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Tuesday, November 21, 1972
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Gone to the Office
One of the movements that has managed to maintain some energy during the rather lethargic 70s is one popularly and somewhat flippantly referred to as women's lib. One of the rallying points for the movement's apologists and antagonists is the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by state legislatures, which advantage of exoining laws to improve the situation of women, particularly in the business world.
Although these recently established laws give the women in the movement the strength to succeed, the movement's real strength comes from the kinds of lives women are now experiencing. The 1970 census showed that 40 per cent of the United States' labor force was female. Imagine what would happen to this country if 40 per cent of women were not outraged to assume that the result of such a mass migration home would be felt nationwide within a few hours.
The business world of America is not the only segment that needs to use women as workers and wage earners. The 1970 census also revealed that 10 per cent of all American families rely on a woman for their major source of income. This figure does not even include the number of families in which the wife works to supplement the inadequate salary of her husband. If all those employers who justify paying their male employees higher wages on the basis that they have to support a family decided to extend that policy to their female employees it is likely
Pollution Scientists Focus Study on St. Louis Area
By C. G. McDaniel
AB Science Writer
AP Science Writer BOULDER-St. St. Louis is put under the microscope for the benefit of the world.
Environmental scientists from many parts of the United States are studying intensely various species in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
This will give scientists information which can be applied to cities throughout the world.
The trend toward women working outside of the home started long before Betty Friedan or Simone de Beauvoir wrote their books. It would be economically impossible for this country to allow more than half of its potential workers to remain at home. The movement has just pointed out inequities in a system that was already well established. Women have been placed has been in the office and the factory as well as the home. The movement has served to provide an atmosphere in this country that will in the future encourage paying and promoting women with some thought being given to how much they are needed. —Mary Ward
From these studies they hope to determine exactly what one city's activities do, not only to the benefit of business but also to areas distant from them.
It is also a large city isolated from other major cities and has no "endless suburban sprawl," he noted.
that many women would be in line for an increase in salary.
St. Louis makes a good specimen because its simple terrain has no mountain barriers to interfere with air movement
Dr. James Lodge, chemist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research at Boulder, said that St. Louis was agreed upon by scientists involved in a number of pollution studies, because "it is a typical city—it has some of everything."
It is no longer logical to regard the role of women in the business life of this country as minor. There will always be those who cry out the too often quoted sentence "women's place is in the home." They forget that when that sentence made sense homes were often small industrial enterprises. Cottage industries as well as the demands of a farm required the labor of women. Our economy no longer relies on cottage industries and fewer products are made in the home since it is more costly to build. More. Cottages and family farms have been replaced by skyscrapers and factories but only now are women and men beginning to realize the place of women in industries and businesses which survive by satisfying the needs and desires of millions of people.
More than 50 studies already have been planned or are under way. The major ones are:
It is probable that knowledge gained from these studies can be transferred to almost any other city in the world, Lodge said.
Agencies on both sides of the Mississippi River have been active in the study of air pollution for a number of years, so there is good data available for comparison, Lodge added.
-Metropolitan Meteorological Experiment, METROMEXO, a five-year study begun in June 1971 by the Illinois State Water Districts and Universities of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory.
—Regional Air Pollution Study conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
METROMEX has had 100 persons in the field during the past two summers evaluating the impact of air pollution on the weather.
—Fate of Atmospheric Pollutants Study, conducted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
—Biological Component of Air Pollution Study, conducted by St. Louis University and University of Missouri scientists.
The EPA project is aimed at assessing the effect of air pollution on human health and welfare and how community planning might take this into consideration.
The Boulder group plans to study what happens to pollutants in the air after they are deposited on its points downwind from the city.
Scientists from the two Missouri universities are looking at the effect of pollutants which originate from St. Louis on plant and animal life. Much of the study will be concentrated in Illinois where many of the effects of St. Louis pollution are felt.
The scientists are following pollutants for about 75 miles downwind from St. Louis.
A METROMEX publication notes that past weather data for St. Louis indicate that summer rainfall immediately downwind is 10 to 15 per cent greater than in other surrounding areas.
It has been found that on weekdays in the warm season the area immediately downwind has 7 to 14 per cent more rain days than on weekdays, and so wind, but on weekends there are no marked regional differences.
Cities produce heat as well as chemicals from their factories, automobiles and houses. Both are responsible for modification.
A University of Missouri study will look at the effect of pollution on agricultural crops to deter herbivores whose loss from lower crop yields.
Another study will try to determine whether parks, lawns and other islands of vegetation in the urban area are important in cleaning up the air and making the environment better for human living.
The four groups involved in METROMEX are trying to pinpoint the physical and chemical causes of weather phenomena and are investigating how different processes which produce rainfall. A number of studies will look at polluting gases in the air, such
A study of insects will look for early subtle changes which might indicate that some levels are reaching a level harmful to man and other animals, so that remedial steps can be taken before the pollution before it is too late.
Persons suffering from chronic arthritis, allergies and asthma will be asked to keep diaries about how they feel. These will be correlated with pollution levels each day.
The chromosomes of plants and small animals will be examined because it has been noted that some air pollutants may cause chromosomal changes and cancer.
WASHINGTON—When the Pentagon brass want to publish a book, they go about it with all the massive planning of a military invasion.
Pentagon Plans Costly Book
Jack Anderson
for instance, Assistant Defense Secretary Daniel Henkin thought it would be nice, as part of the 200th anniversary of the armed forces in 1975, to publicize "how defense expenses often double duty through their importance on the quality of life and living."
This started the Pentagon wheels whirling. Task forces were formed; meetings were held; research was ordered. The planners have now come up with an exhaustive proposal for a 300-boom attack, outpostting the military's humanitarian accomplishments.
According to the Pentagon's calculations, this would take five historians each putting in "one and one-half-man-years at an average of $818,000." That would be seven and one-half-man-years, right there.
Two editors working six months each, two cartographers putting in another three months of work, two managers working one year would add another two and one half-many years to the project. The planners figure two clerk-kypists would have been hired and man-years typing up every thing.
The salaries alone would come to $180,500. The production costs are calculated around $700,000. The company wants the internal memo, "need further refinement but they produce a ballpark figure of around $1 million as total cost that would be budgeted for this project."
The proposed million-dollar book, it is suggested, "would be semi-popular in style, well illustrated and presented in as attractive a format as possible, including color illustrations."
A suggested outline cities such humanitarian accomplishments by the armed forces as "soldiers and sailors as governers and administrators in occupied territories and possessions," and, "the enforcement of law and order by the armed forces from the Whisky Rebellion to the anti-Vietnam demonstrations."
A spokesman explained that the million-dollar project has been approved by Ad Hoc Task Force No. 1 but hasn't yet been finalized. He said the Bicentennial Committee, let alone the top pentagon brass.
St German's Reward
St German is shivering from winter's first nip, dapper Congressman Fernand St. German and his family will be lolling in the Florida sunshine St. German uses the U.S. Savings and Loan League.
The league is flying St Germain, his pretty wife and their two children from chilly Providence, R.I., to balmy Miami for the annual "S and L" convention.
St Germain's Reward
He won't have to worry about a rousing ovation from the conventioneers. For as chairman of a House banking subcommittee, the Rhode Island Democrat reportedly made a dubious deal with the bankers on behalf of the savings and loan crowd.
companies. This could give officers and other insiders windfall profits without benefiting the ordinary depositors.
Next session, the savings and loan outfits are looking to St Germain for legislation that would let them jack up interest rates in the middle of a mortgage. The hapless homeowner may be able to get 200k year mortgage, thereby, might have his rate boosted to 10 per cent or more any time during the 20 years.
We were unable to reach him for his comment.
The savings and loan associations also want a measure passed to let them convert mutual associations into stock
In the past, St Germain has questioned both these measures, and, in general, his record on consumer issues has been good.
Copyright, 1972,
by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Garry Wills
Westwood: Ruin and Rule?
But Jean Westwood does not want to be purged as National Committee chairman (jokes about "chairperson" and "chair broad" don't seem so funny to her. He also says she insists. That was what Eugleton was saying when she went on TV and axed him.
Poor McGovern seems destined to play the ignominious Goldwater role out to the bitter Desert Bowl against the Dean Burgh purge of 1984.
She looks like an older tougher Audrey Hepburn, but has the
voice of Everett Dirksen. She muscled her way into the office. McGovern had begged Larry O'Brien to stay on as chairman, and he would come back and beg O'Brien. off his version of the turnabout, "He (McGovern) said he had apparently lost touch with things and apparently the women's lib group was complaining about that issue." You might say it was not good takeoff for the campaign."
Pierre Salinger went through the same wooing and rejecting
process for the co-chairman spot. There were Eagletons even before the Eagleton affair.
The hard shores are hardest to shove. Having pushed O'Brien aside, and gone along with Salinger's derallment, having publicly volunteered Eagleton's resignation for him, Ms. Westwood admits of her own in the disastrous campaign. Her team must give main reasons for McGovern's waived in these words, "We were unable to communicate to voters confidence in the personal
leadership abilities of our candidate." A kick at her own patron. If McGovern goes down, she does not mean to go with him.
attempted takeover.
The chairmanship does not much matter in itself. But it is a symbol of larger forces in the crisis, and the disastrous season to signify change in strategy. In this case, a change would amount to confession of the obvious—that what purported to be the most important aspect of the convention of all time was in fact a raid on the party in Miami, an
Ms. Westwood has conducted her chairmanship in that spirit, trying to give her fellow raiders a permanent bermite. It won't work. It would cost more money, gang on the more she will confirm the regulars' suspicions about the whole McGovern operation. It was an elitist coup, not a popular uprising. Not only did its partisans take a rule-or approach to the party-Ms. Westwood would like to run and rule.
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Readers Respond
To the Editor:
Education Students' Apathy
Letters Policy
1, being in the School of Education, am appalled by the complaints of fellow students.
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 provided by the editor's judgment. Students must provide their name, position, faculty and staff must provide their name and position; others must provide their name and address.
Their complaints vary from the required study in the Science of Trivialities to the job shortage after graduation. I am sympathetic with their grievances, but I am discontented with their apathy. There is a need for change! Who is to make that change?
On the fourteenth of November,
Nineeteen Hundred and Seventy-
two, I and a handful of others
attended the meeting of the
Student Advisory Board. The board was non-existent. Present were representatives of past boards and committees, faculty members, and a few compatriots of student involvements. These few began an act of defining the student's needs and expectations and discussing a solution to them. The initial problem, the lack of involvement, was a hindrance in beginning committees of student representation. A few cannot do it
all!
If you, the future educators,
have no more interest in your
instruction than what has been
shown by the attendance of this
meeting there remains no reason
to complain—you have given
your apathetic vote of consternation.
There is to be another meeting before the renewal of education policy (to be announced in
education classes). Bring your complaints and possible solutions. Get involved, the job you save may be your own.
Tim Elliott Junior-Education Abilene, Kansas
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