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Show Che BailyHerald Tuesday. Marc K HERALD Provo. SOP WoRRYNG - HES WOT ACCQESSIVE Case Against Utah—} Public TV A Problem With Profits? WhatPeople Are Saying Roscoe Drummond John Connally Changes Candidate Rating Book The impression persists that in the Republican Rating Book for the 1980 presidential nomination Ronald Reagan stands far in front, that all the others are clustered togetherfar behind and that noneof the trailers will have any chanceto break out of the pack until after the New Hampshire primary a year hence pems logical, but it isn’t true. In one sense the New Hampshireprimary, the first voting test of wheretheyall stand, has already been at Indianapolis at the material was provided by a “Reaganstaf fer There's ne reason to believe that Ronald Be gan ha:l anything to do with it. but it sug that Reagan's workers in New Hees feel that Crane mustbe takenout of the running soon less heseriously undercut the Reagan vote and pave the wayfor a vic- tory by Connally or Bush or Baker. A Connally win over Reagan in New Hampshire will be a near fatal blow to the former California governor PRESIDENT AND THE MEDIA — in the rship Conferenceattended wake of Camp David whennothing wentright eaders from half-a-dozen Midwesternstates. Nearly all the candidates were there to speak their pieces and exhibit their qualifications and the negotiations seemed to be falling John Connally won hands down on every score. Best speaker, best statement oftheis: sues, most acceptable as nominee and the leading choice of eplueats present. Mr Reagan was absent because of a previous speaking engagement. A CBSpoll takenafter all the candidates had performed gave Con nally 74 votesonfirst choice, Reagan second with 54, George Bush, 44, Howard Baker, 31 Philip Crane, 30, Robert Dole, 17 and Jack Kemp4 Thus. in the first significant test. Connally has emergedas the foremost and formidable challenger of Reagan WHY LOEB LUNGED at Craneso early The typical William Loeb smear of Phil Crane and his wife with broad insinuations about their personal life comes unusually ear ly in the New Hampshire pre-campaigning Crane said that a reporter from Loeb's Manchester Union Leader told him. the apart, manyin the media blamed Carter for having purveyed too much euphoria In the ter’ uncertain days of the latest Carter-Begin-Sadat tall which brought agreement at the la ‘ond, manyof the correspondents complained that Carter was misleading them by being too pessimistic. It's hard for a President to win. SPENDING TOO MUCH orearningtoo little? Public Opinion magazineraises this question in a current issue. It reports that while Americans are buying record numbers of consumer items and taking moretrips abroad, national statis out of incomein the 1 with many hard Roger Herriot and Andrea Haynes, contendthat the changing composi tion of the U.S. work force has made manyof the nation’s economic statistics outdated, understating the actual growthof prosperity of many families in the ‘70s. They conclude that things are not getting better as fast as they did in the 60s but that people may be moving up faster than theyrealize committee brows a hefty urvey ‘and chances are uy with a bad idea exactly tothis rule of decided in 1977 to t ills and future public broad: surprise, the r greatly ex other proposals BS f special interest ure tax on com Ip finance their Also, the enethy pitch for a from political cont editorial purpose” of its 0 as constructing “a context {or understanding the events that occur aroundus’ and developing “a strong profe and independent public affairs presence What these phrases actually mean may be guessed from the ideological content of pale broadcasting to date which is heaviy tilted to the liberal left. Recent examples all of which have been masterfully dis- sected by Accuracy in Media — include a program called Nuclear Gang,’ “Paul Jacobs and the spreading alarm about nuclear power, a program glorifying convicted Communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and an hour-long whitewashof the North Korean regimeof Communist dictator KimIl-sung Why tax doilars should help disseminate suchstuff to the American viewing public is an interesting and unanswered question. Hitherto, suggestionsfor greater balance and less propagandain the public broadcastfield have been met with angry cries of “‘censorship,”” a viewreiterated in the Carnegie report. The group's proposal to lock in Paul Harvey Farmersto the Rescue federal funding — but to cut the programmers loose from all restraint would only serve to makethis situation worse None of which is to deny the equal but opposite danger of having a government dic- If we need oil and the oil countries need grain. why don’t we swap? Historically, in effect, we id But then in 1973 the oil nations decided to multiplytheir asking price for oil. But wedid not increase our asking price for food grains It’s not too late Until the OPEC nations got their heads together and decided to blackmail us for ever - higher oil prices the price of a bushel of wheat and a barrel of crude was about the same — about $2 On the world exchangesthe two commodities had run neck - and - neck for years $2 wheat, $2 oil Now — in 1979 — foreign oil producers have escalated crude oil prices to more than $14 a barrel But wheatis still selling for $2 to $3 a bushel. Make no mistake — the United States controls or has the autonomy to control the world price for wheat and other food grains. We represent 40 to 50 percent of the total world market in this commodity. Japan and the European Economie Community (EEC) countries are the major importers of American grain and it is in those countries that our dollar is in the most trouble Japan purchases American wheatfor $2.50 to $3 a bushel, then adds a tariff when it reacheshershoresto increase the price to Japanese millers to more than $9 a bushel A $6 - a - busheltariff is a windfall for that government Is it not we who should be getting that markup? Betterstill, why not peg the price of wheat to the price of oil, even if the OPECnations should elect to charge us $100 a barrel it would balanceout. More logically, however the result would beto hold the prices of both commodities down — as the law of supply and demand did hold them down fcr decades preceding Thoughts To Inspire It has been said that the dietary laws of Moses are the most perfect laws of hygiene ever developed “Whatsoever parteth the hoof and is cloven-footed and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.” — Ley. 11:3 Lions havebeen extinct in Palestine since the timeof the Crusades but evidently they were once plentiful along the Jordan. The lions were a source of danger to men and to theflocks. therefore the Lord sent lions among them which slew some of them.” — 11 Kings 17:25 While Nimrod means hunter in modern times. some Hebrew 1973. One out of three harvested acres in the United States goes for export. Because our farmers have been so efficient, we have been much too generous with our neighbors. Any objective evaluation of world oil consumption and production projected a few decades down the road confirms thattheoil - rich nations of the Middle East will exhaust their reserves If history repeats itself — and it usually does — those now fat nations will look to us students claim the word translated hunter in Genesis also meansheroandsuggest that Perhaps we should encourage them to emulate the Biblical Joseph, who wisely set aside grain in preparation for a time of famine And if they are not wise enough to do so on their own, we should encourage them to put their moneyin food rather than in lavish living We could rebalance our foreign trade and strengthen our dollar abroad and at home by serving notice now: a bushel of wheatfor a barrelof oil. Take it or leaveit WASHINGTON (UPI) — Americans are pleased about the Israeli-Egyptianpeace treaty and their part through Jimmy Carter, in getting it accomplished. To the national pysche, playing a major role in a peace settlement is the morale-bolstering equivalent of winning a war. But as has been said repeatedly in recent weeks, Carter's foreign policy accomplishmentsaren't going to get him re-elected next year, Hesurely knowsthat. andit is of somesignificance that on his return from the Middle East, he turned immediately to the domestic problems that do cast a shadow overhis second term prospects, There are plenty of those problems, but none are more central to his political future than inflation and energy If prices continuetorise at near double-digit rates and if oil products becomes both scarce and prohibitively expensive this spring and summer, Carter will be vulnerable both to challenge from within his own party and to a strong Republican*canIn these areas Carter needs two things to put himself in the traditional strong position of an incumbent seeking reelection First, he must be able to point to some kind of progress in stemming inflation Abstruse economic indicators will not do; he must have something to show ordinary people that prices have gone downor held steady. Second he needs enoughoil without huge price increases to get the country through the next year without serious disruption of the life styles Americans consider normal Carter recognized these needs earlier and tried to do something about them. The vital question is whether the programs he put in place in the first two yearsof his term will pay off in the third and fourth years. He expended an immense tion’s energy problems remains unproved. It is possible that the program, even if practical, cannot deliver any political dividend in time to help Carter's political fortunes this year. If that is the case, it could hurt him very badly. In the anti-inflation battle he took the risk of igniting a full scaled liberal revolt by holding down his 1980 budget for social programsandsticking to a voluntary program of wage andpricerestraints If there is no sign of slackeningprice increasesorif wage settlements bust the guidelines wide open in the next few months, both Carter's anti-inflation program and second term prospects are in jeopardy There were suggestions that Carter would have improved his leadership image even had the peacetreatyeffortfailed, although obviously there was more to gain from success Good intentions and courage in pursuing them are to some extent their own reward in foreign relations, according to this theory But no one thinks Carter can get off the inflation and energy hooks simply by giving them it his best shot. It is the voter's pocketbook and the voter's car that are at stake in these areas and the operative ques- tion is once again, “What have you donefor melately?”” Test Your Knowledge 1. Thefirst space flight of more than 24 hours was si 2. What do Will Rogers, Claire 1. Chennault and Ed ward V. Rickenbacker have in common? 3. The busiest U.S. airport is O'Harein Chicago. In which city is the second busiest airport located” (a) Lo: geles (b) San Jose (c) Santa Ana amount of political capital in getting Congress to pass an energy program in 1977-78 Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.” Gen. 10:9 Whetherthe tattered package that emerged fromthatbattle can solye anypart of the na- that many taxpayers find offensive, or else the political arm that extends the money must exercise control over how the money is spent The solution to this dilemina, however, is relatively simple — and directly opposed to the conclusionsof the Carnegie group: It is to gel rid of public broadcasting altogether. There is no reason in a free society to have such a thing as governmentfunded radio and TV, above and beyond theofficial information functions of the governmentitself. The whole idea of public broadcastingis contrary to our notions of free expression. The Carnegie report pontificates about the flaws of commercial broadcasting — particularly the need to reach a massaudience to OfInflation, Energy By ARNOLD SAWISLAK tated ideological format in public radio and TV, a practice repugnant to our principles and traditions. The problem is that such a danger is inherent in government - funded broadcasting to begin with: Either public dollars are squandered for ideological purposes sustain a network TVprogram. Thisis a valid Same Old Questions may the original Nimrod have been a warrior again for handouts in the lean years. Capital Scene didatein the fall of 1980. show flattening pressed to make ends meet The authors, WASHINGTON 5 Question: Is the news thfat cor- tempting to balance household porate profi ore budgets, that amounts to volun 6 percent (a.) good or (b.) bad tarily accepting a decline in real Answer: Bothof the above income On the good side, the earnings Alfred E. Kahn, the administrareported by the Commerce tion’s field commander in the Department forthe final quarter campaign against inflation, has of 1978 indicate that business, for Suggested that widespread dis all the economicuncertainties of regard of guidelines by smaller the times, is doing very wiil in- and medium-sized firms is con deed. And they wouldsuggest that tributing significantly to continu a recession later onin 1979 is not ing strong upward pressure on quite the sure thing some prices and to the swollen profit members of the pessimistic (or figures. His description of theseis realistic, take your pick) school of a ‘catastrophe’ which “‘puts economic seers have been business ontrial in the eyes of the predicting American people.’ On the other hand, the earnings The court of public oppinion is could complicate the administra- not the only one where arguments tion’s anti-inflation program, or on corporateprofits are likely to what is left of it. Labor, already be aired. The AFL-CIO already preparing to dolegal battle in op- has filed suit to invalidate the position to the ‘‘voluntary’’ aspect basis of the controls program of wage-price guidelines, isn't which the administration ferventlikely to overlook moneypiling up ly hopes to maintain on a volunin corporate coifers of many(not tary basis. The specific target is all) businesses an order to withhold government It may be true that a good part contracts valued at $5 million or of the reportedprofits are not real more from firms not in commoneybutthe reflection ofinfla- ~pliance with the 7 percent limit on tion. But even by the Commerce increases in wage settlements Department's inflation-weighted with their employees. reckoning, the profit rise is hefty The union asserts that contract And in anyevent, the inflation denial is an enforcement weapon argument also applies to the 7 that, in effect, makes wage conpercent increase in wages com- trols mandatory rather than panies are asked to abide by. As voluntary. If restraint on wagesis many see it, and feel it in at- to be so enforced, so should it be on prices. A decision favorable to the union could well meanthe end of the voluntary guidelines and a long step toward the mandatory “T have meta lot of puixs and I program George Meany would have meta lot of rocks, but I don't like to see putting a lid on ‘‘the know very much about punk price of everything and the income of everybody.” rock.”’ If one consequenceofits visible — Victor Borge, musiciancomedian, discussing the latest prosperity should be to hasten mandatory controls, business trend in rock ‘n’ roll. “The robots we're currently us- would have no difficulty deciding ing in America are simple, low- whether that news is good or bad mentality devices. But they're highly productive.” Progress: People’s — John Wallace, president of the U.S, Rebot Institute, discussRepublic Style... ing the trend to increasing automation of labor. What with an estimated three“To enact a draft, I believe, million of them, Peking’s would be unnecessary, unfair and bicyclists would appear to have counterproductive to the best in- enough of a traffic problem just keeping out of each other’s way. terests of the Army.” Now they're going to something — Clifford L. Alexander Jr., secretary of the Army, new to contend with: automatic responding to criticism of the stoplights. volunteer system for gaining The Western-style lights, according to a recent report from military recruits. “T want to think a long, hard the capital, will be timed to contime before I'd give a hydrogen trol the flow of traffic at two bomb to Idi Amin.” minute, 10 second intervals during — Robert Warren, a U.S. dis- rush hours. trict judge, explaining his order to But with only nine of them to be delay publication of The Progres- installed on one major shopping sive magazine because of an arti- street, it would appearthe Peking cle on the workings of a hydrogen traffic is going to continue to be bomb. more go than stop. Stanton Evans og awey JO TPH uonRIAy ay) ut UOISN]IU] “Zz YOISOA UOTSSTUU ‘surissnyy ay sq ‘asieq concern, but the proper answeris to permit the full and free development of cable and pay TV, allowing particular audiences to pay for the particular kind of programsthat they want. This step toward real diversity in broadcasting has been delayed for years by government regulatorypolicies. The solution here is not more governmentin broadcasting, butless. Much of the Carnegie report reeks of snobbery and elitism, looking down its nose at “vulgar” and “commercial offerings in the marketplace while talking much about ‘elevating’ publicdiscourse through cultural and educational program. Such programs, of course, appeal to a relatively narrow group of people, most of whom are educated and affluent. Such people can afford to pay for their ownhighbrow programming. Why should the average taxpayerpick up the tab for their enjoyment? Barbs Fossils of flowing plants have been found that are some 100 million years old. And we knowthe floral shop where they were found. Diplomatese: talks at the ministerial level means that everyone's praying someone won't blow the whole thing. It's always easier to make up your mind not to listen to scandal after you've tuned-in to get the key juicy bits I have an imposing presence — you're simply too fat to fit Into last summer's sult. Berry's World |