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Show DESERET Can America learn to tighten its belt? JOHN By 0 i Easiness Analyst - NEW YORK For (AP) centuries the prototype of spirit, American, free beblessed with abundance, lieved there was no end to his resources, to his potential, to the means for satisfying his needs and dreams. Now he. is faced with the possibility of having to do without lean red .without meat eve-- y day of the week, without the freedom to drive his caf wherever he pleases because there isnt enough Igasolmd to go around. He watched his country acknowledge its military and political limitations and he sees the dollar, symbol of Ameri can productivity, embattled the world. He 'throughout shudders at his nation's inability to solve domestic prob' ' lems. There are, he is finding, limtwo mese massive demands without destroying itself has been reached. Like the closing of be frontier dampened that American spirit in the late i9th century, planetary limitations seem to be imposing restraints today. But the demand for more Solons study gold bon repeal WASHINGTON (AP) A congressional committee heard arguments Wednesday for repeal of the ban on pn. vate ownership of gold and witnessed what may have been u violation of that law. Charles Curley, associate director of the National Committee to Legalize Gold, said it was a violation and that he setit up as such. Before the House Banking Subcommittee convened, Curley placed on the witness table a transparent plastic case containing a blob of yellow metal stamped with an assayers symbols It's a bar of illegal gold, Curley told two-oun- news- NFjVS, THURSDAY, A9 MARCH 15, .1973 After Curley had retrieved and pocketed it, a reporter asked what he thought had been proved. 1 "We violated the gold reserve act and congressmen were involved, Curley replied. He said the bar had been purchased on the private market in Canada and brought into and retained in the United States Ln violation of the - The bar remained on the table, apparently unnoticed, while Sen. James A. McClure and Rep. Steven D. Symms, both Idaho Republicans, argued for repeal of the section of the 1934 gold reserve act that forbids U.S. citizens to own or trade m gold bullion. act. At Wednesdays prices on the Zurich market, two ounces of gold would be worth $160 J McClure told the subcommittee it is an anomaly for but not the Treasury to say gold should be it .... The logical step take the obvious step to is to stop treating it as special and allow it to be traded. But during a recess, the congressional witnesses and committee members gathered around the bar and passed it around for closer looks - itations. . Forrest N. Shumway, president and chief executive officer of The Signal Companies, a giant petroleum products company, described in an interview with John Barbour of the Associated Press how it was before we recognized lim- itations: The United States has been an energy waster since time immemorial. The philosophy .of the people has been built on cheap energy. The utilities 'have spent their entire lives trying to sell more and more. I can remember when we 'built a building in downtown Los Angeles, we were told by the utility, Leave all the lights in the building on. Its spectacular. Itll be good advertising for you, and it costs just about as little to leave them on as It does to hire a guy to go around and shut them off And this was like 1960, a year in said Shumway, which many Americans first heard of The New Frontier, th- - spint of which was that problems existed merely to be overcome. Now there is an energy cri-, sis and the electric utilities are urging customers to save watts. Lumber producers are worried about shortages. The federal governments says a money shortage forbids spending for worthy projects. Most other countries never believed I that material progress was1 inevitable, but many Americans still do. Imbued with the frontier spirit, they feel that the material benefits are yourS if you work for them. Burkhard Strumpel of the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, revealed recently the findings of a study of American workers and consumers; No less han S4 per cent of our sample of young heads of households (interviewed in Detroit and Baltimore in 1971) expect they (will be better off a year from now. Adds Strumpel; And if five vears Uom now their standards of livirtg were the same, 58 per cent would be outright 4 dissatisfied. 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