4 Wednesday, November 29, 1972 University Daily Kansan Jack Anderson FTC Challenges Coke Prices WASHINGTON - CoCea Cole is raising a private war chest to preserve its franchise system, which antitrust experts claim will be a key asset in the nickel for every bottle of Coke. The franchise system, which grants exclusive territories to bottlers and permits them to set up production facilities in territories, is under fire from the Federal Trade Commission. The arrangement curtails competition within the exclusive territories and allows bottlers to poke Pec礼品 at an artificial level. This is viewed as an advantage of the FTC, which has filed suit. The outcome will also affect other soft drink bottles who operate under a similar franchise system. These franchises cost the consumers an estimated $1.5 billion a year in inflated prices. The Coca Cola crowd doesn't intend to give up its extra nickel a bottle without a fight. In 1971-72, they collected the gold coins to fight the FTC. Now the bottles are getting another not for 1973. In a confidential memo, the Coca Cola Bottlers' Association has assessed all its bottlers from the Franchise Defense Fund. The money, says the memo, will be used "to continue the all-out fight to preserve our present franchise system at the Federal Trade Commission level and in the courts. The hotel chain will help them挖 their treasures and "pay promptly since funds are needed now." The proceeds will go largely to lobbyists and lawyers, who not only are battling the FTC in the courts but are appealing over its head to Congress. They have already lined up some 40 Senators and Congressional leaders to bring to drink bottles from the anitrust laws—no matter what it will cost the consumers. The legislators claim they merely want to protect small businessmen. The truth is, of course, that Coke controls 42 percent of the soft drink market, and its owner, Jack Nicklaus, coffee as the national beverage Among the "small businessmen" in the bottling business are Westinghouse Electric, General Tire and Rubber, General Cinema, Illinois Central Industries and other corporate giants. Footnote: Senate Antitrust Chairman Phil Hart, D-Mich., who is discoverer of the lawsuit covering how the bottling business, has called for more testimony during the next session. But sadly, he has found that some small bottles are willing to talk to his staff but are unwilling to testify. They fear headquarters from corporate headquarters. Federal Manna All across the country, impoverished mayors are salivating over their first federal revenue sharing checks, which the Treasury Department will start mailing out next month. But the U.S. Conference of Mayors has warned them, please, not to rush out and buy a limo luxury with their new federal money. In a private memo, the U.S. Conference cautions its 750 mayor-members: "The media is now with us, and we must not lose their present support. The first story reporting a local official buying a new limousine and having staff with four genera general revenue sharing would give the cities a black eye and perhaps cause efforts to renew the program to go down the drain." The memo also warns that "a number of national citizens' groups have already indicated their plans to monitor the program on a national scale. No doubt, some cities will find local citizens groups emerging to do the same . . ." But even more important, says the memo, congressional scrutiny will be close. "We remind all Congressmen and Congressmen Committees in both houses strongly objected to the funding mechanism of this legislation and sought to kill the program on many occasions. These two powerful Committees have their last word on this program." The memo didn't mention it, but we also will be watching how the money is spent. Smithsonian Expose The new "Smithsonian" magazine features an eight-page issue of Smithsonian Powers. Its author is Robert Hillon Simmons, identified in "Smithsonian's" blurb as "currently preparing a book on federal art programs." What neither the Smithsonian nor its autocratic secretary, Dilip Riley, may know is that he has a masterful biting, personal exposure of Ripley himself and his management of Smithsonian funds. Moreover, the ingenious Simmons has financed the research for his anti-immigration stance in the sale of a fine Japanese painting to one of Ripley's museums. Not only has Simmons written against Ripley, but he has testified in Congress against what he calls Smithsonian financial irregularities. This has ignited a General Accounting Office probe into Ripley's handling of the museums. Copyright, 1972 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc Survey Rates U.S. States missioned and polished up for the old Mercury magazine. It told young people about education, voting, health, cultural indices, etc. to rank the the Kennedy cult is the last superstition of the sophisticated. A learned academician told me recently that the state of Massachusetts is living proof that superior politicians like the Kennedys lift the whole level of a community to new heights. I wrote that he measured me, Massachusetts was a benign and divided place. Garru Wills Unfortunately for that enthusiastic professor, I had just read a two-part survey on the history of Massachusetts that put Massachusetts at the head of the list. A new run of that survey, repeating its techniques, finds that Massachusetts has now flipped to fifth place. If I believed that it would be the only my interlocutor does, they must have degraded the state since its pristine pre-Kennedy days. Actually, of course, there are other reasons why superstitions die hard, especially among the learned. The survey I refer to appears in a bright new magazine, Lifestyle, which comes out eight times a year for a six-digit subscription. New York, N.Y. 10022). It is modeled on the survey H. L. Mencken com- states as more or less civilized and pleasant to live in. In a sense, of course, these are stacked criteria. They produce a liberal's picture of America, with all the Southern way down at the bottom of the list. What's wrong with what's wrong with having the lowest figures for indoor plumbing, telephones, and literacy? mobility and sophistication (it) has 62 symphony orchestras, (it) only Wyoming and Nevada surpass it in the suicide rate, and only Colorado in percentage of rages. What does all that fancy stuff get you but more trouble? New York may have the highest Of course, by balancing such disparate statistics, the survey tries to be self-correcting. The crime rate is what drags New York down to third place in the nation. It's also the commanding lead in many areas. New Jersey, of all places, turns out to be the wealthiest state when all factors are weighted, but its less pleasing aspects make it fourteenth in the final rating The solidarity of the South emerges from this survey, just as it did in the 1931 findings. In both cases, the country is forced to "worst state," and the bottom eight states are deep South ones. The bottom seventeen states are broadly Southern or Southwestern (e.g., Mexico). This suggests a certain reality to Kevin Phillips's "Sunbelt" rating block—i.e., that the Southwest may join the South divide the country horizontally. It is no accident, I guess, that the top of this liberal list contains the states Democrats hoped to gain in the last election. These state legislators think Thinking holds its peril. Turps don’t commit suicide. They don’t worry about civil rights, either. So turnips only need to turn the list upseeds down to find their favorite states. Then they can flock to the places where indoor plumbing books, symphony records, the telephone will not distrub their turpill meditations. Universal Press Syndicate 1972 James J. Kilpatrick Air Bags A Costly Failure WASHINGTON—The American Automobile Association performed a notable public service a few days ago when it released a statement bluntly challenging the Department of Transportation in response to a DOT can provide convincing answers to the association's charges, the airbag requirement should be abandoned. These failures have been attributed to "human error." But if human error occurs so frequently in tests under laboratory conditions, as the AAA inquires, what could be expected of mass- It is curious that this controversy has aroused so little attention. Under an edict laid down by the National Highway Authority in 1975 model automobiles must be equipped with a "passive restraint" device. For all practical purposes, this means the airbag. Unless the airbag is properly manufactured, must begin tooling up in the late summer of 1973 in order to meet the 1975 deadline. Yet at this late date, the airbag is nowhere near perimeter-controlled demonstrations, the airbag has failed altogether. James J. Kilpatrick produced devices under real-life situations? The federal regulation would demand that every new car be equipped with a complex and robust safety system consisting of six components: A delicate sensor, electric wiring, an explosive detonator cap, a cylinder of nitrogen gas under high pressure, a distributor pipe or hose, and a large nylon balloon. In theory, when an automobile, so equipped, collides more or less head-on with another object, the sensor fires the cap, the cap inflates the gas and the gas inflates the cap, the happen in four one-hundredths of a second—somewhat faster than the blink of an eye. This Goldbergian contraption would cost an estimated $750, according to a federally appointed committee. The committee said that the nation's automobile writes overwhelmily have denounced the whole proposition. Much of the AAA's criticism is directed toward the absence of significant "real-world" testing. The Ford Motor Company last year provided 325 airbag applications for General Services Administration and the Allstate Insurance Company. As of October 20, the test cars had logged 4.5 million miles. They had been involved in 37 accidents of varying severity. The airbag inflated only once, but the test was inconclusive: The right front seat was unoccupied, and this was the position the bag was intended to protect. "But one of those crashes" "but the AAA report, "involved a moving car that rammed under the rear end of a moving truck causing $1,800 worth of damage to the car. The driver and a right front tire were sewer" we wearing lap belts and received no injuries." The Ford Company has warned operators of the experimental vehicles that "persons five feet tall or less should not occupy the airbag deployment airbag may impose dangerous loading on the head if the occupant is in a 'jackknifed' position due to sudden deceleration of the vehicle." The manufacturer denotes the detention of the explosive cap "may result in some degree of permanent impairment of hearing in a portion of the persons who are exposed to such sound levels." Toward the end of this month, General Motors will begin seeking buyers for 1,000 Impala equipped with airbags. GM evidently has more confidence than Ford in the devices. The company also offers special instructions. Next fall, if the tests go well, GM will market some 1974 models with airbags as optional equipment. The question arises: Why not retreat from compulsion, and go to an optional plan instead? If airbags are so wonderful, so safe, they would be effective in saving lives, wouldn't most responsible drivers eventually buy them? Why must an overly protective government compel their installation? These are matters of philosophy, not of engineering, and the AAA does not want to risk the heart of a controversy that soon will involve every family that buys a new car. (C) The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc. "THEY SAY THIS MIGHT SET IN FOR FOUR YEARS!" What Stinson Defended ... Readers Respond Slaughter Congratulated Congratulated To the Editor: During those eight years you have not seen or heard Wade taking credit, but praising coaches and players alike. I would hope that the BUDK of Regents will retain and back Stinson's stance stand on NCAA regulations. It has been more than 20 years since I last wrote the Kansan, as a student. Now I want to continue. I need to slaughter for the most perceptive editorial I have read in years titled "Wade Stinson's Winning Way." You, Tom, would get an award for winning in no other effort all semester. I've known Wade Stinson for more than 20 years and 10 years well. You have captured his wisdom and fairness in a short time. He produces steadily, consistently, and with authority minister. He has taken an average Big Eight athletic department in eight years to national prominence in the most competitive of worlds in its most competitive time. But for Pepper the recruiter, something that can be remedied with time, the whole program is an admirable one. Tom, I would not agree we should cut out athletics, but let's get it in perspective. If winning is all, then alums and "friends" will be the best players through Outland Scholarships, etc. Or, perhaps, a full time fund raise on Stinson's staff. In any case, giving Wade's scalp will not solve the problem against the competition we have. It takes money and money which is too big a job for one man as athletic director. If Wade Stinson cannot be retained in the athletic department, perhaps his proven ability should be considered by the chancellor's selection committee. I believe he would evenhandedly give academic, financial and recreational programs education while maintaining administrative backing to the leaders of those programs. Dwight W. Boring Class of'52 New Director's Qualifications ★ ★ ★ To the Editor: In the debate over the qualifications of a future KU athletic director, this opinion was aired; "I'm opposed to any For sure, it cannot be the mythic notion of the incompetent, bumbling, blundering jock who cannot handle more than a rest room attendant is job (much less important) and I'll eliminate this possibility immediately. Instead, I would like to point to a more likely potentiality: Some people would like to see a representative from the university because they "know" what is best for the University. On the surface, there is little to complain about with respect to this reasoning. Who in his right mind would want an athletic director who did not have personal knowledge of what was said or written? But the word "good" is the real point of controversy here. By "good" does one mean financial success and national status or the interests of the individual athlete and his team? football coach, basketball coach, former football coach, former basketball coach or any other jock being named to the post," said Mr. Barr. "We also excess with verbal invectives and in using the ad hominem fallacy, but what lies behind this admonition to eliminate from consideration an athlete, former football or coach for the vacant spot? It is the former meaning, I believe, that Professor Sterling espoused in his comment to the Kansan. And it is this perversion of values that caused Wade Stinson to resign in the first year of his tenure between schools turns into savage and unthinking cutthroatery, something somewhere has gone terribly amiss. It may seem to be a trite expression, but "athletics are for athletics," not for alumni, or sports programs. Often overlooked in questions concerning sports programs or academic programs, for that matter, is the student himself. I'm not here to suggest a possible way to inform the student about the question, it is just my purpose to inform the Kansan and the selection committee that a coach who may have been a former athlete will be able to provide a possible recruit for the athlete directorship of this school. Kenneth D. Stone Omaha Freshman LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must have their name provided in town; faculty and staff must provide their name and address; others must provide their name and address. 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