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Show j I I U j The Daily Herald rl 0 iU U r,""" f I r-- 1 R I I I pi I U il T" 1 U TT"1 r"" ll fl VJv 1 J A "Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them." Booth Tarkington, st r5 j A author-dramati- (1869-194- LiJ 6) "xk 6 Monday, February 17, 1992 H People are unfairly picking on Pesi-deBush for acting like a bumpkin in a Florida supermarket the other day. It seems Bush hadn't been in a supermarket for a while and was amazed at all the newfangled gadgets he dislike electronic bar covered in there codes and scanners for bad checks and other stuff normal mortals have known about for a decade or so. Bush told a convention of grocers in Orlando he was impressed by all the stuff he had seen at their exhibit. ' 'Amazed by the technology , ' ' he told them. The military has a saying RHIP, which means rank has its privileges. Bpsh is not the first president, nor will he be the last, who doesn't know much about the real world. Stories are legion about world leaders who, deprived of their handlers and protectors, find themselves as bewildered as Rip Van Winkle emerging from his sleep. Preident Eisenhower never once in his life paid for a haircut. As a general and president he never carried money in his pockets. He was president before he confronted for the first time a rotary dial telephone, and he did not know how to use it. Leaders live in rarefied worlds. Sar- nt high-faluti- n' Herald Cummins J55P i if gent Shriver, U.S. ambassador to France, once chided a reporter for arriving late at the embassy for an appointment. When the reporter complained about rude and bad Paris drivers, Shriver replied that he never had trouble in Paris streets at all. He didn't mention that he always rode in a chauffeured limousine. Americans aren't the only leaders who get out of touch. The first and last time Winston Churchill set foot in the London Underground was while he IT RKHMOt ml ml 6 mi sass '&a? z3 WmnKJ mm 3fri W I j "oil I J&L was inspecting it as an air raid facility during the Battle of Britain. And President Reagan likes to recount how Britain's Prince Charles, visiting the White House for tea, sat staring silently at his empty cup. "Don't you want some tea?" asked Nancy Reagan. "Yes," said the prince, "I just don't know what to do with the little i i if, .i vtii 1 - FRQUTHE 1 FEDB&L ntMM I "WBRf" " I MTIOMEED 1 HEALTH i ill CARE l SBRSX bag." So let's not be too hard on Mr. Bush. Life is different at the top. Bush trying to take charge in New Hampshire ; Universal concern Editor: ; Global warming has become a concern of everyone who resides on this planet. It is everyone's problem and all must make a daily effort to resolve it. In October, 1959's issue of Harper's Magazine, Charles Schaeffer and Art Cosing released these figures from 1958. In that year 169,600,000,000 pounds of deadly carbon monoxide were released into the atmosphere, and 21,200,000,000 pounds of cancer bearing organic gases better known as hydro carbons were released as well. Also, in 1958, 3,975,000,000 pounds of smog producing oxides of nitrogen were freed into the atmosphere. If these astounding figures were the results of a study in 1958, imagine what the results would be of a similar study today. The figures would be astronomical! In Time, February 2, 1970, airline pilots reported being able to see a "whiskey brown miasmas" that surrounded cities. Even the smallest cities were reported as having the haze. In a society that is as advanced as our own, we should be able to find an effective remedy for such a problem. We have. It is not the scientists, however, who will implement the solution, it is the citizens. Yes, the everyday average Joe could save millions of lives if he put forth the effort. And the effort is not that great of a sacrifice. It is so simple it is a crime not to do it. What is the great solution which I present. l, ride the bus. walk, ride a Simple, bike anything that will cut down on the output of C02. Biking is a great exercise, and if we could get a trend going we would have a healthier nation and a better environment. However, people are just too lazy. Why would they put themselves through such physical exertion when they can drive their car down the street and arrive much faster. The truth is people just don't care. Change is needed. It is needed immediately. This is a code red emergency. The damage which could be and is being initiated is permaunintentional and intentional nent unless the cycle is reversed. You. yes, you need to do something, today. Chris Johnson Orem car-poo- Beyond words Editor: ' Mere words cannot express the tremendous response and the love and concern the people from throughout Utah exhibited by giving to the many freezing, hungry and desperate homeless who benefitted from their generous and abundant donations. Truck loads of warm clothing coats, sleeping bags, blankets, etc., have been distributed to very appreciative, thankful and sometimes tearful people, both young and old, singles and families. The sicknesses prevented and perhaps the well being of others cannot be calculated. Many benefitted who otherwise may not have fared as well through this winter. 'A special thank you to everyone who helped in so many different capacities. To my husband, Bill, who willingly did. some- times rather peculiar, but necessary, errands: pickups, telephoning, deliveries and tolerating me. To my children who filled in and helped when ever and wherever needed, cheerfully. To the people of the neighboring towns, around Utah County, who called requesting to be local drop off sites. To everyone including Mr. Anonymous, who gathered, sorted supplies, delivered and week generally helped in so many ways after week after week. And to the youth, churches, Scouts, especially the Scouts w ho earned, and really worked, for their Eagle badges. Certainly, none of this could have been accomplished without the cooperation and Wills Pit support of all the drop off areas Stop, Tookes Travel, Howard Rowley residence, Deseret Insurance, Q.E.S. Satellite, and the friends, neighbors, and residents in our area. I received hundreds of telephone calls, and nearly that many stories. One, of which, stands out for me. This saying is hanging in the home of a very large family, who are on their way back up to a better lifestyle, after having been in dire and threatening circumstances: "We are just living on blessings that we don't realize are blessings now. " Thank you everyone. Shirley Tooke Orem Ban from campus Editor: As an alumnus and father of five children who have attended UVCC, and as a concerned Christian, taxpayer, and citizen, I protest allowing Planned Parenthood on campus for any purpose, especially for giving out free condoms for four days. The reasons should be obvious, but maybe not to the intellectuals who administer the campus. But as a clue that even they may understand, I present the facts about Planned Parenthood. The following is excerpted from a review of a book entitled "Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood," by George Grant. g The book "exposes the chief institution in America today ... Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanaer baby-killin- (1879-1966).- ... "The free love and birth control move- ments have historically been linked to radical feminism, socialism, and communist revolutionism. The general idea is that women can only be "liberated" when they, like men, can be promiscuous and enjoy sex w ithout consequences. . . . "Sanger published a militant feminist newspaper called The Woman Rebel, in which following the lead of Karl Marx she denounced marriage as a 'degenerate institution." She also wrote: "Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tyranny of Christianity no less than capitalism. " "Despite their rhetoric about claiming to help the poor," Grant observes, Planned Parenthood's longstanding real goal is to "eliminate the poor, not serve them. " Margaret Sanger once wrote that "the chief issue of birth control is more children for the fit, less for the unfit. " To achieve this objective, Sanger "openly endorsed the euthanasia, sterilization, abortion, and infanticide programs of the early (Third) Reich." "Planned Parenthood is also involved in an aggressive sex education campaign in the public schools ... They publish sex education books, devleop model sex-e- d programs, and train sex-e- d teachers. " Colleges are targeted now. Lower level schools will soon follow if Planned Parenthood is not stopped. If you agree with my protest, write your state representatives and the governor. Ask them to make an investigation to assure that Planned Parenthood or group is not allowedf any other to propagate their evil ways on Utah campuses. Warren Hardy like-mind- Provo Letters policy Address letters to PO Box 717, Provo, UT 84603. Letters must be signed and inand clude the writer's full name, address a daytime phone number for verification. MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) George Bush knows what can happen when a candidate loses control of the microphone, let alone the stage. So he's been trying to take charge of both in the final days of the New matches, March 3 in Maryland and gia- Walter Mears Hampshire campaign. A month ago, in his first campaign swing, the president was almost apologe- ASSOCIATED PRESS tic COLUMNIST Not now. The new Bush is on the offensive, against his conservative Republican challenger and the Democratic Congress. Last time, the theme was "I care" about hard times in New Hampshire, but it was a delay tactic. Stay tuned, he told voters. Now his economic program is before a critical Congress, unraveling in the hands of House Democrats, and he's demanding passage: "No games, no gimmicks. ... Pass my plan and get New Hampshire moving again," he said Wednesday. After reciting the ritual declaration that he seeks a second term months into his Bush said he is confident quest for it Americans won't opt for fresh faces with stale ideas. "Voters know the difference between a sound bite and a sound policy," he said. But challenger Patrick Buchanan's nine-wee- k campaign does seem to have had some effect; a top Bush strategist said the president's side has learned anew that personal campaigning is the key to success in New Hampshire. So in the final days before Tuesday's primary, either the president or Barbara Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle or Marilyn Quayle have been in the state every day to seek Republican support. The campaign official, speaking on condition of anonymhaven't sufficed. ity, said other stand-in- s With Buchanan and five Democratic presidential candidates campaigning intensively, surrogates from the Cabinet and Congress can't claim enough attention to get die Bush message across . Buchanan trails far behind the president in the polls. The president doesn't campaign against him by name, but the target was evident when he denounced isolationists. "Boil away all the tough talk, all the swagger and all the patriotic posturing an. protectionism amounts to nothing more than a smoke screen for a country that's running scared," Bush told the New Hampshire Legislature. Buchanan insists he's not a protectionist, but says he would enforce fairness on Japan and other exporters because "I don't think we ought to be trade wimps . ' ' As Bush campaigned, Buchanan said over the White House is in "semi-panihere I came "Until his challenge. they up behaved as if they did not care," he said. c" New Hampshire voters have earned a reputation for volatility in the closing days of their primary campaigns, and the Bush organization came prepared to step up television advertising if necessary. And Bush said long ago that he'll do whatever it takes to win a second term. Disposing of the Buchanan challenge, soon, would help. That would take a runaNew way Bush victory in hard-timHampshire, and probably in their next es Geor-- ' - There's no rule to define the margin that would add up to a Bush victory in New Hampshire, and he isn't venturing any forecasts. But there are guidelines in the state's election history. Bush gained 63 percent of the New Hampshire vote when he carried the state in the 1988 presidential election. Buchanan cites the 42 percent showing of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy against President Lyndon B. Johnson m 1968 as the kind of challenger's share that would stag- -' ger the president politically . But 32 percent of the GOP primary vote in 1972 was cast against Richard M. Nixon, for a challenger on the left and another on the right, neither of whom was able to wage a campaign comparable to Buchanan's. Fourteen percent splintered away from ' Ronald Reagan in 1984, when the most ' recognizable alternative on the ballot was . Harold E. Stassen. Bush came back to campaign over the weekend. A dozen years ago on a Saturday night, Reagan taught him the lesson about the microphone. They were rivals for the 1980 Republi- can nomination, and Bush had upset Rea- gan in the Iowa Republican caucuses. He came to New Hampshire claiming "Big Mo" momentum, but it didn't last. And whatever was left evaporated that night in Nashua, when Reagan commandeered the microphone in a dispute over the rules of a campaign debate, saying he'd paid for it ; and intended to use it. He did, and Bush wound up vice president. Now, he reminds New Hampshire conservatives, "my friend and yours, my supporter, President Ronald Reagan" is on his side. big drinker, but was a generous host. Be- tween Aug. 8, 1775, and March 19, 1776, he spent at least $6,160 ($308,018 in to-day's terms, or $38,500 a month) for liq- - Jack Anderson One UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE war-pinch- ed that is all I desire." Fourteen years later, when Washington was elected president, he again offered to take no salary, but expenses only. Congress, having seen his expense accounts, respectfully declined. They awarded him a salary of $25,000 a year ($1.25 million today), and Washington later complained that it was simply not enough to live on. We were led to this story by the General Accounting Office, which had some original ledger sheets signed by Washington. If the GAO had been around in Washington's day, his expenses would have been curtailed. Washington was used to fine living, having married the wealthiest widow in Virginia, Martha Custis. And he wasn't about to setde for less just because there was a war on. Estimates vary for the value of Continental dollars compared to today's currency. The ratios are anywhere from $20 to $100 today for every dollar in Washington's day. We've settled on $50 for pur-- ; j uor. ar poses of estimating how much Washington spent in today's terms. The National Archives obligingly let our associate Dale Van Atta examine Washington's original expense-accoubook. The britde, yellowing document is kept in a vault there. From the beginning of the war, Washington betrayed his taste for the best. On the first day that he kept accounts, he spent $7,845 ($392,000 in today's terms) for five horses and a carriage. Two things are evident from our research: There were plenty of frills that Washington considered to be "necessaries, and claimed for his personal property after the war; and neither he nor his servants lowered themselves to bargain for the best price. In November 1781, a month after the British surrendered at Yorktown, Washington recorded the purchase of 20 pounds of tea for "public use." No doubt the troops deserved a cup after all that had been thrown overboard in Boston. But the price Washington paid was the equivalent of $ , 1 70 a pound in 1992 money. Washington's household expenses during die war came to $157,330 ($7.87 million today.) He savored fine food and gained 28 pounds during the war. He even charged die government for ice cream, a novelty in his day. Washington was not a nt 1 ' ; George Washington cost colonial taxpayers plenty - WASHINGTON George Washington's birthday will be celebrated today by people going to malls and scooping up discounted merchandise. But "discount" was a concept Washington never underRevolutionstood. During the eight-yeary War, Gen. Washington ran through an expense account roughly equivalent to $22.5 million today, all paid for by colonial taxpayers. When Washington agreed to become commander-in-chieof the colonial armies f in 1775, Congress offered him a salary of $25,000 $500 a month. It was generous but Washinga month in today's terms ton turned it down. "I will keep an exact account of my expences," he said. "These I doubt not (Congress) will discharge, and ' 1 ' or two barbers did well on his account. He listed nearly $500 (or $25,- 000) for barbers in the first year of the war. Today, a barbering bill of roughly-$2,000 a month would demand a close look at the general's coiffure. But barbers often doubled as dentists, and Washing--ton'notoriously bad teeth needed more attention than his hair. One of the more intriguing household expense categories was "washing," on which he spent $1,141 (the equivalent of $57,031) in six years. Journals of the day make it clear that it was acceptable among gentiemen to pay the washer woman or her ' daughters for services other than laundry, with no scandal attached. But without benefit of supermarket tabloids to record the story, we have no way of knowing if that is why Washington's laundry bill was so high. The general had to be mindful of Martha, who made several visits to the front with a full entourage. The last expenditure in his book is for $27,665 ($1.4 million in today's money) for "Mrs. Washington's travell Exps. in coming to and returning from my Winter Quarters per accts. rens , dered." Washington knew this one would need some explanation. He apologized for. dumping all of Martha's travel expenses-intone final bill, and said he had his doubts about whether it was proper to bill the government at all. But, he wrote, the war had kept him away from his family longer than he had planned, "and this expence was incidental thereto. " . ', J |
