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Show I "Will the Real Gross National Product Please Tom Tiede Stand Up?" 2 Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah Tuesday, August 20, THE HERALD, Provo, 1974, (Pa this is limited to two electrical. A xerography could become effective replacements for silver in the next few years. Even should silver vanish from the scene, there would be some disruption, but the effects would be tolerable. The real workhorse, says rs of all the gold ever mined is still in existence. Yet of the present world inventory of between 2.5 and 3.5 billion troy ounces, only about one per cent serves an utilitarian use, mostly in jewelry, Gold has even ceased to be a backing for currency. It remains a symbol only, and ymbol-minded people have made a fetish of it, claims one d businessman. "If we dumped every ounce of gold in the ocean, the lifestyle of the World would be virtually unaffected," says Herb Barchoff, president of Eastern Rolling Mills, Inc., of the Bronx, N.Y. Next to gold in psychological value, and exceeding it in practical value, is silver, Thus the move by the four, biggest countries to band together to raise prices in emulation of the oil producers could have far greater consequences in our daily lives than the lifting of the ban on gold ownership. Unless there is a massive of 'm copper Henry J. Taylor production to maintain adequate supplies at a fair relative price, warns Sadat: Brarchoff , copper selling for two to three dollars a pound is President not unthinkable in this decade. remarkable Go to Work Every Day Or Job Will Go Away plant, unions have remained utterly unconcerned about absenteeism. If government does not take the initiative, with a nationwide the unions should media campaip to shame the s. GO TO WORK EVERY DAY OR YOUR JOB WILL GO AWAY. : I do not know that such a public but admonition would rally the it's worth, a try. The average American worker whatever the color of his collar or his skin is absent from his job 9 days each year. This loss of man days computes to a higher cost of doing business that adds unknown total in the billions. up In manufacturing, it's 10.5 "workdays per employee per year. Some of the absenteeism relates to illness, personal problems, alcohol and drug misuse, but most of its among younger employees is traceable to new from two Returning trips all over Egypt within only the past few months, I found that the jnan. in the street in Aswan, Luxor, Cairo, Alexandria and throughout Egypt calls President The Sadat Egyptian. And everywhere you go you hear him described as "a man who want correctly to live and let live." You find there "Sadatism" instead of "Nasserism" blessings be. There is a positive recovery of national esteem after the years of political turbulance and ' under military incompetence President Gamel Abdul Nasser. "I am proud," the average man will tell you. that might set A True political prisoners have been released, except for fomer Vice President Aly Sabry and members of his group who were convicted the Egyptian courts of plotting to kill or overthrow Sadat in 1971. And countless exiles have returned. populous and most powerful nation in the Arab world. In the can be run, nothing long achieved in 'the Middle East without Egypt. Nasser pushed hand and relentlessly to create a personality cult. Sadat's style, personality and objective is precisely the reverse. has six-ye- Nasser typified the man on horseback. Sadats theme is peace. Where Nasser bullied- ,- Sadat - is conciliation personified. He has survived a period of an assassination turbulence, attempt by his rivals from the inside and plots galore to emerge ad the country's leader. As a result, virtually all war-maki- "irresponsibility." In Japan, on the contrary, workers are in the factory yard before each workday begins, singing the company song. Voluntarily they return to the yard when, the day's work is done, again to sing the company song. At the job they are so conscientious they are almost undistur-bable. effort to spirit which formerly characterized Americans with an ad campaign: GO TO WORK EVERY What do you say to a revive some of the gung-h- o last-gas- p DAY OR YOUR JOB WILL GO AWAY. I suspect it's a good idea ; it's my wife's. Policies on Economics which new programs should be created one - (NEA) - more and which old ones Here, Mr. At time, a younger and perhaps radical Mr. Ford proposed that the president should sit down with Congress to review the government's ongoing programs, then introduce bills rescinding previously voted appropriations for those activities both agreed did not meet the test of economy. This was Minority Leader Ford's approach to inflation. Mr. Nixorr attempted to achieve this same end by a series of vetoes and by iceboxing, appropriations. He failed. At another time, Mr. Ford backed proposals for creating an independent, to review the bipartisan organization govenment's programs and budgets on a e commis- regular basis. The Hoover-typsion would include members of Congress and the public. For one, this group was to run a comprehensive review of federal expanded. Ford has favored stimulating private capital investment and the creation of jobs by wider and stronger investment credits, accelerated depreciation, a greater stimulus for private industrial research, stronger incentives for employers to hire and train the unskilled and added subsidies for housing when unemployment reached intolerable levels. assist these analyses, Mr. Ford a five-yeprojection of all department budgets to determine where government spending programs were heading. First and second-yea- r costs, he believe, were only the thin edge of the To favored wedge. A man changes when he becomes president, it is said. His past therefore' may be no accurate guide. But the major clue we have today on how Mr. Ford will attack unemployment and high prices is what he has proposed or supported vigorously in the past on his own, not as the president's man. and foreign assistance programs to determine which were overlapping, inefficiently run, unproductive or had outlived usefulness. In 1367, Mr. Ford noted, there were 400 federal " As suggested above. Ford is known to be a bug on budget cutting spending where you must spend, heavily if you must, but slashing everywhere else, postponing all "good" but not pressingly essential programs. Letters to Editor of Culture and Education Abdel Kadar Hatem the.. censorship The responsibility. Egyptian press is not free as we know it here in the United States, but censorship was lifted in January 1974. Cairo's large merchant class is taking its money out of hoarding. Large Saudi Arabian holdings in Egypt, including the Saudi royal family, were expropriated by Nasser. political These are Almost Sadat was also the force behind the lifting of the Arab world's oil embargo. Moreover, he wants the price reduced. Sadat insists that what the Arab producers need most is not a gouging price for their oil but a stable, long-terdemand for the product. And he insists that they are short sightedly killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Nasser was constantly and bitterly embroiled with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, King Hussein of Jordan, and other Arab world leaders. King Hussein had just visited Sadat at Ma'moura, Egypt's summer White House near Alexandria, before I did and King Faisal was there shortly afterward. Sadat's relations are excellent with all single-hande- Editor Herald: Invitation to: Joe Ferguson, John Birchers and "Constitutional Crazies": At the Democratic state convention Mr. Klas, the state chairman, declared war on the "Constitutional Crazies." A article in the Herald quotes State Republican chief legal counsel, Kent Shearer, as saying "Any suit by Ferguson and Belnap could prove a vehicle for the Utah Republican Party to rid itself of the John Birch Society. Birchism is a cancer recent that must be removed from the party, or that cancer will devour us all." Another report, in a Salt Lake paper, indicates that Ferguson is "considered by party regulars as somewhat of an outcast." Since the early days of the American Party, when Governor Wallace said there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats, many of us have watched with interest as both of these national parties have stumbled over each other to see which party could move the United States down the road to socialism the fastest. We now see that the same philosphy exists on the state level of these two parties. I invite Joe Ferguson, of the John Birch and all "ConstiSociety tutional Crazies" to join with us in the American Party where we can unitedly support the principles that at least 75 of the citizens of this state believe members in. Kathi Eaton 414 North Emergy Orem, Utah 84057 . institution's but ambitious, arrogant, impossible Libyan wildman Muammar The reason is intensely personal as well as national. regarded as environmental studies, and is blunt as a cannon ball: "The weather is changing It is becoming significantly. more unstable and difficult to predict. I hope I'm wrong but I . million people facing starvation may develop into something more horrible than figures: "Millions are going to die." the Hopefully, mercifully, doomspeak is excessive. But right now it seems to be the only talk heard concerning weather change and its consequences. The U.S. bureacracy in charge of such, the National Oceanic and Administration, Atmospheric spends $421 million a year but talks very little, at least of "Yes," says an "there does seem to be an over-al- l trend . toward cooler global temperature, but you this means can't say, willy-nilldisaster. Anybody can shout that the weather is changing, but the fact is it takes thousands and thousands of years to determine whetherthisisso." pessimism. official, y, ' Clearly, the world does not have thousands and thousands of years it can spare. By this time next year, there will be 75 million more mouths to feed, thus if climatic-famin- e calamity is to strike, the time to prepare is, at best, already too late Perhpas doom prophets such as Byrson are, as it's hoped this season's grain fields will be, all wet. Then again, perhaps they are Cassandras after all, cursed to be always right but never heeded. "We can wait until next to see," says a glum Byrson, but by then, of course, if year the worst happens, it will be too late to take action. The better way, perhaps, would be for concerned nations to bend this once to the voices of .gloom and store food, create multilateral famine defense strategies and establish priority distribution systems. Then if nothing happens, if there is no need, we can all eat, get fat, and toss the doomspeak out with the rest of the abundant garbage. Dr. Lamb Birth Defect Is Her Problem being Egypt's president told me that his long-tergoal is to restore the Egyptian pound to its convertible status, lost more than 20 years ago. Both Hamid A. el'Sayeh, chairman of the. National Bank of Egypt, and AhmedFouad, chairman of the important Bank Misr, confirmed climate change distant off the Reid Byrson of doomsaye'rs the University of Wisconsin, for one. He is the chairman of that released. thitome. Invitation Extended generally Minister 400 including the government catastrophes, seems equally disinterested. A spokesman for the National Weather Service admits it has not rained in much of the Texas wheat plains since the spring of 1973, and that the weather has been "mucked up a bit" all over the planet lately, but can make no further comment on anything but tomorrow's routine forecast. We are left, therefore, with of those only the warnings Statesman Nasser sudenly died in 1970. Successor Sadat was nominated by the popularly elected People's Assembly. In a national referendum, Sadat was term. But elected for the Sadat follows and day night, is as different from Nasser as day and night. Egypt is both' the most to-a- Previewing Presidential aid appropriations for 170 separate assistance programs administered by 21 federal departments and agencies, 150 400 regional Washington bureaus and own its with each way of pasoffices, sing out federal tax dollars. The same studies were to determine involves a really leader in the Arab "Al-Misr- i" so Ray Cromley domestic prompt world. 1 10 per cent of the work force in 10, black and white are AWOL. I do not understand why our labor By PAUL HARVEY Americans, the time is ripe for a reaffirmation of the work ethic. I mean Absenteeism from the job people who have jobs but don't bother to is making it so expensive go to work to produce any product in the United States that more and more of our American companies are having their manufacturing done overseas. If fat Americans end up hungry, it'll not be the fault of the lousy Communists; it'll be because of lazy Americans. What do you say to a nationwide billboard campaign to remind ourselves what we are about to lose: 'GO TO WORK EVERY DAY OR YOUR JOB WILL GO AWAY.' I know a major manufacturer of cameras who is required by law to employ a percentage of blacks, qualified or not. So the company leased buses to transport workers from their South Side Chicago homes to the West Side factory. On any given morning 50 per cent of those workers miss the bus. They jsut don't bother to show up. Fifty per cent absenteeism scrambles work schedules and increases product prices for all of us. So that company has now arranged to have more of its cameras "made in Japan." The company will "market" cameras in the United Japanese-mad- e States but will not try to manufacture them there. If black workers are invovled in this instance, it is more than a black - white problem. On any given day at Detroit's Chrysler Ford's renewal df President Nixon's Cairo invitation to Egyptian to President Anwar come to the United States is another plus for Mr. Ford. The renewal WASHINGTON 74 will prosper. And as for the Paul Harvey i and a, copper-producin- g expansion p scientists meeting in Europe in May said people can no longer take a benevolent climate for granted; their conclusion was the climate is changing, and severe consequences may be the result. One of the consequences: crop loss and famine. Another: food wars between the "haves" and "have nots." The predictions may come as a surpirse to Americans concerned not with the availability of food but only its costs. True, there has been some news about starvation and in Africa's occasionally a reference to the fact that half the world is already undernourished. But real worry? The U.S. government will have none of it; on the contrary, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz encourages citizens to gorge themselves on beef so growers infrastructure. ' think-grou- weathermen Barchoff, is copper, without which industry would come to a grinding halt. Its absence would result in the complete collapse of our industrial " metal-minde- and Photopolymers Empires have been -s- global disruption. As if the planet did not have is enough woes, something apparently amiss in the heavens. applications, photographic and physically and physchological-ly- . Three-quarte- " ) believe it may lead to mass starvation. We'll still be able to eat here in America, I suppose, but I don't believe we can feed the rest of the world." Byrson is not talking about tomofrow. He's pessimistic about now. "The question is, how will the world eat next year?" If something isn't done, he suggests that United Nations estimates of WASHINGTON (NLA) The world's weather map early summer, looks fair which is to say foul. The monsoons are late on the Asian subcontinent, usual rain is not falling in northern Mexico and the skies over Texas are clear as a mirror. Some climatologists are forecasting drought, disaster and Although silver has important industrial uses, fully half of things "of history, both conquered for it. J "f J Eat Their Words? - this-- 13 Utah-P- age Midas Touch for Copper By the end of the year, Congress may once again permit private citizens to own gold in form other than jewelry and to hoard or sell it on the open as they wish. Some observers anticipate a boom in world gold prices. Gold is one of the enduring Will Food Experts By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D. I was DEAR DR. LAMB born with a short leg. My left leg is several inches' shorter than my right. I'm 20 now and - about five feet tall, weighing 105 pounds. Also, I have no toes on my left foot The foot ends about where toes should be. I started walking with crutches at age 2, and when I was fitted with my first shoe. While I was growing the shoe was elevated regularly. By the time I was 19 my left shoe was built up about 10 inches. It was very clumsy. About a year ago my mother found a great' orthopedic shoe specialist. He made a special shoe for me and may I say, Doctor, I was just about ready to cry when he put the shoe on my toeless foot. My right shoe was a black patent oxford, laced heel. My type with a half-inc- h new left shoe was also patent. It had an ankle strap and laced onto my foot with 12 eyelets. The heel was a full 10 inches and made of aluminum. The platform was solid cork. My foot fitted into a lot of cotton padding. I was surprised how well I could was 7 elevated all-bla- walk with it. Doctor, I am really happy with my unusual shoe. I almost always wear slacks so my shoe is not noticeable. My boyfriend has taught me to dance, and I even go on long hikes with him. Now, the real question I must ask you. Three months ago my girl friend, who is the same age as I am, was in a very bad automobile accident. She had to have her right leg amputated above the knee, leaving her with a h stump. She now wears an artificial limb. She walks with hardly a limp. After seeing how well my girl friend gets along, I wondered if I would be better off if I had my left leg removed and was fitted with an artificial limb. My family doctor says the decision is up to me. I would really appreciate your opinion. DEAR READER That is not a decision you can make without a careful study of the details of the problem. First you need the benefit of an expert evaluation of the problem by a specialist in orthopedic surgery. The condition of your shortened leg makes a lot of difference. This may determine whether or not you would want to keep the knee joint, should it be advisable and you wanted to have surgery. It is not a decision that has to be made tomorrow. Why don't you ask your family doctor to arrange for you to see an orthopedic surgeon and after you have all the facts as they apply to your particular case then you will be in a better position to make a good decision? If you were my patient I would want a consultation with a specialist before trying to help you make your decision. It is important to have good support for your shortened leg or proper replacement if that seems in order. It makes a lot of difference to your spine. If one leg is shorter than the other it puts a strain on all the muscles up the spine as your body tries to balance the inequality. So, I do favor being sure that you have taken the right measures now and not delayed too long. 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