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Show a Editorial Page Feature What's TheHurry in GermanyNegotiations? By PHIL NEWSOM Willy Brandt likens Tuesday, March 24,1970 ~~Page 8—THE DAILY HERALD,Provo, Utah stent cow, Warsaw and Communist East Germany with the long the bargaining that signing of an Austrian state The High Costof Being Poor It’s expensive to be poor. This is no play on words but is a capsule summary of a “profile of poverty’? drawn by Margaret Nelson, consumer economics specialist at the University of Wisconsin The buying habits of middle- and upper-class Americans are influenced in part by convenience, she points out, while for poor people buying always means meeting just their immediate needs The poor haveno chanceto take advantage of seasonal or weekly sales becauseof the small income they have. Neither are they able to buy in quantity. They must buy in amounts they can afford that week, usually one item at a time. The poor also have little control over where they buy because they have no babysitter, no car, no taxi or bus money. They must buy clase to home no matter whatthe cost. Low incomefamilies are further handicapped by lack of consumer his treaty in 1955. Those negotia- peddling things they don’t need at inflated prices The average American consumer and are being oneveteran Bonn dipiomatputs hist-inspired © it, “What's the hurry? It took interpreted as a warning that tions went on for 10 years, and Brandt considers the outlook for Germany no brighter. As in ares case, y be interrupted or deed ie x te och But as learns to buy good quality items at reasonable prices. Poor people frequently must buy shoddy merchandise because the low price— whichis expensive in the long run— is all they can manage. Poorfamilies havenoflexibility in the method of paying bills. If they “Eh! Ray Cromley Billions Wasted WASHINGTON(NEA) An unconscionable stupidity in defense contracting has cost the government hundreds of millions of dollars (per haps billions) in past years Worse yet, though one would haveto be able mindsto know the answer, the government may unwise buysof expensive weaponss; risks, so they pay both high interest rates and for long time periods Poverty is expensive in nonmonetary ways. Lower-quality work on unsuitable weapons far longer than wis education usually plagues the poor, hindering their ability to improve themselves. Living conditions sap purchasing decisions were firmlytied to arbitral ary Thatis, the Departmentof Defensehas, in a considerable numbercé contracts, agreed to a fixed cutoff date. If the government wanted to buy a weaponssystem, say the F-14 plane, at the price or price formula agreed on in the contract, it must sign on the line by that firm date Otherwise, the government, when it was ready to buy, had to renegotiate the contract. energy andability to resist disease and overcome personal problems. In short, the poor can’t afford to be frugal and “poor” isn’t always lazy—it may just betired, ill and hopeless. There are extensive delays cn most major weapons sys- tems. Therefore, all too frequently when a cutoff date came, work was not advanced enough for an intelligent decision on whether to buy or on how manyto buy. Next time you wonder why more know-how. They are especially poverty, think about these things. If the government delayed its decision and did renegoti- ate the agreementat2 later date, the military men almost invariably found they were charged a steeper price than agreed on in the original contract. Mr.Builder, Spare That Tree Priorities Basementinventors take note: Beginning in February, the U.S. Patent Office began speeding upits handling of patent applications for devices aimed at cleaning up the environment. Applications for pollution-control devices will now be processed in six to eight months instead of the usual three years. The purpose, says Patent Comtissioner William E. Schuyler Jr. is to makeavailablefor use as soon as Possible a backlog of some 11,500 recent inventions designed to clean Whythe steeper price? Bythe cutoff date the company often had the government overa barrel. A year or two or ee had passed since the signingof the original arrange- No builder may run an open sewer across private property, even with the owner’s consent. Yet the indiscriminate leveling of wooded areas—in the nameo: cutting costs and expediting construction—is as muchan affront to public decency, if not public health. “Shade trees are an invesimeiit in the future,” says Bartlett. “Trees make communities livable. They give beauty, ‘shade in the summer, mutenoises, jure birds and break up harsh winds in winter. Most importantofall, trees help prevent and clean polluted air.”” Yettrees often comelast,if at all, in community development plans. 50-YearTriai One hopes the decision has not beentoo hasty. 11,500 recent invertpons university. Holmes Alexander Freudian Reasons Back Of a! Our Failure in Viet War WASHINGTON, — Dr. Sigmund Freud, frogman of the subconscious, could readily have explained whywe'relosing the Vietnam War — but no morereadily,I think, than Phil G. Gouldingexplains it in his book, “Confirm or Deny,” an accountof his term as Pentagon press secretary during Lyndon Johnson's elected presidency. Goulding writes: “Myview is that Vietnam is not now and never has been so important as to be worth 549,500 2a) men, 40,000 lives and $30 billion a Freud would have said that faint heart never won fair lady, much less an armed conflict. It is not necessaryin a loser that he desires to get licked, but only that he doesn’t have the rage to succeed. Lacking an unequivocal, driven passion for ac- complishment, as any psychiatrist will tell you, the loser fabricates the excuse and the method which ultimately bring about the predestined result. Phil Goulding, an admired newman, was an admitted misfit as assistant Defense Secretary(for publicaffairs). He says he one- upmanned HarryTruman, so much detesting the heat of the Pentagon kitchen that it warped his native and acquired bentfor the truth. The experience also appears to have given him a war-weariness which is unbecoming and incapacitating in a war minister. Phil shouldn’t have stayed four days, let alone four years in a military establishment which has but one wartime function — thevictory which alone canjustify the lives, the moneyand the commitmentof True, as Goulding several times rationalizes,his is not to reason why. He was there to serve Secretaries McNamara and Clifford as their press agent and public relationist. H2 sometimes goofed and ae TodayIn History USA's Rhodesian Policy Hypocritical, Says Writer Editor Herald: Recently our government announced the breaking of consular ties with Rhodesia because of the fact that a white minority rules a black majority there. The merits of that situation could be debated at length butis not the point here. The point is that we ought to be Everylittle bit helps in the fight against pollution. some ae by new plantings? designed to clean up the nation's land, air and water. Schuyler Jr.is to make available for use as soon as possible a backlog of ment. The company was behind schedule. building code regulations. How many communities have regulations requiring that desirable trees be spared frorn the bulldozer,or if they mustbetaken,that they be replaced Capital university in Columbus, Ohio, the oldest school founded by the American Lutheran Church, has announced thelifting of a 50-year-old regulation that kept female students on a “‘trial’’ basis—to the joy of 800 coeds currently attending the up the nation’s land, air and water. Re On New Weapons| have little choice in their source of loans because they are poor credit vulnerable to door-to-door salesmen As president of a tree-care company,Bartlett can be accused of bias. But this is one case where a special interest coincides with the generalinterest. Every community has elaborate An armed resistance, the can get credit, the cost is high. They people don’t lift themselves out of Plans for new suburban areas should include not only newstreets, utility lines, water and sanitation facilities but trees as well, says noted ti 2e expert Robert A. Bartlett. ry. rig say, would put the onus iting squarely on Isrzel might find herself in tation with Mos- Hanotandthe Viel Cong and tera! unite Germany the first time.” direct strain badly the Communist cow. armed forces resources. On the A Deterrent to Israel other hand these informants Diplomats in London believe Pressures on Communists the Soviet Union is putting French alee sees say Hanoi and the Viet Cong more “advisers” into Egyptian say North Vietnam and the Viet can ill afford a nities = bases as a deterrent tc Israei Cong will find it difficult to hasty retreat, They may try to PS against bombing newly esta- oppose by force the new hold discreet negotiations with blished missile sites. Reports of Cambodian regime’s demands the epourge in the mubor of for prompt evacuation ef thelr the new Phnom Penh regime to from Cambodian territo- find a face-saving formula. advisers mostly are Commu- parallel negotiations with Mus- half sometimes had to weave that well-known tangled web of aeceit, and his pride and his conscience suffered. This was onlya personal hurt, It was not, I think, so deep a wound as the one which even a fractional no-win mentality in the subconscious of an Armed es official can inflict upon a nation at war, I cringe to make such comments on an esteemedcolleague,or on his book,but 1 have no qualms concerning Robert McNamaraand Clark Clifford. Goulding depicts as war ministers whose minds were addressed to deescalating, to disengaging — in short, to losing — a war behind President Johnson's back. Goulding doesn’t saythis explicitly, but he has a chaptertitled “McNamara's Fight for De-scalation” and another titled “Clark Clifford and the Beginning of Disengagement.” It is plain en Goulding likes McNamara most when the Secretary was finding reasons not to bomb North Vietnaminto subraission, and his liking for Clifford increased with Clifford’s progressiveslide tow:ard pacifism. Goulding writes, to find that Clark Clifford became convinced “within five days” that the war “‘couldn’t be won by additional bombing of the North or additional troops, within 15 days convinced thatit could not be won in a reasonable time period under any military curcumstances,within 30 days convinced that the only sane way out was through negotiations and within 60 days convinced that the effort was no longeressential to the national security of the United States.” When you've got two Defense Secretaries Spray Cologne Into Face Of Attackers Editor Herald: I would like to offer a suggestion to women who walk aloneatnightor travel alone.It isnot very likely we would carry a gun or knife to protect ourselves, but a good weaponis a 2 or 3 ounce bottle of spray cologne. Sprayed into the face of an attacker, the cologne would certainly foil many an attempt. munists but not for the 220,000 white Christian, pro-west and anti-Communist people who rule Rhod esia. Itis hard to have much respect for,a foreign policy that is so vacillating, materialistic and reoecial asours seems to be attimes.In the end we mayfind that we have not succeeded in Also it would be very easy to making friends of our enemies, identify him. This is a practical but only enemies ofour friends. hint and all young girls who walk Jim Gilson to and from church and scheol Orem, Utah activities at night might try this too. An ounce of prevention.... Also, children or widows who stay alone at night and are called to the door might well answer with a bottle of cologne in hand. Tt can be used to allure or elude! V.B.I. we all are, compared to what we might be.” FOR THE AFFLUENT TOKYO (UPI)—Rents in Tokyo’s newest apartment houses range from 215,000 yen ($596) to 650,000 yen ($1,805) a month for units with to five bedrooms. Tenants must pay a deposit equal to six months’ rent to move into the apartments, named Azabu Ein- bassy Heights. BERRY'S WORLD BARBS By PHIL PASTORET With all the changes being initiated by the ecu- menical movement, it’s getting so you can't teli the prayers without a scorecard. Whatever other troubles Noah might have had--he didn’t need to worry about the dogs digging up his neighbor's shrubbery, About the only elevator operators around these days © 1970 by NEA, In, and their press secretary whofelt this way about their jobs as war ministers, you've got are the fellows who tryto ‘@ paychoanalysis of nationaldefeat. arettes hetween floors. A By United Press International Today is Tuesday, March 24, the 83rd day of 1970 with 282 to follow. The moon is between its full phase and last quarter. The morning star is Jupiter. consistent in our attitude about The evening stars are Mercumajority rule. ry, Venus, Mars and Saturn. Here in Americafor instance, ae this day in history: we allow vocal, violent In 1608 the crowns ofEngland minorities to establish and Scotland were joined under university policy, burn our cities James VI of Scotland. and make a mockery of the In 1902 the “Advice to the Lovelorn” column in_ the judicial system. publication “My Queen” reThe most glaring example of ceived ihe question, “Can two our hypocrisy is in our eSlive comfortably on $12 relationships with Communist a week governments. We have given In on the United States them full diplomatic granted the Philippines indepenrecognition, expanded our trade dence,effective July 4, 1946. and are continually “building In 1965 a U.S. Ranger rocket bridges” upon which they can reached the moon and transmittravel to subdue us. Would ted perfect pictures of the lunar anyone deny that these Com- surface. munist nations are ruled by small minorities of atheistic A thought for the day: gangsters? Perhaps wefeel that American writer Charles Warthere is still hope for the Com- ner said, “What small potatoes bum you for change or cig- “Isn't it exciting? It looks as though HEMLINES may replace the subject of CRABGRASS this spring!’ The military needed the weapon. If the Defense Department decided to begin again with some other company, there would be a further delay in deliveries, possibly up to three years or more. It would take that time for a new companyto tool up for the job and develop the capability the original build- er had built up while working on the project. In part, this situation developed because the Department of Defense has been so eager to build new weapons rapidly that it has ordered systems before they were researched completely and before component development work was far enough along. A tendency has been to contract from plans and blueprints. This, for example, is what went wrong with the F-111. The situation was made worse because some companies knowingly underestimated the difficulties, the costs and the time required to turn out the weapons systems they contracted to build. They knewin advance they would passee cutoff date before they had developed a weapons systemm teto 92s stage at which the Defense Department could determine with any degree of confidence whetherit wanted to buyor not. These extraordinary contracts thus often penalized the government, and profited a company, for the company’s own delays. The governmentthen hadthree choices. It could order a pig in @ poke. It could let its option slide and pay a higher price. It could call the whole thing off and begin again at considerable delay and expense. Finally, after years of this bumbling, someone has come up with the obvious simple solution—makethe cutoff date a sliding date, tied not to the calendar, but to the stage of development of the weapon. This hopefully will mean the government will not be penalized because a company doesn't meet an agreed-on. deadline. Paul Harvey Franchise Trade Causes Concern The Senate small business subeommittee chaired by Harrison Williams Jr. has completed its hearings on the franchise industry; we must await the formal committee report before we can know who, if anybody,is guilty of how much hanky-panky. Testimony already made public, however, indicates that some celebrities of sports and show business have sold their names to some fast-buck thus to determine what, if any, further federal snoopervision of the franchise business might be appropriate. Why is there no “Harvey House Motel,”no ‘Paul Harvey Hot Doggery”? Well, I'll‘fell you. Many of us involved in the “media” now and then receive tempting offers from individuals and industries wishing to make commercial use of a prominent name. Someof us, rather than take a promoters and may find chance on misuse of a name themselves indicted for fraud. we'vetried so long and hard to The franchise business has protect, just close the door on become big-big, grossing $90 any aiid all such overtures, billion a year, accounting for 10 And I confess we sometimes percent of our nation’s gross feela little naive, maybe a little national product. stupid, for fa‘lure to cash in on Minnie Pearl, Mickey Mantle, such opportunities. Many or Johnny Carson, Joe Namath, most suchoffers, as I say, may Jackie Robinson, Pat Boone and be entirely legitimate and others have allowed the ex- honorable. ploitation of their names in And we know that with earned connection with motels, incomethere is no opportunitty restaurants, clothing, taverns, ever to get rich and we can’t help an ounce or twoof envy for those so forth. Most of these businesses are who do. But then along comes a series entirely legitimate. But Senate investigators of disclosures such as these of report some evidence of fraud recent weeks where once-proud professional namesare dragged and questionable business through court proceedings: and practices. r linked with the worst kind of If you see an ad in the suggesting that you can a hoodlums—as in New Jersey business of your own with some where Mafia mobsters are said prominent name on the sign out to have boasted of their confront at a cost to you of only nections with Frank Sinatra, $5,000, $10,000 or $25,000, you Louis Prima, Sammy Davis, might be tempted to get into a Joey Bishop andothers. Tanee you know nothing And there are the gambling scandals threateningto digzredit That is pollenhow lot of some baseball and football small businessmen have lost names we've been accustomed to applauding, their shirts. ‘And when an individual risks And then weare on our knees his life savings to join in part- before God giving thanks for nership with some celebrity— being naive and stupid and less who may know ee rich in the bank... Butstill able to eat without about the business—then celebrity misusing his pubic ulcers and sleep without image? nat is what the Stats nightmareg and face tomorrow tht to find out, withoutfear. g \ s ectueitieatiias nish al iaa at Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah |