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Show Off and Running Ray Cromiey Soviet Hangs Out Help Want~d Sign Dedicated to the Progress And Growthof Central Utah abroad write that the Soviet Union is now E Sunday. December 12,1971 Page S0—THE HERALD,Provo, Utah making4 almostfrenzied effort to attract foreign skills, sophisticated technical equipment and capital to develop the vast resources in that rich land Assuring Survivalof Arts More than 600 million Americans visit museums each yeur. Over 12 . million go to symphony Millions more attend opera, ballet and other performances. Lincoln Center outsells Yankee Stadium three to one. All told, we spenu about $2billion annuallyon the arts and everything that fits under that broad heading. Yet at the same time, orchestras are in the red, museumsare being forced to curtail services and many fine arts organizations are balanced on the edge of bankruptcy. In spite ofincreasing interest, the arts are not flourishing. For example, when the Boston Symphony Orchestra was organized 90 years ago, it served a city of 350,000. Todayit is still the only major orchestra in a metropolitan area of nearly 2 million. Unfortunately, broadcasting networks do not lay out great bundies of cash to televise the “‘Symphonyof the Week,”etc., as they do with pro football and other sports. And just as if someone was reaching into thetill and taking the money away, inflation is reducing the ability of the arts and ofartists to Arctic Zones ? With the help of OSO-7 (the orbiting Solar Observatory), space administration scientists have discovered that the sun is cooler at its north andsouth poles, just like the earth. Well, something like the earth. The satellite’s measurements show that while the temperature of the corona, the sun's upper atmosphere, is 3.6-million degrees over most of the surfaceofthe star, over the poles it drops down to about 1.8 million degrees. Brrr. For despite Soviet propaganda to the contrary, it is serve the community. The ability of the people to give is Deing cut by the sameinflation. Business can raise prices when its costs go up. Government can rais® taxes. But whatare the arts io do? Toraise ticket prices beyond certain limits is to exclude the public. To Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian and aretools of the state; always attack America; resist any criticism of Tron Curtain problems. And con- tinued influence of Russian churchmenin the Council has mutedits neutral stance sothat it is decidedly anti-American. And the Digest names names. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Council leader, has been too cordial to the Communist-bloc churchmen. In 1954 he got the State Department to let them attend a meeting held at Evanston, Ill. And when someof the Czech and Hungarian pastors returned to their homeland, they said bad things aboutthe U.S.A. The most notorious, according to writer Clarence Hall, is Dr. Josef Hromadka of Prague whodescribed the United States as a “nation of gangsters.” He must have watched too much television. Other faults are listed, but the impartiality of the World Council is documented aslostor fading and the Russians are pushing everyone around and never want Westerners to ask about the slave-labor camps. Some ofthe criticism is correct. But this is not all the Russians need. It is a much iarger problemfor them to obtain the capital and required to reduce costs is to cut the very ser- build modern plants, exploit natural resources and to improve farming and stock raising to match the gains of the United States, Japan and West Germany. There is reason tc believe the Russians are becoming convinced they are nct able to make t.ese advances internally. They are !osing decisively in the economicrace. The curver »f a few years back which showed the Soviet Union overtaking the United States before the end ofthis century were accomplished through a simplistic use of “I believe we must ask for a wholly new priority for the arts in this country,” says Amyas Ames, chairman of the board of New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. ‘We should do for the arts and humanities in the 1970s whatwe did for the sciences in the 1940s and 1950s.”” Current federal funding for the National Endowment of the arts provides almost $30 million. But this, he argues,is not adequate for a nation of 200 million people. It amounts to about 15 cents a person. Ames asks support for new legislation to provide federal aid equal to at least 10 per cent of what Americans now spend on the arts. This would be $200 million a year, about $1 a person. It would compare with $1.40 per person spent on the arts in Canada, $2in Sweden and Austria and $2.42 in West Germany. It is only 1 per cent of what we spend on roads each year—the cost of about 15 miles of super-highway. It would still leave 90 per cent of the support of the arts to be paid from ticket sales and from thegifts of individuals, corporations and by local government subsidy. “What we ask is modest when measured in terms of other federal projects,” says Ames. “Aboveall, what we ask for is a wholly new priority for the arts and humanities—for that which gives our lives richness and meaning.” Council members from the West havenot been as careful or diligent about the delicate balance that a world Christian body must main- tain. On the other hand, Christianity does not belong to the United States or Scotland. Its people are everywhere and we mustlisten even as we want to be heard. Frankly, the shocking disappointmentof the Digest series is its lack of relevance or contemporary tone. Mostof the quotations are 10 and 15 years old. The broadside against Josef Hromadka may have been fair in 1954 but makes no mentionof his attack in 1968 against the Russians and their rap of Czechoslovakia. He addressed U.S.S.R. Ambassador Chervonenko in Prague by saying: “My deepest feeling is of disillusionment, sorrow and shame.In mylifetime there has been no greater tragedy than this event (the Russian invasion)...1 am afraid that among our people something has happened which cannot be rectified—a loss of love and respect for the Soviet people which will not be overcome for many decades. The bond of friendship between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union has been destroyed.” Dr. Blake, castin this article as a smiling, hand-shaking dumb animal, is easily one of the most astute Christian leaders in the world today. He wasthefirst major church official to blow the whistle on James Forman and his Marxist demands that the churches mathematical projections. a Cae HenryJ. Taylor fron Curtain Countries WantCredits, Not Trade Commerce Secretary Maurice @ $125 million sale of U.S. ore‘H. Stans, fresh from Iron mining and oil-drilling i for more U.S. equipmentand our purchase of Russian nonferrous metals. Ard a dangerous willo’-the-wisp. Mr. Stans’s 11-daytrip to Soviet Union and some satellites was an outstanding personal success. We could not possibly have a better man afootin the world for world trade. The Iron Curtain countries, however, are nottalking about trade. They’re talking aboutcredits. This is the difference we must realize — a difference which packs a backlash so powerful that we can end up what hit us, like the Dutch comedian asking, ‘‘Wha’ ned?” Mr, Stan’s departmenttells me that validated export licenses to Iron Curtain countries in this year’s third quarter were $206.5 million. But that contains an unrevealed story I encountered in Rome. A full $162 million of this $206.5 million is for foundry equipment for Russia’s Kama River truck plant being built by Fiat. And Fiatis already outon such a long limb “in this $1 billion commitmentthat bee Attack on World Council Misfires Polish Orthodox churches as members of the World Council. The Digest piece argues that the Christians from Communist nations investments or credits in such semi-strategic fields as computers. vices the community demands. David Poling, D.D. In the GCctober issue of the Reader’s Digest, the statement is made that the World Council of Churches “‘is using church power and church funds to back insurrection in the United States an Africa.”” This column has already responded to that statement, but no Part II of the Digest attack on the World Council appears in November to ask 17 million American readers: “Has this ecclesiastical United Nations becomejust another platform from which communism seeks to flay the free world?” The main point of the second article is the presence of the precisely in technological devel ent and the accumulation of expansion or venture capital that the Soviet system has failed. And it gives promise of failing in the future unless there is outside help. Without discouming Moscow’s concern over China,it‘is nevertheless this desperate need for capital to sustain laggin; industrial and agricultural progress that may drive M loscow toward some sort of accommodation with the United States. It may be eno th of an accommodation to get President Nixon to relax S. controls over some types of highly technical exports and over American pay black reparations. Blake’s press conference two years ago challenged the assertions of the black liberation-urban guerrilla theology that ran wild for a season. And he cameall the way to New York from Geneva to makehis point. Too bad the Digest wasn’t there » Overextended Fiat Poona had to be relieved this added $162 million weight. On Mr. Stans’s last day in Moscow he witnessed signing of Trade Kazimierz Olszewski asked for a U.S. catalyticcracking petroleum plant re with our American technologi know-how. All this has a familiar ring. The Iron Curtain - countries need from us (often for war) what they ask to buy, or they would not touch U.S. products with a 10-foot pole. Then the history of this ‘‘trade”’ is thatthe Tron Curtain countries quit buying th ie moment they have their full or can get what they need from one another. . For 50 years the Reds have always talked big and bought little beyond their temporary, bottleneck items — and then stuck the outsider with the bill. The wise Swiss, for example, learned better. Switzerland, Europe’s most industrialized country next to and Belgium, produces nearly everything the Iron Curtain countries need. Yet Switzerland ‘shuns this trade like a plague as a totally impractical and dangerously costly will-o’-the- wisp. The will-o’-the-wisp record shows that, after the initial ballyhooes such as Premier Alexsei N. Kosygin staged for Mr.Stans in Moscow,the sellers are hit by endless cancellations, arbitrary rejections of products, outrageous downward contractprice adjustments, and outright Letter to Editor Libertian Philosophy Editor Herald: Ithas now become a any man of indey We DC. nt to Now the time for all good ce and men to come to the defense of two-party, one philosophy political system o: elephants and donkeys (Republicans and Demecrats) has led us all into the mutual bondage of the welfare state. Mysolution to this decadent collectivism is a new credo called libertarianism. The libertarian demands liber the inviolate right to the property he has produced; he claims the right to exist primarily for his own sake and happiness insteadoffor the sake of the state or of other men. He deals with others by free trade and demands thatall force and fraud be barred from human relationships (which is the only legitimate function of government), His political symbols are the dollar sign ($) representing free trade and the rattlesnake with the inscription: laissez faire Karl J. Bray 425 W. 800 N. 0 Today In By United Press International Today is Sunday, Dec.12, the 346th day of 1971. The moonis between its last quarter and new phase. are The evening stars are Saturn, Venus, Mars and Mercury. under the sign . John Jay,first chief justice of the United States, was born Dec.12, 1745. Onthis dayin history: In 1792 Ludwig van BeeThe libertarian is the modern day Minuteman and he thoven, then 22 years old, paid recognizeshis rightto be free of 19 cents for his first music foreign, federal, state or local lesson. In 1901 a wireless rhessage tyrants. Herealizes thatthe real battle is the ideological battle of was sent across the Atlantic Treason, individualism and Ocean forthefirst time. In 1947 John L. Lewis ‘aissez faire capitalism versus altruism, collectivism and withdrew his United Mine mysticism. He knows that his Workers from the AFL for the right to bear arms and use them second time. In 1968 President-Elect Richto defend his alienable right to ard Nixon introduced all his Cabinet choices on a nationally broadcast news conference. This kind of man once existed A thought for today: Ameriproudly, but now he is a vanishing species due to the can writer Lloyd Garrison said, legislation pouring out of that “My country is the world, my center of tyranny which is countrymen are mankind.” (let alone). it backlash that costs youyour shirt, That’s what is happening to the West Germans. West year. The collection now reached crisis. In fact, it was a significant factor in the ghastly failure of the giant Krupp enterprises and likewise the Munemann industrial empire'scol Ditto in Italy in the failure of the vast Montiedison complex, and I have spoken already of Fiat. Such plungers into the willo’-the-wisp face colossal writeoffs while at the same time Italy paysbig bills for Russian oil. France's Iron Curtain Purchases have gone up 70 per cent since President Charles de Gaulle initiated an all-out East- _ Japan and West Germany. .” Personal Finance How to Read The Film Ads By CARLTON SMITH Snerdly took his family to hadn’t read the actual resee the newfilm at the Bijou, views—only the ads for the because all the critics film, which quoted from the seemed to agree it was an reviews, experience you just shouldn't When a Guild copywriter miss. They cameout of the applies his highly specialized West trade push. But France’s theater wishing they'd stayed skill of context-mangling to the reviews of a film, he is home and played cribbage, sales to Eastern Europe have careful to quote thecritic’s grown less than eight per cent — and saved their money. exact words, but he creativeand France is caught, evenso,in It made them feel pretty ly leaves out someofthe surthe same no-paymentbind. Japan’s widely ballyhooed depressed. Why should they rounding words. His ad, for Iron Curtain trade has increased think the film was such a example, reads: “Magnificent! . . . Made from virtually zero in 1962 to drag when all those critics about $550 million a year. had said it was so great? me cry!"—Werner, Daily Actually, however, incluides Maybe there was something Bugle much barter, which is hardly wrong with their taste? They “Moving!” — O’Brien, The profitable. Nor are the Japanese weren't cultured enough? Journal able to satisfactorily collect the “Tender!” — Plotkin, The if there is any moviegoer bills. Deliveries and sales are two in the audience who has not News And, the context from different things. You can deliver had this experience, please an icebox to an Eskimo,but if raise your hand. Youwill re- which the quotes were seyou don’t get paid have you ceive two complimentary lected: tickets to the next annual madea sale? Werner: ‘How can a diIf ur companies wantto take meeting and dinner dance of rector turn such a magnifitheir chances on payment,that’s the Guild of Motion Picture cent novel into such a Advertising Copywriters, at their worry. But Red proposals stinker of a movie? What to Mr. Stans, which alluded to which there will be a special they've done to it almost on “The Mangling U.S. government guarantees so seminar of Context in Critical Re- ‘made me cry.” thatour sellers can be sure to be O’Brien: “If they bring id, mean that if Red-bloc views.” Some knowledge of any morefilms like this to countries fail to pay the mangling is a must. town, I'm moving to the American companies can collect You see, what the Snerdlys Sandwich Islands.” from our taxpayers. thought the critics had said Plotkin: “If the editor Somebody should build a about the movie was not gives meanotherfilm as bad tombstone over that idea. It’s quite what the critics had as this one to review, I'm plain preposterous. really said. The Snerdlys going to tender my resignation.” Allright, soit’s a slight exaggeration. (Turn about is fair play.) What generally happensis that a critic can find something kind to say about a movie, a play or a book, even though he’s less than enthusiastic about the total performance. ‘‘There’s somefine acting here, but the story is so weak that the film is a huge bore.” What youseein the ads, of course, is ‘Fine acting!” Many critics have complained bitterly about this kind of selective distortion, to little or no effect. All they've been able to do is mutter, “There oughtto be a law.” And now,atlonglast, thereis. New York City’s Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, Bess Myerson, he~ added Regulation 18 to the list of things you can't do to a consumer, Applying to ads for films, books, plays and such, it “prohibits using a word or phrase from a review or comment in a way that distorts the conclusions or opinions of the review as a whole.” For violators, there’s a fine of up to $500. As the vio© lators might summarize it: “Fine!” “And if we can guarantee that no one in the Army Maybeit’s sucha fine idea will ever have to go to war again, we'll be able to rebuild it could spread to other parts the ol’ esprit in no time!” BEARY'S. WORLD History The morning stars Jupiter and Mercury. repudiations of terms. Moreover, you must agree to five, eight and 10-year payment provisions and then suffer the: The Russians for several years have analyzed Japan's technological revolution. They have noted that Japanese progress, in some meusure, has comethrough large-scale importation of new processes. The Japanese then, atlittle expense, modify these imported research results and translate them into equipment suited to their indusiry. It is perhaps a tenth as costly to buy the results of research and developmentasit is to go through the lengthy laboratory and field work in your own country. The Japanese, thus, at a cost of tens of millions of dollars have bought the results of hundreds of millions worth of U.S. research. This the Russians now want to do. But U.S. export restrictions are a hindrance. The Russians, bv a careful study of American technical magazines, by the purchase of patent descriptions and by an extensive system of industrial espionage directed at U.S. companies in Britain, France, Belgium and West Germany, have been able to make considerable progress in gaining the required technical information. They add to this knowledge the expertise of Russian scientists. But the bureaucratic grip of the Soviet Communist system has been so cumbersomethat the Russians lag farther and farther behind the United States in most applied technology. Though U.S.S.R. scientists may be ahead of their American cuunterparts in some of these crucial areas of pure science, they have not been able to translate theoretical concepts into workable machines and equipment with sufficient speed to compete with the United States, on,OE of the country. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) |