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THE DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE
Friday, November 12, 1»7«
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Economics:
Nobel Prize for a conservative?
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Let the people know the facts and the country will be safe
Abraham Lincoln
Homecoming weekend
ISSUE: Exes uill
find there’s been
some changes made
Homecoming Weekend: Football,
bonfires, beauty queens, socials and
reunions, right?
You bet'
But it’s also an opportune moment to
take a look at where the Ol’ University
is traveling. No matter where the
campus, chances are you’ll find there’s
been some changes made.
Certainly. that’s true at North Texas
State University where scores of
returning exes will gather Friday and
Saturday.
We suspect the overriding conclusion
will be there’s been a change for the
better
SHORTLY AFTER breezing into
town some five years ago as NTSU’s
10th president. C. C. Nolen called his
faculty and staff together He quoted a
John Gardner statement that that went
like so:
“The moment of greatness of a
university is that fine moment when it
is responding with vigor and relevance
to the needs of its days."
It’s a fitting tribute to NTSU and its
administration that on this
Homecoming Weekend it would appear
that rare moment is well within the
university's grasp
At a time when enrollments are
Honeymoon in doubt
With a Democratic President and an
overwhelmingly Democratic Congress,
it could be expected that there would be
several months of close cooperation
between the executive and legislative
branches, beginning on Jan. 20.
Traditionally, this has been true, going
back at least to 1933.
There are signs that this may not
occur in 1977.
NEW MEMBERS of Congress made
it on their own. There is little sign of the
incoming freshman Democrats in the
House of Representatives having
ridden into office on President -elect
Carter’s coattails Most of them ran
ahead of Carter in the voting in their
districts
The Carter campaign ran, at least in
part, against the “establishment” in
tolk
of
texas
That charge-
up San Juan (
went on foot I
By JACK MAGUIRE
The famous Rough Riders of the Spanish-
American War pot only trained in Texas but
they planned to ride rough-shod over Cuba
on horses recruited off of Texas ranches.
It didn't work out quite that way.
Lt Col Theodore Roosevelt came to
Texas in the spring of 1898 and helped to
recruit the volunteer regiment He used the
Monger Hotel bar in San Antonio as both his
unofficial headquarters and as an induction
station.
ALTHOUGH HE was only the second in
command (Col. Leonard Wood was the
ranking officer), Roosevelt's flamboyance
and his penchant for publicity made his
name and that of the fighting unit
synonymous
Mounts for the Bough Riders were pur-
chased in San Antonio and most were saddle
broncs from ranches in the area
WHILE THE MEN and their horses had
only three weeks of training before being
shipped to Tampa, Fla., Roosevelt was
confident that his Rough Riders would fan
"over the island of Cuba like a tornado."
Once in Florida, however, Col Roosevelt
learned that transport was in short supply.
ALMOST HALF of his regiment was left in
Tampa, along with most of the horses
Except for the officers whose mounts
accompanied them to Cuba, the rest of the
Rough Riders — officially the First U.S.
Volunteer Cavalry — became infantrymen.
Their famed charge up San Juan Hill was
mostly on foot!.
down, when there is great talk about
universities being in trouble, NTSU, 86
years young, is expanding and
enhancing the role it plays in higher
education.
WHAT STARTED over a hardware
store on the downtown square in 1890, -
today boasts a record enrollment of
more than 17,000 students A lot of
improvements, in the works for years,
are beginning to fall into place-
campus beautification, a new Union
Building, campus master plan update,
reorganization of academic programs,
restructuring within the ad-
ministration in addition, within the
last two years, NTSU has opened a
Dallas Center and has become af-
filiated by legislative act with the
Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
in Fort Worth
These are just a few examples of a
comprehensive effort aimed at all
aspects of the university community — *
planning for academic progress,
planning for student needs outside the
classroom, planning for facility and
faculty requirements, planning to meet
the needs of the community, planning
to meet fiscal responsibilities '
In short, NTSU not only is keeping
abreast of the standards of the past, but
it systematically setting them up a
notch or two
All of this is part of the changes
returning graduates will be hearing
about and seeing this weekend We
think they'll like them
Washington This did not endear his
organization to veteran Democratic
leaders in the Congress
THE CONGRESS has become used to
operating independently. It feels no
debt to Carter The older members,
battle-hardened after the veto fights
with President Ford and their relations
with previous administrations, are not
going to sir back and wait for orders
from the White House.
They are doubtful of how they will
fare in dealing with the White House
after the reports they have heard of
Carter’s heavy-handed dealings,
through Moore and directly, with the
Georgia legislature
Congressional relations may be the
first test of Carter’s leadership
Ma r
of the job hunters
By ART BUCHWALD
Syndicated Columnist
WASHINGTON — As it must happen during
every change of administration in Washington,
there is a great deal of job hunting going on right
now The problem for many presidential ap-
pointees is that it’s very difficult to go back to ’
what they were doing before they got into the
government
Having once tasted the power of running a
billion-dollar federal bureau it's hard to return to
selling insurance or working on a detergent
account for J. Walter Thompson.
UNFORTUNATELY, government experience
does not necessarily mean that you’re qualified
to handle an important job in the private sector.
Here is an example of what 1 mean.
"Please sit down. Mr. Maximum Mr Rat-
cliffe of the Republican National Committee
spoke very highly of you. I see here you're
looking for a position with our firm."
"YES. SIR. For the past eight years I was
Director of the U.S. Government Inter-Office
Affairs Council on Coordination and Rec
tification. It was one of the highest management
jobs in Washington." -------——
"What exactly did you do?"
"Our department was in charge of reviewing
position papers on rectificiation of abuses of
nonregulatory agencies involved in the areas of
essential input and output, and to recommend to
the White House their long-range effects on the
economy.”
"Could you be more specific’"
“I’m sorry, I didn’t understand the question.”
"WHAT W AS your role in the department?"
"I was in charge of the entire operation My
staff brought me papers and I either signed them
or refused to sign them in many cases I advised
that they be passed on to another bureau. In
some instances 1 recommended hearings, and in
others I turned over the matter to the Justice
Department ”
The Professor says.
Come election time and with # ore the pro and
con presentations.
You name it — television, radio, newspaper,
civic organisation — and they all have a pro con
series of some sort. ■
"MR. MAXIMUM, that's all very interesting,
but since you are applying for a job as Executive .
The thought occurs, however, that with more
and more of today’s caliber of politician we've
been getting a lot more "can” than "pro."
By PAUL HARVEY — -
Syndicated Columnist
Fiscal conservatives, those who believe in
working for a living and paying our bills and living
within our income, personally and naturally, are
still in shock over the recent recognition for their
philosophy: A Nobel Prize for Milt Friedman'
Does this mean that the tax-and-spend, ad-
infinitum proponents are throwing in the towel’ Is
it possible that, at long last, there is worldwide
recognition of the basic economic fact of life —
that we get nothing for nothing?
THE ACADEMICALLY prestigious University
of Chicago has seen 41 of its students, teachers or
researchers receive Nobel prizes Four Nobel
laureates are still on campus
The University of Chicago since Robert Hut
chins has been so liberal that it was assumed that
its faculty naturally "got in the way of" this
worldwide recognition, if only by their liberality
Then along comes this years Nobel prize - in
economics, of all things — to Milt Friedman, of all
people
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Administration
changes in
the government
put a lot of
folks who are
out of touch
out of a job
Buchwa Id
Vice President of this corporation we’re trying to
find out what kind of contribution you could
- make here "
"I believe my strength would be in budget
planning 1 had 20,000 people working for me and
our yearly budget was $1.5 billion It was a great
responsibility because if we didn't spend all the
money in the fiscal year we had to give it back to
the Treasury.. I’m proud to say I always
managed to spend every cent of it.”
"THAT'S VERY GOOD, Mr Maximum, when
you’re working for the government But when
you're working for a private company the job of
an executive is to save the corporation money.’
"Why would you want to do that?"
"Well, we like to show a profit at the end of the
year"
"What s a profit?"
That Nobel
Prize given to
Milt Friedman ,
is a timely and
significant
concession to
conservation
Harvey
Prof. Milton Friedman does not even believe in
Social Security' ..
DOES THIS indicate that observers, worldw ide,
are "coming home" from chasing the Keynesian
rainbow to economic fundamentalism?
Hopefully
Some of his students say — even those who say it
grudgingly — that Prof Friedman "may be the
most logical man in the world "
While businessmen blame unions for inflation
and unions blame businessmen — Milt Friedman
blames Washington:
"Take Social Security people know the Social
Security tax is wasteful They realize that Social
Security benefits shortchange everybody Yet
"ITS THE MONEY left over after all our
costs and taxes are paid."
"That's fascinating We never worried about
profits in the government Our job was to spend
money and get the job done I believe the best
way to solve a problem is to throw money at if "
“YES, I SEE what you mean Could you tell
me what you consider was your greatest ac-
complishment during your government ser-
vice’”
"Of course 1 was responsible for Operation
Molehill.’Everyone always talks about making a
mountain out of a molehill But no one has ever munities should be so justly proud of
actually done it I put my research and
development people on it and they came up with
a pilot program which would cost 4100 million
"THE OFFICE of- Management and Budget
turned it down, so I went directly to the chair-
man of the Senate Committee on Bulldozers and
told him if he could get the project off the ground,
we'd build the mountain out of the molehill in his
state He immediately got the legislation passed
and I got my $100 million."
That's very good We ll call you, Mr
Maximum, in a few days and give you our an-
swer "
"Thank you I'm sure I can be of great value to
your company. Just give me the input and I’ll
give you the output, no matter what it costs."
they continue to vote for the politicians who
promise more ..."
He thinks public schools should be run like
department stores "If you don't like one, you can
attend another."
He says, “If everyone were forced to shop at one
department store that store would soon become
as inefficient as schools now are."
It was Milt Friedman who helped convince us
that “the-military draft is enormously inef-
ficient" And the results of the volunteer Army
concept have proved the accuracy of his logic.
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FRIEDMAN’S VIEWS on money supply are now
practiced by most trading nations Goals are set
for economies and the money supply is regulated
to achieve those goals
Rather than trying to control an economy with
the heavy hand of government - as Britain's
Labor government tried with such disastrous
results — Friedman believes that economies are
best stabilized if left free, nourished with a
carefully watched and apportioned diet of money
A Nobel Prize for Friedman is a timely and
significant concession to conservatism Only
trouble is, as the Pennsylvania Dutch used to say.
We get so soon old and so late schmardt."
Denton County
. ambulance units
get high rating
To The Editor:
Recently, I read an article published in your
paper through Contact, which was of particular
interest to me ..
The subject was on heart attack fears, and the
need of ambulance serv ice and admittance to a
hospital
Perhaps my recent experience might clarify
many fears and doubts and relieve all imaginary
tensions, yet at the same time assure people in or
near surrounding areas how competent and
dependable Denton s ambulance service may be
I was alone in my home some 8 to 10 miles
southwest of Denton when I began to experience
the feeling of a blackout After deciding that all
my symptoms could be that of an impending
heart attack, I dialed for Denton’s ambulance
service since my coordination and strength 1 felt,
st this time would allow me one call only
Using the knowledge that my husband and I
had attained from some heart lectures and
studies, I seated myself as properly and com-
fortable as instructions allowed me to wait for
the called response
As the chest and arm pains grew heavier and
as tensions tightened fear began to engulf my
. mind ’
But thanks to Westgate’s service, this existed
fear subsided somewhat as the ambulance had *
reached my home in 10 minutes or less and I
could not even remember if 1 had given a single
instruction to direction of my residence, nothing
in regards to the short mileage route
The three attendants inclusive of a well.
trained R N began working with me beginning
with all vital signs, oxygen and the setup of a
very quick intravenous in my living room
I was instantaneously readied for the trip to
Westgate Hospital, but at no time was I asked
about or for money, nor was insurance even »
slight mention —— -----— ----=
While on our way to the hospital, 1 was con-
stantly being worked with and the evaluation of
my condition was being communicated to my
doctor
I was placed in critical care and the service
there was also beyond reproach
I shall always have an unceasing praise and
gratitude for Denton and Westgate's ambulance
service, because you see, they saved my life
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Mrs Beneva Robinson
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Disaster exercise
a combined effort
To The Editor:
I would like to publicly commend the Denton
Police Department, Fire Department,
Ambulance Service and all three hospitals staff
- Flow Memorial, Westgate and Osteopathic —
for doing a superb job in the recent disaster
exercise
Their personnel proved that we have the
members to cope with most any disaster that
may occur in Denton We cannot cope with a
large disaster with existing resources, but they
have proved they can do the job but may need
some outside support depending on the size of the
disaster
I also wish to extend the thanks of the Civil
Defense Office and the city and county govern-
ment for the volunteer help of the following
organizations without whom this exercise could
not have been They braved the cold and put on a
show that would have made a hit on Broadway:
Sigma Alpha Mu. Angel Flight, Westgate
Junior Volunteers, Air Force Reserve Officer
Training Corps; Firehouse Theatre; TWU
Graduate Medical Surgical Program; Marlene
Payton, coordinator and make-up artist;
and Denton Independent School District.
John 0 Maxwell
' Director, City-County
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