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Show William F. Buckley Jr. f Why Not Call It "Soviet Lenin? Suit tilu Sfibnitc lie Friday Morning, May 29, 190 Tage SO I did not come here to argue. MOSCOW On the other hand, I did not come here io be buried, so that when the lovely, efficient Controls on the Horizon There are those who believe it possible to talk the United States into a depression by giving too much emphasis to adverse economic indicators. It is far more dangerous, however, to ignore facts on the ground that eventually everything will i turn out all right. f In recent data, Democratic Party spokesmen and members of the Nixon have come into conflict on f economic problems. Treasury Secretary j David M. Kennedy looks forward to an upturn in the third quarter of the year. But two Democratic leaders, Mike Mansfield of the Senate and Orl B. Albert cl the House, believe President Nixons poll-- ! cies threaten "an economic ersis of major ' magnitude." These views could be the opposite aides of the same com. Republicans are i optimistic, partly because they have to be, kthe policy for controlling inflation being their creation. And Democrats tend to view with alarm, partly because they Interpret economic indexes differently, partly because it is the opjosition partys job to oppose. Even so, and ignoring partisan considerations, the economic weather is heavily overcast. Inflation has not been halted, unemployment is increasing, corporation earnings are slipping, stock prices, until this week, continued to fall despite occasional rallies. Memories of the 1929 crash which ush . ered in the Great Depression seem to give a degree of Wall Street's unabated But the upsurge in pertinence. ' wages and prices is of far greater For example, the New York Times e perfo-manc- con-'cer- n. and the Typographical Union have just negotiated a contract calling for 41.69 percent wage increase over the next three years. And this is only one of several extreme settlements. The Nixon administration opposes a e e freeze, guidelines n such as were tried in the administration, and jawboning; that is, the application of public pressure to labor and management. David Rockefeller, chairman of the $23 billion Chase Manhattan Bank, has just called on the Nixon Administration to urge both management and labor to take towrard "a more responsible attitude of and (Another way wages. saying prices "jawboning.") In Mr. Rockefellers opinion, if the government can hold out long enough, there is a good chance of a Flowing up in wages and prices. We are not that optimistic because we fear the time for effective jawboning has passed and believe more stringent measures are required. Democrats Mansfield and Albert have urged the President to convene a national conference to consider such possible altere controls and a pubnatives as lic works program. It would be even better to draft wage and price controls for prompt use w'hen and if necessary. Although no one likes controls, it may not be possible to avoid them much longer. Moreover, the knowledge controls were on the horizon could do more to chill the inflationary fever than all the public pressure the President and his advisers could possibly apply to management and labor. wcge-pric- wage-pric- Kennedy-John-so- wage-pric- Pull Over! The Public Forum Living in a Dream World Members of Congress dont really live In a dream world although it sometimes seems as if they did. j This week, for example, the Senate Tost Office Committee approved an 8 percent pay raise for 750,000 postal workers but refused to provide the necessary additional revenue by increasing rates as requested by President Nixon. The pay raise is part of a postal reform bill which has been approved by the House Post Office Committee. And since postal rates will be set by a special commission once the bill becomes law, the Senate committee may have thought that revision could wait until then. Unfortu-- ; liatcly, the reforms probably will not go into effect until Jan. 1 while the pay raise begins as soon as the President signs the Editor, Tribune: We have recently been hearing of the concerns of scientists and responsible groups about the coming population explosion. Backers of the Zero Population Growth movement contend that the maxi- ' Stacked Up Too Long :3;; The Interstate Highway System was in 1956 with the idea that ; established rthose who used the roads should pay for them. The new superhighways have been paid for by gasoline taxes deposited in the Highway Trust Fund, i This same philosophy is now to be ! applied to improving the nations airways. Under the Aviation Facilities Expansion and Improvement Act of 1969, signed by i President Nixon last week, some $5 billion in federal funds will be provided during i the next 10 years for automated aviation aids and airport modernization. The bulk .of this money will come from those who use the airlines. After July 1 domestic airline passen-- j gers will find their tickets costing 3 nor-- I cent more. This increase results from a I hike of from 5 to 8 percent in the excise tax charged on passenger tickets. The Jncw ticket tax is expected to raise nearly j $326 million in the first fiscal year the ! Visiliri" Cartoonist law is in effect, or 79 percent of the total annual income for the aviation facilities trust fund. Others providing the remaining 21 percent will include passengers on overseas flights including those to Hawaii and Alaska, purchasers of aviation fuel, persons shipping air freight, owners of aircraft ranging from the smallest private pianes to the jumbo jets and the buyers of aviation tires and tubes. Under the aviation facilities act about 20,000 more controllers will be added to the Federal Aviation Administrations traffic control system, aviation facilities will be expanded to include automated traffic control and hundreds of new airports will be built to relieve the congestion now plaguing most large cities. Although the financial approach to airway and airport modernization is very similar to that of the Interstate Highway System, we hope the promised improvements materialize much more quickly than the supei highways have. The need is more critical because the demand is proportionately greater. U.S. airways and airports, in many instances, are already close to suffocation. The nation cant wait much longer for better airports and better air traffic control facilities. The whole system has been "stacked up in a holding pattern" much too long. Hill Vaughan Orbiting Paragraphs LVi v r r Antarctica is attracting more tourist and scientific settlers, although so far there ate car washes no pizza parlors or three-minut- e If we had some money to invest righ' now. we think we'd sink it into the cost of living, which sprms to he about the only stock that's V A. going up. , I. - E nglfha-d- t m SI Lorn Pint O 'cch "Sweetie, theres somebody to see you about a women's liberation movement. IvcholngiMs are beginning to think that a man's handwriting tells a lot about his character. In our case, that means we are indecipherable. box has been sentenced for A hank robbing, an occupation which seems more successful than others in bridging the generation gap. from food Achieving ZPG new legislation. Those few months could put quite a bulge in the federal deficit. Aside from postal rates, the Senate and House versions are quite similar. There is, however, another difference that could cause trouble. The House bill makes the pay raise retroactive to April 18, a provision added to calm down the postal unions which are threatening to strike again. The Senate committee's bill ties the raise to the date the legislation finally clears Congress. And before the Senate itself votes, the unions undoubtedly will have plenty to say. We have endorsed postal reform from the beginning. The pending legislation appears to be a fair compromise. But the Senate should wake up to fiscal facts as its postal committee did not and vote for a raise in rates along with a raise in pay. , mum number of children a family should have is two. The contention is that those who have more children are contributing to the overpopulation of the world. I suggest we use the number two as an average rather than a number per family. Who are those that truly contribute to if any? A family with six overpopulation children may find it tough on the pocket book but if the children are truly wanted, loved and cared for in most cases they arent any ' burden on society any more than the average. A family with no parental responsibility, love or proper care presents more sociological problems and in that sense contributes to the overpopulation burden much mere than a .family of any size which is responsible. Who is to draw the line or set the standards for responsibility? Lets just say those who doni want children but have some and then dont face the responsiblity for them are the greater contributors to the problem. Since we cant legislate who can have and can't have children lets at least face the fact that the average growth would be at two children pr family and we could achieve ZPG if those who really wanted children had whatever they wished and those who wanled none had none. Who then is or will be Hie real contributor to the burden of overpopulation? Not necessarily the large family. JOEL STEWART Two-Face- Nation d Editor, Tribune: On May 16, President Richard Nixon asked that Americans now seriously practice restraint and compassion. lie spoke these fine words in the wake of violence, in particular the incidents at Kent State and Jackson State. He uttered a sympathetic plea after six of my collegiate comrades were victims of bullets; bullets from 10 years of Vietnam and now Cambodia. Where is Mr. Nixons compassion in Vietnam? Where was his restraint in Cambodia? He fails to show any compassion to our dilapidated cities. But we witnessed his attempts at restraining school desegiegation. How can he ask me to show and practice I refuse to lis"restraint and compassion? ten to a hypocritical president and a nation with two faces. Escalation does not bring does not bring unity. peace. Name-callin- g And death does not halt dissent. Mv restraint and compassion will be redirected to those who demand civil rights, to those who ,ne hungry, and those who demand an end to war in Southeast Asia. My restraint and compassion shall be redirected to ihe hettermen of all neonle, not a red. white, and blue flag which wages war to find pace. DICK CARTER Malnutrition By Our Headers Victim Editor, Tribune: Hate, greed, wars, demonstrations, riots, arson, shootings, crime, suicides, murder, sex, bombings, pollution, mounting traffic and disease deaths, drugs, suspicion, incompetent leaders, etc. We are rapidly becoming a race of compassionless robots, bent on destroying our ecology, ourselves and God. Why? There's got to bo a fundamental reason. What mechanism controls human behavior? The brain In turn, the body provides blood, oxygen and nutrients, without which the brain functions abnormally. Therefore, jf a body is poorly fed, it is logical lo assume the biain is likewise, and resounds preo x!inoy. George Watson and Andrew L. Com rev, faculty members at University of Southern California, treated a group of mental patienis, some of which were young students unable in concentrate school, and anolher group mental hospital. They were given a supplement containing Vitamins D, A, E, K, F, yeast, bone marrow, liver, flourine, lecithin, rutin, zinc gnd copper. The doctors reported: "The students were able to continue with college and showed new alertness. The older people were mentally ft rejuvenated. Obviously, these nutrients are essential for brain and body; without them, there can only be malfunction. Could this be the cause of the world's ills? Could it be that inhabitants are victims of malnufrition because our w-- bodies and brains cant possibly glean sufficient essential nutrition from the prevalent devitalized, chemically-loade- d foods? In 1946, a British physician discovered that dogs developed running fits when fed white bread containing & bleaching agent, nitrogen trichloride. It was not replaced until 1955, then by chlorine dioxide, an even more powerful bleaching gas. ASHBY , WALLACE Sunset The Meander Line Editor, Tribune: Apathy has become the 20th Century monster. Because it omits it commits. Its victims are saturated with a "dont careness which can become lethal. I wonder if Clark R. Mollenhoff, President Nixons special counsel, still believes he can have access to all income tax returns. Public Forum Rules Ctibiit Forum loiters must not bo moro than lit words In Itftgffc, must b submitted xctusivtfy H The Tribune and bear writer's tcM namto sifnaturt and address. Namas must ba a'inted n aahticat letters but may be withheld lor food reasons on others. Writers are limited to ono tetter every ten days. Prefer encs will be tiven letters pormittmf use tf true name, and ta these which are typed (double spaced) and sherf. confidence is low enough without that. I wonder if Laurence Burton is as cozy with the American Medical Assn, as when he worked so hard with them to defeat Medicare? It is reported that the federal budget is out of balance $11 billion and that the President's entertainment budget in the first few months of this year is overdrawn $100,000. Unemployment is increasing, our boys are still dying, the stock market is flat. It locks like things aren't too good. We still haven't hpard who paid back all of the money missing from Washington Square or who got the reported profits from the Cardiff land deal. MAUD B. KIMBALL Hvjmcritic Oath Editor, Tribune: We are fast becoming a total environment of hypocrites. For openers, our esteemed congressmen voted a 40 percent salary increase for ihemselves and now exert pressures to control inflation. We have the dichotomy of the government spending vast sums of money via the puolic henlih service exhorting us with inane subtleties that cigarettes "kill." while at the same time paying huge subsidies to the growers of tobacco. We have an FCC acting as a moral watchdog on communication media, but allows violence in all i's gutty forms, advertising of deodorants wiih all its vivid description of "wetness (yeccht!), the relative softness of toilet tissue and the soft indoor voice describing the carthartic virtues of "Preparation II. We have women striving for equal rights in the women's liberation movement with their dreary line that they are tired of being sex objects, but coniinup to wear mini and micro skirts as an aphrodisiac, and would scream in unison if the laws were changed from forcible rape" to "tape hv aenuies-cenr- o We arc sufferin' from a group of lc"is!a-tor- s d who a law that wp could go to the church of our clour on Sunday hnl not tb" shonnng cent er of our choice, and it took 17 lawyers and a judge who whip a cloak of b"nevoence and common sense io rule the hw unconstitutional. Stop ihe world, I'm heading for Thnreau's Walden." FRED G. DRIGGS Viola void us that all medicine in the Soviet Union is free, I found out, blurting myself "Nothing is free, Viola. Oh yes, she said, "it is free. I make 120 rubles per month, and out of that I pay only seven rubles in taxes, and I get free medicine, and free doctor's care, and if I get SO persick, and cannot work any more, I get cent of my salary, and if I were older, I would get 100 percent." One hundred and twenty rubles will cost which is on no you. on the free market account to be confused with the Russian marabout $125. ket I didnt tell Viola that if she was making $125 per month in the United States she would be paying no taxes at all, and Michael Harrington would have her on the cover of his next book. And I didn't mention that the black market price for one of Solzhenitsyn s novels is 80 rubles, or two and one half weeks, salary. One of Solzhenitsyn's books has been read aloud over the air very slowly, in installments. by Radio Liberty. All over Russia there are avid readers who, even as the letters of St. Paul were received, write out Solzhenitsyn, type out the entire book, and pass it about, like the ancient tablets, from catacomb to catacomb. Viola would have been distressed at this kind of talk, and she is not the kind who invites it. t Complete, Innocent Faith in her country and its leaders is faith Her and very innocent. Such is her complete very sensitivity that after having to identify the or railroad station, or tenth monument as the Lenin Monument, or the museum Lenin Railroad, or the Lenin Stadium, or the Lenin Museum, she began to alter the line just a little bit, to soften the suffocating beat. This is Prospekt Street. It is named after Lenin. Then she said, "You must have to understand, that we feel a very special feeling for Lenin. I think that even If I could, I would not have taken Lenin away from Viola. I have always despised the village atheist. They are not, of course, all that way. I found myself for the very first lime in my life breaking bread with professional members of an ideological community of people bent upon doing their very best to vex an uneasy world, and if necessary to do to it terrible things that have been done to their own country. I asked the gentleman on my right when last had he been in the United States, and he answered not since he drove down with Mr. Kosygin to Glassboro, to see Fresident Lyndon Johnson. Few Cars on Airport Road Oh yes, I twitted, I remember that very well, remember especially envying you and Mr. Kosygin driving down the New Jersey Turnpike without, courtesy of the U. S. government, a single other car obstructing you. I added On the other hand you people did as much for me when I drove in from the airport yesterday, ho ho ho. The allusion to Lenins failuie to provide his people with automobiles was, if understood by my dinner companion, unappreciat1 te ed. The gentleman on my left, w h a superior sense of humor, told me about his daughter, 15, and his boy, 20. Neither hat! he, the father, been in America for several years. But the last time he Was there, he picked up a paperback copy of Harold Robbins "The Carpetbaggers, a lusty tale of lust. Keeps Book for Son He told me that he kept the book until his son's 20th birthday, at which point he presented it to him with the observation that now he was old enough to read it. Old enough to read it? said his son. Why, I read that book three years ago. I laughed, and asked him whether this was the Russian's generation gap, and he answered that well, he had always thought until there was a generation gap in Russia he went to America, and now by comparison he doesn't think there is a generation gap in Russia. I tried again Ho ho ho I guess America excels you even in that ! He smiled hugely, but one wondered whether he'd have felt, if there was an audience there of Violas, that hed durst have smiled at a comic inversion of the sacred creed of Soviet superiority. I mean, what does Foreign Minister Gromyko do to people who smile? Send them to Russia? But as I say, I am not here to argue. Thp man at thp next desk phoned In the bp at work on account of hp was feeling somewhat polar- other day to say he wouldnt ized. 'Hie Famuli Cartoon What have you DOME I TOR YOU IT I COUNTRY j I TODAY I Mr, 7' I oo-s- 1 1 - - j' : . ' y' U'v v y Campaign Slogan for Both Parties. |
