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Republicans Charles W Dunn • Reorganizing State Governrttent Russell W Peterson • OEO and Regionalization Howard Gillette, Fr ___ PON.~. JANUARY, 1971 VOL. VII No. 1 ONE DOLLAR The Evils of C:entralizatio'n ... And How to Restore an Integrated Federalism • Why Decentralize? Patricia M Lines • Con-Cons and Republicans Charles W Dunn • Reorganizing State Governrttent Russell W Peterson • OEO and Regionalization Howard Gillette, fr. SUMMARY OF CONTENTS THE RIPON SOCIETY lNC Is a Republican research.'· an'd . ,.po!lcy organization wbose memo EDITORIAL bers are young business, academic and professional men and women. It Is the Administration suffering from the King has national headquarters In Cambridge, Massachusetts, cbaptara In eI_ cities, National Associate members throughout the fifty states, and several Canute syndrome?; a boost for Common Cause; and affliiated groups 01 subchapter status. The Society is supported br chapter adieu Walter J. Hickel. -3 dues, individual contributions and revenues from its publications and con. tract work. The Society offers the lollowing options lor annual contrlbu. tion: Contributo!. $25 or more; Sustalner $100 or more; Founder $1000 POLITICAL NOTES or more. InqUiries about membership and chapter organization should be addressed to the National Executive Director. Reports on presidential trial heats; the Traitorous Eight and the Goodell precedent; a detailed analysis of NATIONAL GOVERNING BOARD the election disaster in lllinois - the worst Republican Officers showing since 1936; plus notes on Iowa, Kentucky, Cali­ • Josiah Lee Auspitz, President fornia and Oregon. --4 ·Howard 1'. Gliiette, Jr., CIIairman of lbe Board ·Bruce K. Chapman, Cbalrmau of the EJe:utive Committee ·Michael F. Brewer, Vlce·Presldent WASHINGTON VIEWPOINT • Robert L. Beal, Treasurer Howard GllIette, Jr. recounts the attempted political­ "Richard E. Beeman, Secretary ization of OEO and its legal Services Program; Boston Philadelphia regionalization has at least temporarily been defeated • Robert Gulick • Richard R. ,!Iock and Lenzner and Jones vindicated, but the program still Martin A. Linsky Robert J. Moss is in danger of losing its independence of action. -9 Michael W. Christian Herbert Hutton Cambridge Selttla . 'Robert Davidson 'Thomas A.Alberg David A. Reil Camden Hall CON-CONS AND REPUBLICANS Rhea Kembie William Rodgera On December 15, voters in illinois approved by an Cblcago Washington overwhelming margin a new state constitution. Charles ·R. Quhcy While, Jr. • Pstricia A. Go!dma n 'Harold S. Russell Stephen Herblts W. Dunn finds the 1970 document an improvement over George H. Waiker III Linda K. Lee its 1870 predecessor, but warns that open constitutional Dallas At Large conventions are hit-or-miss affairs, hardly the ideal ·Nell D. Anderson • 'Christopher T. Bay:ey method for achieving meaningful reform of state and Howard L. Abramson Thomas A. Brown local government. Constructive Republicans, who are Robert A. Wilson Richard M. Conley Hartfard Christopher DeMuth interested in better and more responsive and not just • Nichoies Norton Bruca D. Fraser . "less" government, should add Mr. Dunn's proposals for Robert G. Smith Emil H. Frankel . William J. McKinney, Jr. Rslph J. Heikkinen structural reform to their arsenal of "new federalism" Paul Leach programs. -10 Los Angeles "Lea W. Huebner Philip C. Johnston NGII Havan WlI!iam J. Kilberg WHY DECENTRALIZE? • Hayward L. Draper ..J. Eugane Marans Deke Karzun Thomas E. Patri .Patricia M. LInes makes the case for strengthening Paul C. Capra ••John R. Price, Jr. small, local, community - oriented governments - for NGII York Howard L. Reiter • Richard Zimmer Clair W. I<odgers, Jr.' . redistributing political power in the nation. Americans Werner Kuhn "John S. Saloma III need this redistribution for freedom, for a sense of com­ Marianne Megocsl Frank E. Sa.muel, Jr. munity and for stability. Members of the GOP, the trad­ EJ-Offlclo At Large itional party of government by the people, should up­ ·Robert D. Behn, National Eracutive Director date their traditions and become "Urban Jeffersonians," Evelyn F. Ellis, Editor of the Ripon FORUM and ally themselves with those urging "power to the Wi Jiiarn G. Rogers, Research Director Terry A. Barnett, Political Director people." Christopher Vi. Beal, Policy Cbalrman (Miss Lines would like to inform FORUM readers ··Peter J. Wa:lison, Fln.nca Chairman • Nation al E.ecutlve Committee Member that a more detailed text with footnotes can be made President, Cbalrman of the Board, or Cbalrman of the EucutIn avaUable to anyone willing to pay xerox and mailing ··PastCommittee costs.) -15 THE RIPON FORUM is published monthly by the Ripon So· ciety, Inc., 14a Eliot Street, Cambridge, GUEST EDITORIAL Massachusetts 02138. Second class postage rates paid at Boston Massa. chusetts. Contents are copyrighted © 1970 by the Ripon Society, Inc. REORGANIZING STATE GOVERNMENT . Correspondence addressed to tha Editor is welcomed. In publishing this magazine the Ripon Society seeks to P\'!IVlde a Governor Russell W. Peterson of Delaware gives !orum lor fresh Ideas, well·researched proposals end lor a spirit of ciitlclsm, some nuts and bolts advice on the advantages of a cabinet ,"novatIon, end Indepandent thinking within the Republican Party. ArtIcles versus a commission form of government. -23 do not necassarlly raprasent the opinion of the Nationel Governing Board or the Editorial Board 01 the Ripon Society, unless they era explicitly eo labelled. THE BALANCE SHEET - SUBSCRIPTION RATES are $10 a year, $5 lor students, servlcaman, FOLEY'S LAW REVISITED end lor Peace Corps, Vista and ofher volunteera. Ovarseas air mall $10 extra. Advertising rates on request. ' MIT economics professor Duncan Foley reexamines . the relationship between unemployment and the number Editor: Evelyn F. Ellis of Republicans elected to the U.S. House of Representa­ Contributing Editor: Howard L. Reiter tives in light of the 1970 elections. -24 Taclmlcal Editor: John Woodman Contributors: Christopher W. Beal, Duncan K. Foley, Philip C. Johnson, REPORT ON A WORKER - STUDENT PROJECT Douillas Matthews, William D. Phelan, Jr., David Omer White. Can a "hardhat" find the least common ground with CIrculation Dapt.: Hopa Fellows with a "radicllb" student? During the GM strike the Correspondents Arthur F. McClure, II, MI_urI Alliance for Labor Action sponsored a number of worker­ Mra. Berbara Mooney, CoM. William Harding, Nebraska student confrontations. Carl Wagner reports that these Maggie Nichols, California Charles O. Ingraham, NaIr York Aiex M. Hehmayer, No. Calif. Deryl Howard, North Carolina sessions punctured a lot of stereotypes and proved that James F. McCollum, Jr., florida Henri Pell Junod, Oblo a student-labor alliance is not so impossible as the media Cullen Hammond, Georgia William K. Woods, Oblo might make us think. -25 Michael McCrery, Idaho Stephen Jones, Oldabema Ben Violette, illinois Eric R. Blackledge, Oregon J. Kennath Dolca, Indiana Richard Ober, Jr., Pannsrllanla PUBLICATIONS PAGE -26 C.R. Connell, 1_ Donato Andra D'Andrea, R. I. Eric Kames, KentuckJ Bruce M. Salya, Rhode Island Henry Bernstaln, louisiana Herrls Beach, Jr., So. Carolina 14A ELIOT STREET -27 William A. Merrill, Mass. Stanford M. Adelstein, S. D. Don Fowler, Maine W. Stuart Parsons, WI-..In Terranca DwJer, Michigan Robert R. Murdoch, Virginia MAKE YOUR OWN AGNEW SPEECH -28 EDITORIAL THE KING CANUTE SYNDROME ourselves and our traditions, and to find decentral­ In the weeks after the eleaion, the task fell izing devices to tap the creative energies of the to Robert Finch to refute the nattering nabobs of American people. negativism in the party and the press. The articles in this issue of the FORUM - Mr. Finch pooh-poohed critics who dwelt on on decentralization, constitutional conventions and electoral danger signals in Illinois, California, New reorganization of state government - reflect the Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, and spirit of institutional craftsmanship that Gardner Ohio as suffering from a "Chicken Little syndrome." has come to represent. In the new House of Representatives, he said, the Common Cause is not, as some have maintain­ President would have "ideological control with ed, a nascent third party or a Gardner-for-President yardage to spare;" in the Senate he would have a operation; it is simply a movement to lobby for "working majority." Moreover, the President him­ reform issues in the same way that oil companies self in a post-election meeting with his Cabinet and lobby for their various tax and import shelters and staff had assured all doubters that by 1972 the right-wing groups lobby for turning the clock back. war would be over, inflation checked and prosperity It will probably surpass a membership of 200,000 assured. "The Republican Party," Mr. Finch re­ and a budget of $2 million this year. In its first ported on the highest authority, "will run on the weeks of operation it proved useful to the Nixon ad­ Peace and Prosperity Issues." ministration in getting a number of previously If the White House's critics - and they now hostile Democratic Senators to support the Presi­ appear to include professional Republican campaign dent's welfare reform. consultants, state chairmen, governors and national Members of the Ripon Society have already committeemen - suffer from a Chicken Little syn­ been active in helping to launch Common Cause drome, it would appear that the White House (2100 M St., N.W. Washington, D.C.). For Re­ suffers from a King Canute syndrome, from a be­ publicans who want to reform American govern­ lief that merely by uttering words the President ment and their party, membership in Common Cause can order basic realities to disappear. Unfortunately, is a good investment. on questions of peace and prosperity, there exist WALTER J. HICKEL decision-makers who are beyond even the control The President's firing of Interior Secretary of the White House. Walter]. Hickel was understandable as far it went; The North Vietnamese are not going to give while Hickel has done a superb job in his post, up their plan to dominate Indochina merely to aid he forgot to check his conscience at the door. There Mr. Nixon's reelection chances. And nothing Mr.
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