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as. we all hurried home to cut out the
picture to show people and gather for
our scrap books, we could not. find one
mention of Mrs. Dolvin even being in
Sanger
After all, there aren't many schools
that have had or will have this op-
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at least subconsciously have hoped it
would not work
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now willing to ignore in their eager-,
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unpopular war as Vietnam
Why in the world do the generals
want more’
I don't know how long are the
memories of the mothers of Korea and
Vietnam and the school agers who
mounted Such massive resistance to
the draft in the ‘60s
Aside from the extrasagant ab-
And they found a grand total of 1,846
“organization units" in the govern-
■ ment
They did count 469 departments,
agencies and "sbagencies
Withvan unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all the out-
ward forms and structure of free institutions are a sham, a pretense
— the sheerest mockery.
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There is an element of ingratitude on the
part of the candidate who denies the
fruits of victory to those who have
worked for years to bring him his.
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fourth and fifth grades
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the horserace sense, winning elec-
tions, This made legislation and ad
ministration marginally interesting,
but only to the extent that they af
fected the prospects for the next elect-
ion Flying back on Air Force One
from a series of political appearances
shortly before I left, I heard one of the
Georgians say to several others, ‘You
know, there really ought to be a place
for people like us between the elec-
-Herts seme place wrrnOldrest upand
get ready for the next one."'
Fallows goes on to say that there
was a similar restlessness among
White House reporters. But he thinks,
as I do, that the fact that journalists
are 'campaign junkies is less con-
there is an element of ingratitude oh
the part of a candidate who denies the
fruits of victory to those who have
worked for years to bring him his
Most candidates will do as Carter
did an^ lak*' their campaign staffs to
the White House"*!th them And they
will find, as Fallows reports, that
those aides are people who are more
adept at, and more Interested in,
running campaigns than they are in
running a government
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But however you cut it, Carter isn't
delivering on that pledge to squeeze
the federal government into 200 neat
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bayonets.
Old warriors have old ways
There are still those in the Pentagon
who are willing to fight the next war
with the weapons which lost the last
two
For seven years now the United
States has managed fine without a
military draft There is no war in sight
which should involve us
Yet Defense Secretary Harold'
Brown and Army Secretary Rogers
and Marine Commandant Louis H
wWilson are all urging resuming
Unlike raw materials and physical
resources, human resources can be
totally renewable on a regular basis if
they are nurtured properly.
experience who wit gamine for a
chance on a ticket to the White House
That is true of Carter's crew but it
is no less true of most of the other
White House staffs of the past decade
And it is true of those now gathering
around the 1980 hopefuls There are
men and women who hav been
working for Ronald Reagan for "10
years now, in some instances
To my knowledge, only: John Con
nally, among the 1980 hopefuls; has
addressed this issue explicitly He has
announced that his campaign aides
are on notice that no White Ho e jobs
would be awaiting them It rer iinsto
women as well
On the Hill it is Sen John C Stennis
(D Miss । and the old men who are
most willing to draft young men to
fight their wars for them <
Since the volunteer concept Was
introduced during the Nixon years,
drastically reduce the number
federal agencies
During the 1976 campaign
By DAVID S. BRODER
Syndicated Columnist
WASHINGTON - The second in
stallment of James Fallows' valuable
,. analysis of the Carter presidency,
appearing in the June issue of
“Atlantic Monthly,’’ focuses on the
White House staff, rather than the
president himself. At one point, the
former Carter’ makes an
observation that has significance
beyond the particular set of men and
women of whom he is writing
It is Fallows' observation that his
former colleagues are not all that
concerned about what happens in
government. Comparing them to
"enlisted men on maneuvers,”
Fallows writes: “They followed their
orders,- proved they were good
soldiers by carrying fully loaded
packs, but would have felt ridiculous
and compromised to admit that any of
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deeply than the next weekend's
liberty on the town
“The one subject that did engage
their passions was the one in which
they had all proven expert: politics in
military duty, another 800,000) in the
selective reserves, another 300,000 in
the individual ready reserves plus
between 50,000 and 100,000 the
delayed entry program
Further, our country has a history
of being able to recruit more than
committees did fall by 32 percent, but
this was accomplished largely
through mergers rather than outright
elimination The number of people on
the committes fell only 19 per cent
and____their_combined—upending— ba*
actually increased 24 percent, to $74
million this vear
Pentagon wants to fight wars with losing weapons
By PAUL HARVEY
Syndicated Columnist
Gen. Bernard Rogers, Army chief of
staff, says we must revive the
military draft immediately He wants
a lottery for picking recruits and
prosecution for draft evaders —
immediately. He wants to start
catling up recruits a hundred
thousand a year for mandatory
training and standby duty
So the footsoldier concept is not
dead Some individuals charged with
responsibility for our nations ex-
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president Then, running for the
nomination was part tune work for a
few months in the election year
John Kennedy, seeking to overcome
the presumed handicap ’of his
Catholicism, decided to get a head
start on the 1960 race His success
bred imitators who, every four years,
kept advancing the starting dates of
their own campaigns Now we have
reached the point where only those
who are prepared to run — virtually
full time — for two years, three years
or more are considered to have a
crack at winning
This selection system — geared to
an ever growing number of primaries
— eliminates all those potential
presidents who are not willing to tear
up their own and their families' lives
for years at a time, .n pursuit of the
long shot chance at the presidency
Since tacircaTuTTdafe is literally on his
own for all but the last three months of
that long march to the White House,
tie must recruit aides wilfing’to make
a comparable sacrifice in their lives
Typically. these are young people
with few obligations and limited
The Retired Senior Volunteer
Program has been in existence in
Denton County for only five
years, but in that time it has,
without question, made its mark.
Sponsored by the Denton
County Community Council as a
means of providing manpower for
a wide variety of non-profit
organizations through the use of
special skills, talents and ex-
perience of retired persons, the
program has proved to be ex-
tremely popular and meaningful
for both participants and the
organizations they serve.
The enthusiasm the program
has generated is indicated by the
fact that participants in the
Chisholm Trail RSVP were
honored here recently for
providing this community with a
total of more than 79,000 hours of
volunteer service last year.
Denton area programs - and
organizations that are served by
volunteer members of RSVP
include Denton State School, Flow
Memorial and Westgate hos-
pitals, Emily Fowler Public
Library, SPAN, Meals on Wheels
and nursing homes and public
schools throughout the area
— By 81-14 percent, most
Americans say they “want to-be in-
volved in. efforts where people
cooperate rather than compete." It is
perhaps ironic that at a time when
public opinion has swung heavily
toward favoring the deregulation of
business, accompanied by more
direct competition, Americans ap
parently want less competition in
their private lives - -
— By 72-24 percent, a sizable
majority opts for “breaking up big
things and getting back to more
humanized living," instead of
"developing bigger and more efficient
ways of doing things " Although most
Americans acknowledge that bigger
organizations tend to be more ef
ficient and technologically advanced,
people are apprehensive about human
values being sacrificed in the push for
efficiency it seems that people would
like to see more competition among
smaller organizations, even if this
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WASHINGTON (AP). - Jimmy
Carter has all but given up on
- fulflilng- his campaign promise to-
Our Christian heritage and
experience teach us that we
receive most by giving Members
of RSVP appear to be living
examples of that axiom. For
example, a survey of the 250,000
members of RSVP nationwide
showed that 91 percent are happy
with their volunteer work and 97
percent say they would recom-
mend the program to their friends
and relatives.
One other interesting statistic is
the fact that while membership in
the organization is limited to
those over 60 years of age, the
average age of all RSVP workers
is 70.3 years, and 11 percent of the
workers are 80 years old or older.
In light of the waste and futility
of so many well-intentioned
governmental help programs, it
is encouraging to see the ac-
ceptance and success of this
personal, straightforward
program of people helping people
The organizers, leaders and
especially the volunteer members
of the Chisholm Trail Retired
Senior Volunteer Program are to
be commended for the invaluable
service they have given this
community. They deserve our
help and support
And it is possihiv, though tar from
certain, that Carter will endorse a
cngressional move to create a new
. cabinet level Ipartment of Trade to
-push ferexpande-+ S experts rand Hr
ponce the new international trade
agmrement
But this was done by counting 1,189 ■
“advisory committees," which of
course are not agencies because tuey
don't administer anything, along with
a smattering of "quascofficial
organizations," government cor
porations and other outfits
That total is now down — not to
anywhere near 200 but to 1.434 at
last count
sequential for the country than a
similar addiction among senior White
House aides Bored political writers
can only make mischief.. jaded
presidential advisers can make
national policy
There is a serious point behind that
wisecrack, and one which has ap
plication to more than the Carter
White House. One of the unintended
consequences of the past ..decade's
alterattomroftheprestdentiatsetecttom
process is the creation of the kind of
White House staff Fallows describes
in the bad old days before"’re-
form,” politicans, guided by a handful
of presidential primaries, pretty
much decided among themselves who
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..On Thursday, May 3, we were
honored to have visit our school Sissy
Dolvin. She is an aunt to our
president
If you will remember back to that
day, it was very stormy weather
Tornado alerts were out all over North
Texas But this gracious retired
schoolteacher came and visited and
answered all of our questions very
patiently
Our local newspaper editor was
present and took pictures that we
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Values turn from
results in some inefficiencies The
rationalization for this attitude is that
.it might ehhance the status of
“humanized living ".
On weighing the need for more jobs
and physical products on the one
hahd. and a better non material
existence on the other, most
Americans opt for less product
acquisitions:
— By 53-49 percent, a majority
rejects putting more emphasis on
"satisfying our needs for goods and
services" and instead gives a higher
priority to "learning to get our
pleasures out of non material things. "
— By 55 40 percent, a majority
would choose to put more emphasis on
“learning to appreciate human values
.more than material values" than on
"finding ways to create more jobs for
producing more goods " However,
two years ago), a more substantial 63-
29 percent majority felt the same w ay
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Although the number has declined
since 1977, a majority still gives a
higher priority to nonmalerial values.
Results such as these are often read
, by advocates of a growth economy as
a sure sign that America has lost its
capacity for hard work, diligence and
dedication They cite the steady
. decline in productivity as evidence of
the consequences of these new values.
In turn, many economists have at-
tributed the steady rise of inflation
today to the inability’of The Americn
economy to increase productivity.
However, it would appear that
"Americans are', saying something
quite different in a period when,there
is a shortage of raw ‘materials,
Americans seem to sense that our
economy has entered a post industrial
era, where services are becoming
more valued than physical goods And
the key to turning out better services
lies in human resources Unlike raw
materials and physical resources,
human resources can be totally
renewable on a regular basis if they
are nurtured properly
The future that Americans envision
is going to depend far more on the
country’s ability to find economic
growth in the people intensive service
areas than in the physical goods
areas The daily experience of trying
to cope with inflation and energy
shortages appears to be bringing
about this basic change in values and
ushering in a new era in America
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surdity of resurrecting 5.000 costly,
i umbersome, potentially subvertible
‘draft boards, there is the con
sideration of whether weapons,
tactics and strategy art going to be
updated or remain antiquated
if we are going to rely on massed
manpower we can F win. There is no
way our 7 percent of the worid’s
mothers can produce enough boy and
girl babies to match the hordes of
Asia
We will keep potential enemies at a
distance with a thermonuclear fist in
the face, nothing less
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pledged a masswve rrorganzatinn,
saying he would trim 1 900 federal
agencies to a more manageable 200 or
fewer No such thing is going to
happen
The government looks outwardly
today about the same as it looked
when ( al ter tix4( off1., r iti January
11977”
There is a new Department of
Energy, which holds the distinction of
becoming in its brief life the most
criticized single cabinet department
in government
And the creaky old Coil Service
( ommission was split up a move
almost universally applauded
Hu' none ‛ot 'he 1! cabinet, de
partments has even, had its name
changed and other reorgan izatns
have been minor
The basc, structure of goyernment
isn't likely to change vers radically by
the time Carter's 'erm is up the year
after next
Carter is Mill pushing to carve a
new Dpartment of Eduraton out of
HEU Srcretary Joseph Cahfano s
realm mainly because Carter thinks
presidents should spend more of their
time on education matters
ternal security are- still ignoring regimentation of- our civilian vestige of involuntary servitude
technology, still thinking and planning population All of them want to revive Irour nation right now we have 2 1
in terms of marching men and the draft and Brown wants to draft million men and women on active
By LOUIS HARRIS
Syndicated Columnist
Although most Americans are in-
creasingly absorbed in coping with
the problems of inflation and energy
in their daily lives, there is much
evidence that their deeper desires
concern those experiences which do
not involve the acquisition of physical
goods Indications are that this
country is in a post •industrial, non-
materialistic era
Here are some of the kinds of ex-
periences that people say are im -
portant to them these days, according
to an ABC News ■ Harris Survey of
1.186 adults nationwide
— By 89-9 percent, Americans say
they are seeking "experiences that
make you peaceful inside." At a time
when stress has affected the lives and
health of a growing number of people,
inner peace is sought by close to 9 out
of 10 adults.
— By 91 -7percent, an overwhelming
majority reports wanting to use their
own creative abilities. One of the
concerns people express about this
age of explosive technological
breakthrough is that it will result in a
pushbutton society, where many of
the functions 'of life are handled
almost automatically. As more and
more technology has been introduced,
Americans have expressed an in-
creasing desire to have ample op-
portunities to use their creative
talents
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