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Monticello native
First Flint Circuit woman DA wants no special treatment
BY CINDY GLO2JER
The Flint Judicial Cir
cuit has a new Assistant
District Attorney and for
the first time, the
position is being filled by
a lady.
Elizabeth Lane, a
native of Monticello,
Georgia, has been work
ing in the Henry County
Courthouse for nearly a
month, filling the Assis
tant DA post left vacant
by Hal Craig last July.
Ms. Lane is a graduate
of Jasper County High
School and the Univer
sity of Georgia, where
she received both her
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WASHlNGTON—Presidential assistant Midge Costanza,
left, chats with International Women’s Year Com
missioner Gloria Steinem in Washington. Costanza ad
dressed a meeting of the commission which was held to
discuss recent and upcoming activities. (AP)
Business mirror
ask
about ‘progress’
By JOHN CUNNIFF
AP Business Analyst
NEW YORK (AP) - As the
treadmill turns, members of the
economic rank and file are
asking where it all leads or
whether, like a merry-go-round,
we have merely painted up the
machinery and introduced a
few ups and downs.
We have introduced indexing
into our wage-price negotia
tions, and Social Security bene
fits too, the better that workers
and retirees can meet the rising
cost of living. Thus when prices
rise, so do incomes.
While admiring this, we also
wonder why it is that inflation
persists, when it is all but ob
vious that to some degree we
are perpetuating the catchup
sequence, in which higher in
comes contribute to higher
prices and...
An attempt is made to im
prove the lot of the worker low
est on the scale of skills by
raising the minimum wage
from $2.30 to $2.65 an hour, with
further increases to come. It is
bound to reduce the difficulties
of some workers.
But for how long? Personnel
executives already are saying
they will have to raise the
wages of more skilled workers
in order to maintain the rela
tionship. That leads to inflation,
which is devastating for those
on the bottom rung.
At the same time as we are
considering increases in the
minimum wage, we also are at
tempting to cut down on the
jobless rate, which remains
stuck in the area of 7 per cent of
the civilian labor force.
It is almost unnecessary to
point out that unemployment is
worst among those who have
the least skills, and who are
thus in the minimum wage ca
tegory. Does a higher minimum
wage improve their chances for
being hired?
Again, as we moralize over
the unemployment problem we
support a school system that is
demonstrably deficient in pre
paring youngsters for the labor
market, and which continues to
turn out teachers who can never
hope to find teaching jobs.
In the stock market we have
undergraduate and law
degrees.
She was formerly em
ployed at the Georgia
Diagnostic and Classifi
cation Center in Jackson
and has worked on the
Prisoner Legal Counsel
Project. While in college,
she was employed by the
Clarke County Sheriff’s
Department as a radio
operator and jailor.
Ms. Lane says she has
always been Interested
in law and law enforce
ment. “I never wanted
to do anything else,” she
states.
Making her home in
McDonough, the new
indexing too, although of anoth
er sort. It’s the current cult. In
stead of trying to beat the pop
ular averages and indexes, an
institutional portfolio manager
seeks only to keep pace with
them. This is now considered
success, and a fee is charged for
it.
Does indexing explain why
the stock market, at least as in
dicated by the popular market
averages, has been going no
where? It would seem so. In the
past, at any rate, the stock
market rose or fell on taking
rather than avoiding risk.
No basic industry has been on
a more persistent treadmill
than steel, unless it is railroads.
In fact, as steelmen tell it, they
have had their feet planted on
different treadmills going in
opposite directions.
They are being forced to ex
pend hundreds of millions of
dollars on pollution control.
They have been asked to com
pete with steel imports subsi
dized by foreign governments.
Simultaneously they have
been pressured by the federal
government to limit price in
creases they say are needed to
modernize and make their
plants more competitive.
Unable to do so, they lay off
workers. Stigmatized, they are
less able to raise money in the
stock market in order to update
their plants.
The examples are endless,
though admittedly not all are
clearcut. Some critics of steel,
for example, maintain the in
dustry has management defi
ciencies. And it has never been
declared by the highest author
ity that all problems could or
should be met in ways that sat
isfy all parties.
But sometimes you can’t
blame Americans for wonder
ing where it all leads and why
we can’t seem to do much about
it. You can’t help but lament
that patchwork solutions must
suffice instead of weaving new
pieces of cloth.
... that the windmills of
Washington only seem to blow
brief breezes across the sweaty
treadmill, but seldom produce a
real cool wave.
Assistant DA says she
enjoys the small town
atmosphere of the city.
"People have been
very gracious to me
since I’ve been here,”
she states. "I feel
completely at home.”
Asked if she has
encountered any trouble
as a woman in a male
dominated field, Ms.
Lane responds, "Thus
far people in Henry
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County have treated me
as a lawyer and not
made a great deal out of
the fact that I’m a
woman. In the past I’ve
found that insecure peo
ple are the ones who
have trouble dealing
with women lawyers.
But then, insecure peo
ple have trouble with
everybody.”
Ms. Lane says she has
received a number of
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men and women avail
able for counseling.”
Ms. Lane has spent
her first few weeks in
office getting organized
and familiar with her
new job. “I’ve had no
problem finding some
thing to do,” she states.
"I’m preparing four
briefs, getting the mis
demeanor files in order,
and organizing my own
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Since the Assistant DA
post was vacant for
approximately five
weeks, a backlog of work
greeted Ms. Lane when
she took the job.
She says her main
objective is to organize
her office efficiently so
that she may be of
service to the county
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