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Pog 6 A The Ends Don't Meet Friday, September 10, 1965 'DUE reference to "disquieting similarities" between now and 1629. Then he was talking about the large increase in private domestic debt. IN THIS MORE recent utterence he is talking about the public, or national debt. Yet this more acute-crisis seems to shake nobody, The Administration and the Con- County Study Commission mmwJik Mister Martin sure hit the nail with his head this time. You have heard nobody willing to dmit that Uncle Sam is going broke.

You have heard that "the balance of payments deficit is considerable You have heard that our "stock pile of gold is dwindling. Some have admitted that the rest of the world, having lost respect for the American dollar, Is cashing them In for gold. They'd rather have an ounce of gold than 35 of our paper dollars." BUT CHAIRMAN MARTIN of the Federal Reserve Board has dared to call our extravagance by its right name. He said we are carrying too many other countries on our backs. "We are' carrying too large a load" in foreign aid, he said.

And It's time now to boot some of the hitchhikers off the gravy train and to get some of our friends to share the burden. "We have got to rely on our friends to do more than they have been doing." Our outgo exceeds our income at a staggering rate. Last year our gold reserve dim-ished by $125 million. The first seven months of this year it was reduced by J1.5 billion! THE SITUATION was some improved last month, but still borderline desperate. Why is everybody running scared from the American dollar? Because it is shrinking.

Every recent month your ten dollar bill has lost another cent in purchasing power. (In June it lost three cents!) A Americans, willing to do less for the dollar, now discover the dollar is doing less for them. That's why a Chicago haircut now costs 2.50. Last spring, Mr. Martin shook up the stock market with a front page TAXPAYERS of Orange County and Its municipalities should be Interested In the work of the newly formed Government Study Commission which held its organizational meeting on Wednesday and set a second meeting for Oct.

6. The Local Government Study look fori SAVINGS, INEFFICIENCY PDPLICATON Commission of Orange County is an official 15-member group appointed by the governor under a special act of the legislature at its recent session. The purpose of the commission Is to "conduct research and study to determine the need, if any, for the consolidation, separation, addition, removal or other revision of local governmental structures, functions and operations and to 'it Dolly On The Escalator effective cultural warfare can be waged without intense danger of wiping out all culture. To ban further tours by the Bolshoi, for example, would invite further escalation by the Russians. The reasoned response would be to bed the troupe in sheets full of cracker crumbs, house them in hotel-rooms Take Guns From Policemen? determine whether tax savings can be made and whether efficiency can be gained through revision of such structures, functions and operations." THIS IS A BROAD scope which should give the commission a good chance to put its finger on any-weaknesses, duplications or inefficiencies in the present county and municipal systems.

The commission is authorized to find solutions to the problems and to submit plans for improvements to the next session of the legislature. This would seem to be a most worthwhile commission which should be able to recommend many improvements In the county and municipal governments in this fast growing area. If the fine group of citizens named to the commission can eliminate duplications and save money for the taxpayers the $30,000 budgeted for its studies will be money well spent. The members of the commission are well selected. They are able and outstanding citizens and represent a good cross section of the interests and geography of the county.

The costs of local schools, local governments and governmental services are getting out of hand, and taxpayers are growing restive under the strain. They will welcome any relief this commission can recommend to the legislature. appears, was just naturally bad. There is and always has been evil in the world. Sometimes it seems to run in families and sometimes it crops up in most unlikely places.

Neither sociologists nor theologians are able to explain it to everybody's satisfaction. It serves no purpose to deny what seems to be a fact of life. Experience has taught that to survive, society must deal sternly, even harshly, with those who turn to violence as a solution to all their problems. Those who rely on physical force recognize little else as a deterrent to their inclinations. IT WAS THE COLT .45 in the quick hand of a lawman and not the sociology professors which brought law and order to our once lawless West.

If we should be Silly enough to take the guns from pur policemen, our big cities today would make our once wild West look tame by comparison. And of course we need sociologists too, for some day human nature may become as good and kind and gentle as some of them think it is now despite the zooming crime rate which has the rest of us worried. Quotes fectively end the Dominican crisis: "It is clear that this work corresponds to the real hope of the Dominican people and to the hopes of the whole hemisphere. It is also clear that the OAS committee is right in its belief that the time for agreement is now." PITTSBURGH President Johnson, patting both labor and management on the back for averting a steel strike: "All America is grateful to these men you see beside me. They put the Interest of the ration first.

To them, the welfare of the American people took precedence aver any other consideration." PITTS BURGH-Steel Industry negotiator R. Conrad Cooper, discussing the negotiations which resulted in the recent steel agreement: "We've had a hard fight but the fight is over. Nobody won over the other and no one lost out to the other." NEWS AND COMMENT By Pout Karwy nrrrnrmr greis continue blithely to dole out another three billion to some of the very people who are using those dollars to siphon off our gold. Mr, Martin, whose enviable position makes him relatively immune to Administration pressures, Is much more anxious about inflation than he is about recession. Where politicians are 'inclined to I preoccupy themselves with the next election, Mr.

Martin is concerned about the next generation. He's less anxious about our economy cooling down than he is about its overheat Ing. HISTORICALLY, no nation ever spent itself rich. Historically, nations always spend themselves poor. But the Congress, once a watchdog on the purse strings, is now out- spending our most generous Presi- dent.

'11 October 17-24 will be National Thrift Week. The President. In recognition of oldest of all "national weeks," dedicated to frugality, fiscal responsibility and saving, will have to say something. It'll be interesting to hear what. For Republicans Heath, the new Conservative leader, is determined to force the Labor Party out of office at the earliest opportunity.

He had made it clear that he believes an opposition has no business helping to keep a rival government in power. He has made it clear that there is nothing he would like better than to hang the Labor scalp from his belt. There Is something of a lesson in this for Republican opposition in America. Republican party leaders may have helped to keep Democrats in power somewhat unwittingly through divisions and dissensions which occupied them more than battling with the government in power in the election yean SENATE REPUBLICAN Leader Everett Dirksen (III.) has seemed to be more interested in aiding the course of President Johnson's highly successful legislative program through the Senate than in loyal opposition. In the House, Rep.

Gerald Ford the Republican leader, has been more critical of the White House. Opposition would seem to be the essential of a two-party system. The alternative is one-party government on a totalitarian pattern, which Republicans and Democrats profess to abhor, although Johnson bendls all his efforts on securing unanimous votes. Senator Soaper Says By BILL VAUGHAN It's a measure of our national affluence when one baseball player can get fined. more than yesterday's stars got as a year's salary.

Interstate highway signs tell you where to go if you know exactly where you want to go. The dictionary works the same way. If you know how to spell a word you can look it up and find out how to spell it. A major league pitcher has been suspended for hitting1 the catcher with a baseball bat, even though he might have pleaded that it was just a part of a bat day observance. Looking back over the neckties that have been bought for him by relatives, an ex-GI says the worst ones he ever received were those his Uncle Sam gave him.

The young man down the block is disenchanted with the idea of equal rights for women, pointing out that his sister gets paid more for babysitting than he does for lawn-mowing. The middle-aged exert little political influence because they are split among the senior teen-agers and the senior citizens, J.G. Everyone should update his will from time to time as new problems arise, such as whether the trading stamps should be equally divided among the heirs. There is nothing wrong with television in the back seat where the kids can watch it. The fights on teevy are preferable to having the youngsters stage the real thing.

About the only time you can tell; the boys from the girls these days is" when they're in the nursery. After they've shed the pink or blue-booties, it's too late. Lr WASHINGTON Moscow's abrupt decision to keep "Hello Dolly" off the boards in' Russia is bad news. The official interpretation that the show was banned in retaliation against United States war policy in Viet Nam is not taken seriously by people who understand relations between modern superstates. 1 These people find it laughable to suggest that Moscow thinks it can give American bombers tit-for-tat by cutting off David Merrick's rubles.

(Merrick is the show's producer.) The "Hello Dolly" crisis, they agree, is retaliation all right, but not against anything that is happening in Asia. IN THE WORDS of one war-room thinker, "What we are faced with is the danger of total cultural warfare." In striking against Broadway's most successful musicial, Moscow is over-reacting in an escalation out of all proportion to the original American thrust. The crisis was begun quietly enough last month when Soviet photographic planes flying over Cuba recorded the absence of Bobby Fischer from the Capablanca chess tournament. Scanning newspaper cuttings in the ministry of cultural warfare, several commissars reported simultaneously that Fischer, the American chess champion, had been denied American passport permission to" attend the tournament. Here, it seemed, was a quiet, concealed move by the United States to strike a sneak blow against Communist culture.

This suspicion may have been heightened by the negligible coverage given to the United States' Fischer gambit in the American press. THE STATE Department's motives are obscure. The Fischer affair may have been merely a case of bureaucratic bumbling, or it may have been a small probe by the C.I. A. designed to test Communist cultural defenses.

Whatever the case, no one anticipated a violent Communist response. Compared to "Hello Dolly," Fischer is scarcely more than a popgun in the American cultural arsenal. At most, the Soviets were expected to hit back by throwing a couple of touring American engineers out of Dnieperpetrovsk. In banning "Hello Dolly" Moscow abruptly confronted Washington with a cultural challenge of the deepest gravity. The men here who favor lobbing one into the men's room of the Kremlin are already urging a five-year prohibit! on against the Bolshoi Ballet, and Sol Hurok has been warned that "We're eyeball to eyeball under the complexion bulbs." iTHE VOICE of sanity behind the scenes belongs to Dr.

Hugo Hans, whose seminal work, "Culture Can Turn The Tide," defines 98 bril-, liantly thought-out steps up the escalation ladder which precede the dreadful step 94, universal cultural war. (Banning predawn Russian classes on educational TV, permitting unlimited export of movie magazines to the Soviet Union, etc.) Dr. Hans points out that in refusing to let Fischer go to Cuba to play chess, the United States, unwittingly perhaps, was escalating to step 22. the enemy's national A reasoned response by the Russians would have been a long article in Pravda denouncing baseball as hollingan-ism. This, he notes, was impossible for a number of reasons.

For another, the- Russians hadn't read his book and hence did not know, the proper response. INSTEAD, they escalated immediately to step 67. the enemy's road Even at this level, Dr. Hans points out, IT'S NOT SURPRISING that a sociology professor should suggest that we remove the complaints of police brutality by taking the guns away from the policemen. And it is only mildly disturbing, even if this professor up in Buffalo, N.Y.

also suggests that the disarmed policemen quit their annoying tactics of questioning suspects. It could be that the mild-mannered sociologist is trying to get some publicity liven up his otherwise drab and unexciting existence, but the chances are that he actually believes that policemen should not be armed and that questioning suspects is quite ungentlemanly. THERE ARE GOOD, kind and naive people who judge everyone else by themselves and come up with some very impractical solutions to human problems. Fortunately, there are not too many of these impractical idealists, even among teachers of sociology. It would serve no purpose to label them as being stupid, although the terms does fit them roughly so far as knowledge of human nature is concerned.

Fortunately too, only a few of our citizens wilt be influenced by such sociological theories. It takes a particular type of individual to believe that all people are naturally good and will react kindly if appealed to on that basis. Of course the cruel fact is that all people are tiot naturally good, as the sociology professor in Buffalo assumes. Some people, it appears, are naturally bad, no matter what their environment. And it has always been so.

CAIN KILLED his brother AbeU the Bible tells lis, and there is nothing to indicate that he was a product of a slum area or that he came from a broken home. Cain was neither underprivileged nor misled by evil companions. He, it Timely WASHINGTON COP National Chairman Ray C. Bliss, on the formation of Republican splinter groups: "Once they're formed, we're going to find a way to live with them. I'll work with any group that will help elect Republicans." JOHNSON CITY.

Tex. Presi- dent Johnson, urging the hasty settlement of peace terms to ef- liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii i ORLANDO EVENING STAR HANK I. IWTOt j.c imiiitui DANIIl INTO WllllA r. IWTOt UMNI1 UNO IWTOt English Lesson Cfabgo gribunt Dispatch to Thi Star By WALTER TROHAN LOND6N Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson is hanging on to power by an eyelash, but don't expect him to be out momentarily. Although he may be pressed by deaths and by-elections there is every possibility he may be guiding the destiny of Britain for a year before he and his party will face the electorate.

)j The recent death of the speaker of the House of Commons may cut the Labor majority to the slimmest of majorities one Vote but it is more I likely Wilson will' reach an' understanding with the small but important Liberal party in order to maintain his hold. Also, being an adroit and skillful politician, Wilson can be expected to avoid any head-on clashes which might bring about his downfall through votes of no confidence. THE SPEAKER Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, 60, collapsed on a street here last week. The speaker only votes in Commons in case of a tie, as does the American vice president. Sir Harry was a Conservative, so that if the Conservatives should refuse to.

allow another of their members to be named speaker, as has been indicated, Wilson will have to go to his own party unless he can secure the cooperation of the small liberal bloc, which would cut his majority to one. It would seem more than likely, that he will be able to protect his. majority by two votes if he enlists the support of the Liberals. No doubt he will have to pay some political advantage in return for such cooperation but he may consider it cheap at almost any price because he is determined to go down fighting if he must go down and not throw in the sponge and call for a general election. THE CONSERVATIVES are equally determined not to swell his parliamentary margin by allowing one of their members to preside and lose a vote for the party.

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Hans puts it, "You can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggheads." Pointed Barbs As long as they continue making girdles, figures will lie. A fellow with a checkered career Is often just one jump ahead of the cops. Only the junk yard owner profits when you smash up your car. Carrying the mortgage on a dream house can become a nightmare. A man with one wife too many isn't necessarily a bigamist.

Nothing irks some women more than to catch their husbands relaxing in comfort. When a gal gets to a certain age, she has to be careful of wolves they scare so easily. Every man may not have his price, but every woman has her figure-" A patio is a place where Dad burns leaves in the fall and steaks in the summer, i The only sure thing about horse racing is that there is no such thing as a sure thing. "He may be old know he sends 4 Cirri ft Mail Kiln is Orange lad ImmmU Cmtin Worth Yar Sur tm. .95 IS 149.00 UlA tiniiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinniiitniiiiiiiiiiHiii.