Show "We Got Anybody Who Can Kick Field Goal?" a The Herald Journal Logas Utah Sunday Nov 90-ya- rd 29 U70 ‘Forward Trend’ Needs Backing-U- p The American economy now is in a “basic forward trend" Economic Adviser Paul W McCracken told a Paris audience As evidence McCracken noted the end of the costly General Motors strike and a slowdown in the rate of climbing prices His statement suggests that the administration will ease the curbs on inflation in an effort to provide more jobs and the giant labor unions are pressing for wage hikes above and beyond (nice increases fanning further inflation Just as the GM strike held back the economy its settlement will loose wage boosts totalling some $800 million a year ph’3 costly fringes and that will mean higher prices for automobiles and push inflation Railworkers indifferent to the railroads’ financial difficulties and the bankruptcy of the biggest one of all Penn Central have set a strike deadline of Dec 11 to back their demands for wages in excess of the 37 per cent over three years recommended by a presidential panel during the present cooling-of- f period president of George Meany the crusty AFL-CIhandle the can’t railroads if said the the over the take government problems let As for the Nixon administration's appeal to business and labor to exercise restraint in wage and price increases Meany spoke bluntly: “Our people are going to continue to push for wage increases to make up for what inflation is robbing them of" Wage settlements this year have been averaging about nine per cent a year considerably in excess of increases in prices which rose at the rate of 63 per cent a year in the first quarter and at 42 per cent in the third quarter Meantime interest on the national debt has become one of the major budget items approaching $20 billion a year jobs have been eliminated by the thousands with growing hardship for many highly trained people in space and defense-relateindustries The poor the jobless the elderly on fixed incomes especially as well as the rest of us are suffering the with the unrestrained squeeze of inflation-deflatio- n exercise of power by monopolistic labor groups laws established to prevent abuses The and business by big industry have not applied to the HERE ARE SOME FACTS on water pollution in our great rich country in the middle of the 20th century of our great powerful industrial history: Lake Erie is so polluted that scientists now speak of it as "dead” a body of water which probably cannot be saved but will gradually turn into scum and swampland Lake Superior is the private dump of a mining company which daily dumps 00000 tons of iron tailings into the crystal waters lake Michigan may suffer the fate of Lake Erie unless the federal and state water pollution experts hasten to apply restorative (and very expensive) measures The Hudson River is so polluted that it has been called an "'oen sewer" The Potomac the Mississippi the Missouri the Connecticut the Ohio the Columbia and Colorado Rivers are in the same condition The river which flows by Cleveland Ohio is so heavily polluted with (among other things) oil that it caught fire last year and burned two railroad bridges PULP MILLS PAPER MILLS steel mills refineries slaughter houses regularly dump all their refuse into our rivers folding the water which in many cases is drinking water from towns downriver New York City alone dumps 36 million gallons of untreated sewage into the Hudson River every day The expert estimate for cleaning up our rivers and lakes has been put at $100 billion O d anti-tru- st uniou : t t 1 I L I r We do not believe that the way to “run a railroad" is by government takeover The free enterprise system will do a far better job Wage and price controls have proved ineffective in the past Voluntary restraint would get the job done but there is little hope that the big unions in their efforts to outdo each other in wage and fringe gains will ever voluntarily settle for less than the most the traffic will bear More jobs are the need of the hour and government can help most by encouraging free enterprise to create them There is much work to be done and a positive program is needed to change the present frustration on the part of far too many Americans ready able and willing to work Richard Wilson's Interpretive Report - WASHINGTON DC Signs abound that President Nixon has come to the only conclusion open to him: Policy and action unaffected by political consequences In large affairs that is the best politics anyway In Washington’s present poisonous atmosphere the President needs most to disregard congressional critics political public pollsters relations even experts columnists and do what he has to do If hie is convinced he is right he can convince others Nixon is trying to finish a war successfully with his opposition trying to tie both hands behind his back He needs to break the brads of friends advisers and enemies who presume to calculate the short and long range political effects of his actions in other words he needs to break the shackles of divided congressional and public opinion r r m Newspapers Aid Forest-Savin- XWm By g DON OAKLEY Newspaper! have done such a good job of alerting the public to the problems of pollution and misuse of natural resources that they have found themselves under the scru- tiny of conservationists Some are alarmed by the fact that vast forests are wiped out to produce the nearly 10 million tons of newsprint this country consumes each year Others say that castoff newspapers are a waste and a strain on disposal facilities The Newsprint Information Council composed of a group of Canadian newsprint mills has checked into the s of all newsallegations (Canada supplies about United in used the States) print The committee confirms that it takes about 17 trees to make one ton of newsprint But because forests are run basis the annual harvest plus all on a sustained-yiel- d losses to fire insects and disease is less than half the annual growth Cited were the forests of the Tribune Co owner of a string of newspapers including two of the largest in the y of world These forests have just marked a of for the wood out harvests increasingly larger turning Chicago Tribune New York Daily News and others They currently produce about 550000 tons of newsprint annually and could continue at this rate or better in perpetuity “Like wheat" says the committee's publication Newsprint Facts “trees for newsprint are a renewable crop although with a much longer growth cycle two-third- half-centur- “Cutting down 17 trees merely makes room for 17 other trees to grow Frequently they are better straighten fatter trees more economically harvested" As for disposing of yesterday's newspaper the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City Mo puts the average newspaper content of household garbage at about 66 per cent Sanitation officials consider newspapers one of the less troublesome elements of their job But shouldn't old newspapers be recycled and used again to conserve woodlands resources? In fact some 23 million tons of old newspapers are being recycled annually They are made into cartons wallboard and other products “Recycling is an excellent idea where it makes economic sense" says Newsprint Facts However collection plans which are set p before there is a market for reclaimed paper can result in waste of taxpayers' money and the time and effort of conscientious citizens One such drive in San Francisco produced so much pa- that the bottom dropped out of the wastepper Eer It cost the city of Madison Wis about $28000 to collect 1000 tons of bundled newspapers in the first year of a special program It's quite likely that someday virtually all used paper will be recycled as better methods of reclaiming it are developed and as demand for newsprint and other paier products increases In the meantime it's good to know that we are in no danger of printing ourselves out of forests i In the last 10 years in spite of some $5 billion spent on sewage treatment the quality of our water nationally has actually declined Charles C Johnson Consumer Protection Service states: “The situation in this country is rapidly approaching a critical point because every year the threat from unsafe bods drugs water and a variety of consumer products is increasing addle the quality of American life particularly urban life is deteriorating" History is indifferent to whether or not Nixon is elected to a second term It will not be indifferent to the destruction of America's credibilities as a world power nor saddling the country with ruinous inflation in trying to win a second term Nixon has the fortitude to act against the public mood and bis is the time for it The public and Congress expect more than they should from Nixon's effort to end the Vietnam War Nixon should tell this country dear and loud and again and again that he will not end bis war except upon a favorable basis to the future of South Vietnam and the future of American policy in Asia That is what he wants and there is nothing to be gained by hiding his real purposes behind assurances that the war will be and peace and prosperity will reign In another time a President would act according to Ms best lights sometimes against extreme opposition and ben explain to the country what he was doing and why Sometimes he did it twice a week not in a staged television spectacular but sitting behind his desk in the White House expounding his views and answering questions of the news media The country wu in constant touch with the how and why of his actions and relatively rarely did he find it necessary and desirable to go on the air This President (yes he was Roosevelt) spared neither the columnists nor be commentators They were favorite targets He made no apologies about infringing on freedom of be press and speech by over by 1972 presidential intimidation and fact there was no infringement That President fought for his convictions wib every means he had including in ridicule The stage has been reached in the Nixon administration when the country cannot any longer afford to have public policy shackled by protest and predictions of political disaster or even calculations of political effect Nixon is moving along that road He undertook the Cambodian operation against what he calculated would be violent public protest He ordered bombing retaliation against North Vietnam on a selective basis and auborized a daring if unsuccessful raid 20 miles from Hanoi to free American prisoners He knew as weU that the clamor would arise again that he was escalating the war A dozen critics in Congress would agree wib the Communist peace negotiators in Paris Columnists and commentators would cry wib alarm that he was widening the war The fact that none of this wu true wu beside the point The point wu to throw Nixon off stride and if possible destroy him politically and make a shambles of his policy of striving for a favorable final outcome in Southeast Asia So in actuality there is no alternative for Nixon if he wishes to carry out in action the convictions he holds He will have to set himself hard against his opposition even though in doing so it might seem that he is courting political disaster That can no longer be done by television spaced widely spectaculars alone Nixon needs under these difficult circumstances to make sure at least a couple of times a week that the nature of his actions his reasons for bem and his justification for them are getting across to the American people television apwould be ridiculous pearances There are and other ways The simplest way would be to see news media representatives once or twice a week and let bem tell the public Twice-a-wee- k what the President says or thinks But that is less than half of it The major part is carefully studied action which can be justified and supported regardless of the clamor of protest and criticism That is the kind of leadership Americans have usually admired (Distributed by The Register pnd Tribune Syndicate 1970) Paul Harvey News AT A MEETING OF consumers recently Dr Jean Mayer of the Harvard University School of Nutrition stated that be nation's most urgent consumer problem is hunger He listed heart disease resulting partly from diets high in fat and salt as the second most pressing problem and tow levels of vitamins and minerals in our food as the third Dr Mayer stated that while national expenditures for health rose from $11 billion In 1948 to $62 billion in 19G9 the United States is the only member of be UN to report no increase in life expectancy for men and only a slight increase for women Our increased mortality from heart disease is probably the major reason DR MAYER WENT ON to criticize our food laws as being mostly responsible for nutritional deficiencies We could be enriching most common foods he said but because there is no law which demands it manufacturers just don’t want to bother even though the cost is small Macaroni which has a protein content of only 10 per cent could be raised to a 25 per cent protein food by the addition of soy flour or fishmeal But present laws require the manufactor er to label such a product "imitation macaroni” which no one wants to buy He said our regulations for labeling food are chaotic HERE AND THERE-- An old definition declares that “a procrastinator is one who puts off until tomorrow what be already has put off until today” “TV doesn’t seem be same without Chet Huntley" comments columnist Bish Thompson “The guys who replaced him just don’t look worried enough” Some slips in the type: “He left Lee to accept a fellowship grant to do research in psychology at Florida State University after which he studied Greed at Columbia Theological Seminary" Cape Coral Breeze Wee Admiral Hyman G Richover said be Soviet Union is building a military establishment which will be head of the US in virtually all respects by 1675 Nashville Tennessean Walter F Block dean of student affairs of St Procopious College near Lisle has announced two new disappointments— LaGrange Suburban Life There is probably not a taxpayer alive or dead who at sometime or another has not complained about the amount he had to pay Oliver Wendell Holmes said taxes purchase civilization and this is true Perhaps there are times when we want taxes to purchase too much for us when we should be purchasing some civilization ourselves The Star Valley Independent comments: “Fifty years ago bis country was known as a melting pot Today it resembles a pressure cooker" It was Ann Landers who remarked that a courteous and thoughtful guest has the ability to know when the visit is over This same thing applies in public service A good public servant is sensitive to the people's feelings and can read their thoughts like the back of his hand There is an intangible relationship there that tells all concerned that it Is still okay When that “feeling” is no longer then perhaps it is time to disengage the “visit” The Tiresome Troublemakers The FBI responsible for our nation's internal security has expanded its list of Most Wanted Men to include some women and to include be growing number of revolutionaries dedicated to the violent destruction of our country Somebody should list for scrutiny our nation's 10 most tiresome people This year's award for the “most tiresome performance" must go to actress Jane Fonda This woman whose distinguished actor-fath- er patriotically portrayed be President of be United States in the film “Failsafe” has herself been going around the world condamning the United States government and its institutions While be FBI lists the bombers and burners and rioters our tabloid of tiresome radicals includes those whose weapons are the sneer and the slur and spittle Recently Miss Fonda objected vehemently to being stopped by a customs agent but over her objections he did his duty and sought and found and confiscated her supply of pills And placed her in custody S from where she announced— and the press parroted-th- at “all the best people in bis country are now in jail” Some of us have another notion about where the “best people” are to be found They're somewhere out there on a monotonous routine committee assignment for some civic or charitable effort-outs- ide the limelight— patiently working toward and accomplishing the improvement of our imperfect but nowherebetter-thaland And we weary of Miss Fonda's headlined harangue in praise of bombers and burglars and pushers and pickpockets and muggers and murderers Another of our 10 most tiresome is Yippie leader Jerry Rubin His philosophy is “Soak the sucker” He says “All money represents theft" He says “While looting a man to his own self is true" This is the Jerry Rubin who led the invasion of David Frost's television show in London whose disciples shouted obscenities in the studio and threw things onto be stage to the of a nationwide disgust n audience Incidentally Rubin despite his disdain for money demanded twice the usual fee for appearing on TV—and got It This though his announced purpose was to “use the money to buy bombs to destroy the Establishment" A list of 10 most tiresome should include Timothy Leary who violates our narcotics laws flees confinement and goes to Algeria— from where his verbal tirades against be United States continue to be quoted worldwide He has nothing to say that is worthy of bat forum Neither has H Rap Brown nor Angela Davis Remember how she loudly professed her “rights” were bring suppressed then she turned up an apparent accomplice in the murder of a judge The ravings of these pitiful may not menace our people nation's security but they are polluting our air day and night on radio and TV They have nothing to say bat is worthy of that forum and the repetition is tiresome 1970 Gen Fea Copyright Corp "What are we doing on the mem when we haven't even developed an industrial complex big enough to endanger our environment?" |