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Show Rationing, ERA, FTC What others around the nation are saying Marianne Means: "Our only national modern experience with (gasoline) rationing occurred during World War II, and on the whole the system functioned. Patriotic motivation undoubtedly helped. If Americans finally accept the urgency of the energy crisis, there is no reason why rationing on a limited basis wouldn't work again." Ellen Goodman: "A funny thing often happens during an Eqjial Rights Amendment Amend-ment vote these days, whether it's in Florida or North Carolina or Illinois. Problems keep popping up like clowns out of a circus car. And whenever you think the car is empty, out comes another clown." Murray Kempton; "A few weeks ago, while on my vocational wanderings, I had occasion to introduce myself to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. 'Ayh, yes,' he said, 'I have always greatly admired ad-mired your work.' Naturally, I found this remark as charming as it was divorced from reality. And yet it cost the speaker nothing to contrive this pleasant illusion and it earned whatever my kind feelings are worth, and you can never count anyone's kind feelings as utterly worthless." M. Stanton Evans: "The Carter regime has done everything in, its power to humble the anti-Communist Chinese and to play up to their Communist counterparts. coun-terparts. As the Institute of American Relations puts it in a recent foreign policy wrap-up, the liaison office of the Communists Com-munists is treated with all the dignity of an embassy, while the embassy of the free Chinese is treated as though it were merely a liaison office." James J. Kilpatrick; "It ought not to be the responsibility of government to say no to spoiled brats. That's the parents' responsiblity. The Federal Trade Commission's Com-mission's busybody do-goodism (in its proposals to regulate TV commercials for children) gives me, for one, an old-fashioned old-fashioned pain in the neck." Wallace Terry: "The middle class is on the move back to the inner-city because it is fed up with the long commute from the suburbs. This trend should be widely heralded, since it means more jobs and an opportunity to improve the suffering city tax base.. ..But this trend may result in an awful toll by displacing the poor from communities they cherish and driving them into housing just as bad as they had or worse." "A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever." M. Farquhar Tupper |