous. I lear that on arriving at a particular campus in California, the Negro student is ordered to join the Black Students Union. If he declines, he is beaten up until he changes his mind. Mutatis mutandis, that Is the way we are all treated in states that do not preserve the right to work.

It is not surprising that those who favor compulsory unionism are as disposed to disregard the rights of the community as they are the rights of the individual. Why not? On the general subject, we should hear from Mr. Nixon. Let us, however, give him a cooling off period, say 90 days? WHEN THE BIGTHINKERS met recently at Princeton University to arrange solutions for the galactic problems of the world, George Kennan rose and asked meekly whether they shouldn't also concern themselves with some problems seemingly minor, for instance the fajlure to devise means of protecting cities from paralysis by striking labor unions. I wasn't there but I can imagine the hushed horror that greeted this sober restoration of hierarchy: we ought to figure out what to do about Albert Shanker, the New York teachers union leader, before we can confidently dispose of the problem of Mao Tse-tung.

And indeed there are stirrings on the horizon. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, who superintended the passage of an anti-strike law (the Taylor Law), through the legislature in Albany a couple of years ago, immediately went on to ignore his own law in settling the New York City garbage strike last winter. That law, as originally contemplated, would have permitted a judge to set a fine hefty enough to deter a defiant union engaged in an unlawful strike. But the State Assembly, controlled by Democrats sensible of the implications of "antiunion" legislation, balked and directed that the maximum penalty should be $10,000 a day.

Spread that out among 55,000 school teachers, and you have the most exiguous deterrent in legal history. THE NEW IDEA is that an effort would be made to compute the daily value of the services denied, and let that figure set the limit. Applied to the school situation, the statisticians figure that the cost of the services denied to New York schoolchildren was about one and one-half million dollars per day. Impose a fine of such a dimension and, presto no strike. But will the law pass? and in the current mood, is effective legislation possible? If you cannot get professors at Berkeley to obey the law, can you get schoolteachers in New York City to obey the law? You cannot legislate compliance.

NEW YORK "I'm the Selma Diamond of the strip-teasers," Gloria LeRoy confessed morosely. "I'm looking for a husband. I think it's a big void in somebody's life not to have a husband, especially if you're a woman." Miss LeRoy was very, very serious, although she smiled and jiggled as she said it. In stripping, she always is gay and bouncy. She is not just a strip-teaser.

She is what burlesque calls "a talking woman." A talking woman Is different than a talking horse or talking dog. Somebody has found that in addition to taking her clothes ON MY LECTURE TRIPS I have asked many teachers and many students about the meaning of campus disorders and I have heard a great many answers to my questions. Basically, I believe these riots are inspired by an especially strong anti-intellectual disposition among the students. Most of the professors I talked to Inisted the bulk of the student protestors were always the or students. They are often led by articulate and facile students, but these are in the minority.

Th-1 sfclents who storm the Dean's office have been there on many another occasion. I believe Dr. Margaret Mead, the famous anthropologist, supports this point in her excellent study, "The Wider Significance of the Columbia Upheaval," which appeared in the fall, 1968, issue of Columbia Forum. Dr. Mead's point is that the student riot at Columbia was related to other events happening in New York City, in the nation, and the world.

The role and position of the student has changed as indeed has the world changed. "Higher education," writes Dr. Mead, "is no longer a privilege or even a right. It an anions requirement laid on young people by the standards of employment In the society." This is the key: a college education is a financial necessity for the members of the middle rnd up'jer-iniddle class which is roughly almost everybody. The students bend to the requirement.

The trouble comes when the students re- alize that they not only have to put in four years in which they do not participate in the working world as full adult members, but tint the university al.o has some standards they must meet. FOB THE ANTI-INTELLECTUAL, four years of passing grades just to qualify for a trainee position with a major corporation Is an impossibly strenuous demand. It is a much more pleasant prospect for the anti-intellectual to demand that he pick on the faculty and the requirements than on a Board of Regents or State Board of Education. This is not what is going to happen. Whether you travel tourist or first class, passengers do not pick the captain.

Hence the riots. And the student riots are profoundly immature. The dissenters never realize the university can be punitive. The IT Mi i the Ftudents at Columbia for quelling their disturbance was amnesty which was the last thing any authority could grant. It may well be immature to declare, "I will suffer for my principles," but it is a quixotic immaturity, not a desperately selfish immaturity like saying, "I want to raise hell and desecrate buildings as long as you won't hold me to accounts." Of these students, Dr.

Mead concludes, "When they begin to make socially responsible demands, they will almost immediately acquire the education in real life which they complain the university denies them." off, which most of them do, she can also be trusted to speak a few words. This gives them status. Gloria speaks right up in the picture, "The Night They Raided Minsky's," which got some good reviews hereabout. This made Gloria very happy but it did not ease the ache of needing a husband. "I've never been a raunchy strip-teaser anyway," Gloria said.

"In Baltimore, where they work strong, they yelled at me, 'Where's the action, They wanted to cancel me after the first night because I was too clean." Wilson But she went along. She had started at 5 as an acrobatic dancer; her mother, wardrobe mistress at the Latin Quarter, kept a protective eye on her daughter. Gloria got to be a talking woman with "This Was Burlesque" with Ann Corio and then came her chance in the picture. "In the picture, I wear nothing but psychedelic flowers," Gloria said. That's one scene.

There's a number, "Take 10 Terrific Girls And Only 9 Costumes" Gloria explains, "I'M the one Family Life Hurt By Job Pressures Life Begins at 40 Flagrant Spending Galls Me in the no costume" which is memorable. She gets laughs with straight lines. Somebody says Britt Ekland is "not like us, she is not like show people." And Mao Harris the showgirl says, "Why, if you cut us, do we not bleed?" That, a Shakespearean lilt to it, delivered by a frequently naked dame, tickles the Key employes were "on call" night or day or weekends. On-the-spot meetings lasted this meant that the employes could not plan their personal lives very easily. If the boss were happy, he wanted to celebrate; if he were depressed, he wanted them to console him.

Why did the subordinates prostitute themselves so? Because at the end of the rnlnhow fhey supposedly would inherit wealth and power. The employer who rules with absolute power feels that he can command his key executives like a general commands his troops. The employe may think that any protest may jeopardize his future with the company. This man our patient was caught in a bind. He resented the fact that he was so dependent on his superior for success and promoting; he was angry at not being able to protest against being exploited.

So he repressed most of his anger on the job and went along. The remainder of his anger was -handled by projection onto his family, in this case. "Don't let anybody push you around!" Of course, a wise employer knows that the self-respect of his subordinates i3 important, and he will be certain that company practice do not compromise a man's sense of esteem. BY ALFRED A. MESSER, M.D.

IT IS NOT HARD TO FIND instances where a man's business worries spill over into his family life. For example, a family sought psychiatric help because the raolher felt that nothing she or the children did met with her husband's approval. i why did it take so long? If the children were noisy, they were told even more loudly to keep quiet. But in one area the father was particularly adamant: "Don't let anybody push you around." If one of the children complained that a friend had been "mean," the father would insist that the child put a stop to this, even if it meant using fists. Or, if a child felt the teacher had treated him unfairly, the father demanded that his wife go down to the school and "straighten the teacher out." WHAT WAS WRONG During a family session, the father was asked about his work.

He stated that he felt "extremely lucky" to have a job with such good opportunity. His employer had built up a large enterprise single-handedly; he never spared himself. But he also made excessive demands of his employees. They had to be ready at a moment's notice to respond to the master's needs, whether business or personal. out false eyelashes, blue-painted eyelids, and a Cleopatra-type wig.

She looks like an ancient streetwalker in this get-up hut rails me a spoilsport when I criticize. What's to be done?" A. Give her some time to enjoy the new trappings. After awhile she'll doubtless return to her former appearance. Many women are susceptible to high pressure suggestions for instant glamor.

But most women are smart enough to know what enhances their appearance and what detracts. If she's rally making a fool of herself she'll catch on soon enough. If you would like a booklet "Basic Health Rules for Older People" write to Kobert Peterson, Box 2022, Detroit 48231, enclosing a stamped, self addressed envelope and 10 cents. "Our grandson heads a quartet of long-haired teenagers who play guitars and drums. Instead of showing disdain, Grandpa, 72, and three ancient friends have bought Reatlo wigs and banjos and are working up an act.

They actually think they can get on Ed Sullivan's show. Don't you think a little more dignity is called for when men reach that age?" A Not necessarily. Older people should be able to kick up their heels and have fun the same as anyone else. Too many older people criticize off-beat, adventurous youngsters, when they might find greater satisfaction engaging in youthful follies themselves. Q.

"My wife, who's past r0, lool.ed okay to me the past fmir decades. But recently she's fallen into the hands of a new hairdresser who's convinced her she's naked with BY BOBERT PETERSON "I'm 72, retired on old age assistance, and get furious when I read of the rich with their private jets, chinchilla coats, and extravagant parties thrown by Onas-sis and that crowd. Don't you agree the money they throw around could be better used on milk for underprivileged children and outings for elders on welfare?" A Your reaction is normal, but from an economic point of view the extravagances of the rich are vital to our economy. If folks with extra money bought only What they needed to live and gave the rest of their, money to the poor our economy would quickly grind to a halt. The faster people spend money on jets, furs, parties, the faster it gets into circulation to provide the employment essential to our free enterprise system.

Gloria THE WEEKEND WINDI irving Wallace's Book. "The Writing ot One Novel" laoouc his writing "The passed the 50,000 mark Jimmy Aufiero of Monsignore sent Japanese actor Toshlro Mifune a Christmas gift an American transistor radio Van Rapo-port of Spindletop wore his elegant new mink coat to the Playboy Club but they refused to check it Eddy Arnold'll be the Heart '69 Heart Fund Ambassador The Superbowl's Most Valuable Player'll receive a sports car Jan. 21 at Mamma Leone's. Pat Boone'll do a cafe tour, first one In years Leonard Bernstein's "Journey to Jerusalem" still hasn't been seen in Jerusalem Anthony O.uinn'11 record an album singing in English, Italian and Spanish. TODAY'S BEST LAFtiH: A woman complained that her family doctor always refers her to a specialist: "I don't know whether he's a doctor or a booking agent." WISH I'D SAID THAT: A man seldom tells his wife his business troubles until she wants to buy something expensive..