Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 39, Ed. 1 Monday, November 29, 1971 Page: 4 of 14
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study of world population growth, states optimistically
that "the natural resources available to present technol
ogy are sufficient to allow a vast improvement in the
standard of living of all the people who will inhabit the
earth 20 to 30 wars from now
The committee estimates that all those1 people will
number 7 billion, about half a billion less than expected
on current trends
Who is right? Who are the realists- and who the
dreamers''
According to Forrester, we have until 2050 to find out
That is the year of crisis" toward which the lines on all
his graphs converge
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By JIMMY R ALLEN
When a state is plagued by scandal and rumor of wands
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business deals, the initia hue and cry is usually followed by
apatuy.
There oftep emerges an ethics study of an ethics com-
mission Some politicians findit possible to brazenly bluff their
way througa Others cry "scapegoat." Most have the in-
clination to feel that some window dressing of ethics must
happen before things can go on as usual A few take seriously
the responsibilities for reform
The public usually is confused enough with the complexity of
the situation to be beguiled into thinking the problem is solved
when they have changed a minor method or shifted persons in
■ one or two places of responsibility.
Te story is as old as the art of human politics. Possibilities
of permanent change always depend upon a continued sense of
indignation Both citizens and public officials must be com-
mitted For this to happen an informed moral conscience must
constantly be at work.
There has emerged from the so-called stock scandal in
Texas an ethics commission. It is peopled by good men, but it
is stripped of effective power except to call public attention to
the needs for reform.
Ethics commissions usually are only partially effective
They are limited to working for guidelines in grey areas
Guidelines are essential but character and inner conscience
are the highest priorities for a person to be able to fulfill a
trust
Some obvious steps need to be hammered out A public
disclosure of income of officials is an essential step A
guideline to prevent conflict of interest on the part of
legislators pleading the case of special interests before ad-
ministrative agencies is also essential These are not simple or
easy matters for definition or attainment. For an ethics
commission to accomplish its goals it must have the en-
thusiastic and intelligent support of concerned voters across
the state
A larger matter more deeply needed is legislative reform
Texas has tried to get by with too many legislators paid too low
a salary for far too long This unwieldy process, supposedly
guaranteeing a greater democratic participation, has instead
resulted in a small oligarchy of power The day is long gone
when Texas can afford to get by on part-time legislative
representation
The time has come for the public to awaken to the need for
elected officials to work full time in the legislative process and
be paid salaries appropriate to the task. The legislative body
itself could work better if it were smaller
Christian conscience demands that we not only expect the
highest performance from public officials but that we also
demand that performance of the rest of our society.
By and large, legislative behavior is of the same level as
ethical behavior in other business enterprises. An ethical sag
exists in many walks of American life Assumption of public
trust does place a high priority on integrity Jesus makes it
plain that integrity is essential to all of life He says, “Let your
yes mean yes and your no mean no."
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The rich nations of the world have been put on notice
by the poor nations that "indefinite coexistence between
poverty and affluence is no longer possible
The warning came in a preamble to the "Declaration
of Lima," adopted by delegates of 80 nations meeting in
Peru a few weeks ago
Not only does the gap between rich world and poor re-
main. it is w idening
• While average per capita annual income increased
by $650 in the develoved nations during the 1960s it
grew by only $40 in the developing countries, the Lima
conferees were told
• The developing nations share of world exports fell
from 21.3 per cent in 1960 to 17 6 per cent in 1970
• Unemployment in the underdeveloped nations is
running three times population growth and is chiefly
among young men under 25 This is creating an explo
sive world situation
The figures are discouraging Even more discouraging,
is the growing conviction among students of the problem
that the gap can never be closed if anvthing. the rich
nations may eventually have to reduce their standards
We may be living in a golden age," thinks Jay W
Forrester, a pioneer in the development of the digital
computer and a professor at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology That is the qualitv of life in the rich nations
may be better than it ever has been or ever will be again
The underdeveloped nations probably can never reach
our standard of living, he savs, because the pollution and
natural-resource load of each person in an industrial na
ton is 20 to 50 times greater than in a nonindustrial
nation
Forrester is echoed by the head of the Swedish Inter-
national Development Authority
it would take 10 billion preindustrial people-. says
Ernst Michanek, to generate the wastes which only 200
million Americans produce Put another way, if the cur
rent total energy production of the world were distrib.
uted using American standards, it would be enough for
fewer than 600 million people, or one sixth of the present
world population of 3 6 billion
As another example, if India were to matc h Sweden in
number of cars per person. India would have to build 150
million new cars
"The additional investment the additional consump-
tion and environmental pollution this number of cars
would bring are almost beyond our power to imagine."
savs Michanek
Anyone who advocates narrowing the gap between
rich and poor nations, while at the same time envisioning
a continued 3 to 5 per cent increase in real income in
the former, is supporting two irreconcilable policies and
is either ignorant or mendac ious, he charges
In the face of such statistics backed pessimism, a re-
port just made bv a committee of the National Academy
of Sciences, under the chairmanship of Roger Revelle of
Harvard University, appears positively Pollyannaish
The report, based on a comprehensive, three-year
"Zero population growth" has already been achieved
in the United States—on a modest scale
Five incorporated towns—Bay City, Alaska: Ironton
Colo : Ridotto, Iowa: Westfall Ore.: and Parker. Tex —
show up in the 1970 Census of Population and Housing
with a population of zero
Three of them—Westfall. Ridotto and Ironton—lost their
entire populations between 1960 and 1970 plummeting
from 8, 6 and 1 respectively.
All five are still listed as towns, however, since in most
cases it requires legislative action to terminate corporate
status This may not take place until long after the last
person has gone
It’s also possible that a town may be incorporated even
before the lirst resident moves in Two of the zero-popu-
lation towns—Bay City and Parker—did not exist in 1960
and still showed no inhabitants in 1970 presumably, they
were incorporated for some special reason, says the
Census Bureau
Elsewhere. reflecting the continuing exodus from rural
areas the number of very small towns is growing.
Census Bureau information shows there were 116 in-
corporated towns with populations of 25 or less in 1970
compared with 79 in 1960 This was an increase of nearly
47 per cent
Although the 116 are scattered through 27 states 53 of
them are in the belt ranging from the Dakotas to Texas
Of these 53. 43 showed a loss of population between i960
and 1970
All told. 72 of the nation s 116 very small towns regis-
tered a loss of population over the decade with 51 drop-
ping to 25 or fewer residents for the first time
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make roods safer
A traffic expert from Ohio State University says that
the driver should be made more responsible for safety
on the roads
That statement is not as obvious as it sounds Blaming
the driver for the traffic safety problems is not currently
the vogue It is highly unpopular to emphasize the
.driver’s incompetence," says Helmut Engleman. an as-
sociate professor of mechanical engineering who heads
the Ohio State Highway Accident Research Team
The federal government's current auto safety pro-
grams are "trying to soft-pedal the driver’s responsibil-
ity." in favor of developing various safety devices such
as the air bag, says Engelman, whose team is com
pleting the final report on a two-year traffic safety study
for the U S Department of Transportation
The investigation of 60 accidents, he says, will show
that the causes of most were poor judgment of risk,
driver incompetence, inattention to driving. drunkenness
and poor vehicle condition:
Engelman makes several comments and recommenda-
tions.
• New approaches to driver training should be studied
"It is well to talk about emergency handling but there
is no opportunity to really do it,” he says
• Since it is "almost impossible” to get a drunken
driving conviction in an accident case, the present im-
plied consent” law on drunken driving should be re-
written Engleman urges that specific consent for an
alcohol test be required of the driver when he applies
for a license
• Road signs and warnings should be improved A
paucity of clear signs and an overabundance of made
quate ones leads to driver confusion
• Trucks larger than those now on the roads should
not be permitted Engelman believes that no car—large
or small—now stands a chance if involved with a colli-
sion with a heavy truck
• Seat belts, the best form of safety protection, should
be worn, but worn properly if seat belts are allowed to
ride over the hip bone they can pinch the intestines
against the spine in a collision and cause severe injury.
A major finding of the study, according to Engelman.
is that serious "out-of-control" accidents do not usually
result in head-on collisions Instead cars are likely to
slide in such a way that impact will be made from’ the
side or the rear This finding is one key to the engineer s
criticism of proposed federal air bag requirements for
1974 cars
Air bags. he notes, are effective only in direct frontal
collision—a type of accident that occurs mainly at low
driving speeds
' The air bag is a potential hazard It will blow out the
windows as it blows up and then throw you out of the
car unless you are situated in exactly the right place."
Engelman contends
Dozens of studies have been performed on air bags
it is not likely that in the near future any decisions will
be reached But Engelman’s statement that the driver
has to assume some responsibility for keeping himself
alive." is one that should be drummed into the heads of
new drivers as well as veterans
We’ve heard it a thousand times, but defensive driv-
ing." will be the key to traffic safety until what we now
call the automobile is obsolete
Monday. November 29, 1971
Honesty essential
in public office
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this n
up ruled for a decade The
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ncil which has suspended
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: the hands of
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oppdsition party inon-
less to effectively pro’
n the partiament
in Thailand The con-
senate and an elected
is barely three years
pear ng in print The stress seems to be the north and the
it “ j. at the troops will
have to be separated between Nan and other cities up
north and the t ities in the south a distance of well over
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embitters Japan
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
TOKYO t NEA i
If Japanese self appraisals today aie tough there are
still some here who think we are being unfair in singling
ut their land, as the very special target of our restrictive
economic policy
Top government men in Japan have very good chan
neis into Washington They have been told that President
Nixon s Imposition of a 10 per cent surcharge on imports,
though applied to all nations, was directed mainly at
heav Japanese exports to America.
In + forthcoming article a Japanese writer will say
’ that many of his people see Nixon’s moves as making
Japan a most convenient, scapegoat for all the economic
evils Americans were suffering "
He sees American industry as evidently inefficient and
r monetary policy as one of undisciplined benign
neglect
Many key Japanese agree with US reporter Frank
Gibney who says we practice a kind of courtroom diplo
mac , in what amounts to an adversary relationship
rather than a partnership with Japan
More than once I have heard the issue put in harsher
terms The recognized spokesman for his country s
makers of manmade textile fibers. Kagayaki Miyazaki
president of Asahi Chemical, wondered aloud to me
whether we Were exhibiting racial hostility So did one or
two others
Miyazaki knows Japan's volume of manmade fiber ex
ports to America far outruns Europe's shipments But he
does not see the fairness in cramming a severely limiting
textile agreement down Japan's throat while we demand
no new restraints from such exporters to us as Italy and -
France
The Japanese newspapers are filled with stories which
if taken at full value, seem to add up to some measure of
economic recession which they ascribe mostly to Nixon’s
policies Capital investment is off ithat happened before
the Nixon shocksi, there are said to be some production
cutbacks and considerable loss of jobs
Officials say earlier voluntary quotas on textiles to •
America cost their government $200 million in adjustment
relief tor a consequently depressed industry. With the
government planning to buy up and scrap 100.000 looms
nder the touch Oct 15 textile pact the outlook is for
outlay of many times the previous sum
It is hard for the outsider in one visit to gauge the real
burden of Nixon’s policies on Japan Treasury Secretary
Connally says there is no real recession here US
sources say the damaged Japanese textile firms were in
efficient middle range outfits and should go anyway To
Miyazaki that belittles a potential job loss of 300.000
involving painful relocation in other work of people with
little mobility
Many leaders think their American counterparts are
ignorant of what Japan is doing Though the government
really needs more money for domestic social development,
it is tiling to push through a personal income tax cut
as a sour to home demand which might help offset pox
sbly curtailed exports
The Jananese insist, too. that they have responded it
somewhat belatedly—to the call from us and others to
slash their tariffs and import quotas and open the way
to wider foreign investment in Japan They got suppor
on this from t S scholars testifying before Congress
Except for the faintly raised race matter, the worst in
all this from the Javanese view is that we and perhaps
Europe aie seen as wanting to penalize the people ol these
pail supermodern, part primitive islands for their match
less haul woik and ingenuity Said one leader in a mix
lure of anger and anguish
What do the Americans want us to do
tors as Amer
Asia and in
tempts t
We are borrowing thousands of millions a year So
far the country has acquired a debt of some 40 billion
baht or moi e Whether we like it or not we shall have
to keep a mights army formed spending on them more
than we < an afford Even if you have played Ping
Pong with Mao Peking’s Mao Tse tung it does not mean .
that his • vusn down south will not play a rougher game
with us stil Or will the bad dream be over once Mr
Nixon has tasted the Peking duck’”
V few year- ago Thailand wax pointed to as a model
of financial responsibility The discipline of Thai eco:
nomi offi ials wa- widely praised Bangkok government
men aimed at developing a small but vigorous foreign aid
program of their own
Th1 letter went into detail on the growing corruption,
the Chinese smuggling the spreading opium traffic, the
effects of die United Nations vote and a general nation-
wide decline in morale I once worried about Quemoy
and Matsu Now 1 worry about my own bank
account
u leader of the old military group which re
e up some of its power in 1969
tagonasm toward local Chinese it is known
lal"members of the military group advocate
atons with Peking as a hedge as American
out Because this course could arouse much
ion advocates may well believe a strong"
ally and pohitacally Al
power in widespread at-
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