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Friday. July 11, 1975 PIQVJA DAILY CALL 3 Kevin P. Woes attributed to intellectual, communications leaders If the Emily Post and Amy Vanderbilt lypes ever sit down and write a book about political etiquette, they would doubtless frown on saying nice things about George Wallace nothing will make the man or his viewpoints fashionable. But every dog has his day. For years, Wallace has been telling us that intelligentsia the "pointed-heads" ardresponsible for many of America's woes.

Now, a decade later, some of the country's most prominent thinkers are saying much the same thing. Really and truly. The July issue of Commentary, the magazine of the American Jewish Committee, consists of a symposium of views on the subject "America Now: A Failure of Nerve?" Inasmuch as the average newspaper reader probably doesn't see Commentary, let me offer a few quotes from four well-known academicians Seymour Lipset, Edward Luttwak, Irving Kristol and Herman Kahn. First, this analysis from Seymour Lipset, Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution: "Western Society is facing an internal crisis of morale linked to the emergence of a classic intelligentsia. The new intelligentsia is the outgrowth of conditions in post-industrial society which made a mass phenomenon of the educated class, the producers of knowledge and culture," Lipset notes that the post-industrial Left concentrated in knowledge-related and opinion-forming occupations is also becoming more important in Western Europe.

He concludes: "The fun- damental tensions, the contradictions within the Western system, come increasingly from the elite itself from its intellectual and communications leaders Now here's Edward Luttwak, Associate Director of the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research of Johns Hopkins University: "A good many of the journalistic academics and academic journalists who form the country's opinion-making elite no longer view the protection of American and-or Western interests as fact, exactly the same people who oppose the instruments and purposes of American power are doing their level best to arrest economic to environmental legislation passed with the nearly total support of the intellectual elittes, hundreds of industrial plants have been shut down, thousands of non-elite workers have been thrown out of work, and agricultural output has been greatly restricted" Or try Irving Kristol, Henry Luce Professor of Urban Values at New York University. His Commentary article was bland, but some weeks ago, he told a California audience that the present U.S. anti-business climate was substantially the product of an intelligentsia-based "new class" determined to cut themselves a bigger slice of the pie of U.S. power, And lastly, Herman Kahn, founder and research director of New York's Hudson Institue, offered these insights: "There has been, under the effective leadership of the upper-middle-class progressives, a toleration and even encouragement of a catastrophic erosion of American values, mores and public and private It now appears to me that there is likely to be a populist backlash or counter-reformation against the leadership (and acts of omission and commission) of upper-middle-class progressives, that if we get a 'new maturity' it will largely represent a repudiation of much of the elitist and academic ferment of the late 60s and early 70s Kahn concludes by saying that this anti-elitist repudiation must be politically led and guided by Gerald Ford, or "it could easily take a quite different and perhaps nasty tura" So far, though, Mr. Ford shows no understanding of the issue, and this failure on his part is distressing, to say the least PIQUA DAILY CALL Opinion Page ESTABLISHED Embracing consolidation of the Miami Helmet, Pi qua Daily Leader, Piqua Daily Dispatch, Piqua Daily Press Dispatch, Published every evening except Sunday at corner Ash and Spring Streets, Piqua, Miami County, Ohio 45356.

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It has illuminated the great chasm that separates the goals women are trying to achieve in different parts of the world and their concepts of feminism as a social or political cause. The conference revealed a pattern now familiar from earlier U.N. meetings on food, population, the environment and other issues considered world-wide in scope. The rhetoric at Mexico City suggested that women from the Third World and women from the more advanced industrial nations were looking at the problems of women through opposite ends of a telescope. THE TYPICAL DELEGATE from the United States of America or Western Europe might talk about equal pay for equal work, more equitable divorce laws, privileges in obtaining credit or entering contracts, and other discriminatory practices embedded in law or custom.

Many women from developing countries dismissed these subjects as "luxury" issues. Some of them are not even allowed to vote or own property. WOMEN FROM THE Third World may have greater grievances against the cards they are dealt in male- dominated societies, but they were pointing the U.N. conference down a questionable track, advocating major upheavals in the world's economic and social structure in order to put things right. This, unfortunately, is the position taken by Third World delegations at U.N.

conferences on such problems as food distribution and economic development ON THOSE LATTER problems, the best course for developing countries is to take advantage of the technology and investment that the advanced countries can provide through mutually beneficial trade relations, rather than trying to polarize the have and have-not nations. The economic systems of advanced nations can be their models for success. Women in a woefully second-class status in the Third World have models in the advanced countries of how feminism can achieve reasonable goals THAT THEY CAN be changea is abundantly evident in the history of Western civilization In the last century. There has been extraordinary progress in recognizing the injustice and self- defeating nature of excluding women from the productive role in political, economic and professional life they are fully able to share with men. This still- evolving process should be one of our exports to the Third World.

Ronald Reagan Of fairy tales more than reality Copley News Service John Kenneth Galbraith, who seems determined to prove that economics is an inexact science, has written a new book, "Economics and the Public Purpose." It has one major surprise. After asserting that "market arrangements in our economy have given us inadequate housing, terrible mass transportation, poor health care and a host of other miseries," for the first time, to my knowledge, he gives socialism as the answer. Like so many of his philosophical Galbraith is obsessed with the idea of central control of the economy and the allocation of resources, such as your earnings and your labor. Recently, he joined with some friends in something called the Initiative Committee for National Economic Planning. "Economic planning," presumably, is the code word for "socialism." With tongue in cheek, the National Review described Galbraith and his fellow committee members as "bold young radicals." No wonder, because the committee included such old central planning fans as Robert Heilbroner, Gunnar Myrdal, Michael Harrington, Arthur Schlesinger Leonard Woodcock and even Betty Fumess.

Galbraith and his friends seem more interested in dealing with fairy tales than reality. Looking at his quotation above, I wonder where he's been. Already I have lived 10 years longer than my life expectancy when I was born (to the probable annoyance of some). At that time, something between half and two- thirds of our people lived in what we would describe as substandard housing. Today, fewer than 10 per cent do.

And, today 99 per cent have gas and electricity in their homes; 96 per cent have television sets, thus access to information. And, we have more churches, libraries and voluntary support for more symphonies, operas and nonprofit theaters than the rest of the world put together. Yet, Galbraith Co. beat Hie drums incessantly for the control and order that come with central planning. For a sample of the paradise such planning can produce, we need only look at India and East Germany, to name two.

Better yet, we could emulate a great nation more our size, a nation of some 250 million capable people and one rich in natural resources. The Kremlin has had nearly 60 years in which to make socialism work. Coplty Strvlct 'Some people in Congress are out to get me' John Dominican Republic: A U.S. intervention that worked SANTO is not the thing these days to defend interventions. But if a quickie overall impression has any value, President Lyndon Johnson's 1965 decision to send in the Marines to keep the Dominican Republic from becoming a "second Cuba" has had the pragmatic endorsement of history.

The fact that the intervention could not be repeated in today's ideological climate does not mean that it was necessarily the wrong move for its pre-Vietnam time: the Dominican Republic has had a decade to find itself, and, by any comparative standard, it has not done badly. True, the Yankees and Canadians are here, with their big companies, which is a sin in Communist eyes. Falconbridge mines the nickel. Rosario Resources, backed by "potato money" provided by an Idaho associate, will be mining the gold. Gulf and Western is the sugar cane impresario.

Alcoa is here for the bauxite. To the Leftists and they surely persist, as the terrorist seizure of the Venezuelan Consulate in Santo Domingo proved last year the very mention of such corporate names suggests exploitation. But the crude Leninist interpretation of history is refuted by the statistics, which show a rising GNP, a per capita income that inches ahead (a miracle in a land of chronic unemployment), and a "foreign" willingness to pay taxes to the local government that any good "imperialist" of Lenin's time would have deemed wholly extortionate. In 1971, the Wall Street Journal was quoting the gloomy prognostications of economic experts who said the Dominican economy "shows great weakness." But that was before Falconbridge had really begun to mine the nickel and long before the gold of the Pueblo Viejo mountain was a gleam in anyone's eye. It was also before the dramatic rise in sugar prices.

Today imports and exports are in rough balance. The $2.97 billion GNP for 1974 was up 27 per cent over 1873 and almost double that of 1971, and sugar had gone from $205 million in 1973 to $323 in 1S74, with a bigger rise projected for 1975. Per capita income in 1974 was $387, in "constant" 1962 dollars after a slow but persistent rise from the $328 level of 1971. This is not marvelous by temperate zone standards, but it three or four times that of Haiti next door. The Dominican minimum wage is fifty cents an hour and $95 a month, but Falconbridge and Rosario pay two times the minimum.

There would be little point in raising the legal minimum such an act would only mean that companies would not move to the Dominican Republic from Puerto Rico, In which case there would be no money for wages at all. A black with Caribbean antecedents, when told of Rosario's gold strike in the Dominican hills, remarked contemptuously, "Why don't they let the people have the mine?" I knew it would be pointless, in the face of a quite understandable emotion, to ask how "people" could provide twelve 50-ton trucks, valued at $150,000 per, and hire the geological and chemical expertise needed to conduct a mixed mechanical and chemical operation that is even beyond the comprehension of the average liberal arts A.B. degree graduate. But if the "people" don't get the Dominican mines, the plow-back from the taxes must yield them a pretty dividend in the shape of public works that will bring water to farms and power to small industry. With the growing tax yield, the government of President Joaquin Balaguer is putting $60 million into the big Sabana Yegua Dam, and $45 million into an addition to the Ta vera Dam that will provide additional electrical generating capacity for an energy-starved environment.

And $125 million is being spent on improving the diagonally cross- island highway that goes from the capital of Santo Domingo to Santiago, which is the country's second city. Nobody knows what might have happened if Lyndon Johnson had not Intervened back in 1965. But what did happen after 1965 has been far from catastrophic. The Left may complain of Balaguer's soft-spoken authoritarianism, but Balaguer wins in open elections, and there will be elections after he is gone. The same sort of thing cannot be said of Fidel Castro's Caribbean island, where the U.S.

botched its intervention by withdrawing air cover at the Bay of Pigs..