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Awaiting The Agnew Education Plan resident Agnew's recent speech at s on college admission policies folusual multipurpose pattern. It ento denounce radicals and intellectpress genteel alarm at the state of today's campus, to come out for the ristocracy" of talent, and to give the $ hand to black militants--all this in of tilting at the windmills of open and racial quotas in our colleges. : the farm they used to say that even g will pick up an acorn or two, and .easure in agreeing with Mr. Agnew it the abandonment of academic re > for college admission nor the ac>f rigid racial quotas is desirable, nore, we agree with Mr. Agnew that ory education at public expense must oed for some students of deprived d in order to make sure that all who ;t from higher education shall have it. The Vice President speaks of imunity colleges and special pregara>ls, to insure to the late-blooming, the ared and the underachieving student cational opportunity." ebow we cannot feel that Mr. Agnew has said all there is to be said wbetv-SWound- ly declares that compensatory education has no place whatever in the colleges. Many colleges have been engaging in remedial work for years, and we expect they will go on doing so. It is quite possible to recognise a responsibility to the culturally deprived wit hoc t abandoning academic standards. A college can, for example, admit a limited number of promising students who may no' quite meet formal requirements, and try by e^- tra ***Mwe effort to bring than up to standard within the first year or two. That could be done, and is being done, without impairing the qual ity of education available to others; the extent of it would vary from eoRege to college. The purpose would be, not to cultivate an aris tocracy of talent, but to realise the full poten tials of demooacy. ' Such extra effort is especially called for dur ing the period when Ur. Agnew's proposed new syktem of tompc|atoix j^dneattoa at lower "levels ii>ing fidt together; it might be a rather lengthy ported- Meanwhile we await with interest the speech in which the Vice Presi dent offers a specfic program, and reveals his plan for financing it. date Carswell . Harrold Carswell has found a more ublic role for himself as candidate snate than as candidate for the Suart, a post for which he was recently He has resigned from the Fifth Cir. of Appeals to announce himself as can seeker of the office to be vaSenator Holland, a Democrat. Judge ays the GOP "offers Floridians the lel of providing the conservative govn which our citizens believe." ige was turned down for the Supreme tiv because of an uninspired judicial j partly because of obstructionism or disregard of civil rights. But Senate Carswell should be entirely free to s conservative ideology, as Judge vas not, and he can oppose racial inwithout fear of being overruled. No courts out there watching him; no mal fiats surrounding him. Just vot- For Housing )e the Cervantes administration will ably upon a proposal to exempt the Authority from payment of utility :h the city government itself does not $60,000 a year involved is an insigortion of municipal income -- about :redths of 1 per cent--but a major le Housing Authority whch is runnng ing deficit of about $50,000 a month, ority's only sources of income are of tenants and some federal grants, e circumstances of the city's own tax h respect to itself plus the overriding lelp the authority to get on its feet, ?st municipal subsidy involved here ustified. iding The States governments are to survive the trend entralization of power in Washington si be strengthened, speakers told a meeting sponsored by the Citizens ce on State Legislatures. They sugnnual legislative sessions to keep >f public business, a reduction in size itures to make them more effective, affs for legislators and committees to lem to know whereof they speak, and id on. ,ch nearly anyone might agree. But the he power of the states is the public he states provide. The more they leave 'ederal Government, the less power have. And the key to providing serv ices is not just will but money, the two often being linked in tax decisions. Recently Mis sourians concluded that their state did not need 60 millions or so mom dollars a year in Income taxes, though Missouri's ranking in most public services is low indeed. The argument for state power or sovereignty or rights oollapses on that kind of decision. Story Of A Sinecure The Supreme Court has finally left the five members of the Subversive Activities Control Board sitting in their almost vacant offices, with nothing to do but collect their $36,000 pay checks. The SACB has become tbe ultimate sinecure. It came about this way; The board was cre ated in 1950 to register alleged Communist or ganizations and members. In its first 17 years, the board was asked by the Justice Depart ment to act against the Communist Party, 22 so-called front organizations and 44 individuals. Not one was ever registered. Then the Supreme Court knocked everything but the padded armed chairs from under the SACB by holding the registration process a violation of the Fifth Amendment--the deci sion being tbat compulsory registration was tantamount to self-incrimination, since those registered as subversives could be prosecuted as such under another law. Congress refused to eliminate the useless agency, however. The late Senator Dirksen rallied his forces to a 1968 law intended to save SACB by letting it publish rather than com pel registration of names deemed subversive. The first cases brought under this law were thrown out by tbe Court of Appeals in Wash ington on tbe ground that they violated the First Amendment guarantee of free associa tion. Now the Supreme Court has refused to review that ruling, letting it stand. So the SACB is worthless once again, despite Nixon Administration efforts to make it seem worthwhile. Attorney General Mitchell has tried to give it new work to do. President Nix on even gave it, as a member, Otto F. Otepka, darling of tbe right wing, wbo bad been de moted and reprimanded by the State Depart ment for unauthorized disclosure of personnel files. Placing Mr. Otepka on SACB was tanta mount to rewarding a security violation with a security job. " The Subversive Activities Control Board, however, has never in 20 years done anything for the nation's security. Its sole value has been to politicians seeking 4# show how they are more patriotic than anyone. For that rea son the SACB may be continued. But as an ex pensive political charade at public expense it ought to be abolished. \ State Of The Earth A Call For Ecological Law And Order If Nature Is Not Conserved, Famine And Sickness Are Likely David M. Gate* In National Gardener (The author is director of Show's Garden) It is often difficult for those who live in synthetic environments to understand or to believe that their comfortable little worid will eotlapee if the tntagrftjr of natural history is violated too completely. We in our homes and oar offices, eurroundel by synthetic carpets and clothed with man-made fi bers, enclosed by warm walk, mmOad-wtm* ` - - aSG filtered m. with wti. wash with tap to tarry i The Mirror wastes into tbe eewera, ftod it difficult to comprehend that of all of this depends toaorabty cm the green plant Man eooPublie Opinion tradiets every ecological law known. Indeed be must coo t r a v e n e nature tn order to support his industrial monster and to feed a hungry burgeoning world population. During millions of years of evolution, while life and atmosphere emerged together, inorganic sub stance was converted into organic forms which in turn would decay and return to the soil as inert matter. This cycle of construction and destruction was the keystone to success for the living commun ities. Man comes along and eventually learns to contradict this basic law of cycling for his wra self-interests. He burns fossil fuels to energize his machinery and warm his homes, be mines tbe metals of the world to manufacture automobiles, airplanes, ma chines, and materials, be sinters silicates to form glass, and turns chemicals into billions of plastics each year. The natural evolutionary events of tbe world created plants and animals; what is ao differ ent with man creating his products of industry? The critical difference is that vast quantities of man's products are Doodestructibi* Item*. These `You've Got Tbe Ball, Buster! What Are You Going To Do With It?* products do not break down, do not decay, and do not return to tbe sources from which they came. Furthermore, modern man has gone out of his . way not to return his waste products to their points of origin nor even to reuse them himself. The "No Deposit" *t?uu ftspgnsMe" bottle as one at (be greatest sins ever perpetrated by mankind. Where does he think they ere gotpg? Did be inherit an earth at plastic*, Mam and rusting tutonwMes? Do we want our dtudrea arm their children to have a erttage of bottles aad:m*ts of plastic stsfcwn ' ' aerator fee tondachpesod A' beached of t&sSrdnd? This rabtaal to recycle alohg with an uncontrolled population explosion k accelerating man's demise to an tncredftk degree. Are we btind to tbe fact that 1be planet earth Is a single. Untiled, and easentially closed ecosystem? Are we going to live it up, burn it up and cover it up while the rich get richer, tbe poor gat poorer, and tbe world suffocates by its own greed and blind folly? There is no doubt that we can continue to exploit, to be comfortable, to be |ust slightly sick, to be a little more crowded and a little noisier each year, and to assume that every thing will work out. I have several times heard people say: "Any na tion that puts a man on the moon can solve all of its problems." Maybe it can and maybe It cannot, but unless we start to do something soon It will . then be too late to stem the tide of population, or to > cleanse the air and water, or to conserve the re- i sources and natural habitats. Tbe world is a wonderful place and will continue . to be a magnificent planet only if we manage its destiny in a careful, rational fashion. The leader ship of the world must be determined to do so and ; the people must understand the need for sensible management and control. Here are come of the ; things we must learn to do. We will not accomplish them easily or quickly, but we can set ourselves the ' ultimate accomplishment of these goals: 1. Population control--eventually the total world population must be limited. Only by starting now can we hope to achieve a balanced population with in a few decades. 2. Pollution abatement--for good health and to avoid undesirable climate change we must reduce automobile, airplane, and industrial emissions to an absolute minimum, 3. Mass transport systems developed which move large numbers of people between home and job effectively, quietly, quickly, and with the least in sult to the environment. 4. Conservation of resources and recycling of ma terials including reuse of consumer goods and of waste products. 5. Application of ecological laws and principles. Man is a part of nature; he is a product of evolu tion; be must use nature in a conservative maimer and design with nature rather than against the communities of organisms which we have inherited. Man must realize that the time is near at hand when further growth of population and industry is undesirable; where profits are not to be gained for self-interests at the expense of resources, open space, clean air and water, and lack of freedom from crowding and neurological stress. This does not say we will not have progress, nor Individual profit, challenge, or choice, nor freedom. Indeed we will have these things, but we will have them as a part of an intelligent, conscious effort to achieve a healthy, happy world of people living with reasonable prosperity and sufficient security to avoid major famines, sickness, or war. Autos Cost 12 Cents A Mile From The Commercial Appeal, Memphis The average cost of running an automobile is now almost 12 cents mile, according to new figures from the Federal Highway Administration. For an average location in the United States, the car costs (3185 and runs 100,000 miles in 10 years at 11.89 cents per mile. The third cwner, or perhaps the fourth, will have the average vehicle when it is 10 years old. If he lives in New York or San Fran cisco, cost will be a little higher per mile, or a little lower in Atlanta or Fort Worth. There still are persons who strongly protest such an old figure as 10 cents a mile. But there are abundant tables of figures to back the Govern ment's figure. - The fooler for tbe public is fast auto depreciation in the early years, a major item in a total cost dur ing the first year of 14.21 cents per mile. In old age this is replaced by repair and maintenance bills, peaking in the seventh year, with an over*!! mt per mile of 12.02 cents. After that owners let the re pairs slide and the tenth year coct goes down to 10.82 cents. There is where the new federal safety regulations should bear down. Real inspections for mechanical safety will raise tbe price of maintenance, or speed up the urge to trade for a new car, hut the ac complishment would be worth it in reduced deaths, hospital bills and damage repairs. On the contrary, there is a tendency for Washing ton guidelines to allow states to go through the mo tions of inspections that find little except customers for garage men. Hijackers And Thedr Weapons The Chicago Tribune Japanese hijackers use Samurai swords. Next thing we know, Indians will be hijacking planes with tomahawks, Bushmen with stone axes, and lawyers with subpenas and mandamuses. \ DSW 201306 STLCOPCB4059371 Earth Day From California to tte Nw York Island, his 1 b clattered with no-return bottles. dsprings and abandoned automobiles. From the waving wheat fields and the golden valleys there is a run-off of deadly pesticides and her bicides that infest plants, fish, birds and wild life. and find their way into the milk we drink and the meat we eat The ribbons of highway threaten to merge into a gigantic concrete raceway, and the endless sky too often dis appears in a brown pall. From the depleted redwood forests to the oil-covered Gulf stream waters, this land is sacrificing its most predoua resources to the heedless march of technology. If we are to halt the plundering of our en vironment it is essential that we reconsider some traditional concepts. That is what today. Earth Day. is all about. On this day thousands of Americans are seeking to dramatize, through demonstration!, rallies, parades and teach-ins, the necessity of reversing the lemming-like march to suicide through environmental de struction. The magnificent technology which ts cau> ing the environmental crisis is doing so not because it is a failure but because it is a suc cess. Agricultural pesticides are an example. They are intended to exterminate pests that de stroy crops, and they do. But in the process some also kill other pests and predators which assure a balance in insect populations, and they drain into the streams and end up in our food supply. But does this mean environmental preserva tion can be attained only through the destruc tion of technology? That is both unacceptable and unnecessary. What is required, it seems to us. is a re-examination of technological prog ress in terms of all its consequences, not sim ply the immediate ones. To this end the true economic costs of technology must be identifed and properly assigned, and we ought to modify any legal bias that has the effect of giving the polluter a prior right Instead of requiring the victims of pollution to show that they have been harmed, we ought to require those who would use the air. the water and the land that their undertaking is consistent with environmental protection. This sort of approach is now being tried in Illinois, where that state's resourceful Attorney Gen eral, William J. Scott recently filed an injunc tion suit against a concern that proposes a de velopment next to a glacial-age bog in Lake County. Mr. Scott's suifdoes not seek to prove that the development would endanger the bog's natural water supply but rather asks the court to compel the developer to prove it would not The detergent problem, now centered on the phosphates they leave in rivers and lakes, il lustrates the importance of identifying all costs associated with technological improvements and assigning them to their appropriate place. The detergent industry argues that the solution lies in building treatment plants to take the phos phates out of the water. But scientists say that for every dollar a consumer spent for phos phates in the detergents he uses, he would spend $2.45 for the facilities to remove the phosphates from water. The solution then is either to outlaw phos phates or to let the product reflect its true cost--not alone the cost of production but also of dealing with it once it has been used. If the producers of phosphate detergents, no return bottles and similar products were re quired to include hidden social costs in prices, competing products that were cheaper and less harmful to the environment might soon ap pear on the market Are we willing to make environmental pres ervation as important an element of the econ omy as technological progress? Upon the an swer to that question may depend whether Earth Day is the clanging of an alarm bell or the tolling of a death knelL Awaiting The Agnew Education Plan Vice President Agnew's recent speech at has said all there is to be said whets-ti^-found- Des Moines on college admission policies fol ly declares that compensatory education has no lowed his usual multipurpose pattern. It en place whatever In the colleges. Many colleges abled him to denounce radicals and intellec have been engaging in remedial work for years, tuals. to express genteel alarm at the state of and we expect they will go on doing so. It is things on today's campus, to come out for the quite possible to recognize a responsibility to "natural aristocracy" of talent, and to give the the culturally deprived without abandoning back of his hand to black militants--all this in academic standards. the course of tilting at the windmills of open A college an. for example, admit a limited admissions and racial quotas in our colleges. number of promising students who may nov Down on the farm they used to say that even quite meet formal requirements, and try by ex a blind hog will pick up an acorn or two, and tra teaching effort to bring them up to standard we take pleasure in agreeing with Mr. Agnew within the first year or two. That could be done, that neither the abandonment of academic re and is being done, without impairing the qual quirements for college admission nor the ac ity of education available to others: the extent ceptance of rigid racial quotas is desirable. of It would vary from college to college. The Furthermore, we agree with Mr. Agnew that purpaee would be, not to cultivate an aris compensatory education at public expense must tocracy of talent, but to realize the full poten be developed for some students of deprived tials of democracy. background in order to make sure that all who Such extra effort is especially called for dur can benefit from higher education shall have ing the pasted when Mr. Agnew's proposed new access to it. The Vice President speaks of system of coaptematorv oration at lower "jw romniiiirty college* aad~spcll2 prtpftXi*- "Tfitei la Wng poft together; it might be a tory schools, to insure to the late-blooming, tbe ratter lengthy parted. Meanwhile we await with ucderprepared and the underachieving student internet the speech in which the Vice Presi every educational opportunity." dent offers s specflc program, and reveals his Yet somehow we cannot feel that Mr. Agnew plan for financing It. Candidate CarsvceU Judge G. Harrold Carswell has found a more suitable public role for himself as candidate for the Senate than as candidate for the Su preme Court, a post for which he was recently rejected. He has resigned from the Fifth Cir cuit Court of Appeals to announce himself as a Republican seeker of the office to be va cated by Senator Holland, a Democrat. Judga Carswell says the GOP "offers Floridians the best channel of providing the conservative gov ernment in which our citizens believe." The Judge wu turned down for tbe Supreme Court partly because of an uninspired judicial record and partly because of obstructionism or at least disregard of civil rights. But Senate candidate Carswell should be entirely free to pursue his conservative ideology, as Judge .. ... --. ..4 ti. norma* racial in* ices Is aot just will but money, the two often being linked in tax decisions. Recently Mis sourians concluded that their state did not need 60 millions or so moe dollars s year in income taxes, though Missouri's ranking in most public services Is low indeed. Tbe argument for state power or sovereignty or rights collspees on that kind of decision- Story Of A Sinecure The Supreme Court has finally left the five members of the Subversive Activities Control Board sitting In their almost vacant offices, with nothing to do but collect their 136,000 pay checks. Tbe SACB has become tbe ultimate sinecure. It came about this way: The board was cre ated in 1950 to register alleged Communist or- Stale Of The Earth W&LUl X A Call For Ecological Law And Orde If Nature Is Not Conserved, Famine And Sickness Are Likely David M. Gates In Nation*! Gardener (The author is director of Show's Gerdau) It is often difficult for those who live in synthetic environments to understand or to believe that their comfortable little world wiU collapee if tbe integrity of natural history is violated too completely. We in our homes ud our offices, surrounded by synthetic carpets and clothed with mae-mede fi ber*. enclosed by warm walla, suepUed with flood uo nitered it. with water to wash with and to carry-our The Mirror wastes into tbe aewen, find it difficult to comprebeod that of all of this dreads looonbty on the green plant Man cooPublic Opinion tradlcts every ecological law known. Indeed be must cootravaot nature in order to support his industrial monster and to feed a hungry burgeoning world population. During millions of years of evolution, while life and atmosphere emerged together, inorganic sub stance was converted into organic forma which la turn would decay sad return to tbe toil as Inert metier. This cycle of construction and dawnietion was the keystone to success for the living commun ities. Mu comes along and eventually leans to contradict this basic law of cycling for his own If-iotarests. He bums fossil fuels to eosrgim hia machinery ami warm hia homaa, be mines the mateIs of the world to manufacture automobiles, airplanes, ma chines, and materials, be sinters dilutee to form glass, and turns chemicals into billions of plastics each year. The natural evolutionary events of the world created plants and animals; whet is so differ ent with mu creating his products of industry? Tbs critical difference it that vast quantities of mu's products are noadeetnictibie Items, lbasa products do not break down, do not decs not return to the sources from which they Furthermore, modem man has gone - way not to return his waste products to th of origin nor even to reuse uiern himself Deposit." "Noi^-Recumsble" bottle * o- greatest sins ever perpetrated by mankir does he think they are going? Did he earth of plastics, glass and rusting aut- Do we want our children and their childre a heritage of bottles end heets of plast uu'uua uic Liu .i ji .. This refusal to recycle along with in unc population explosion is accelerating mu' to an incredible degree. Are we blind to that the planet earth is a single, limited, a: tially closed ecosystem? Are we going to l bum it up end cover it up whue the nch g tbe poor get poorer, and the world suffoca own greed and blind folly? There is no d we can continue to exploit, to be comforts just slightly stek. to be a little more crowc little noisier each year, and to assume th thing will work out. I have several times heard people say: tion that puts a man on the moon can so its problems." Maybe it can and maybe i but unless we start to do something sot then be too late to stem the tide of populat cleanse tbe air and water, or to coassrv sources ud natural habitats. Ths world is a wonderful place and will to bs a magnificent planet only if we m destiny in a careful, rational fashion. Th ship of the world must be determined to < tbe people must understand the need for management and control. Here are son things we must learn to do. We will not at them easily or quickly, but we can sec our ultimate accomplishment of these goals: 1. Population control--eventually the to population must be limited. Only by sta: can we hope to achieve a balanced popuia in a few decades. 2. Pollution abasement--for good heali avoid undesirable climate rh.no* we mu DSW 201307 STLCOPCB4059372