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Thursday, February 8, 1973
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
Phase 3 Buck-Passing
Phase 3 of President Nixon's economic program, which calls for voluntary restraint on wage and price increases, promises to be only slightly more effective than Phase 2. Phase 2 wasn't effective at all.
The goal of Phase 2 was to cut the inflation rate from 4 per cent in mid-1971 to 2.3 per cent by early 1973. For part of that time, from December 1971 to February 1972, the annual rate of increase in consumer prices was 4.8 per cent. Between March and May, this rate decreased remarkably, and it leveled off at 2 per cent. Then some things happened because June and August climbed to 2.8 per cent and between September and November, the rate measured at 4.4 per cent, only a scant four-tenths of a percentage point below the previous year's high mark.
Obviously spurred by the tremendous success of Phase 2, Administration officials have decided that American business and education are ready to exercise voluntary restraint in wage and price increases.
As applied to Phase 3, voluntary restraint means staying within the limits of guidelines set by the federal government. By these guidelines, businessmen can raise prices to cover cost increases as long as they keep within permissible profit margins. Businesses can raise
profits 1.5 per cent without any limit on profit margins and they can raise profits on products when demand for these products exceeds supply.
Of interest to students is the fact that rent price controls have been lifted, though landlords are subject to restrictal restraint in rent price increases.
Workers can expect to receive wage increases, though not more than 5.5 per cent. An exception will be made for areas with localized shortages of labor or similar economic situations. Peter Bommer, a consultant for Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America, has already stated that his union will not settle for a 5.5 per cent increase.
The federal government is not leaving itself at the mercy of private interests. The Cost of Living Council has the power to order rollbacks of prices and wages if it judges an increase to be excessive, but the real purpose of Phase III appears to be to allow the government to use business and labor as scapegoats if the economic program is less than successful. Such pressure is designed to force cooperation from business and labor, while offering the Administration an opportunity to partially exonerate itself in the event that the program fails.
John P. Bailey
Federal Agents Nail Pushers With 'Untouchable' Techniques
WASHINGTON—In the nobels-barred style of Eilit Ness, Federal agents are chasing down narcotics pushers for such crimes as tax cheating, serving in court, filing dirty counters in their cafes.
Pursuit on hoods of such unorthodox charges dates back to the days of Al Capone, who was laid for tax dodging when police
Jack Anderson
could not make murder charges stick. And Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy carried the practice to an art when his anti-Maifa drive incited in major gangster with his full of illegally-shot wildflower.
From our conversations in the field with the agents themselves, here are some of their off-beat tactics:
—Armed with city health codes, the agents are checking out junky restaurants and bars for insects in ice cream machines, dirty contacts and scum on sinks. They then turn up the heat to keep the inspectors so drug haunts can be closed down for health reasons,
Now, agents of DALE-Drug Abuse Law Enforcement—are using the same techniques to nail beron street hustlers who are too slippery to be caught on narcotics counts.
—the agents are making cases against operators of dope hangouts that serve liquor to minors, operate after hours and water whiskey. The purpose is to shut down drug harm by follow-up action of local alcoholic gang communications and boards.
- Because city and state tax cases are often easier to make than federal cases, the agents have offer their talents to local
tax men. The agents have proved that hoodlums paid cash for big cars at a time when the hoods had little or no income, they had little or no income.
- In cities where marshals are lazy or overworked, the agents are serving bench warrants on criminals in jail escapes. Sometimes, the fugitives are under charges unrelated to drugs. But they draw their main income from drug trafficking and are fair games for the "marcs."
- These novel methods are showing results, but the agents in the field complain they are getting little or no co��ing. They must be Myles Ambrose. The agents are especially bitter because DALE was the braincratch of President Nixon himself, who installed Ambrose in the job and clearly has praised his successes.
- the agents also have investigated bail bond and parole violations by suspected drug hustlers, so that the pussons can even when the crimes involved are not directly related to heroin.
The agents tell they could get twice as much done If Amrose, his chiefs in the Justice Department or the White House itself would persuade local officials to give them more help.
"a letter from Ambrose or somebody else with some clout back there (in Washington) could DAELE agent told us, "A city booze inspector is set in his ways. He isn't going to help me shut down a bar but harms his mayor and he will cooperate 100 per cent."
Despite these complaints by Federal Narcotics, Tax and
Customs agents, and the local detectives who make up DALE, there have been solid accomplishments.
A confidential tally of DALE's results from last January to Dec. 2014 was that more than 100 pounds of heroin, much of it low grade, was seized or was bought evidence by undercover nen
Although heroin is DALE's focus, the agents have also collected 50 pounds of cocaine, 20 of hashish, 6,000 pounds of another amount of LSD, amphibianies and smoking opium.
DALE also claims 3,782 narcotics arrests, 449 convictions and the seizure of a warehouse of narcotics. These include $714,148 in cash, 671 pistols, nine hand grenades, 229 cars, an antitank gun, a cabin cruiser, six machine guns, an arm and 104 pounds of explosives.
A DALE spokesman conceded that no official guideline had been put out for agents or city officials, but Director Ambrose has visited 38 of DALE's 41 target cities, and in each case has urged local officials to cooperate with the methods, the spokesman said.
Copyright, 1972 by United Feature Syndicate. Im.
By STEVE BUSER
Kansan Staff Writer
Christmas in the Appalachians
Many of us have shared stories with others about our wonderful vacations during Christmas break. My story isn't so wonderful, exciting or entertaining as most students 'might be', but it is also not forgiven by me and my friends.
It didn't take place at Vale, Aspen or Mt. Snow but in an Appalachian territory of eastern Kentucky. I spent only eight days working there. If you read the rest
'For many miles trash heaps covered one side of the road; a sudsy, polluted creek bordered the other side, and land devastated from recent strip-mining operations completed the sordid landscape.'
you'll spend only a few minutes but the people who are the subject of this story are living there in conditions most of us would rather not think about.
I was working with the Dayton (Ohio) University Appalachia Club that has been helping families in an area near Sayville, Ky. It was three days after Christmas and we were getting ready one afternoon to deliver donated Christmas presents to children who attended the club's summer school program last year.
Just as a beautiful entrance is appropriate for a modern subdivision, the way to the homes of these destitute people of Appalachia fitted their dismal
With chains fastened securely on the back tires of a loaded down van, we headed off into the hills that led the way to the town square of one of the nation's five largest counties.
While the van struggled up and down the muddy roads, I started out the window to see where the road covered one side of the road; a sudsy, polluted creek bordered the other side, and land devastated from recent stripping operations completed the sordid
We passed many dilapidated homes that were covered with odd-shaped pieces of worn-out aluminum sidar, tucked under a metal column, cracked boards and other debris.
black smoke from coal stoves inside darkened the already dreary sky; car windows shattered; auto parts, broken tools, bottles, cans and paper littered the barren yards.
The wells, outhouses and coal stoves, which the people depended on, made me think we were in a period a hundred years ago. But the sight of a discarded auto hood or dismantled washing machine made it a reality.
We scrambled past the bumps and holes in the road and soon stopped at the Blantons. Five or six little kids ran toward us in a dash from their shack set back in a hollow a few thousand yards from the road, and crossed a 20-foot wiggle board over the creek and made their way up to the van.
We handed out the presents right away in response to their demands, and they opened them while leading us back to their home. After crossing a bridge we went across a river, and under the shack, supported by stones retrieved from the nearby creek.
Their gleaming faces were a warm welcome because I had felt out of place; my clothes were not hole-covered hand-me-downs as theirs were. Cultural shock was the sight. The slight of a layer on on their flesh distracted me from their smiles.
Nearing the entrance of their house, I began to experience the reality and meaning of poverty, about which I had previously only heard or read.
We entered the first room to greet Phyl (Phyllis) and Cal, the parents of the eight children. Phyl was stopped over a coal stove cooking dinner consisting of a few potatoes and a rusted pan, five onions and six vegetables from last year's garden.
This food and a bucket of cow's milk would somehow feed an already under-purified family of 10.
Cal told me his family recently had moved from another home because the well-went dry. The children were eager to give a new learner like me a tour of their new house, which they proudly exclaimed was much better than the other one. After the tour I was unable to imagine what could be worse.
Three of the girls slept on a normalized bed in a room smoked an old garage. The sheets were gray from smoke emitted by a nearby fireplace, burning blocks of coal. Potato sacks were strewn over their bed to add extra warmth to that provided by the fireplace and distant stove.
While the boys played with their new football outside, the little girls pulled me in another room to see their six-month-old sister. This room was where Cal and Phyl slept and was a storeroom for coal as well.
The infant was clothed in soiled raga, Broken playkith Iggs surrounded her. Cal and Piyi smiled as they watched their mother kill him. The mass presents they had ever received.
The oldest boy soon led me to the rear of the house. He pointed to me opossum sliding across a fence. Ever since he quit school on the first day of his freshman year, he trapped and sold it.
With no chances for a better life in
the content world, she and some
sometimes care, as his bishop father.
Like most others in the area, he will not be able to learn some of the mistakes in life during the teen years when there is time for experimentation. Instead he is forced uncontrollably into an adult world with its responsibilities while most others in the country are busy with homework or dating.
Whenever the van arrived the Blantons celebrated as if it were a holiday. They seemed to experience vicariously the happiness that exists outside the hollow in which they lived. They enjoyed imaginative dresses and clothes and clean skin and be able to travel to places other than Appalachia.
They pleaded with us not to leave, but we had more presents to deliver. The children anticipated the start of summer arts and crafts from the club members.
Before leaving we left them a box of malted milk balls; although they knew it was candy it was something they had never eaten before.
We stopped next at the LeMasters. The whole family was already outside in the front yard preparing to slaughter a hog that would feed them for the rest of the season. The boys and their father were whitening and sharpening their knives while the girls watched with a fearful curiosity.
The two smaller boys, Beecher and Blueboy, opened their presents with great joy. These families have no money for gifts on any occasion and the children accepted this as a fact of life. The men were preparing to slit the throat of the big hog, consequently, the girls in our group felt it was time to leave.
It was quite the opposite. The oldest daughter, 17, was in charge of her six little brothers and sisters when we arrived. It seemed that this was the case
most every day, because neither her father nor mother was greatly concerned with the family.
One of her sisters was a 14 year old who was paralyzed and could not speak. She was positioned in a chair with her knees touching her chin as she watched the commaction of little ones opening their presents inside the house.
Severe mental retardation is prevalent in Appalachia because related families often intermary. With little access to birth control devices, families are usually large and often include children with lower mentality or retardation.
The dirty facts and thin bodies of the Gamble children resembled those of the Blanton children and most others who lived in devastated areas of Appalachia. These children played a play some of the games they received as presents, and then headed for home.
While visiting a day care center the previous day, I worked with three retarded children all from the same family. The moderator of the center said that there was one more child of the same family at home who was unable to attend.
Although our house was equipped with a well, coal stove and loocth, it was luxurious compared to what we had seen that day. On our way home we stopped by to see the Pennington who lived a mile away.
The smell of burning coal and the odor from nearby farm animals made it almost unbareable inside. Mr. Pennington informed us that his oldest son was living nearby in what we later found out to be a reconstructed chicken coop.
At the close of the day I was beset by feelings of confusion, sorrow, pity and
'Nearing the entrance of their house, I began to experience the reality and meaning of poverty, about which I had previously only heard or read.'
amazement. It all seemed so unfair.
I ask her question about you or you are asking now. Why? Nothing could justify what I had witnessed that afternoon.
As we sit in our warm homes tonight after eating their third meal of the day, I hope that we make an effort somehow to remember those in Appalachia and in other parts of the world who are not so lucky as we are.
Besides merely remembering them, I hope that we do something to help them.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Safe Papers, Dangerous Streets
The hours pass, and indeed a sensational arrest is made, but not of the two men who all but murdered the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. They are as safe as birds, but
WASHINGTON - A U.S. Sense is robbed and gunned down in front of his house. Such an attack against a member of Congress is a federal offense, and therefore within the jurisdiction of the FBI. A shocked and worried capital officer rushed into the FBI hawkshaws to make a quick, sensational arrest and throw these crooks in the slam.
To the Editor
A recent letter to the Kananan expressed concern that if the controversial Pearson Integrated School was given permanent status, it would set a dangerous precedent. Jim Swindle's letter contended that he had allowed to substitute for the freshman-sophomore humanities, English and Western Civilization requirements, the following year. "Why shouldn't every group of like-minded professors have its own requirement-filling program and all. He concluded that such a
Rebuttal
The Kansan should print complete results of every track meet, indeed every variety sports day. "I will day a day" is not accurate journalism
To the Editor:
After last Saturday's track meet with the University of Minnesota, the KU's did rather poorly. I was approached by a Kanran analyst. His line of questioning centered on reasons for KU's bad performance.
Mark Lutz Rochester, Minn., Junior
columnist Jack Anderson's senior assistant, Lesh Whiten, is arrested while covering a story, handcuffed and taken to jail.
I wandered that he was last week, when at Oklahoma City the KU team had its best meet so far the day before. The effort showed in up print.
Readers Respond
Track Reports Spotty
Of late the FBI has also shown a prudent interest in dirty movies and, according to Whiten, in finding out whether or not a certain famous football player did get a woman pregnant. Some eight or more of them were able, away from other people's sex lives long enough to arrest Whiten. They arrested him as he was helping an Indian leader to carry several cartons of this stolen
material. The Indian was in a hurry. Why? He had an appointment with an FBI agent.
The Indian was going to return the portion of the documents he had in his possession. He'd done the same thing before. He even sent a letter to them, Hytter—written on the cartons, but as Whiten tells the story, when they got down to the jail and they'd mug-shot him, he asked them to take a picture of kittens as evidence of their intent.
state of affairs would result in a "fragmentation of the college."
I submit that the question has already been answered: One and only one group of "like-minded individuals require-fillment, program and is trying to exclude all other points of view. The present situation is worse than any other possible scenario with a virtual monopoly on approaches to teaching. The majority of current faculty refuse to allow a different level of education to be introduced.
Ubelievable as it may seem, in this age of equality, our state university's arts college is a university that provides realism. The ideological foundation of this inflexibility is even more startling. In the name of academic freedom the Pearson program is being condemned as 'antibiotical' to the aims of our work: an educational program, for example.
During last week's College Assembly meeting, Prof. Donald Marquis of the Philosophy Department proposed to set up a watchdog committee for the Philosophy Department, according to the philosophy of John Stuart Mill. I can well imagine that the venerable old
But the first precept of Western Civilization is to keep an open mind and to allow free interaction of all points of view. Yet, somehow, objectivism is derived from a certain apparent point of view. The very teachers of relativism turn out to be adamant absolutists.
ibertarian would turn over in his grave if he heard his name being scribbled on his roshlp. PIHP offers students a different, recognized university.
It is now fighting for its life because it does not conform to established educational philosophy. Swindier stated that students are better with rhetoric, indoctrinated students and false enthusiasm for the program. I am presently enrolled in the program, and I can testify that mine, as well as the over-30 students in our students enthusiasm is genuine.
There are many courses with selective admissions at KU, which are not as popular as PHP, and I think it is an innate student judgment. It has the popularity of the program to elitism. I must say that my respect for the program has increased during this embarrassing "trial" that the teacher had given me. The have remained courteous and diplomatic in the face of this unwarranted inquisition.
The program's approval will not destroy the intellectual environment of students I am convinced that a vote of confidence for PHIF will be the beginning of an honest pluralism debate in the new. The program has already received much favorable reaction, and its continued existence can only enhance the boy's academic reputation.
Matthew Senior Lawrence Junior
"This camera doesn't take pictures of tops of boxes," they told Whitten, who rather wisely begged that she would. "Decease will never be again."
Even if Whitten were guilty of what they've trumped up against him, he'd have committed no crime. These papers have no monetary value. Their only value is that he has possibly illegal conduct by the government officials who caused Whiten to be arrested.
The case is unlike any of the other freedom of the press cases that have caused so much indignity in the world. The Pentagon Papers case, the government alleged, albeit untruthfully, that their publication might jeopardize national defense. This has nothing to do with national policy.
In the case of Earl Caldwell of the New York Times, the government claimed it had a right to force him to reveal his confidential news sources and testify about the possible commission of a federal grand jury. The Supreme Court ruled against Caldwell.
Whitten, whose only suspected crime up to this point may have been translating Baudelaire into English, was busted for receiving stolen property. He was sent from the Bureau of Indian Affairs building by a small army of infuriated red men. After 200 years of betrayal they'd captured the government office which authorized their woes and had made off with evidence of their betrayal. It was a noble theft.
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Whitten, who is one of the most esteemed people in the news business and politics, is among the dawn hither and you across the country clande-
tinely meeting with Indians to examine these documents. A number were used as the foundation for Jack Anderson columns, demonstrating yet again how the white man can tie the red man.
one of the columns put the FBI in a bad light and may have had something to do with what they did to Whiten. They had other reasons to get him. He and Anderson had found out about their wasting time on trying to uncover country's dignity by setting up hunting blinds to photograph the sex lives of liberal-inclining Hollywood stars.
The only other explanation that offers itself is that Whiten was arrested to frighten others out of passing information over to Jack Anderson. The Eagleton goof of last summer aside, Anderson and his staff have had an astonishing long run of exposing every
side of crookedness and mendacity at all the higher levels of government.
You may say an arrest isn't that big a thing, but it's a shaking and shocking experience. Merely being arrested is punishment, and even if you beat it you still lose because of the thousands of dollars in legal fees and hours of lost time the costume costs you.
It didn't cost L. Pattray Gray and his transmpse a thing. It's safe and it's fun busting a wheel. He put the cuffs on him isn't like tracking down and catching guys who put two bullets in John Stenis. That takes a little movie; in the meanwhile, he's wearing dangerous and what you read in the papers safer and safer, you know why.
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