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editorials ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH owiiJ JOSEPH PUJTZER irg Failure On Korea THE POST-DIMMTCH PLATFORM I tSOV THAT MY RETIREMENT WILL MAKE VO DIFFERENCE IN' ITS CARDINAL PRINCIPLES. THAT IT WILL FIGHT FOR PROGRESS AND REFORM. NEVER TOLERATE ISIfSTICE OR CORRUPTION. ALWAYS FIGHT DEMAGOGL'ES OF ALL PARTIES.

NEVER BELONG TO ANY PARTY. ALWAYS OPPO.SE PRIVILEGED CLASSES AND PUBLIC PLUNDERERS. NEVER LACK SYMPATHY WITH THE POOR. ALWAYS REMAIN DEVOTED TO THE PUBLIC WELFARE. NEVER BE SATISFIED WITH MERELY PRINTING NEWS.

ALWAYS BE DRASTICALLY INDEPENDENT. NEVER BE AFRAID TO ATTACK WRONC. WHETHER BY PREDATORY PLUTOCRACY OR PREDATORY POVERTY. agreement is impossible without the participation of South Korea where the majority of i Koreans live. It is impractical because it ties directly the dissolution of the UN Command, an immediate necessity, to the formulation of a permanent peace agreement, a long-range goal.

A majority of UN members probably recognize the folly of providing the UN umbrella for U.S. troops 25 years after the Korean War. At the same time it was obvious that what the Communists proposed for an alternative was untenable, and the majority recognized this when it voted for the two resolutions, one negating the other. Judging from the behavior of North Korea's supporters, it would seem that they are in no hurry to dissolve the UN Command in the South. If immediate dissolution was their priority, they would have supported a resolution which would have ended the Command's role as a paper sponsor of the presence of American soldiers and nuclear weapons and would have mandated a small, non-American UN staff to supervise the cease-fire.

Although the United Nations Command in South Korea has long outlived its usefulness, it will continue to be utilized for another year at least, as an umbrella for the presence of 38,000 American troops. This unfortunate stalemate is the result of two contradictory resolutions passed by the General Assembly. One resolution, backed by the United States, calls for the conditional dissolution of the Command. The condition is that a substitute arrangement for the 1953 armistice agreement first be formulated. To abolish the Command would be to abolish the legality of the only piece of paper which spells out the terms of the armistice, argued Ambassador Moynihan.

The other resolution, backed by China and the Soviet Union, calls for withdrawal of all foreign troops in South Korea under the UN Command and replacement of the armistice with a permanent peace agreement. The agreement, however, would be negotiated directly between North Korea and the United States, with South Korea excluded. The Communist-supported resolution is unfair and impractical. A permanent peace JOSEPH PULITZER Apnl 10. mi Saturday, Nov.

22, 1975 letters Still Wo' To New York Finest Hour We should recall, on the occasion of Justice William 0. Douglas's retirement from the Supreme Court, his gallant efforts in June 1953 to save the Rosenberg couple from execution for atomic espionage on behalf of a wartime ally. Is it not salutary to suggest that no lawyer, now over 50, who did not dare take a public stand against those disgraceful executions should now be considered as Justice Douglas's successor on the Court? I grant this may be a rather fanciful suggestion, if only in that it radically curtails the roster of eligible lawyers. But the suggestion itself does serve to remind us of what may well have been that controversial jurist's finest hour and one of our saddest as a humane people dedicated to justice under law. George Anastaplo Chicago Albany manages to rush through some in new city taxes.

Yet the ambiguous nature of Mr. Ford's statement, by which we mean his refusal to state plainly the conditions necessary for assistance, is scarcely the sort of leadership from Washington that is likely to make the legislature's task any simpler. Despite this, New York legislators have no choice but to press quickly ahead and as best they can with Mr. Carey's proposals for heavy tax increases levies which inevitably cause severe hardship for New Yorkers in the hope that their efforts will persuade Mr. Ford that state and city have done all they can to improve New York's financial footing.

And this assumes that City Hall will cut expenditures, which is to say services, even further. With federal legislation now stalled, none of this may be sufficient to prevent default. But with time running out, with Mr. Ford still blind to the wide-ranging consequences of New York's bankruptcy, it is all for the moment that can be done. While officials in New York and Albany are working feverishly to stave off bankruptcy of the nation's financial capital, President Ford incredibly continues to behave as if he were bent on deliberately worsening a desperate situation.

His coy repetition Wednesday that he is encouraged by the efforts of state and local officials continues to hold out hope that the Administration will yet approve federal assistance for New York. Yet his simultaneous announcement that he will veto a loan-guarantee plan under consideration by Congress served to stop work on that legislation, thereby guaranteeing that assistance from Washington will not be fashioned until sometime early jn December. By then, it should be obvious, it may be too late to avoid the chaos of insolvency. Mr. Ford's promise that he will again review the matter of federal aid next week suggests that he may be amenable to some type of short-term assistance to tide New York over its immediate cash flow problems if 'Of Course It's Progress So Was The H-Bomb' Saving Waterfowl And Wetlands Purchase Of 'Duck Stamps' Is One Way To Save Habitat Clarifying The Laws John llumcr I Editorial Research Reports Across North America, the waterfowl are flying.

The annual autumn migration of some 100,000,000 ducks, geese and swans is under way. From their summer nesting grounds in Canada, the Arctic and the northern United States, some 45 species of migratory water birds are heading south. They will spend the cold months in the nation's wetlands swamps, salt ItlirtYV marshes, mudflats, prairie Hill I VII potholes, boggy fens, shal- ill IT 'ow lakes nver sloughs, jl JJIJUIIv estuaries and tidal bays nrotllftn directed there by irresisti-UpIllIUll 'ble natural instincts. But every year the accommo Not In Court Recently the question of when to discontinue artificial life support techniques on hospitalized patients with little or no chance of recovery has been publicized. Up until now, this delicate decision has been made as a result of an agreement reached between the patient's physician and the patient's family.

There is now a real potential for legal interference into deciding whether or not to allow someone with little or no hope of recovery, to die with dignity. The legal community cannot offer any solution to matters such as these that would be of any benefit to the patient or his family. In fact, any new legal implications regarding such an emotionally charged issue can only result in more problems. One serious consequence that could result is a court ruling whereby the withdrawal of life support equipment and procedures in the presence of "hopeless" cases would not be legally permitted. Patients and their families may then have their personal agony and suffering unnecessarily prolonged.

Another problem that would undoubtedly be created by court decisions requiring maximal efforts to maintain humans in a vegetative state is the expense generated by the hospital care needed to maintain sophisticated life support equipment. Very few of us could ever hope to afford the cost of this kind of health care for extended periods of time. Dexter R. Hall Kirkwood A House subcommittee's recommendation of a contempt citation against Commerce Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton demonstrates the need for legislation requiring public disclosure of reports filed by U.S.

exporters related to boycotts or restrictive trade practices. Without such a law, there is no easy method of balancing the legitimate interests of Congress with the refusal of an unco-operative Cabinet official short of action for contempt. In this instance, the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce subcommittee had been investigating the impact in the U.S. of the Arab League's economic boycott of Israel. Mr.

Morton had consistently refused to turn over to the subcommittee records of U.S. companies asked to participate in the boycott. As justification, he said that the disclosures were not in the national interest and that the Export Administration Act prohibited such disclosures even to Congress. Even though the subcommittee's recommendation was proper, Mr. Morton may well not be cited for contempt by the full House.

The recommendation must first be approved by the entire Commerce Committee and it is not expected to get to the House floor before mid-January. By that time, Mr. Morton will have been replaced as secretary by Elliot L. Richardson. Moreover, no federal official has ever been cited for contempt by the full House.

Mr. Morton has proposed a solution to such impasses by suggesting that Congress approve legislation that would provide for the public disclosure of exporters' reports filed with the Commerce Department on requests relating to boycotts or other restrictive trade practices. A subcommittee of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee has approved such legislation, and its passage would do much to prevent a recurrence of situations such as the current one. Department this year is urging nonhunters to buy them, too. Last year about $12,000,000 from stamp sales went to buy wetlands.

Since 1934, when the stamps first were sold, more than $160,000,000 has been raised to set aside about 2,000,000 acres of water bird habitat. In addition, some 11,000 private hunting clubs have preserved more than 5,200,000 acres of wetlands. And conservation groups such as Ducks Unlimited, the Nature Conservancy and the National Audubon Society control 400,000 acres. But the nation's still-unprotected wetlands are embroiled in controversy today because of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's proposed permit program under the Federal Water Pollution -Control Act of 1972.

The Corps was sued by two environmental groups who argued successfully that its plan to regulate the disposal of dredged or fill material was limited to "navigable" waters, and did not cover wetlands and all other waters of the United States as required by the law. There is growing recognition that the nation's wetlands also serve to control flood waters, remove silt and pesticides, recharge groundwater, improve fisheries and provide habitat for fur-bearing mammals and other animals. If this attitude spreads, migratory waterfowl may still be guaranteed a place to stay when they come south for the winter. dations are getting tighter. www U.S.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR America's wetlands are disappearing at a rapid rate. At the turn of the century there were an estimated 127,000,000 acres of wetlands in this country. By mid-century only 82,000,000 acres remained, of which about 20,000,000 were considered of significant value to waterfowl. Many people regard wetlands as "useless," suitable only for draining, filling and developing. Wetlands around urbanized coastal areas are under especially heavy pressure from development interests.

Conservative estimates are that from five tenths to 1 per cent of U.S. coastal wetlands disappear annually. No one knows just how much wetland acreage still exists, for there has been no comprehensive survey since the 1950s. A National Wetlands Inventory is now being conducted. Meawhile, many public and private organizations are working to preserve waterfowl habitat.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which administers 360 national wildlife refuges in 49 states, uses proceeds from the sale of Migratory Bird Hunting Stamps popularly known as "Duck Stamps" to purchase wetlands. All waterfowl hunters about 2,000,000 annually must buy the stamps, but the Interior state Commerce Commission authority to grant antitrust immunity to motor carrier mergers. If the truckers' opposition to the legislation was inconsistent with the free enterprise doctrine, it was hardly unique. The Air Transport Association responded similarly when Mr.

Ford submitted legislation to promote competition within the airline industry and to lessen regulatory red tape. Apparently free enterprise is a condition everyone favors for others. sr VOIOtfTER I I 30. 1976 11 MIGRATORY BIRD HUNTING STAMP Instant Lottery Sickness High Price Tag As a result of a court suit under the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI and the CIA have released to Michael and Robert Meeropol voluminous material on the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 after being convicted as espionage conspirators. The Meeropols (sons of the Rosenbergs, who use the name of their adoptive parents) are trying to determine whether their parents' conviction was justified or whether it was part of the hysteria of the McCarthy period in which it occurred.

In a sense, however, the general efficacy of the act is being tested by one aspect of this case having nothing to do with the substance of the material. The FBI offered 29,900 pages of its files to the Meeropols on payment of $23,451 the CIA offered 963 pages with a price tag of $14,155 (about $14 a page). The law allows federal agencies to charge for the actual cost of searching for and copying requested documents but not for the cost of reviewing documents to see whether they come under exemptions in the act. Both agencies say their fees in the Rosenberg case cover only the cost of searching and copying. The law also says, however, that agencies must provide documents at reduced charges or without charges when this would be "in the public interest." Given the facts that the Rosenberg case was one of the most sensational in the last generation and that the FBI's methods in many areas are now being exposed as questionable, to say the least, the release of the files in this case would seem to be in the public interest and therefore deserving of a reduced price tag.

at once thrown away as losers. An unlucky buyer says in dismay, "Well, that's it tickets today instead of lunch." The shop operator says: "It's a real fever with them. I saw one woman spend $80 on tickets in just one day." 1 What began as a 50-cent amusement has A .4 1 Nursing Homes I was really interested in the article in the Nov. 10, issue on "Senility A Major Problem In Caring for the Elderly." I'm a freshman in college and was especially interested because I plan to major in Special Education. There are many elderly people who are in nursing homes because it is impossible to adequately care for them at home and they can't live alone.

In my opinion, the patients need love just as much, if not more, than medication. Working in a nursing home is not just a job, but a commitment to help the patients. To do that the staff must recognize them as people and deal with them as such, recognizing their emotional and psychological needs as much as their physical ones. Martha Cole Greenville, III. Teamsters' Vote I read with a certain amount of pleasure that the proposal offered to Teamsters Local 600 by the Motor Carriers Council was voted down.

One of the proposed changes called for a common seniority board embracing all city drivers and all dockhands, at a particular terminal. I'm sure this is what brought defeat to the measure. I'm sure that the rank and file members of Local 600 are ready and prepared at this time to grant relief on the work rules in St. Louis, but this one aspect of the proposal was unacceptable. Linus J.

Macke, Local 600 Steward From The C.hiea Tribune We were skeptical of the Illinois State Lottery when it was only a fool's-gold gleam in its sponsors' eyes. Since then our skepticism has grown to something approaching alarm. We had feared that the most impoverished segment of our citizens would be tempted to spend money it could ill spare in pursuit of the false promise of instant riches. Reassurances were offered. "What possible harm could a weekly outlay of 50 cents do?" we were asked.

We remained unconvinced, but the lottery backers prevailed. Once the ticket selling began, we suspected from the experience of other states that the lottery managers would hike up sales through razzle-dazzle gimmicks, that they would deliberately seek to create a gambling fever. Our fears have been confirmed, twice over, with the arrival of the instant lottery. This gimmick makes it unnecessary for a ticket buyer to wait for a drawing. He knows at once whether he has won or lost.

If he has lost, there is a temptation to throw good money after bad, to "get even." And throwing it he is. Just how feverishly he is doing so is made clear by an article in last Sunday's Tribune, which tells of crowds of ticket buyers lined up at the purchase counter in a downtown tobacco shop. The ashtrays are littered with tickets bought and uciuinc a nil auiu ucaici ucainuca uie impact of the sickness: "I've got one mechanic with seven kids who spent $70 trying for a (an elusive letter needed in a series of tickets which will spell "twenty-one' and win It's a rip-off." A father of seven spending $70 on a lottery has approached the status of compulsive gambler, and it seems clear that he and his weakness were just what the lottery experts were looking for with their instant-winner gimmick. He should join Gamblers Anonymous. "Lotteries tied to drawings are cool, slow forms of gambling when compared to the instant games," explained a lottery expert from Washington.

"The instant games are hot, fast gambling as far as lotteries go." Hotter and faster, it seems, that even Ralph Batch, the state lottery superintendent, had imagined. He had expected 80,000,000 instant lottery tickets to last four months. But it appears they may be gone in two. Truly, the sickness has been successful beyond the state's wildest dreams. Lobby At Work If anyone were in doubt about why antitrust, tax reform and consumer-oriented legislation moves so slowly in Congress, an important reason for the delay should be apparent from the lobbying activities of a little-known organization recently reported on by The New York Times.

The Business Roundtable, whose 158 members include all of the nation's giant corporations, has been active in all of these fields of corporate interest. The Business Roundtable, based in Washington, has an annual budget of its own of $1,500,000, but that amount does not cover the cost of extensive lobbying campaigns which are activated by the BR among its members and which are mounted and paid for by individual corporations. The BR was recently successful in killing in the House Rules Committee a major antitrust amendment which would have authorized state attorneys general to sue and collect money damages, in behalf of their citizens, from corporations found to have engaged in illegal practices. Representative Richard Boiling of Missouri was one of only three committee members to vote to send the bill to the House floor. In another area in which the BR was active, the Senate recently voted down a proposal to break up the major oil companies which dominate the field of energy and effectively reduce competition.

The BR was also successful in persuading the House Ways and Means Committee to postpone changes in the tax law on overseas profits of U. S. companies and in reducing the margin of approval of an Agency for Consumer Advocacy, thus making an expected veto of the bill more difficult to override. The BR's activities show why it is important for Congress to pass long-stalled legislation requiring a greater accounting by lobbyists and also suggest why that legislation has been stalled. Small Claims And Justice In Theory, But There are times when it seems that free enterprise, like Christianity, is more professed than practiced, a recent example of that proposition being the American Trucking Associations' wounded reaction to President Ford's efforts to promote business competition.

"The ultimate in governmental irresponsibility," the ATA protested after the President sent Congress a bill that would, among a number of things, eliminate antitrust immunity for anti-competitive rate-making activities by carrier associations, make entry into the trucking business easier by placing less emphasis on protecting existing carriers, allow greater pricing flexibility and eliminate Inter Risk Of Monopoly If at the time of the Arab oil embargo this nation's partially integrated oil industry had been wholly horizontally structured and comprised of separate producing, refining, transport and marketing companies with thousands of added middlemen between producer and consumer, can you imagine the clamor by the Washington politicians and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for organizational reform into cost-efficient, research-based, integrated companies with none controlling more than 10 per cent of the market to ensure no risk of a monopoly? Julian C. Ryan Wood River, III. From The Kansas City Times Individual controversies involving relatively small amounts of money but nonetheless important to the parties have resulted in many dissatisfied litigants in Missouri. In many of these cases the legal fees are more than the amount of money in question.

Many states have turned to small claims courts. In these courts the plaintiff and defendant, without the assistance of a lawyer, argue their cases before a judge. After weighing the evidence the judge makes a decision. If persons feel they have been wronged this approach gives them their day in court. Efforts to obtain passage of a law in the Missouri General Assembly that would set up small claims courts have failed.

A provision for small claims courts is in a proposal developed by the Missouri Bar to revise the entire court system in the state. The lawyers' organization plans to put its proposal on the ballot for a statewide vote. An initiative petition campaign will be required. As legal fees continue to increase, more and more Missourians with small claims will be frustrated by lack of a place to air their grievances. This special court could fill a void that how leaves individuals feeling there is no justice.

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