Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 102, Ed. 1 Monday, February 12, 1973 Page: 4 of 12
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Have a Good Time and Don't Worry,
I'll Take Care of the Home Front!" "
During the decade of the 1960s, Japan's Gross National
Product expanded four times, from 150 billion to more
than $200 billion, emerging in 1968 as the world’s third
largest
Today it is about 20 per cent that of the United States
and more than 10 per cent of the combined GNP of the
entire world It almost equals the total Asian economy
Japanese per capita income is 10 times the average of
Southeast Asia
According to predictions, by 1980 Japan's economy will
be about one-half that of the United States’ and about 23
per cent of the entire world's
Already, partly out of fear, partly out of jealousy, even
the great powers are eyeing Japan anxiously Her acces-
sion to power, many feel, has been too spectacular too
sudden
But what the world is witnessing is not an economic
Pearl Harbor in the making, says one Japanese spokes-
woman in an article in World magazine It is the birth
and development of a major new phenomenon—the Jap-
anese Dream And like the American Dream, which has
brought hope and promise to the world, the Japanese
Dream symbolizes the universal human yearning for a
better life
When I see my father and brother leave for work in
the morning in Western clothing, for daytime efficiency
and change after work into traditional kimonos, for eve-
ning relaxation. I am watching the Japanese Dream in
action,” writes Ranko Iwamoto, who holds an MA
degree in journalism from Boston University and works
on the Japan desk of a large public relations firm.
The Japanese Dream is a joining of the spiritual East
and its fatalistic acceptance of things as they are with the
science and problem solving technology of the West; of
the Eastern desire for harmony with nature with the
Western urge to confront it and conquer" it
The joining has not been smooth Japan has paid a high
price for its economic miracle " It is now perhaps the
most polluted society in the world Traffic and housing
congestion are beyond imagination
Now Japan finds herself a prime target for a rising
worldwide protectionist tide
Alarmed, Japanese spokesmen have tried to explain
that Japan, lacking, raw materials, cannot live without
trade, that world peace and a healthv world economy are
absolutely essential for her
In 1967, Japan began revising her own protectionist
policies Today, only 33 items are left on her controlled
imports list, compared to .39 for West Germany and 74 for
France
Another misconception about Japan is that her trade
policy is export at any price ' The truth is that Japan's
exports provide a smaller share of her GNP. 9 4 per cent
than any other industrialized nation except the United
States. Canada s export total, for example, represents
19 2 per cent of her GNP
As the first Oriental people to achieve Western-level
industrialization and living standards, after generations
causing anxiety
as a have-not nation in a have-not part of the world the
rapanese have not yet learned to think rich,” says Miss
."While sthey may at times put on "foreign clothing,
they retain deep inside themselves Eastern values that
areanot in line with what appears most important in the
W estern world. What Japan symbolically represents is
a new point of view, a dimension without which the World
Man will not be complete
By RAY CROMLEY
WASHINGTON iNEAl
'There is much hypocrisy in the attacks on President
Nixon s 1974 social and welfare budget.
Headlines in a prominent national newspaper say
"Nixon Budget Lists 100 Programs That Would Be
Limited or Ended to Attain a 'Safe’ Spending Level .
Large Social Cuts Reductions Are Aimed at Big
Poverty and Education Efforts .
The story below that headline pursues the same theme
But a sentence well down in the piece discloses that,
after all. Total social spending in the new budget is
higher than last year s ” (So is obligational authority I
Actually, proposed direct and indirect spending in
the civil rights area will rise by $600 million, or 23
per cent Drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation
programs will almost double to $274 million Federal
education outlays will increase $600 million, or 6 per
cent There will be a step-up of 10 per cent, or $10 8
billion, in income security programs, when Social
Security is included, or an increase of $52 billion, or
9 per cent, exclusive of Social Security-
Medicare expenditures will rise 26 per cent, but pay-
ments by the aged will also increase Health programs
exclusive of Medicare will rise $13 billions, or 9 per
cent In manpower training and associated programs
there will be a decrease in spending of half a billion
dollars, or 9 per cent, with the elimination of emergency
employment assistance which began in 1972 under
Mr Nixon
Overall, the 1974 budget calls for spending on social
programs at well over twice the level of the last
Johnson budget, whether Social Security and Medicare
are included or not
What is developing is a war over the wrong issues
The notion is being spread that if you are not for an
old program (inherited from Johnson, Kennedy, Truman
or Eisenhower days) you are against the poor,’the ailing
and the unfortunate Yet experts this reporter has talked
to inside and outside the administration, conservative
and liberal alike agree in private it would be well for
all of us, Including the poor and unfortunate, if a good
many of these programs tor parts of them, went by the
board
Many are inefficient and cumbersome Some do actual
harm Others are dreadfully expensive for the few
they serve, or don't help many of the people (hey are
designed for Some were good in their tune but their
usefullness has in large measure passed Some were
never needed
But the danger is that this fight will degenetaie inio a
shouting match over who has most empathy with the
unfortunate
The proper argument is over whether Mr Nixon's
new programs will be more effective or less effective
than the old, whether program B should be increased
at the expense or elimination of program A and whether *
in some cases any federal program at all is necessary
Is the government attempting to do something people
can do better for themselves'’
The battle against killing the old program will have
its own lobby — the organizers, bureaucrats. admini-
strators. managers and others who profit from these
programs These special interests will attempt to con-
vince the unfortunates who now receive some aid
(however inefficiently and unfairly it may lie giveni
that they had better cling to what they're getting or
they might not get anything at all
The fight will lie rough
Look who's awake
and active: Mars!
These are exciting times for astronomy Consider just
the planet Mars
In the past year, thanks to the Mariner 9 spacecraft
more has been learned about the mysterious red planet
than in all the hundreds of years it has been viewed
through earthbound telescopes
During 698 orbits of Mars before its maneuvering gas
ran out, Mariner 9 sent back 7,329 pictures of the planet's
surface, plus tens of thousands of bits of instrument data
Major discoveries—an 18-mile-high volcano, a 2,500-
mile-long grand canyon, evidence of water erosion—re
ceived wide publicity But analysis of the photographs
and data continues and a startling different idea of Mars
is beginning to emerge
Rather than being a dead, worn out planet, Mars is
dynamic and may only now be becoming geologically
. Once thought to be without water, large quantities of it
have been detected under the north polar cap Just as
earth has gone through successive ice ages Mars may
have experienced water ages " As the earth is in an
interglacial period. Mars may be in an "interfluvial"
period
The presence of water on Mars enhances the possi.
bility of life on the planet, possibly forms that could
hibernate during the eons between periods of water flow
We may find out when a Viking spacecraft lands on
Mars in 1976
Another Mariner is scheduled to be launched in 1977
and will reach the vicinity of Saturn in 1981 At least
one astronomer believes that Titan, largest of Saturn’s
10 moons. has atmospheric conditions similar to those on
earth when the first organic molecules were forming
Mariner 77 could fly as close as 100 miles to Titan and
test the theory.
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Millions of Americans who have only heard of Horatio
Alger have a chance to do something no one has done
since granddad s day. and that is to read a brand new.
never-before-published novel by the original Horatio Alger
himself
True, Silas Snobden’s Office Boy" originally appeared
in serial form in Argosy magazine back in 1889-90 but
the by line was a pseudonym and only recently did a
scholar discover that the story had never been published
under Alger s name in book form
Doubleday and Company has just rectified this over
sight, bringing out the first new Alger book since 1910
Silas Snobden" follows the formula Alger used with
slight variations in his scores of other books that of the
poor but industrious—and above all. honest young man
working his way up the ladder of success
But before he gets his foot on the first rung of that
1adder, the hero-as did all Alger heroes—performs some
act of bravery and daring that brings him to the attention
of the man who rewards him with a yank up
1' may be the thwarting of a robbery, the recovering
of some valuable possession, the stopping of a runawav
horse, the rescue of the bank president's daughter etc
nIn.otherz.words, the element of luck is as important as
Pluck.to the typical Horatio Alger hero, a fact usually
Ignored when those heroes are held up as examples
.That being aside from its curiosity value.
Silas Snobden s Office Boy will have little to say to
today s poor but industrious youths
After, all, how many runaway horses are there these
number nd while it can be argued that the decrease in the
number..of escapading equines has been more than off.
set by the rise in the number of muggers prowling the
streels, there simply aren t that many bank presidents'
daughters in peril at any given time
What with the abolition of the Office of Economic On-
programs and *
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
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arFirst there was that big put-down speech he delivered
around, inauguration, 11 Oxford. England He
maned foolishly, about President Nixon allegedly
operating an elective dictatorship.” spoke of the
American spirit and of the U S. press
cNow.he,comes on with * piece for the magazine
Ehristiani Century, saying if he had it to do over again
hesswouldnt campaign for the presidency on such a
high moral plane o matter how urgent the moral
imperatives. he says. it's risky to assume you can get
majority support by dwelling on them
in a classic broadside at US. voters, he adds •
dont might even repel large numbers of people who
don t want to be disturbed in their lethargy and apathy
and. who prefer not to feel conscience-stricken about
what the nation is doing"
Well, George is getting a little fresh attention for
seeming tobl lame his crushing defeat on everyone but
himself What he s getting is criticism, and hes
earning it.
wAs amatter of fact, he deserves more For instance,
with all the bad reaction his Oxford speech drew
almost nothing was said about how he responded to a
question about Mr Nixon s inaugural Asked in London
if he watched the ceremony, visible on the BBC, he said
nPat hat he took a nap. Real bush league stuff
He thinks his “high moral tone" suffered when, after
nomination in July, he began seeking pragmatic arrange-
ments with "old politics'' types like Chicago s Mayor
Richard Daley Actually, George fell off the pedestal
iong before that, and regularly, too.
The truth is, he is a hip-shooter, and a wild one at that
He used to say it would save $7 billion a year if we
brought home half our NATO troop force Nongovernment
special lists.in defense blew that fanciful overstatement
sky high Their rebuttals were well printed
McGovern blithely stuck with the phony figure as if it
were gospel, until his personal defens? budget came out
in January, 1972 In that long document, he never men-
tioned it
That document, well done in some ways, had its own
glaring errors A bad one was his proposal to halt at
seven the number of Polaris submarines to be converted
for longer range, multi-warheaded Poseidon nuclear mis-
siles. More than seven were afloat when he made the
proposal
.Four months later, despite columns exposing the error
McGovern in the California primary still offered the press
an unaltered budget with that outdated, misleading figure
in it I checked in June and found that 12 Poseidon-bear-
mg submarines were in the water and eight more being
readied (with 31 due for conversion altogether >
. His budget touted proposed savings by fiscal 1972 of $32
billion in defense, largely on the basis of strategic con
cepts he said would protect the country solidly but more
sensibly By spring, he was misrepresenting his own
document, calling it simply a plan to "eliminate $32
billion of waste in defense ”
Newsmen admittedly were slow to catch up to the flaws
in his famed $1,000-a-person welfare proposal When they
did McGovern dismissed it as if it were just a rough
sketch for a bad painting With unprincipled casualness
he shrugged and said in effect: "Back to the old draw-
Ing board
If we in the press were exhausted in 1972, it was partly
Irom the search for any consistent morality in George
McGovern If his tone really was lofty, it must have been
beyond our hearing range
When it comes to the U.S mails. It seems to be a case
sh mhsimore things change the more they become a
Back in July of 1971, the venerable Post Office Depart-
ment a Cabinet-level agency dating back to Washington's
first administration was transformed into the semi-auton-
omous US Postal Service The idea was to insulate the
mail system irom politics, reorganizing it along business
lines to function more efficiently and eventually to break
even, eliminating massive congressional subsidies
No one was promising or expecting miracles And no
one can say the Postal Service hasn't been trying. In the
pursuit of efficiency, it has raised rates and curtailed
pickups, innovated with services and equipment and is
now proposing reforms ranging from standardized enve-
lope sizes to simplified postage and handling for large-
volume mailings
Still, to the average sender and receiver of letters, it
often seems that the major change in the past year and a
half has been to move from the verge of collapse to an
advanced stage of same Most users have their examples
of horrendous service - letters taking weeks to cross the
country or even to be delivered to a neighboring city, air
mail and special delivery taking longer than third class
once did. lost and damaged items
if might almost seem that the very immensity of the
problem precludes any real solution The mails. by one
estimate, handle some 87 billion pieces a year As a
Postal Service representative noted in a recent Los
Angeles Times report, even if the mail went through 99.9
per cent swiftly and without error, the .01 per cent de-
layed or otherwise mishandled would still provide
grounds for 87 million complaints a year.
That is a lot of public unhappiness and the Postal
Service, has, in fact, established a special office to handle
complaints i Consumer Advocate, Consumer Affairs De-
partment. U.S. Postal Service, Washington. D C 202601.
although advising citizens to bring mail problems first to
the attention of local postmasters.
Service could start improving more noticeably this fall
when new bulk mail facilities begin to be introduced in
the metropolitan mail bottlenecks We can hope so
Meanwhile, the Postal Service is displaying an artistic
as well as practical side to its innovation The latest new
stamp design is not the usual commemoration of an emi-
nent American historic figure, event or place, but a near-
psychedelic Special Stamp for Someone Special * Re-
leased in time for Valentine cards, it simply states "Love
US 84 in cheerful red, blue and green
It s nice to know that if we haven't yet fully achieved
speed and efficiency in the mails, we at least have heart
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