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Show The halt Lake I We Cant All Cop Out By Returning to 82 By Judd Arnett Knight Newspapers Writer In 1970 a novel called Time and Again was written by Jack Finney and published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Devoid of words and bedroom scenes, the boon still enjoyed considerable success, primarily because of the deftness of its plot and the thoroughness of the research. four-lett- Albert Einstein, it is said, had some rather startling notions about time. Loosely put, it was his belief that yesterday is still out there someplace, intact and unchanged, drifting along with its goodness and its badness, neatly fitted ar.d forever preserved into the totality of the universe. Likewise, a hundred years ago is still out there, or a thousand, each day in its proper slot, one behind the other in perfect array, sights, sounds and scenes as originally transcribed,' so to g speak. This is a conception, to be sure, but Mr. Einstein did not operate on lov. octane, being perhaps the heaviest thinker since the beginning of man. mind-bogglin- Unusual Reading Anyhow, Jack Finney used this as the basis of the plot of Time and Again, sending a commercial illustrator of the 1960s back into New York City during the winter of 188?. That period has been researched as to customs, lifestyle and attitudes and there are accompanying photographs and drawings which add Time and Again still . reality to fantasy. offers an unusual reading experience. In this particular retrospect, New York City in 1882 doesnt seem too inviting. The police are corrupt ar.J overbear ing; civil rights are trampled; veterans of the War Between the States are reduced to hawking gadgets on the streets; wages border on the starvation level; the rich are arrogantly sure of themselves; orphans scratch for a living during the day and sleep on hay barges; the faces of many citizens are pockmarked by the ravages of smallpox; there is corruption in high places. Most Evil Period Finally, however, the hero decides to stay in 1882 rather than return to modem times, chiefly because he comes to the conclusion that the 20th Century has been the most dangerous and evil period in all of mans evolution. What other century, he asks himself, has produced the horrible extravagance of two World Wars plus the development of devices which might wipe civilization off the face of the earth? Thus convinced, he buttons his shoes, dons his cumbersome outer clothing and walks back into the bitterness of winter, circa 1882, in a New York City without electricity, penicillin, the movies, TV dinners and the other creature comforts we now value so highly. New Manifesio All of this returned to mind the other day when it was noted that 120 religious leaders, philosophers, scientists, writers and social scientists had affixed their signatures to Manifesto II which succeeds the original document adopted in did not 1933. That one, we are told, touch on current issues such as nuclear arms and population control, pollution, racism and sexism. According to the New York Times, The new, more lengthy manifesto affirms a right to birth control, abortion, divorce, sexual freedom, euthanasia and privacy. It urges increased participatory andemocracy, a minimum guaranteed nual income and universal education. One does not wish to be flippant, but it reminds him of the Democratic platform Hope Primes Drive For Fairness Era The ltth Amendment, ratified in 1868, should have put an end to racism; the 19th Amendment, certified in 1920, should have guaranteed equality of the sexes; and to this moment no one has composed a more encompassing code of conduct than may be found in the Ten Commandments. Man has known what he should do, but he has been very slippery about the rules when they inconvenienced him, and this is why he has looked forw ard to each revision of them. The rewrites have always been softer than the originals, as witness Manifesto II. By Abe Zaidan Knight Newspapers In the wake of President Nixon's histone press conference at San Clemente, there are signs that some people want the whole of America to participate in a new era of fairness." This is also why there are doubtless many people who would leap at the chance to play ltading roles in Time and Again ana return to 1882, thus ducking out on the problems of today. But they are our problems because we either created them or inherited them, and the solutions are still to be found n the old moralities, not the new. End of sermon. Soviet Attack on Dissidents Reveals Weak Link The Washington Post MOSCOW For nearly two years, the Soviet Unions political police have been trying to stamp out the last remnants of active intellectual opposition to the regime. Much of their work proceeded quietly and efficiently. But in the last few wee' 3 a remarkable coincidence of events has put the Soviets campaign against dissidence at the center of international attention, vividly revealing one of the weak links in the new system of detente that East and West are jointly building. Just during August, the Soviet image suffered these embarassments Outbursts of apparently official at the World University Games in Moscow; bitter denunciations of the Soviet system by Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn, probably the single Soviet citizen in the outside world; defiant public statements from Andrei D Sakharov, principal developer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb and another intellectual whose fame assures wide publicity for his statements, international protests against the new has best-know- n labor camp sentence for writer Andrei Amalrik, and unfavorable publicity associated with the sudden removal cf Soviet citizenship from Zhores A. Medvedev, an internationally known biologist. r three-yea- International Attention A political trial in Moscow this week, which the Soviets are deliberately publicizing, has also drawn international attention to the campaign dence. . ' i - should do? I try to avoid recommendations of these types, but an honest physician never takes exception when a patient asks for a consultation. It could be that p.'his mans doctorLso is gett'ng tired of against dissi- Each of these events is tied to the security forces attempls to wipe out the active dissidents, a campaign which the Soviets regard as an internal matter The state has the right to defend itself, one of the Soviet Unions senior law officers told Andrei Sakharov a fortnight ago, a message that Soviet officials repeat in private conversations with foreigners. We have our own customs and traditions, and our own way of dealing with troublemakers, they say, and foreigners have no right to question us aboutthem. Yet foreigners do question them, and the Soviet authorities have recognized the connection between their domestic policies and international detente. The connection is acknowledged in Soviet replies to foreign critics. For example, in response to numerous documented accusations that Soviet mental hospitals are used for the forcible treatment of dissidents, the government news agency Tass recently carried an interview with a Soviet professor of psychiatry. Disputing foreign criticisms, the professor said that hired obligingly spread these lies to please the circles which are Interested in poisoning the international atmosphere and in preventing further detente. Such comments represent a recognition tnat detente can be hindered if foreigners object to aspects (real Or imagined) of Soviet internal policy In recent days the Soviets have mounted a propaganda offensive to respond to their cntics. The responses, like that of the professor of psychiatry, often consist primarily of attacks on the accus- ers. Another common response is a blan- - The Question Is: How? For Cheap Living, Eat Miracles for Dinner! By William Raspberry The Washington Post report. Some of them say they do a good deal better than that. WASHINGTON About a month ago, I went shopping with two home economists from the local welfare agency to find out whether it Those poor mistreated people get only $116, writes one miracle worker What baloney! I only from Indianapolis. get $100 for my family of four, and have sometimes as much money left over as $30.. . v massaging the prostate without curing his patient This treatment is not a3 popular as It used to be, especially when there are no symptoms. Surprisingly, many get well without treatment because rather than bringing about a cure, squeezing out the pus cells often causes more problems. The prostate is located at the outlet cf the urinary bladder and completely surrounds the tube (urethra) that carries urine to the outside. It is the size and shape of a horse chestnut and is an accessory part of mans sexual apparatus. The prostate is honeycombed with a net work of branching glands that manufacture secretions in which sperm are carried during ejaculation. Massages arc usually given by inset-inthe gloved finger into the rectum and pressing upon the gland to force out the g secretions. This seemingly logical remedy may do more harm than good through injury and creation of unnecessary anxiety. Aa acutely inflamed organ never is masJEged. (except a very occasional pound of ground beef for meatloaf), or any readymade or instant meals, and yes, we have butter, ice cream, maple syrup and cookies for luxuries. She said that before moving to Salt Lake City two years ago, her family lived in Cleveland, where on $100 a month for four of us, we did a lot more entertaining and ate beef liver chicken, ground beef and chuck roasts." Your Mrs. Yager must have had some great meals planned for welfare recipients. Bacon? Who can buy bacon nowadays? And oranges? Tomatoes are ; Advice, Contempt in season and they are a great source of offered only contempt readers Some vitamin C. I havent had a fresh orange Others offered for welfare recipients. two' in years. advice: First, dont make up menus and Drinks Dry Milk then buy the food. You buy whats on sale and then make up menus." My family drinks dry milk mixed with whole; we have been using TVP A Greenbelt, Md., man says much of (soybean) Instead of meat. the problem lies in the myths that Several readers got the impression nutritionists promulgate among th-- m that Mrs. Yagers expenditures of $41.79 that everyone needs three meals a day, for a weeks shopping meant a monthly that each meal must be balanced (you food budget of better than $160. The $41.79 can achieve a balanced diet by having balanced days or weeks, he says), or was inflated by the purchase of staples; leftovers would reduce that meat is a necessity subsequent outlays to keep within the A family of four could easily avoid total monthly budget of $116. the physical manifestations of malnutriEven so, a lot of people say the local tion on half, of the budget you worked welfare budget is quite reasonable; with, said the Greenbelt man. . once-a-mont- h A white middle-clas- housewife s from Chevy Chase, Md., says she rarely spends men. than $35 a week to feed her family of four (the welfare budget allows about $29 less than $1 a day a person) and often less than that How does she He didnt say how. Perhaps by eating miracles for dinner Senator Soaper manage Menu Rare Item Ease Up on Prostate Massages, Nature May Ease the Trouble 4 likely that few housewives under-stood Stein's explanation, but if they elect to play fairly, it wont make that much difference. Fairness must always make painful allowances for the otner fellows point of view. Robert G. Kaiser is possible to eat j decently on what assistance ? public ' provides. - Its Dr. T. R. Van Dellen and my doctor massages the organ eveiy two weeks. He claims that since if) the secretions still contain pus cells and the prostate drains poorly, there is nothing else to io but continue the massages. Im getting tired of this because I feel fine and have no pelvic symptoms. My Should I ask for a consultation physician is an older man (he delivered me) and has been our family doctor for two generations. What do you think I The idea, in fact, has inspired the formation of a new national committee that has been soliciting money to buy ads urging everybody to be fair to the President, (it is too early to speculate on the consequences if the scheme fails.) At the same time. White House economist Herbert Stein has suggested that 'if human housewives were beings, they would allow that although food prices are high, the grocery-shoppe- r is not as bad off as it seems because knee-jer- k economics have a way of being deceiving. Always Painful "Pulitics is hell, Bebe. L In my report, I said it didnt seem possible to me. We shopped from a list one of the economists had drawn up a list without obvious frills or junk and wound up overspending by nearly 9 percent because of recent price increases. At that rate, a family of four would have to spend about $126 a month Instead of the $116 the local welfare system provides through a combination of cash of 1972. grants and food stamps. Tco Demanding I didnt see any way short of a miraAt no time since the Declaration of cle to cut $10 out of the shopping list naIndependence have the people of this Muriel Yager (the home economist) had tion lacked written guidance which would drawn up and still afford proper nutrihave improved their conduct, if followed. tion. AT else aside, including the Constitution, Mail Full of Miracles they had the Bible, but the trouble with the mail has been full cf Since then, was that they those tracts and scriptures were too demanding when a fellow and miracles. It turns out to be almost easy achis friends wanted to do a little operat- to feed four people on $118 a month, to several people who read my cording ing." A Columbus, Ohio, man writes: I have an infection in my prostate gland, nuune, baluiuay, bepteiiiuei' i, mi,i i I rarely make a list of a weeks menus. I buy whats on sale, usually. Bacon and fresh fruit are luxuries. My husband does not eat breakfast. My children have cereal, milk and juice. Now and then, we have an egg. A number cf readers questioned Mrs. Yagers choice of beef neckbones as a r. A reader from Davis, these Calif., observes that cheap cuts of meat such as neckbones do not amount to any savings when you consider how much meat you get and how much bone. Hamburger is a much better buy for my money. money-stretche- Many groups pay larg fees to senators for making speeches to them, which should provide some satisfaction to those of us to whom they often say Hi there for free. The current leadership has shown an unprecedented willingness to react constructively to some foreign pressure. The best example of this is the decision to allow thousands of Soviet Jews' to emigrate, a decision that would have been inconceivable without foreign pressure. Ye! the same leadership has decided that relaxation of tensions with the West must be accompanied by the strictest ideological orthodoxy at home (a decision that has led to the crackdown on dissidents). There are hints of a dispute inside the leadership on ideological issues. Leonid I Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist party, said in a speech this month that he welcomed a freer exchange of people and ideas with the West, because this would win more supporters for the ideas of scientific Communism. This confident approach to a sensitive subject has not appeared in any other official Soviet statement before or after Brezhnevs speech. A few days after he spoke, Pravda published an authoritative article ignoring Brezhnevs formulation and reimposing the familiar Soviet position that any exchange of people and ideas must respect the laws and customs of all countries These initiatives into fairness havent always worked, but let history show that America is always trying. backs)? What baseball fan has not cheered his hero for homering in the ninth after loudly slandering him in the seventh for ' striking out with the bases loaded-Considerate Father Is there not a considerate father who has pulled the plug on the TV set to fairly resolve a family fight over whether to watch Channel 4, 6 or 8 at 9 p.m.? What woman, in fairness to herself,' has not bought a new outfit after her husband checked in with new golf clubs Who could forget to send a thank-yonote and an inquiry about his health to a' remote uncle who enclosed $10 in the birthday card7 - u When in the course of human events, has there not been someone around who was willing to invite a thoughtful boss to dinner during that trying time w people are contending for a promo-tijn- ? hen-thre- And who would not volunteer to carry his mother-in-law- s suitcases to the car when she announced that she was moving out? Whats fair is fair. In light of this tra' dition, the prospects for a new ert of fairness seem promising. Bernstein on Words By Theodore M. Bernstein meaning specifically, the Soviet Union. Whether these clues indicate a debate or two sides of the same coin isnt censorship in known. What to Do? In any case, discussions about vague notions like the freer exchange of people and ideas cant cover the difficult, specific prob.ems the Soviet leaders now face. The most obvious of these is what to do s Soviet citizens, with two Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov, whose statements command enormous attention. world-famou- Are they to be stamped out, too? Or would the outcry abroad that would certainly follow any repression of them jeopardize more important causes, like the detente policy The Soviets may feel that they can, in the Washington phrase, tough it out. The western countries may well decide that it is preferable to acquiesce to Soviet domestic policies and sacrifice the tiny handful of dissidents, if trying to defend them would jeopardize the new and favorable international atmosphere. Light Years Payola, plugola. First we had payola, a little more than a decade ago, to designate bribery money paid to disk jockeys to popularize certain records. Then we had plugola, which seems to have been coined from payola by Clay T. White-hea- d of the White House staff. He spoke of jdeological olugola, by which he apparently meant the plugging by broadcasters of an ideological line. Recently there was a return to payola in connection with allegations that certain recording companies and disc jockeys were back to their old tricks. The ola part of those words seems to come from pianola and victrola as a meaningless suffix and th whole words seem to be simply alterations of the more conventional payoff. George Hearthway of Norristown, Pa. raised the question in the First place and maybe he now has an answer Lost cause. Momentarily should mean for rnly a brief time: He iost control of the car momet'arily. Momently should mean at any moment: The broadcast will resume momently. But alas, the use of momently is becoming rarer as the years go by and momentarily has stepped in to serve in both senses. 1W Ahead. Humus- 7-4tU!i W Uj$s - - of all those who wrote is the woman from Salt Lake City who says she feeds her and family of five for $125 a month that includes toilet paper, paper towels, dry cat food, lots of soap and detergent and even some pop and beer. money-manag- uEttn iJ! L - It - mm not include bacon, beef SEE CUR WIDE SELECTION OF MEDICINE CABS. j4 4ft H ft . Who has not sat at a family dinner in which the boiled potatoes were divided a up equally (as well as the spinach reminder that even fairness has its draw, Money-Manag- Perhaps the best does The speed and strength of recent Soviet replies to foreign and domestic critics confirms that their criticism is taken seriously. The question remains how the Soviets will respond to it. Shows Willingness Earlier Presidents have called for fair and square deals and Congress has enacted laws that have affixed fair-- , ness to housing, employment and trade, to name a few CENTURY 21 gators try eating and feeding themselves with them. I say abolish neckbones. Send them to the White House with the rest o! the garbage'" It photographed. Another form of reply is to blame manifestations of domestic dissidence on foreigners. This line emerged from the political trial of Pyotr Yakir and Viktor Krassin this w eek. In fairness to fairness, the concept is not entirely alien to Americans, and it would be tragically unfair if Stein and the new fairness committee implied anything of the kind. PWSW Said another: Your article made my blood boil. Welfare families eating neckbones. Why the devil dont those investi- Best ket denial. For instance, Tass simply denied that there were any displays of at the university games, though these outbursts were witnessed by numerous foreigners, and one act was |