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Show Bruce Biossat Club Is Visible With Phase Two Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah Wednesdav, October 20,1971 Page 26—THE HERALD,Provo, Utah ee Impos Attitudesin WelfareProblem As with mosteverything else these days, there are two extreme itions on the “welfare crisis.” The one holds that welfare recipients are too dumb or ay to makeit in .ae workaday world, or that most of them arecheating. The other extreme is well delineated by a letter written to the Wall Street Journal awhile back b} Richard Gould of New Yor University’s New Careers Training Laboratory Denouucing the idea of welfare recipients as lazy, dumb ard-or chiselers as a “typically American” view. Gould warns that the poor “will no longertolerate the unethical gap between the idea) of empiopment opportunity and the reality. “The recipient demands the right to choose a job with an opportunity to get out of poverty permananently. Since society does not provide this, he exercises bis right to welfare. “In the past, by exercising this right he could escape his dirty-work fate. Not so any longer. In increasing numbers, welfare recipients are being forced to take the very jobs they find demeaning and dead-end. This is a weird and upsetting iorm of psychological punishmentand imprisonment. without time, they have greater leadership opportunities than they would have ina university where men hold most of the important student governmentoffices. So They Say Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be wor- shiped. — Calvin Cooledge. Thesins ye do by two and two ye mustpayfor one by one. — Rudyard Kipling. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. — Albert Einstein, noted physicist. may be fortheom ly different ff new ta xes the process of individual opportunity in the nation.” 0 lay ¢ nw g down may s a » “OKTil ADD MORE WEAPONS TO YOUR’ ARSENAL” Whatis wrong, says Gould,is that welive in a technical, credentialed, knowledge-and education-oriented time. Large dosesof skills, basic und advanced education dipiomas and degrees are needed. The process of providing oprtunity simply needs reworking, Ee says. The individual shouldn't be the only one responsivle for credentials. Corporations and public institutions should assist him over the hurdles out of poverty. Tnere should be no great argument with this. Helping people to get off and stay off public assistance should be the aim of any sensible welfare program. But if the one view errs in characterizing all _—welfare beneficiaries as dumb, iazy or dishonest, the other view errs in believing that all of them arethirsting for full-time, open-ended employment and, failing that, are demanding to be maintained permanenrtly in idleness. Byvirtueof a revision in state law, New York City has begun pate thousands of its able-bodie unemployed to work at ‘‘demeaning, dead-end” jobs, such as raking trash off park lawns (and, incidentally, trimmingits welfare rolls by some 20 per cent in those who nolonger show up for their checks.) The revealing thing has been the reaction of the “forced laborers.” A number of them are young men who havenot yet found any goalinlife. Others are ren who long agolost whatevergoals they may have had. Rather than being resentful, they seem to be appreciative of the chance to do something useful for soviety in returnfor their keep, or so they have told questioning observers. Actually, both extreme views on welfare converge. Essentially, both boiled down to the belief that nothing is to be expected from the poor and the disadvantaged. Thus one would deny them the rights, the other would deny them the responsibilities, of full citizenship. It is a toss-up which attitude is the more demaning. ®. against the United Nations: (1) The U.S.puts up the bulk of UN funds. This share amounts to 32.52 percent, according to one basis of reckoning, and more than 50 percent according to another. This year's UN budgettotals $192,149,300. ‘Thatincludes an8 percent pay hike voted to UN employeesthatis costing U.S. taxpayers $1.5 million. The total raise was $5,034,000. (2) Defaults and arrears in UN dues and other payments now exceed $190 million. Manyofthe countries that supported the pay increase arein debt to the UN — in a number of instances runninginto millions of dollars. Foremost amongthe nationsin default (on the basisof latest available official figures) are; Russia, $64,530,882; France, $21,326,662; $6,693,692; Czechoslovakia, $5,884,952; Hungery, $2,896,995; Argentina, $2,157,878; South Africa, $1,896,735; Mexico, $1,641,410; Rumania, $1,613,322; Bulgaria, $783,074. Seven of these 11 leading fund-owing countries are Communist ruled. All are among the most persistent and Tancorous denouncers of the U.S. Secretary General U. Thant, who sometimes has diffiew!ty masking his anti- U.S: bias, gets $50,000 salary, tax-free, plus a bid aNage “representation allowance” boration of all major elements r Phase I will work at all in at pervading this explosion is screaming at us that something is radically wrong with Congress May Cut Funds if UN Boots Out Taiwan By ROBERTS. ALLEN neral The real crimeis that the welfare Inside Washington WASHINGTON — Two long-standing grievances are powerfully compounding the widespread Congressional anger at theUnited Nations over the dire possibility Nationalist China maybe booted out. ‘The openly-voiced bipartisan threat to slash United Nations funds in retaliation is very real. Thereis a lot offire behind that smoke. Not only is there extensive sentiment for doingthat,but theleadersirately mean it and havethelegislative clout to doit. Potently reinforcing this wrathy intention are the two long-standing resentments the “Welfare is a right, not a crime. crises Secondly, and another $12,000 as “post adjustment allowance.” In addition, he is furnished a residence in a fashionable section and a chauffeured limousine. Before becoming Secretary General. the Burma native never earned more than $7,500 a year. Another Victim If Nationalist China is expelled from theUN, thatis virtually certain to have highly adverse effect on the pending multi-billion dollar foreign aid legislation. This program already is widely unpopular in Congress. In the past several years,its budget narrowly squeaked through the House. It wouldn’t take more than a handful of votes to kill it. Seating Communist Peking while axing Nationalist Taiwan could produce them. Bipartizan feeling is that strong. A key reason for this seething Congressional anger is that the chief beneficiaries of the tensofbillions the U.S. has ladled out in foreign aid are the undeveloped countries — in the forefrout of the clamor for admitting Peking and unseating Taiwan. That fateful rolleall will be intently scrutinized on Capito! Hill. Itrmay well determinenotonlythe future of the United Nations butalso the U.S. foreign to Likes Rail Right-of-Way As Route for Highway matching the earlier excesses. There will also be immensepressure from unions whose existing contracts contain systematic wage-escalation fea tures which were rendered temporarily inoperative in Phase And many businesses wi Il be whooping for big price boosts on the ground that r nalerial and other costs have risen, even though wages h. ave largely been held firmin ecent months no negotiation under intimidation.” Within hours, a would-be bank robber in Georgia kidnaped a banker andhis family, When he fired on FBI men, they shot him — dead. A few summers ago street rioting, subaued gently, spread nationally. Surely if the Attica prison cons had been granted all their demands there'd have been a pox of that, There hasn’t been. but the p ple of this nation havecome to expect steadily rising €. an nic rewards wil thout regard to performance. We have fallen inte th habit it of expecting and demanding more for doing the e work—orless. For probably the last two 0 decades, our economic performance has beenslipping. This is not a subjective judgme It is measurable objectively by the severe decline Usually, after some con- in our world trading position relative to our more ener- sequential tragedy, hindsighters are generous with advice on how it might have been avoided. T've heard no responsible person offer any reasonable alternatives to the final confrontation at Attica. President The new-born price comm nission and pay board will be functioning from guidelines fixed by them, to judge what post-Noy. 13 increases may be reasonable. But the cir cumstances here set forth m nake it plain their task will be monumental. It will be madestill tougher by a third elementin the present climate. getic, ime ginative rivals abroad Theprice and pay boards will be taking incredible heat as they deal with these pressures. They could crack under them PERSONAL FINANCE Agnew, praising Gov. Rockefeller for “acting most courageously,” said it’s extremists on the outside who are fomentingrebellion inside prisons. Such as Panthers who vow to “chop off the head”of a United States senator, as one did vow. Such as misleaders who proclaim they aim to “kill a lot of cops and judges,” as one did roclaim. Such as the other who threatenedto “slit every throat” that gets in his way. It may be a consequence of affluence, ae’ iP»! There's Big Land Rush in Mexico By CARLTON SMITH United States was earlier in Before you mortgage the old homestead, hock thesilverware and head for Mexico with all you can scrape together, to make your fortune in the land rush pause just one moment. the century. Its birth rate is twice that of the United States. It has a stable, rapidly expanding economy and the peso is one of the hard currencies of the world. Fortunes will be made in real Yes, it's true there’s a Agnewsays the lesson of the “gold rush” on, as glowingly estate there as they were century is that giving in to the reported in at least one herein an earlier era. demands of the forces of major U.S. newspaper. A What set off the reported violence begets a greater new Mexican law opening land rush was an amendthe door to foreigners started violence. ment to Mexico's constituFor a while,atleast, I believe the rush, and within about tion. Formerly, foreigners two months the value of had been prohibited from we have learned that lesson. Our nation’s recent preoc- property in some choice lo. owning land within 60 miles cupation with the rights of cations doubled. of a border, or within 30 wrongdoers at the expense of Fortunes are going to be miles of a seacoast. They their victims derives from the made — nodoubtofit. They could lease, only, and for not Warren Court decision which already have been. And as more than10 years. inhibited our lawmen and the word spreads, some Since May, foreigners have earnest and plausible-soundhamstrung our courts. been allowed to acquire Timeand President Nixon are ing gentleman may present property rights in these shifting the high court's you with an opportunity to areas, including many of triple or quadruple awesome weight from left to double, Mexico's choicest. Several your money. He can show phase and first quarter. right. large investment syndicates you, with proof, figures like The morning star is Saturn. And after an open season of these ($=pesos/sq. meter): have been formed, and are The evening stars are Mercu- profaned police, country-club In Acapulco, beachfront buying land on speculation. ry, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. prisons and courtroom carThose born on this day are nivals, there’s less such now. property up from $400 to A gold rush, yes—but before you start packing . . . $3,500 since 1965, under the sign of Libra. We haveat least a reprieve In the San Angel area, ‘Some of the U.S. press American educatorJohn De- from the endanticipated by Will Mexico City: $8 in 1940, $300 reports may have created an wey was born Oct. 20, 1859. Durant when,hesaid, our nation in 1961, $750 in 1966, $1,500 exaggerated impression of On this day in history: would would be destroyed by the today, what is happening in MexiIn 1918 the Germans accepted multiplication of our own S a re: President Woodrow Wilson's nation’s home-grown bar- There are examples by the can real estate, liable advisory service, “The score. Mexico is being ur. terms to end World War I. barians. banzed rapidly, as the Mexican Investor.” PubIn 1544 American troops lished in English, in Mexico landed on the eastern coast of City, i registered here the island of Leyte in the with the Securities and ExPhilippines, Gen. Douglas Mac- TEAMWORKWILL BEAT INFLATION change Commission as an Arthur, forced off the island 242 investment advisor. years before, said as he strode First off, foreigners are ashore, “I have returned.”” still not allowed direct ownIn 1964 former President ership in the formerly reHerbert Hoover died at the age stricted areas, it explains of 80. The landis held in trust for foreign investors, for 30 A thought for today: British years, in the central bank statesman Edmund Burkesaid, apparatus. The investor is “I do not know the method of entitled to all profits, from drawing up an indictment development or resale, du'against a whole people.” Falls. Drive over the road a few times arid I think you will agree with me. Edward Davidson By United Press International 368 E. 400 N., Provo OTTAWA — Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, commenting on the assault of Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin by a Hungarian emigre: “Tt makes one ashamed at the way somepeople in Canada seem to be more interested in problems elsewhere than in By United Press International exercising Canadian democratic Today is Wednesday, Oct. 20, rights and respecting the basic the 293rd day of 1971. laws of our country.” ‘The moonis betweenits new TodayIn History SAIGON—South Vietnamese Sen. Vu Van Mau, responding to President Nixon's letter to President Nguyen Van Thieu, in which Nixon expressed the belief that the South Vietnamese would “implement their right to determine their own future” during Thieu’s second term: “In saying this, President Nixon has really acknowledged that the right of self-determination has not yet been carried out and that the election of Oct. was a travesty of democracy.” ATHENS—Vice PresidentSpiro Agnew, in a light-hearted analysis of his press coverage in Greece: “Greek newspapers have been very kind to me. I am not used to such treatment. You're spoiling me.” BARBS By PHIL PASTORET ing that period. “A reliable notary is in- dispensable for the legal work,” you're cautioned by the advisory service “Careful research is important, and make sure that what you contemplate is legal.” Anyone who has ever rid- den a fire truck to a five-five alarm call can forgive forever the hours the men at the station spend in playing Another item: cards and polishing equip- Let a smile be your um- brella, and you'd better have no-press suits in the You mayfind that you are locked in if you want to sell in a hurry.” “The Mexican Investor” closet Fund Turndowns It’snot generally realized, but Congress has already turned off the spigot on two United Nations multi-million dollar projects this The U.S, Weather Bureau has used girls’ names to identify year, Punching a time clock is what many of us would dearlylove to do. Girls today are often invited on “hey’ ‘rides. “There is no title insurance in Mexico Still another caution: “A frequent lack of liquidity ment. aid program. One was a $20 million contribution for the erection of an additional $80 million UN building ir. New York City; the other 47,815 million in dues for the International Labor Organization, a UN agency with headquarin Geneva. at Those maladjustments were frozen by the President in the 90-day freeze set in Phase 1. But the clamor will be loud when the freeze ends Nov. 13, to permit increases would deal “decisively and immediately” with any prisoners holding hostages. Warden Cardwell said, “There's Vice grade up to the reservoir, then stay north of the reservoir up through Charleston to Heber. Then we would have a one-way road clear down to the mouthof the canyon. As far as the Heber Creeper is concerned,I think it is doomed to fail for the simple reason the roadbed is worn out and a railroad bed is expensive to keep up. I wouldn’t want to see good lax moneyspent for a few tours in Heber when we have a good oiled road right to Bridal Veil The News the heritage of that unrestrained period benefits for workers Did you seethatjudge in court “trendency’’ is away from in Salinas, Calif., with a pistol on leniency. Some future historian may his lap? You're seeing th dawning of aneweraoffirmness record Sptember, 1971, Attica, N.Y., as the time and place of with lawbreakers. i says we go neither the turnaround. When all the allegations, forward nor backward but in and recircles. Leniency with recriminations lawbreakers has been overdone. examinations relating to the Now we'll try toughness until showdown shootout have been toughness is again misused, ventilated — when the tear gas has dissolved and our eyes are abused. ‘Then we'll clip the wingsof the dry — we may see that Attica cops and start the whole cycle was the bad guys’ Waterloo. The dayfollowing, the warden over again. But as of right now the of Ohio’s pen warned that he QuotesIn m less than plaus notwithstanding the sonably, and some wage agreements produced excessive We're Getting Firm Again In Handling Lawbrakers Editor Herald: Speaking of Provo Canyon, I believe the D&RGW Railroad right-of-way which I understand the state has purchased, would be a good route for a highway. There is only one place the railroad crosses to the south side of the river and that could be made an overhead crossing. ‘Then we would have an easy businessmen and workers: in inflation and unemployment al peak were imposed as so price limits now war's peak may tend tosour it not poison the atmosphere of cooperativerestraint today. Some prices soared unrea Paul Harvey 3 Manhasbitten dog downin Waco, Texas. Specifically, man has bitten the women's liberation movement by suggesting that there is a good case for sexually segregated schools for women, more so than for men. The reason is that women miss leadership opportunities in a coeducational institution due to male dominanceof these positions. “There’s no question about it,” says Dr. Neal McCoy, visiting fessor in mathematics at Baylor Pniversit . “It’s a man’s world no matter what you say, although men and womer. should have equal opportunities.” Girls in a girls-only school do miss someof the opportunities that coeds have, says McCoy, who is professor emeritus in mathematics at girlsonly Smith College in Northhampton, Mass. But at the same control plan can work, anyway among economists that a New Turn On Poland, vival is not ¢ ly at stake ad acceptance of the need for heavy persunal sacrifice Fundamentally, the President is instituting @ system of voluntary restraints on w an? prices, but with the club of government enf ment against violators stand ing visible in the is the obvious price paid to organ. The voluntary fea tion. There is a fair consensus ized labor for its coo upgrading hisskills, knowledge and Women’s Lib Unainia, $10,363,031; ing a lir it is very difficult to get b hurricanes in the Atlantic, Caribt and Gulf of Mexico since 1953 The World Almanac notes. A seminermanent list of four sets of namesin alpha- belical order wes estab- lished in 1960. Hurricane season begins June 1 has no doubts, for all its cau: tions, that fortunes will be made in Mex,canrealestate, “Average annual profits of 50 to 100 per cent on long: term investments have not been uncommon in the past,” it notes, and the future looks equatly bright, or brighter Put the emphasis is on the long term. ‘ |