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rabid forms of totalitarianism?”
What history teaches us is not the
lesson of convergence but of diverg-
ence. asserts Wolfe The Communist
ideology and totalitarian structure of
China and Russia differ from each
other, he says, even as do the na-
tionalism and-exercise of great exec-
utive powers in plural and open so-
cieties by Charles de Gaulle and Lyn-
don Johnson
There are others who have more
than an emotional interest in the up-
coming century. Twentieth Century-
Fox. for example, plans to change its
name to Twenty-first Century Fox on
Jan. 1, 2000. They will undoubtedly
inaugurate the new century with a
19th century horse opera.
The CBS television network isn’t
going to wait that long. Next year
it will change its documentary pro-
gram. “The Twentieth Century,” to
‘•The Twenty-first Century.”
In Denver, however. Twentieth Cen-
tury painters and Decorators isn't go-
ing ing to change to Twenty-first Cen-
tuy Painters and Decorators, says
Read, because “it’s not very romantic
and it’s hard to pronounce." The Twen-
tieth Century Market in Seattle is go-
ing to get around the "sound barrier”
by calling itself Century Tw enty One
Market.
For the rest of us, the question
is academic and will be so for the
next 33 years.
Or is it 34?
LETTER
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EDITOR
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Young mothers adore it as a stroll-
er for baby. (Baby likes it, too, be-
cause it’s nice and shiny.) And if
dad is a do-it-yourselfer, he knows
nothing can beat it as a mobile tool
chest
Almost everyone, in fact, hails ths
grocery cart for its versatility ex-
cept supermarket wvners and offi-
cials of the Super Market Institute,
who ruefully face the fact that the
carts cost $30 or $35 each and that
more than $25 million worth of them
are pilfered every year.
Some stores are trying to solve the
problem by providing boys who cart
purchases to the customer's car. Oth-
er proprietors may be wondering if '
it might not be simpler to sell carts
and let the customers swipe the
groceries.
But. of course, no self-respecting -
customer would think of doing that.
It would be stealing
New York and California alone spend around
$3.5 billion annually on schools—roughly half the
federal budget in Franklin D. Roosevelt's biggest
spending year before World War II.
Many state leaders say frankly that the “school
lobby"—representing pressure for funds from teach-
ers, administrators, etc.—is today virtually the most
powerful in their areas.
During the recent campaign, in a quiet talk on
a bus with this reporter, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
voiced his concern at the continuing upward trend
in schooling costs, which he said had doubled at the
state level within the span of his first two terms and
threatened to double again by 1972
The governor suggested that, with state and other
tax resources being tapped almost to the limit, the
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keep on asking for a higher ceiling on spending.
Rockefeller Mid that educators therefore must
soon start thinking far more seriously than they
have about automating the schooling process—to
save costs and offset a potential teacher shortage
far worse than any ever talked of before.
This kind of talk frightens some school people,
who fear that automation means making teachers
more or less obsolete. Yet the use of electronic and
other teaching aids is becoming steadily more com-
mon.
Business and industry are getting into this field
on a widening scale. Experimental programs in such
things as computer-assisted learning are under way.
At the moment, of course, these are extremely costly.
Actually, this is only part of the story. Strong
efforts are being made to modernize the entire school-
The boys started to wok as early
as 9 or 10 with wages varying from
$1.40 to $13 50 a week for a wide
range of tasks.' Average age of the
study group was 12.
“Adults' who live in cities are so
used to seeing children work that
they have begun not to notice them,”
said Dr. Engel. “But they are on the
street corners. with shoeshine boxes,
or yelling out the evening headlines,
or dropping the news of the day in
front of the doors of sleeping citi-
zens.”
Others paste labels in small factor-
ies. stack boxes in supermarkets, sho-
vel walks or sit with babies.
The study also revealed that by the
age of 12 boys have definite work hah-
its and that such rehabilitation proj-
ects as the Job Corps should begin at
an early age. By the time a boy is
16. it is more difficult to change his
attitude and work pattern,
“The child labor situation has chan-
ged so drastically that we should start
thinking about work for children in
a new light, says Dr. Engel.
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modem supermarket is something the
proprietor doesn’t even advertise— the
grocery cart
So irresistible is the lure of this
handy gadget that each year almost
1,000,000 supermarket shoppers craf-
tily stow the cart into their car along
with the groceries they have just
bought and head for home Such mass
dishonesty is appalling
The result is that the grocery cart
is fast emerging as the top all-pur-
pose item of the space age.
Outdoor diners have discovered that
it makes a wonderful portable char-
coal grill ■
Service stations use it for battery-
testing equipment, and building cus-
todians for hauling cleaning supplies.
Gardeners ingeniously line it with
plastic sheeting and have a wheel-
. barrow. And housewives couldn’t get
along without it for laundry or as a
the livelihood at the farmer Parents write to their
sons in the army about living conditions. When those
conditions are good, the morale of the army is high.
When conditions are bad, morale in the army is low.
Low morale in the army would make it difficult
for Mao and Lin to depend on the troops to effec-
tively counterrevolt.
It’s still too early to tell what the harvests anc
crop deliveries will be like.
There are reports of wheat losses in the ’north
and damage to rice in the south.
* The current political unsettlement may cause the
farmers to hoard rice and thus lower the amount of
food reaching the cities.
The way things look now, the crops won’t be as
good as those of last year. The prospect isn’t as bad
as the great hunger of several years back. But, per
capita the food outlook is well below the harvests of
about a decade ago.
A good crop and high deliveries will help Mao.
He may get by on a so-so harvest. A crop disaster
would put him in a precarious position.
With so much riding on agriculture, Mao and
Lin Piao have slowed the pace of the purge for
the time being and ordered the Red Guards to
help farmers with the crops.
Whether this will help the situation isn’t yet
known. Mao could possibly wriggle out of a bad har-
vest by extraordinary imports of wheat from Can-
ada and other countries. He has already begun to
step up purchases.
Costs, Updating
Top School Woes
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
was put under the Christmas many others wrote about Wash- gon. but you can safely quote
tree by my elf godfather ington. Cooldge is the only me without fear of contradiction,
I have just finished warming president who never had a cred- eigher escalation of the war, or
it up with a three hour, gentle ibility gap. He never said any- peace, will occur in 1967: but if
massage. Images are appearing thing. No one expects me to you are a betting man you can
on the view screen. None of be like him. Coolidge was a risk odds on escalation,
them look like either Truman Republican." On the whole, I can assure
or Dewey. LBJ fades out but looking you 1967 looks very much like
Ah. there he is, LBJ himself, much happier than while deliv- same
looking me right in the eye. ering his budget message to For example, traffic deaths, _ ..
Congress, early ’67. I checked according to one headline that time may not be far off when school authorities will
“HELLO, Mr. President, if his Tom Paine quote. It is accu- materialized on my view screen simply be told they will have to
you've been reading this column, rate. I now trust this crystal will approach 45.600 up from
you know I think you’ve been ball explicitly. 42,000 this year. It will be due
dong a fine job. You inherited to the increased use of motor-
a tragic and emotional situation. THE BALL now reveals a cycles, motorbikes and scooters,
the policies of your predeces- charming lady, seated at ar American combat deaths in
sor were just out of the fire antique desk. She. is talking over Vietnam will be-less than 3,000,
but not jelled Now that we are a telephone Believe it or not, which is higher than the an-
well into 1967, do you think but it could be; yes, it is Mrs nual average of combat deaths
JFK could have done any bet- John F. Kennedy! for previous years in Vietnam.
Dear Editor.
We the members of the
Brownwood Fire Dept wish to
express our sincere gratitude
to the many people who as-
sisted us this year in our
Toys for Tots program.
The citizens of Brownwood
• and surrounding communities
are responsible for making
this program a success, with-
out their help'it would be im-
possible for this prgram to
continue It is comforting to
know we live in a town and
county in which the people
take such an interest in this
type program
it is most rewarding to us
and we feel quite sure to all
of you to know you had
a part in so worthwhile a
venture
gW say thanks to all of you
again and our department
stands ready if any of you
ever need a helping hand not
only from a fire fighting
standpoint but as a good deed
from one friend to another.
C M Allford, Fire Chief
W Wayne Hardman.
President
to an unsuspecting nephew. The across.” ized crisp and clear but he was money to finance the constantly rising demands of
worked then from poorer families. ‘—ball would not even roll cor- Tom Paine, a former friend in conference The only English education.
rectly. My nephew said that it and a famous journalist who words I caught were'Lodge, More than one-third of the average state budget
zig-zaggedsdownsthebawling.al- will be read when all the pres- "MecNamara".an WWestmore goes for education, and the proportion seems to be
ley and zigged into the gutter ent practitioners of speculative land. He gritted his teeth on 2 . . m-. nll.e ni „ r„.„ -.e 110 . ..
just as it appeared to be zagging journalism are forgotten. wrote each of those words. .' rsing in many places. Quite a few states allot up to
into the 1-3 slot for a strike, of Washington as a 'patron of The last time I went back
He tipped a sailor two dollars fraud , and a hypocrite in to him, Ho Chi Minh was talk-
to drop it in the Gulf of Mex- public life; the world will be ing English with four American
ico. puzzled to decide, whether you women. They looked and sound-
I tell you this just to let you (Washington) are an apostate or ed confused; and so did Ho Chi
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concludes, “and it may very well be
to their psychological benefit to let
them do so.”
Most laws can benefit from a sec-
ond look occasionally, especially those
that may be affected by changing so-
cial conditions. Two psychologists
suggest it is time we did this in the
field of child labor legislation.
The numerous child labor laws, both
federal and state, enacted in the past
several decades were originally de-
signed to protect children from haz-
ardous occupations and exploitation
in the notorious sweatshops of the
early years of the century. More flex-
ible labor laws, permitting children
10 to 16 years old to work, would be
more in line with reality and might
benefit the children, say the psycholo-
gists
Compiling the first child labor fig-
ures since the early 1930s. Dr. Mary
Engel and Gerald Marsden of the
University of Michigan found that
more hildren mostly boys are work-
ing than we realize or the census fig-
ures reveal. Many work illegally be-
cause they are below the legal age
or do not have work permits.
In a project involving more than
500 boys in Greater Boston under the
age of 14, the researchers found that
73 per cent of them had worked for
money outside their families. Surpris -
ingly the need for money was not
a primary factor. More children from
By JIM DAN HILL done?” had your sympathy and under-
Under the Christmas tree, “History will record I have standing all through that hor-
there it was, a big present for done the best I could. No presi- rible Manchester book business,
me! It turned out to be a-1967 dent can say much more than No . . . It was an ordeal but
model, crystal ball, with fuzz- that.” now that it is over. I'm myself
free view screen. "You are not ducking my again ... I did not realize
The last crystal ball I had question are you?” it at the time, but I needed a
was inherited from a rich uncle. "No, that crystal ball just al- lawyer Certainly, he had been
It taught me that crystal ball lows you three questions. You've attorney general of the United
rights cannot be transferred, had two of them.” States, but what I needed was
Or maybe the thing was tuned "This growing, so-called credi- a good lawyer.”
in on the stock market instead bility gap that started back in I refuse to eavesdrop on a
of politics I massaged it from 1966 is it still bothering you?” lady I am gently putting a silk
left to right the way he taught "At first, yes, but not any handkerchief over the view
me, but the images were con- more. I find that the greater screen and letting the image
fusing. the president, the greater has vanish. Tonight I will give it a
I could have sworn the face been his credibility gap. The fresh massage and condense by
of the next president revealed school books say George Wash- further 1967 findings in a few
in the ball was that of Thomas ington never told a lie, but ac- brief sentences.
Dewey. But that was the year cording to the newspapers of wcuemo-A. ....
Truman was elected. his day he had credibility gaps LAST EVENING the very WASHINGTON (NEA)—Put two or more gover-
I disguised the ball by boring 1966, except for more of the first person I concentrated on nors in a room together and they will most likely
finger holes in it and gave it a mountain goat couldn't jump was Ho Chi Minh. He’‘material- talk about their biggest problem—where to get the
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make de" with
We've just turned 1967 and some
people are already worrying about
turning the century.
The question is, when does the next
century begin—Jan. 1, 2000, or Jan.
1. 2001? There was the same indeci-
sion back in 1899.
It seems natural that the 21st cen-
tury should begin with 2000, yet logic
shows that it can't. The 1st century
started with the year 1, not 0. The
2nd century began 100 (not 99) years
later on Jan. 1, 101—and so on down
the hal of time.
But logic is one thing and a sense
of rightness another. A Londoner nam-
ed John Goodwin has started an or-
ganization called "WACY 2000" and
wacky as WACY sounds, it has mem-
bers from Hong Kong to Nigeria, re-
ports Read Magazine. Initials stand
for “World Assn, for the Celebration
of the Year 2000.”
“Not onl§ do we intend to be here
in 2000.” says Goodwin, who is 37,
“but we intend to be here celebrat-
ing."
01 HU. Im
"Ho, fro stopped working on the Mfo—Tm fort writing
0 suicide note!" •
ter with his war and his wel- “It-is gracious of you to say
fare policies than you have that . . . Yes ... I knew I
ing process at the human level. The specialists' judg-
ment is that this process today is more than a cen-
tury behind the times, that both teachers and admin-
istrators badly misuse their talent and time.
The National Commission on Teacher Education
and Professional Standards, an arm of the National
Education Assn., is currently sponsoring live case
studies in more than 100 demonstration schools across
the country. The aim: To display and to- test what
can be done to make fuller, more efficient use of
the trained teacher’s time.
Donald Davies of this commission says that for
too long the schooling process has been thought of
as ’"one teacher and a bunch of kids working togeth-
er in a little box (the schoolroom).”
The assumption has been, at elementary levels,
that a single teacher could teach everything. Moreover
studies have shown that half the teacher s time is
consumed in routing chores incidental to teaching—
the supervising of play, the making of displays for
Faster and other celebrations, and so on.
The now approach is to use the teacher as a
specialist in particular learning fields, to put to-
gether teaching teams under imaginative leader-
ship, to draw in either volunteer of part-paid out-
side help at various stages; for example, a house-
wife trained In chemistry may lend a hand in.
laboratory work at school
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Asked why Ms shop always hd
more customers than his competitor, '
a British candy store proprietor re- ,
. plied:
“Nothing to jt in the other place
they always put too many sweets in
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Here we put in too few and then add
some more.”
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According to the “convergence”
theory, the United States and Russia
are tending to become more and more
like each other.
Russia is approaching the United
States as a mature and complex so-
ciety. Having developed basic heavy
industry, it is now moving toward
producing an abundance of consumer
goods The United States in turn is
tempering the deficiencies of the free
enterprise system with increasing ex-
pansion of government’s role in eco-
nomic planning and social welfare.
According to the theory, as the two
systems develop similar institutions
and ways of life, the ideological dif-
ference* between them will become
unimportant. The implication is that
x similarity breeds content; two simi-
lar societies aren't going to fight each
other.
One scholar disagrees. The whole
convergence theory is a gross over-
simplification says Bertram D. Wolfe,
a research fellow at Stanford's Hoov
er Institution on War, Revolution and
Peace .
Citing Nazi Germany, he asks. “Can
we forget that it was the technology
know how badly I have been in an imposter; whether you have Minh.
need of a new crystal ball—of abandoned good principles or National security precludes
my very own, that is. I have whether you ever had any.” details as to what I picked up in
reason to believe this new one “That’s milder than what American headquarters at Sai-
Problem for.Qrocers
Future for Mao
Hangs on Harvest
By RAY CROMLEY
HONG KONG (NEA) Wbether Mao Tse-tung
rides out the current political storm or falls may
depend on Red China's harvests and the rice and
wheat deliveries.
The crisis could come in the spring.
Red China is still crawling back from the disas-
trous effects of the Great Leap Forward. Another
crop failure would give added strength to Mao's
critics. It would convince many people that Mao’s
economic theories are wrong.
H would seriously cut into the morale of Lin
Piao‛s\armies, on which Mao and Lin depond to •
hold down their party enemies.
Army recruits come largely from the farmer
and worker classes. Surveys show that Red Chinese
army morale fluctuates up and down according to
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Fisher, Norman. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 68, Ed. 1 Monday, January 2, 1967, newspaper, January 2, 1967; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1490188/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Brownwood Public Library.