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Capitalism Beats Marx HAS THE UNITED STATES surpassed the Soviet Union in the century-and-a-half old dreams of Karl Marx for economic betterment of the working class'1 Some New York Stock Exchange economists, polled by the Wall Street Journal, think we have. The Marxian objective, in theory at least, was to give workers control over what they own and produce Leninist instrumentation of that end was revolution means was, and is, private investment. Two reliable indices of that achievement are the number of people who own shares in public corporations and the number of people who indirectly through institutional funds have some proprietary stake in the American economy, THE ECONOMISTS FOUND that a startling 115 million, about 72 per cent of the population over the age of 13. comprise the latter category. Add direct shareholders and the figure becomes 88 per cent of the over-13 segment of the population That is especially interesting when put up against the lie circulated during the 1960s that a miniscule segment this comprised of the wealthiest controlled all corporate power in this country.

Now it will, of course, be argued that the individual stock owner has no real voice, that his decisions never really to the upper reaches of power, in this direction of the economy What the argument fails to perceive is that the share purchase is, precisely and intrinsically, a vote for some direction Buy GM and that means you tend to approve of the way GM does business. THE ARGUMENT ALSO suffers in comparison In Russia, no worker has any say in any piece of the economy The people who do are the government leaders in the Kremlin and in the Communist party hierarchy If you re not one of these and not many are. you are at the bottom Comparatively, then, America enjoys a well-greased, if not perfect, system of economic democracy. There are countries. Sweden for instance, which pretend to be an economic third force But such systems have merely complicated the process by placing political power over economic power Notwithstanding our recession and inflation difficulties (brought about precisely by the nuisance ingredient of the American experience has been the greatest economic triumph ever WE KNOW WHAT KARL Marx would be writing today, but his central concern, worker self-determination.

has been answered by private enterprise capitalism Jimmy And UFOs COME NOVEMBER, IF NOT before, the hottest issue in the vote-getting could be a flying saucer Jtmmy Carter, the peanut fanner, says he saw one. sort of That is. some book writer with a foreign name says Jimmy said that press secretary says he didn't say he'd seen a UFO. what he did see was a strange light or object at night in the sky which did not appear to be a star or plane or anything he could explain Well, you know how press secretaries have a way of asphalting over the rough spots The question remains whether you call it a UFO, an aerodynamic saucer, or inexplicable object hanging in midair ith no visible sign of support do you want a man the White House who sees VISIONS OF HOT AND COLD running blondes you can understand Pink elephants are well ensconced the non-alarmist lore of the boisterous but tranqun interim that preceded World War II Now generally speaking, folks live on the nervous brink They don't want a president that things And really, it make any difference whether UFOs exist or so far as the public mood is concerned if the thing is real, that is worse news than if it's unreal People like to feel safe, even if they have to die to enjoy the sensation GOT HIMSELF INTO the hottest tub since the dark days of defoliation Watergate for pinpoint accuracy) Several times we've offered our favorite quotation from Emerson in this spot and now it seems peculiarly pertinent now "Great causes he said are never tried on their merits The issues are, instead, reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans and the contention hottest around minor matters A smoking potato, if we ever smelled one1 I VALLEY MORNING STAR Sunday June 6, 1976 WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.

Time For Festivity And Introspection VIR fOP THF 0 PANDI VAilfY IO 6t AN fVlN BfHER IN UVE by WE- 00V MMPAPtRS 1310 Ofnff I 1 Litoti in 'JWi i rj LEI PEACK BEGIN WITH ME Ibis ts to furmshing informa tion to our that they fan bel tei' promote and preset ve their own and ut bei-, tu see its or only a beri man understand" Ireedom and ts to control biniseli and ali an developed to utmost i He uii are rquall endowi thcii reaior and noi by a governmerit adii righi to take moral action to a life and piopfrtv and tire more and i-eep tt tor he- and ulhers rewjorn is sejf-controi. no inore no le (jischarge this restii; itiiii! li ee finn tuthf best of tjieir abitity. must under stam and todails iiui'tM great maral guide expresscd Covetirig foni rnandment l'tov trfit iw ma 4 BSCKI POTION ON The American Way By GRACE HAMILTON Henry, come Your boss (or is it the other wav around?) is in trouble You picked the wrong time to journey to faraway places to stir up a new war Irate taxpayers are wat ching and they do not like what they see Who gave you orders to promise our tax money to communist terrorists in Rhodesia which would encourage them to take over the lan Smith What possible business is it of yours and your fellow meddlers. who runs Rhodesia and South Africa" Henry, you are making sounds like you are a newly anointed king in your declaration of war against a country which has never harmed the United States, For example The Salisbury regime must understand that it cannot expect United States port either in diplomats or in material help at am stage in its conflict with states or African liberation movements On the contrary it will face our unrelenting opposition until a negotiated settlement is achieved The United States will take steps to fulfil! completely its obligation under international laws to mandatory sanctions against Rhodesia We will urge the Congress this year to repeal the Byrd Amendment which authorizes Rhodesian chrome imports to the United States, an act inconsistent with the United Nations sanctions the United States, together with other members of the United Nations is ready to help alleviate economic hardship for any countries neighboring Rhodesia which decide to enforce sanctions by closing their frontiers All right Henry if you want a war you can have it out it might not be exactly what you planned The war is going on at home and the results are showing up at the ballot box Voters are saying NO to your pet foreign policy do not hke your underhanded manipulation of the Panama Canal The canal should be under US control forever with no questions asked at all We bought it own it and we should control it. but you signet! an agreement with Panama in February 1974 to work toward giving the canal to the little tin horn dictator Terrijos who loves astro When anyone grow too big for his britches he usually gets cut down to size The American people are vocally opposed to your policy of kick our fnends and iove our enemies First it was Nationalist China that received the kiss of death from Kissinger Ned it was Uie South Viet Now it is Panama and Rhodesia Your hypocrisy is coming through loud and ciear No doubt you believe it is too late Uj stem the "wave of the toward one world soeia I ism- cornm on i sm Obviously you do not care what the majority of Americans want No doubt you believe you and your "insiders will keep control of the W'hite House You may hr right, no matter who wins the rat for the Presidency the bop in the back room will still lie in there pulling strings but there are sips that the taxpayers are finding out that they have power too It is the House of Represen tatives that can stop you and your giveaways overnight member of the House is up for re election this year T.R.

VAN DEllEN Estrogens May Couse A Heart Problem A reader from San Francisco writes am very confused about estrogen therapy and heart disease I am well aware of tne reports about estrogens and cancer and 1 have a Pap test every six months i 1 remember reading an article several years ago that said some doctors felt that estrogens were responsible for protecting younger women from heart disease, and that some studies were being done in men to see if estrogen therapy would improve their heart conditions Then a few weeks ago. our newspaper carried an article about some newer studies that indicated women taking estrogens may have an increased risk of heart disease My reasoning tells me that one must be right and the other wrong Do you have any up-to-date information on I am concerned because 1 have been taking estrogens for two years to relieve my hot flushes and other symptoms of mencjpau.se There is still a good deal that we do not know estrogens and the heart but recent studies do seem to indicate that women taking oral contraceptives and estrogen-replacement therapy may have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease Traditionally we have attributed the sex difference in coronary arterv disease to the high estrogen levels in premenopausal women But studies have shown that exogenous estrogen hormones that are not manufactured by the body, but administered in artificial form, may actually work agaiasl the heart For example a study on men being treated with estrogens for cancer of the prostate found that, although cancer mortality decreased, the total death rate among these men increased because of a higher rate of heart disease A new study conducted by the Heart Disease Prevention Program at Stanford University has found increased evidence of the forerunners of the heart disease among women taking estrogens These women had higher blood pressure and higher levels of triglycerides, a fat that has been linked with hardening of the coronary arteries We need further studies to arrive at a definitive answer but at the moment, it is safe to say that all women taking extra estrogens should be watched carefully for early signs of heart disease Who should take estrogen therapy for Dr Van Dellen answers this and other timely questions in his latest booklet for women facing of life" For a copy send 50 cents and a stamped self addressed long for each book ordered to Dellen Menopause c-o this newspaper. 0 Box 259 Nor wood 07648 Make checks pavable to NEWSPAPER BOOKS HARM FROM ANESTHESIA A from Trenton writes Could too much anesthesia given during an operation damage the My father underwent a long abdominal operation a month ago, and he has had difficulty with his speech ever since Yes, serious circulatory disturbances mav result from anesthesia The heart rate, blood pressure and breathing must be carefully monitored during surgery by one skilled in giving anesthetics For example. a lack of oxygen leads to changes in the pulse rate, muscular spasms and rigidity followed by convulsions The brain is very sensitive to lack of oxygen and deteriorates rapidly This is especially dangerous when respiratory paralysis occurs These com plications are rare and there may be other causes for your father's difficulty, including a mi nior stroke BOTHERED BV from writes "For the last few weeks I have been experiencing headaches and grogginess from the time I up until I go to bed It may be a coincidence, but these symptoms started at about the same time that I started giving sunlamp treatments ciear up my acne I use the lamp 10 minutes on each side of the face once a day Are these reat ments Can they cause brain damage which may be at the root of mv problem" In answer to your second question excessive exposure to ultraviolet ray can cause skin damage and even skin cancer but they cannot penetrate deeply enough to cause brain tumors or deterioration If your symptoms persist I suggest that you have a checkup There are manv causes for headache and grogginess including organic disorders emotional problems, allergies lack of sleep tension and poor nutrition Everybody more or less acknowledges that the Bicentennial, viewed as Central Planning, is something of a flop. The brightest idea of all Clare Boothe not surprisingly was too simple to engage the attention of our planners She thought it would be appropriate to bring together the great propulsive ckx-uments of the American republic the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and ship them out one week each to the capital of every state, leaving it to the officials of the several states to organize a constellation of activity varied to with the traditions The initiative is now up to the individual state, and New York has done very well on this score Everyone is aware of the Great Sail that will take place on the Fourth of July, when the most imposing sailing ships in the world converge south of the Verrazano Bridge, and luxuriate up the Hudson com mitt mg perhaps the greatest sailing spectacular in history it is expected that ten million people will see the show live, and a hundred million on television If it rains on July 4 people in this part of the world will simply cancel the Bicentennial Much less publicized is an idea that originated with Mr Duane I.aFteche of the Albany Times Union and was developed by b)uis Tucker and John Pell, respectively the executive director and chairman of New York's Bicentennial Commission It revolves around a barge A huge barge Almost as FLETCHER ROBERTSON long as a football field, and almost half as wide It used to carry railroad trains on the 1 lud- son River, and for over a year they have been wwking on it, equipping it as a floating museum where in to portray the life of the generation of New- Yorkers who lived through the American Revolution On June 3, it will open to the public at New York own perpetual nautical dream child, the Southport Sea Museum It will then begin its leisurely course up the great waterways of New York State, scorning neither metropolis nor hamlet The day after the Declaration was signed, John Adams, in Philadelphia for the occasion wrote to his wife Abigail in Braintree that that day in July would be "the most memorable i in the history of America I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by sue ceeding generations as the anniversary festival It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty Ii ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows games, sports, guns, bells bon fires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore When John Adams wrote those words, the elation must have caused his pen to quiver The language is different in spirit from that of the Provincial Congress of New York hich one week later ratified the Declaration of Independence There as moresobnet in their or Res o1y ed unanimously that the reasons assigned by the Continental Congress for declaring the United Colonies free and independent states, are cogentl and conclusive; and that whiil we lament the cruel necessity! which has rendered that measure unavoidable, we I approve the same and will, the risk of our lives and fortunes, join with the other colonies supporting The unfolding drama of the! next 15 years evolves now in five exhibitions on the Big Barge The first is on the theme of social dissent and impending conflict The second on armed reblhon one third of all fighting was done on the soil of New York State The third on the recon- st ruction of social order And the fourth on the establishment of enduring political institutions and ideals The simple, homely utilitarian barge should transfuse some of idealism and spirit into a state that sometimes seems to be the ner ve center of American demoralization It appears on reading the papers superficially that half of New York officials are under indictment and that the other half found loopholes It isn't as bad as that but it is time not only for all the festivity envisioned by Mn Adams, but for a great deal of introspection The Barge is by New Yorkers for New Yorkers But i'm sure that non Yorkers are entirely welcome So put it down on our itinerary Address your inquiries to tfw New York State Amen in Revolution Bicentennial f'om- mission yy Washington New York 12210 Maybe Telephone Company Will Give Stay In Valley St.

John's Journal By JEFFREY ST JOHN oplev News Service WASHINGTON Surely you must 30 congressmen wrote President Ford in a letter on May 5 that the development of a Cuba or Chilean road to in neighboring Mexico would a tremendous danger to the United States The Mexican border stretches for some I 500 miles most of it unguarded Yet, here are 30 members of Congress warning an American president that a Marxist takeover is in the making along that border The foreign policy failures of Mr Ford and retary of State Henry Kissinger in Angola Rhodesia and their attempt to negotiate away sovereign ty on the Panama Canal seem insignificant by comparison Within the last year, the let ter to Mr Ford stated long strides toward the imposition of a Communist regime have been taken by Mexican President Luis Echeverria. who appears to be making himself acceptable to Moscow and Havana The letter implies that Kissinger has failed to keep the President informed on what has been transpiring in Mexico In tne last 12 months a campaign of violence against property owners has been unleashed by armed Marxist bands as a prelude to total takeover by the Mexican gover nrnent tolerated land seizures are widespread, asserted the letter to the President text book changes are intended to indoctrinate young Mexicans with Castroite propaganda An amnesty has been proposed that would release hardened Com mumst cadres from prison and allow them to enter the govern ment Most of those whom plaas to release prior to the expiration of his term in November stage managed the bloody and violent student riots during the 1968 Olympic (James Echeverria furthermore, has taken into his government the former Chileans who had been foreign minister, minister of economics and the bead of far left Socialist Party after all three fled Chile when a military junta threw out the Marxist government of the late Salvadore Allende could and did maintain a very detached attitude ohser ved Rep Steven Symms, Idaho oik of those ho signed the letter to Mr Ford, when the Marxists took over in Chile some years ago However, we have a common border with Mexico and in recent years our relations have been good But, if the people presently guiding the land seizures and other maneuvers Mexico have their The Way It Was In 1776 200 YEARS A dispatch from Paris notifled the Colonies that French are sending a ship loaded with mer ehandise to exchanged for Virginia tobacco National Park Service CNS) way the border separating two countries could become one of conflict The dangerous developments in Mexico are apparently the result of personal ambitions of Echeverria who been cam paigrung for two years to sue ceed Kurt Waldheim as secretary general when Waldheim term expires this year Echeverria knows that the Communist bloc tri the United Nations could block this ambition Thus he apparently is prepared to hand Mexico over to the Marxists in exchange for Communist support for top post The Ford administration which has been outmaneuvered and beaten in Vietnam. Angola Rhodesia and by detente with the Russians because of policies, could serve notice to Echeverria 'hat the United States is prepared to block his ambitions However, does Mr Ford even know what is happening on our southern the circumstances the 30 congressmen wrote to the President, it is very important to determine whether or not the Department of State, under the direction of Henry Kissinger, has seen fit to inform you of this problem Certainly has been no effort to inform us, or the public If Mr Ford fails to respond publicly to the grave issues raised by his former congressional colleagues. Republican challenger Ronald Reagan would justified making it a major campaign issue Back the days before push button technology took over in America a "central operator would answer the phone every time you picked up the receiver ready connect you with a nend around the corner nr somebody across the linen? This was also before the Women Liberation Movement and all central operators were women fhe term Ms hadn been invented and they were addressed as Miss or Mrs All senior citizens will remember Ditto the middle aged But probably a few if any mem hers of the umor Chamber of Commerce will recall that far back The good ol It sstrictly a matter of opinion It really doesn't matter who remembers and who doesn The thing is. central ts a thing of the past a Progress in this instance meant replacing central operators by information num bers in telephone offices across the nation Information operators are still on duty in Valley phone company offices but the department nt rat 1 er cent of alley arc men and all i in the moving to a location i (V Chr ist i Target date for completion of move is the first quarter of 197H according to Bill Nix district manager the phone company Vfterthat aUoaUsfor information and special service will be answered bv operators si Corpus Christi -Here's a swst eh 15 per cent of the manna There are approximately ISOJtift in the Valiev and about too persons employed as "operators in offices in Harlingen Brown sville and McAllen Na -said probably 200 of them wni In transferred Corpus Chrtsn or will qualify for other jobs in the Valley Efforts will be made to place the remaining Urn on jobs in other company offices Nix said Since the move is about 1H months a was Nix said attrition would account for a number of employes Bell Telephone Uompany operations all over the nation are being centralized as much as possible Nix explained to expedite service and do it more eftien reduc Nix of lower gener prise as at lower costs tson company aid wifi helo hold Bunts it and lortf isefs -s.

a i bilb idea of the stem nade ant a satelliti' Why nut a district hear deh I hi han deal Va an ley reason Come tfiiCn general rule busmev a community on a give basis But in this ca the phone company things up will be all no give For the phone of course impar NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC What To Do Try A Dip In This ummer? The Channel ASH I i ft )N 1 jw at the Old Swimmm' Hole the world most famous swimming hole they re getting ready for another 100 years of record-breaking the National ieographit Soeietv says It the English Channel and the idea according to he men and women who have tried -is to swim across it Why? For all kinds of just to prove so me I hmg reasons Or in the mountain climber answer Because it Like Mount Everest the English Channel is 'there'' all right By the shortest route it is 21 miles of tricky tides and shif ting currents, and an ocean motion that challenges the siur diest of stomachs The only rewards for swimming it are hometown fame and may tie a name in record books As the English Channel swim riling season begins this year with the water warming to a cozy 00 degrees Fahrenheit or so there is much retelling of the swimming feats of the past Best remembered channel swimmer is Ederle She now lives quietly in New York City where 50 years ago the town toasted lier withtickei tape She was America Best or! in President Calvin Coohdge words aiise she was the first woman to swim the channel and covered with thick grease the solidlv built 19 year old waded through the surf and out of front page photos across the world It was August and she had just swum from Cape (ins Ncz France to Dover Kngland. in I hours minutes Uhanne themselves smear with four to eight pounds of petroleum jelly for warmth Eve goggles and swim apsare permitted, but no swim fins or water wings Swimmers are supposed to wear suits but at least one girl slipped off hers because of tight shoulder They have to pay for an escort with observers from the a I i rn i Assoeiatiou They must never touch the boat, but with a cup on a pole they can be anti are plied with everything from milk and glocose to chicken breasts and champagne Channel challengers bum up alHiiil 900 calories an hour Sue tcessful swimmers are usually fat and well insulated from the frigid water First to swim the channel was Matthew Webb 21 year old English ship captain scarlet silk trunks on Aug 24 IS. IH7S He swam a steady breast stroke for hours ill minutes. about miles because of currents pausing only for occasional doses of beef tea and brandy Fastest was Barry Watson 25 of Yorkshire, England swim ming from France lo England easier than the other way hours 35 minutes A girl Lyiwt Cox 16 of Alanutos Calif did it mone minute more Youngest swimmer was a III year old Egyptian girl oldest an Englishman An Australian has swum channel nine times a 20 year old Chicagoan, Erickson, swam over and back in a record 30 hours flat English journalist got within miles of making a triple crossing Fred Baldasare an American scuba diver swam the channel under water in IB hours I minutes, and an English frog man with an airhose in his mouth made it submerged hours 50 minutes.