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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 intellec* cpress genteel alarm at the state of today's campus, to come out for the nstocracy" 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 !r the abandonment of academic re* ? for college admission nor the acif 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 it from higher education shall have It. The Vice President speaks of icucitv colleges and special prepara'ls, to insure to the late-blooming, the ared and the underachieving student cational opportunity." ehow we cannot feel that Mr. Agnew has said all there ia to be said when-flWound- 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 without abandoning academic standards. A college can, for example, admit a limited number of promising students who may nol quite meet formal requirements, and try by e^- tra teaching effort to bring them 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 ooBoge to college. The purpose would be, not to cultivate an aris tocracy of talent, but to realise the lull poten tials of democracy. ' Such extra effort is especially called for dur ing the period when Mr. Agnew1! proposed new syitem of boap^aatarj: 4ncsttra at lower Whitts Is fcethg fiat together; It might be a rather lengthy period. Metawhile we await with interest the speech in which the Vice Presi dent offers s specfic program, and reveals his plan for financing it date Carswell . Harrold Carswell has found a more ublic role for himself as candidate nate 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 proriding the conservative govn which our citizens believe." ige was turned down for the Supreme tly because of an uninspired judicial j partly because of obstructionism or iisregard of civil rights. But Senate Carswell should be entirely free to s conservative ideology, as Judge A*as not, and he can oppose racial in* without fear of being overruled. No courts out there watching him; no <nal 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 ie Housing Authority whch is runnng ing deficit of about $50,000 a month, oritv'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 sugisiial legislative sessions to keep i public business, a reduction In size ttures to make them more effective, affs for legislators and committees to iem to know whereof they speak, and d on. ch nearly anyone might agree. But the fie power of the states is the public ie 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 is tax decisions. Recently Mis sourians concluded that their state did not need 60 millions or oo mof* 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 bu finally left the five members of the Subversive Activities Control Board sitting in their almost vacant offices, with nothing to do but collect then *36.000 pay checks. The SACB has become the ultimate sinecure. It came about this way: The board was ere- 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 BtMmlled 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 bolding the registration process a violation of the Fifth Amendment--the deci sion being that 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 the Court of Appeals in Wash ington on the 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 ia worthless once again, despite Nison 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 the right wing, who had been de moted and reprimanded by Che 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 t, 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. y 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 Shasc't Csrdtn) It is often difficult for those who live in synthetic environments to understand or to believefoat Ihetr comfortable little world will collapse tf the Intaptty of natural history is violated top compkpriy. We in our homes end our offices, earrounds! by synthetic carpets and clothed with man-made fi bers, enclosed by warn walk, satetod-wtth hod - ~ afib fittertid for. vdth watm to wash with sm to terry low The Mirror wastes hits the sewn, flhd tt difficult to compwtend that of all of this depends in--cebty on the green plant Man eonPublic Opinion tradiets every ecological law known. Indeed be moat eont r a v a n e nature in order to support his industrial monster and to feed a hungry burgeoning world population. During millions of yean 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 bring commun ities. Man comes along and eventually leans to contradict this basic law of cycling for his own self-interests. He burns fossil fuels to energize bis machinery end warm his homes, be mines the 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 the 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 naodestiuotible items, these `You've Got The Ball. Buster! What Are You Going To Do With It?* products do not break down, do not decay, and do not return to the sources from which they came. Furthermore, modern man has gone out of bis . way sot to return bis waste products to their points of origin nor oven to rouse them himself. The "No Deposit," `Non--Returnable" bottle is one of the greatest sins ever paipetretad by mankind. Where does he think they are goipg? Did he Inherit an. earth cf fiastica. Mam and nattng antomeUlee? Do we went oor cMMien aai their chtidreo to have a pectmga of bnttlas eadmwata of plastic atsfcwn ' the tevdachpa and tft'beaches*of th^Wdrtd ?' This reftsal to recycle akkg with an uncontrolled population Is accdcrating man's demise to an tocreflhk degrot. Are we Mind to the fact that t planet earth is a single, Booted, and essen tially dosed ecosystem? Are we going to live tt op, bum tt up and cover it up while foe rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the world suffocates by its own greed and Mind folly? There is no doubt that we can continue to exploit, to be comfortable, to be just slightly siek, 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 foe moon can solve all of its problems." Maybe it can and maybe it cannot, but unless we start to do something soon tt will then be too late to stem the tide of population, or to cleanse the air and water, or to conserve the re sources and natural habitats. The world is a wonderful place and will continue to be a magnificent planet only if we manage its destiny in a easeful, rational fashion. The leader ship of the world must be determined to do so and the people must understand foe need for sensible management and control. Here are some 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 foe 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 dimate 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 foe 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 manner and design with nature rather than against the communities of organisms which we have inherited. Man must realise 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, dean 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 per mile of 12.02 cents. After that owners let the re The average cost of running an automobile is now almost 12 cents a 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 owner, 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 ere pairs slide and the tenth year cost goes down to 10.82 cents. There is where the new federal safety regulations should bear down. Real inspections for mechanical safety will raise the price of maintenance, or speed up the urge to trade for a new car, but foe 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 gerage men. abundant tables of figures to back the Govern ment's figure. _ Hijackers And Their Weapons The fooler for foe public is fast auto depreciation The Chicago Tribune in the early years, a major item in a total cost dur Japanese hijackers use Samurai swords. Next ing the first year of 14.21 cents per mile. In old age thing we know. Indians will be hijacking planes this is replaced by repair and maintenance Wij*, with tomahawks, Bushmen with stone axes, and peaking in the seventh year, with an over-all.ctt _ .lawyers with subpenas and mandamuses. DSW 201306 STLCOPCB4052655 Earth Day From CalifonU to tho Sow York lilifid. ..this ldb clattered with no-return bottles. < mdipriagt end abandoned automobiles. From the waring wheat fields and the golden valleys there is a runoff 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 higbwty threaten to merge into a gigantic concrete raceway, and the endless sky too often dis appears in a brown pail. From the depleted redwood forests to the oil-covered Gulf stream waters, this land is sacrificing its most precious 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 coacepts. That is what today. Earth Day, is all about. On this day thousands of Americans are seeking to dramatize, through demonstrations, rallies, parades and teach-ins, the necessity of reversing the lemming-like march to suicide through environmental de struction. The magnificent technology which Is caus 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 seemj 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 identtfed 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 suirdoes 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 riven 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 coo.'wner spent for phos phates in the detergents he uses, he would spend S2.45 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 costa 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 thers is to bs said wheo-4l&f6und- 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 tad 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 can. for example, admit a limited admissions and racial quotas in our colleges. number of promising students who may noi 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 demooacy. 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 parted when Mr. Agmw't proposed new access to It. The Vice President speaks of system ef eonpntary dneadoa at ow*r "mere omckbunity college* and^pedirprfp6i-~ "Hwda t hetng po together; it might be a tory schools, to insure to the late-blooming, the ratbv lengthy petted. Meanwhile we await with underprepared and the underachieving student intarwt the speech In which the Vice Presi every educational opportunity." dent offers a ipeefle program, sod reveals his Yet somehow we cannot feel that Mr. Agnew plan for it Candidate Carswell Judge G. Karrold 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. Judge Carswell says the GOP "offers Floridians the best channel of providing the conservative gov ernment in which our citizens believe." The Judge was turned down for the Supreme Court partly because of an uninspired judidal 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 "............... -- -* "* * * nKfWM* racial in IwliM jiu* will but nncjr, th* two ottra Mag linkad la tax dtdHonj. Recently HI* Muriaae concluded that their etate did not need to mlllloee or eo bm*o dollar, a year in lncoma tun, though Wanurl'a ranking In moat public aendeea la low lndeod. The argument for tate power or aonreigaty or rlghta collapoea on that Uni eg dectaicn. Story Of A Sinecure The Supreme Court hea finally left the five memben of the Subeenivn Activitiel Control Board Uttlng in their almoat vacant offices, with nothing to do but collect their SM.OOO pay checka. The &ACB baa become the ultimate sinecure. It came about this wsy; The board was cre ated in 1990 to register alleged Communist or- State Of The Earth A Call For Ecological Law And Orde If Nature Is Not Conserved, Famine And Sickness Are Likely David M. Gate* In National Gardener IThe author u director of Shan't Garden/ It U often difficult for thoas who live to synthetic environment! to understand or to believe that their comfortable little world will collapse if the integrity of natural history is violatad too completely. We in our homes aad our offices, surrounded by synthetic carpets end clothed with man-made fi bers, enclosed by warm wells, suapUed with load aoo nitered mr, wta water to wash with and to carry our The Mirror wastes into the sewers, find it difficult to completed that of ail of this depend! laaorabty on the green plant Man cooPublie Opinion tradlcta every ecological law known. Indeed he mot coo t r a v e o e nature in order to support his industrial monster and to feed e hungry burgeoning world population. During millions of years of evolution, while life and atmosphere emerged together, inorganic suth stance was converted into organic forms which in turn would decay and return to tbs toil u inert matter. This cycle of construction and dMtraetian was the keystone to success for the living commun ities. Men comes shag end eventually learns to contradict this basic law of cycling for his own self-interests. He burns fossil fuels to energize his machinery and warm his homes, bs mines tbs metali of the world to manufacture automotes, airplanes, ma chines, sad materials, he sinters silicates to form glass, aad turns chemicals into billions of plastics each year. The natural evolutionary events of the world created plants and animals; what Is so differ ent with man creating his products of industry? The critical difference is that vast quantities of man's products are laaatoteTwtibto items. Thaos products do not break down, do not decs not return to the sources from which they Furthermore, modern man has gone ' way not to return his waste products to of origin nor even to reuse cnem himself Deposit," "Non--Returnable'' bottle is o greatest sins ever perpetrated by manki.- does he think they are going? Did he earth of plastics. glass and rusong aur Dows want our children and their childre a heritage of bottles and -beets of plast ale.'--a mc .pc tiw .1 -v...';c '* v .. This refusal to recycle along with in um population explosion is accelerating man' to an incredible degree. Are we blind to that the planet earth is a smtfe. limited, a; dally closed ecosystem? Are we going to i bum it up and cover it up whue the rich g the 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 sick, to be a little more crowt tittle noisier each year, and to assume th thing will work out. I have several times heard people say: doe 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 than be too late to stem the tide of populat cleanse the air and water, or to couserv sources and nature) habitats. The world is a wonderful place and will to be a magnificent planet only if we m destiny in a careful, rational fashion. Th ship of the world must be determined to i Che people oust understand the need for management and control. Here are eon things we must learn to do. We will not n them easily or quickly, but we can set our ultimate accomplishment of these goals: 1. Population control-^ventually the to population must be limited. Only by staj can we hope to achieve a balanced popuis in a few decades. 1. Pollution abatement--for good heslt .avoid.undesirable.dim*t*.rhn--vvve mu DSW 201307 STLCOPCB4052656