The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis - March! And the furious debate continues throughout North Texas and Oklahoma over why some scapegrace absconded with the blood, the sexual organs, the ears, and the lips of Mr. J.R. Allison's...
...The labor force participation rate of black teenagers not enrolled in school has already plummeted from 78.2% in 1950 to 60.1% in 1972...
...But a 'pall enshrouds the California court house of Judge Noel Cannon, the woman judge suspended by the California Commission on Judicial Qualifications for having a chihuahua on her lap and a mechanical canary trilling and chirping in the background while she held court...
...Irving Goldman, New York's one-dollar-a-year Cultural Affairs Commissioner, as proof of the old good-government axiom that insufficient pay for public officials encourages a veritable population explosion of corpora delicti...
...Conceivably, replacing the minimum wage by a negative income tax with work incentives (such as the ill-fated Family Assistance Plan) would offer the income benefits of current legislation without the setbacks •to employment...
...Now Dr...
...Don King, general manager of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, scoffs at Mr...
...And the frustration it would engender would accelerate the growing teenage disenchantment with the idea of seeking work...
...When it was divulged that Senator Hubert Humphrey may owe as much as $300,000 in back taxes for an improper deduction of his Vice Presidential papers, not a peep was heard from the voices of virtue...
...During stertorous meetings of the Senate Budget Committee, now devoted to analyzing Fed Chairman Arthur Burns' testimony regarding a possible one hundred billion dollar budgetary deficit, Florida's Senator Lawton Chiles shuffles about...
...Fred LaRue, formerly of the Committee to Reelect the President, was sentenced to six months in prison...
...Needless to say all Washington was astonished when the Thieu regime withdrew from the central highlands, but congressional doves were even more astonished at the behavior of local peasants, who in their simple ignorance spurned imminent liberation, left their dearest possessions, and entered upon an hysterical flight for the protection of those regions still under the corrupt Thieu regime...
...Meany is more likely than not to get most of his way again...
...As I suggested earlier, economists can contribute much more definitively to our discussion of the second question...
...distributing ''Jesus Saves" tracts to fellow solons, and discoursing on the probable state of housing in the hereafter...
...Harold Ross, 21, were broadening the vistas of science with some remarkable "love experiments" on a Purdue University coed when federal agents interrupted their experiments and charged the two scientists with kidnapping...
...On the Senate floor Mike Gravel, the senior Senator from Seward's Folly...
...Virtually every country in the industrialized world (Germany and Italy are an interesting pair of exceptions) has some form of minimum, and a majority of American businessmen polled recently by the Conference Board favor the principle...
...But, as is usually the case with public policy decisions, the next minimum-wage debate will take place without an evaluation of the more general policy framework within which it properly fits...
...Meany has nevertheless argued strongly against a differential minimum, and to date either his arguments or his clout have swayed Congress...
...Warner is charging defamation of character and bad faith...
...Meanwhile throughout the nation it was politics as usual...
...Although we do not know as much as we should on these matters, we can make an educated guess that there is much to be said for an increase like Mr...
...More will be heard about this bizarre extravagance...
...Inexplicably six of the thirteen women members of the House voted against the resolution...
...Bill (My Foot Hurts) Walton, the radical critic of capitalism, who signed a $2.5 million contract to play basketball and then eloped to the infirmary...
...In just three minutes 102 live big red ants tumbled to certain death down his esophagus, yet the champion remained percipient enough to record that "They have a sour almond taste...
...Two illegal aliens were found working in the U.S...
...Despite the treacheries of America's secret police, the struggle for freedom and dignity continues...
...she, an unmarried girl, is now suffering irreparable calumnies from an FBI-inspired transcontinental whispering campaign which alleges that the admittedly controversial coed is several months pregnant and residing in various "lesbian communes...
...In New York City, masseuses are being coy about the causes of that fire which broke out at the Garden of Eden massage parlor, but police have not ruled out simple body friction...
...Oklahoma's former Democratic governor, David Hall, was convicted on four counts of bribery and extortion, and trials began for former Republican Senator Edward Gurney of Florida and former Secretary of the Treasury John Connally...
...Unfortunately, economists can tell us very little about this first question...
...And although critics point out that the average family has 1.5, not one, wage-earners, and their combined income would be above the poverty level, the argument that the working poor should be favored over those on welfare has always been used to support increases in the minimum, even if some workers are thereby driven to welfare...
...But the good-government crowd is citing the tragic case of Mr...
...Peter Warner has filed a countersuit against his erstwhile patient Mr...
...Certainly as the month draws to a close it is apparent that President Ford's sought-after aid increase to South Vietnam will not pass Congress, not only because of Congress' sudden thrift, but also because the North Vietnamese are showing such scrupulous regard for the Paris Peace Agreement...
...What is more, the thousands of FBI agents prowling the country in pursuit of Miss Patty Hearst now seem intent not only on capturing her but also on sullying her good name by linking her with the demented ex-athletic director of Oberlin College, who had become such a nuisance in the Oberlin locker room that the college paid him $42,500 to vamoose, and with Mr...
...It would be helpful in choosing an optimum minimum wage if we could compare the total increased earning power of workers who benefit from any given increase with the total loss of income suffered by those workers priced out of the market...
...These arguments overlook the fact that, in employers' eyes, work done by teenagers is often not equal to that done by adults, but there is a germ of truth in Mr...
...Asparro's mouth...
...Scientists are extremely interested in the discovery, for the flying reptile, were it alive today, would be very helpful in solving problems of mass transportation...
...On the other hand, he contends that a differential would violate a principle sacred to the labor movement—"equal pay for equal work...
...sedulously promotes the visionary cause of transcendental meditation, going so far as to introduce legislation making the second week of November "public awareness" 'week and launching profundities such as "Tran'scendental meditation is, in my own experience, a profoundly pragmatic means of integrating the welter of experiences which impinge on us everyday [sic and haw, haw...
...He worked in the Labor Department's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity...
...Economists could help us by determining how often teenagers do "adult" work and how many adultworkers would be displaced by a teenage differential...
...It would affect far more workers than previous increases, it would come too soon after a 40-cent increase last year, and at a time like this it would seriously aggravate the impact of a recessionary economy on worker layoffs...
...Moreover, minimum-wage legislation cannot properly be considered apart from the overall context of government poverty and welfare programs...
...Americans got an indication of the variegated delights offered by the volunteer army when S. Sgt...
...On the one hand, he fears that a differential would shift unemployment from teenagers to older workers, often with dependents, who can less afford it...
...Meany's position...
...Warner, a cross-eyed dentist, pulled the wrong tooth from Mr...
...And if he does, when he is eating steak at the next ;AFL-CIO convenHon, there is a good chance, other things being equal, that the economy will ivc him more cause to moan...
...For as Senator Mike Mansfield paralogistically states, he is "sick and tired of seeing Indochinese men, women, and children being slaughtered by American guns with American ammunition...
...Such a rise would threaten more than just the teenage unemployment rate...
...Meany has proposed is that it would be dangerous...
...My hunch about an increase on the order that Mr...
...In New Jersey those twenty-eight Democratic state senators who barred their fellow Democratic senator, Miss Arlene S. Ammond, from the Democratic caucus when she persisted in reporting the caucus' confidential meetings to the press, will stand trial for sex discrimination...
...Toward the end of the month Mr...
...In the coming discussion which Mr...
...In Portland, Oregon, Dr...
...Allison's six-hundred-pound bull...
...Meany's at this time—and even more to be said against it, especially without a teenage differential...
...And from Minneapolis comes an ominous report about government attempts to frustrate the legitimate scientific investigations of an assistant professor of business administration at Southwest State College, Mr...
...Either the peasants do not realize that Communist governments bring reform, efficiency, and the kind of environmental cleanliness that sets Western journalists aflutter, or there were more greedy capitalists living in rural South Vietnam than even I.F...
...Louis Ballast, the father of the cheeseburger, passed away, and a winged reptile the size of an F-4 fighter plane was found in Texas...
...Lippert, 25, and his assistant, Mr...
...It would deny many teenagers, particularly black teenagers, the work experience they need to acquire skills and habits necessary for their adult work...
...In Denver Mr...
...Goldman was indicted on charges of bribery, conspiracy, grand larceny, and perjury...
...They can tell us that there is a correlation between increases in the wage minimum and unemployment, and they can tell us that so far little damage has been done, but they cannot predict how many jobs will be lost from any given increase...
...At any rate, while the oncoming North Vietnamese good-government advocates slaughter and imprison refugees, all those bombastic Capitol Hill moralizers of yesteryear have fallen strangely silent, distracted as they are by the new priorities of economizing, paring down the powers of the Presidency, turning the Central Intelligence Agency into a study group, and otherwise reversing policies that they had idealistically thumped for throughout the postwar era despite the know-nothing animadversions of people like Senator Robert A. Taft and the radical Right...
...It is likely that many younger workers refuse to take what they consider to be degrading jobs even at wages above the minimum wage, and therefore that much unemployment reflects cultural attitudes far more than wage legislation or even than the strength of the economy...
...Many available low-wage jobs—e.g., cabdriving or hotel service—go unfilled even with today's dismal employment picture, and the astonishing number of immigrants, legal and illegal, who have found jobs in America despite language and other handicaps suggests that many jobs are here for the takers...
...Charles (Leather Belly) Chapman won the insect-eating contest highlighting the 1974 Survival Symposium at Camp Murray, Washington...
...Meanwhile back on the banks of the Potomac at Hollywood East, congressional rhetoric is even more elevated...
...Meany's proposal...
...Dunn's hypothesis, for the region is fairly conservative, and without benefit of a major university...
...All this discussion of minimum wages is complicated by evidence that many teenagers and some adults are affected much less by official wage minimums than by what Edward Banfield has called "informal minimums...
...Without a doubt, a $3.00 minimum would be disastrous for teenagers unless there were a differential...
...hut, at present, we have no way of doing this...
...But precisely how far we have progressed in our evolution toward the unlovely category of police state was suggested on March 12 when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) pounced on Mr...
...As the month adjourned howls were coming out of Washington over the CIA's expenditure of $350 million for a body-snatching expedition in the Pacific...
...Asparro's suit charges that Dr...
...Patricia Swinton, a mere six years after these renowned peace advocates were implicated in a series of high-minded bomb plots...
...Meany's proposal will most likely provoke, the major disagreements will center over the timeliness and size of the increase and the possibility of a differential minimum for teenagers...
...Nor can they tell us much about the benefits in earning power for any given increase...
...immigration office, and a white federal employee was ruled a victim of job discrimination...
...She is also accused of jailing defense lawyers and of threatening to perform a ".38 caliber vasectomy" on a policeman—a chilling case of institutionalized sexism...
...But as if implicating Miss Hearst with a moron and a 6'11" fraud were not enough...
...The Garden of Eden has a reputation for featuring some of the warmest massages in New York City, and health devotees have been known to come from as far as Baltimore...
...A worker earning the minimum wage for an entire year still receives some $700 less than the federal poverty level for a family of four...
...Former Secretary of Comtional...
...Thomas Lippert...
...In Colorado four women legislators, noting that the women's restroom at the Colorado House of Representatives was ninety-six steps from the legislative chamber while the men's restroom was only five steps away, have argued successfully to have the men's restroom divided so it can be shared by both sexes...
...The animal is practically useless without them, and what possible utility could they have when not attached to their life-long companion...
...In Connecticut, Miss Judith Quist, a waitress, filed a sex discrimination suit against her former employers who had fired her when she refused to shave her legs, though no male waiters had been asked to shave their legs...
...But then there is this one last story that may indicate the waning of the post-Watergate morality...
...Stone had estimated...
...merce Maurice Scans pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor counts and Mr...
...Congress can select the minimum wage only on the basis of hunches...
...Cameron Bishop and Mrs...
...We can also say that Mr...
...One theory, as yet to be probed, is that local Democrats, dissatisfied with the present sorry field of Presidential candidates, are constructing the ideal Presidential candidate at an undisclosed site...
...John Dunn, president of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, holds that it was the work of a local Satan cult, but Mr...
...And finally, as Communist rockets continue to maim and to slaughter Cambodian civilians, the 94th Congress, Washington's hotbed of humanitarianism, is becoming imperturbably frugal...
...What then can we say about Mr...
...The minimum wage will be considered not in the context of an optimum socioeconomic order but on its own...
...James Asparro...
...Guru Maharaj Ji's first-born is an eight-pound, eight-ounce girl, whom the seventeen-year-old "perfect master" has named Premlata, which translated from the original Hindi means, "Hey, you left your lights on...
Vol. 8 • May 1975 • No. 8
