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A The Bee: Danville Vo Monday January 27 1975 Ray Cromley Viewpoint more Bathroom a Doctor in the There House? easier 'jf 7 Sensing The News The Hustling armers World Waste adds to want or international talks really out of this world why not use the presently nonfunctioning Skylab? Counterfeiting is on the edge of becoming an endangered art with money worth less all the time why make worthless money? prosperous rance only about 15 per cent of the rench buying is postpon able Eighty five per cent is not In Britain the psy chological attitude has equally little to do with British buying But here look around you Recently I was in Roches ter NY It typifies our dependence on the confidence factor The five largest job supplying indus tries there are Eastman Kodak General Motors Xerox Bausch Lomb and the clothing firms They make cameras automobile equip ment copiers optical goods and garments Every one of these job supplying products need not be bought so often if con sumers lack confidence Their purchase is postpon able The buying of them is discretionary A low con sumer confidence backs up terribly on the jobs and payrolls in Rochester and more amazingly than we may realize in nearly every city and town across our country ood growing and processing for example are the largest industries in our nation And even our food is much more postponable than we may imagine This is largely because our food in 1 eludes so many frills The wheat for our bread fills 600000 freights cars a year cornucopia A startlingly large proportion of what it pours out is purchasing postponable The 1974 housing starts were at a seasonally adjusted 1 120000 unit annual rate They trailed 1973 by 40 per cent At the same time new unsold homes now total 431000 The postponement of purchases of carpets draperies textiles kitchenware radio and TV sets and an astounding number of other things is lethal There are 60 million house holds The job supplying factories produce about 150 million home appliances a year Like automobiles our bellwether industry new purchases of home appliances are terribly postponable Meanwnile more people are employed today in service employment than in production employment Almost 60 per cent of all people working are working in service jobs from car park ers to store clerks from waitresses to elevator operators And the most vulnerable thing to postpone ment is services ire creates its own wind urging the flames before it So does confidence President ord is dead right when he states that it is battle No 1 in the fight against recession MORNING SUN Iowa At time when there is a layer of gloom over the nation with reports of rising unemploy ment and talk of worse to come it is reassuring to visit the farming counties of Iowa part of the agricultural heartland of America One uncfs trouble in Detroit and other industrial centers but down on the farm the eco nomic situation is healthy Driving across the country side I listened to the farm news broadcast from state universities and agricultural research centers These radio reports tell of increased production of corn and soy beans The nation's farms are producing as never before Americans hear a great deal today about the vital necessity of oil which the Middle East nations have in abundance But food is as important as fuel And our people can be thankful that their farmlands Many bread specialties are bought on impulse Ditto meat specialties and meat is about 24 per cent of the average food bill More than 300000 stores carry groceries Less than 40000 do nearly 70 per cent of the business A supermarket stocks about 14000 items Count sometime just the food frills acial tissues paper towels and disposable diapers have a $12 billion annual market Drug stores have a $42 billion a year market in ethical drugs and notice among these the great many frills We spend more than $1 bil lion a year for packaged pet foods with three quarters of this for the dogs These feasts for ido are postponable ido could get scraps instead We eat about 20 pounds of candy per person a year Producing toys games sporting goods and leisuretime equipment is an enormous contributor to our economy Our job producing factories sold $6 billion worth of cosmetics and toiletries last year and beauty parlors did a multimillion dollar business Every dollar and every job involved is immensely sen sitive to the postponement backlash Our chemical industry is a veritable $40 billion a year The other day a farmer wrote to The Chicago Tribune complaining about a lack of understanding of problems He wrote: do they (city dwellers) expect the farmer to work every day feeding cattle at a loss and not expect him to do something about it? A farmer will no longer farm without being able to make a fair return on his investment and a fair wage for his This comment sheds light on one great difference between Arab oil and American food The Arab sheik have to work to produce his oil (in most cases it was developed as a resource by American or European oil companies) The American farmer however has to work very hard to produce a crop It is well to remember that the agricultural wealth of America was not produced by luck It is the product of generations of hard work and of heavy investment in farm technology It is the result of reliance on the free enterprise system Elsewhere in the world there is fertile land but in many areas the production of food and fiber is minimal The difference is in the system and the outlook of the people The difference is the existence of economic freedom in the United States To return to the fear of de pression that exists in America today there is a vital difference between the 1970s and the 1930s The industrial depression of the thirties was preceded by a severe agricultural de pression Today we have an industrial recession but on the farms of America there is prosperity Sound agriculture in Ameri ca provides the nation with a i strong foundation It provides the United States with a means of earning foreign ex change at a time when there is a huge dollar drain for im ported oil Americans who live in cities and suburbs should be profoundly thankful for their A 1 country tarms ana tanners i ncy give promise oi run eco nomic recovery to come By NORTON MOCKRIDGE NEW Not far from my house in Cuernavaca Mexico there lives a most interesting lady named Margaret Jessup known to her friends as Meg And whenever you go to a partv you can always tell whether Meg is there even before you go inside All you do is look for her car parked at the curb a 1931 Chevrolet cabriolet! A con vertible with a rumble seat! And it stands out among the other cars the way the Washington monument would stand out among a bunch of pup tents sort of old Meg admits But she loves it been driving it since she bought it from another resident of Mexico back in 1940 when it already was an old car! Anyway not long ago my wife and I drove to a partv given by Mildred and rank Carey in Cuernavaca and there at the curb was Meg's magnificent Chewy As we went into the house Meg was coming out We exchanged greetings and then we went in to see Mildred and rank When we came out an hour later I was surprised to set car still standing in the same place Meg was nowhere around Two dayslater I met her at another party and I asked what had happened she said! started the motor all right but the car wouldn't move So I called my mechanic and he came over and discovered the trouble He pretty much upset and he said to me in a mixture of Spanish and English eje is broken your axle is broken then shook his head sadly and said in essence: will I ever find in Mex ico a new axle for a 1931 Chevrolet cabriolet? Where oh where? Muy malo! I was most distressed and for a while I thought it was the end of my darling friend of nearly 35 years Then sud denly I remembered I said: God You know GOT one! got an axle in my bathroom mechanic looked at me dumbfounded And he said: bano? No no And I said: En And I took him to the bathroom in my house and there it was! An axle for the Chewy still in its original wrappings! unwrapped it smiled with delight and installed it in 1 the ear Within a vorv chnrf 1 I nrnvp hnmp Not everybody of course nas an axle in his or her bath room and especially not one for a 1931 Chevrolet cabriolet And I asked Meg how come she said 1945 five years after I bought the car the axle broke And the mecanico welded it but he said that if it broke again he think it could be welded once more He advised me to get a new axle just in case when I went to New York later that year I bought an axle tor a 1931 cabriolet had it wrapped and I took it back to Cuernavaca with me I stood it in a closet in my bath and forgot about it really remember giving it a thought in all those years And you know practically a miracle that I DID remember it when the mecanico said he know where he could get Meg thinks that this axle will last for years and years At least as long as the car and she has no plans for buying another She is however in the market for a 1931 Chevrolet cabriolet water pump There are signs that the original one is wearing Anybody got anything like that in the bathroom? a By Ray Cromley WASHINGTON (NEA) Over the years we waste billions in foreign aid because we do not use our heads There is mounting evidence that relatively small amounts of money carefully channeled into food improvements waste recovery and the prevention of insect damage and spoilage would sometimes do more to help the undernourished than hundreds of millions spent in huge and haphazard food deliveries We think conventionally and forego these inexpensive measures which could produce superior results with fewer dollars It should be noted too that some of these act without thinking practices also result in higher food costs here Some 15 blllion pounds of usable whey rich in protein and in milk lactose is poured down the drain each year by industry Billions of pounds of useful materials are thrown out as waste in other food processing plants Rapeseed linseed sunflower and palm cultivated in the main for oil But the protein potential for humans from current crop levels equals the total protein today supplied from animal sources All required is the adoption of practical techniques for removing toxic and other undesirable constituents Many doctors think vitamin A and iron deficiencies to be the most serious nutritional problems in a range of low income countries such as India It is believed practical to add A to' tea and ferrous sufate to salt for hundreds of millions of people at ridiculously low cost Sometimes the problem is simply that foods available for shipment are not those normally eaten by the hungry abroad In most cases it would be possible with little work to change the taste or form to make these edibles acceptable to different digestive systems and palates There is no reason why a drink made from soy beans cannot be more like cow or buffalo milk or why cheese made from milk be made with a taste similar to milk cheese But the major gains would come from saving more of the crops from insect pests and molds and food from spoilage Storage is so primitive in many areas of the world and protection from pests so inadequate for growing crops it is considered likely by experts here that half of all agricultural products is lost worldwide Rich fish catches in the tropics are a special problem Uncounted thousands of tons spoil before they can reach the tables of millions of families Within the United States itself estimated that insects rats molds nemstods and other diseases weeds and birds and the like destroy almost a third of the crops before or after har vesting There are an estimated 16000 pests in this country alone Part of our problem is carelessness or years we have known how to make human and animal food products from whey economically In fact been making use of 15 billion pounds a year which is exactly equal to wasted But it has been convenient or traditional for many plants to throw this valuable product away Starch has been dumped in large quantities with the water when potatoes are boiled in food plants because manufacturers have been unimaginative Today scarcities and strict new rules on what can be poured into rivers are putting pressure on industries to process and use waste products to discover new methods for preventing spoilage and to adopt methods already known but neglected In the long run new techniques forced by anti pollution rules the worldwide food demand and inflation can para doxically help prevent food shortages and excessive foreign aid costs in the next decade We will also have cleaner rivers a game in which no one loses are extensive and rich and: that their farmers have the know how to produce crops While the US looks confi dently to ample agricultural supplies the Soviet Union is compelled to admit that once again its farm production esti mates were too optimistic ood is more exnensive in the supermarket but Ameri cans won't go hungry not unless there is the same degree of governmental in terference which has slowed agricultural production else where in the world Higher fuel costs and increased wages account in part for rising prices American agriculture is healthy because it is based on the profit system The US farmer raises crops and animals in expectation of a profit The Soviet farmer won respond to government exortation because there any profit in it for him Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is ex clusively entitled to the use Mr patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved Notional Advertising Representatives BRANHAM MOLONEY INC Chicago New York Atlanta Detroit San rancisco Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis New Orleans Charlotte Kansas City Dallas By HEN'ltY TAYLOR The respected University of Michigan Consumer Confi dence Survey has hit another low lethal in the US economy Some Texans believe that if a centipede crawls over fresh beef there is a poison in its feet that rots the meat The confi dence factor is like that in our country An estimated 40 percent of everything we buy is in the postponable class Only about 60 per cent of our purchases is absolutely essential and not postponable This proportion is unique in the world because the way we live through our highest standard of living is unique in the world It decends on us like the half balled claw of a diving falcon In Russia the average Rus sian like Porgy has of Hardly anything most Russians buy is post ponable The population lives on nare necessities Even in vastly Erosion Of Trust trust in their government which has been deteriorating since 1964 seems to have bottomed out in the past year So reports the Center for Political Science of the University of Institute for Social Research Among the recent findings: was a slight increase in the level of trust just after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency but the slight spurt in trust disappeared following President pardoning of Nixon Some 76 per cent of the people questioned thought that the pardon was a mistake and Democrats are about equal in their disillusionment with government Specifically 49 per cent of Republicans and 51 per cent of Democrats express distrust However even those people who still have a high level of political trust are becoming in creasingly cynical about how the government is handling the worsening problems of inflation and unemployment American citizens expect the government to assist them in solving their problems particularly economic problems But combined with severe and prolonged economic troubles it makes faith in the ability to handle any kind of problem just about non existent The present lack of popular confidence is preventing President ord from being able to convince the nation that his policies will benefit the time' cvuiiuniy Only until and if government adopts policies that are successful in halting inflation and holding off recession will confidence in government begin to rise CRAZE IS NO MORE The jook joint may be gone Surely that activity called is no more Hardly anyone would know what you mean if you suggested such a pursuit surely nobody young And yet it seems such a short while ago that was all we had for sin It more than sufficed A jook joint was a a roadhouse with a jook box a roadhouse Daddy? a saloon out of town with or without a dancefloor If it had no dancefloor couples would dance along the bar stools Or around the pool table Jook joints the name originated legend or fact has it with a horrible family named jukes and as time passed any place full of moonshine litter and general iniquity became known as a joint the accepted version never really believed it but I have a logical explanation for the term But I do know that no jook joint was ever pronounced juke joint where I came from in Central lorida (Rightly it rhymes with Once I wrote a novel and my biggest fight with the editors at Lippincott was because they kept changing my jook joint in proof back to their joint And they had never been south of Atlantic City They won (They had last shot at the proofs) But it was jook joint to the pros Juke may have been purist correct But like most things which deal with grammar spelling and regional terminology things may be correct but that make them right Anyhow going is extinct as a practice and the few aged and ramshackle buildings out on country roads which could qualify as jook joints simply because they have people in them And what pray tell Tribe Elder is precisely this strange sounding practice of which you prate? Well a tough question If you ever went you know what it is and if you it defies description or analysis Put bluntly described coldly it meant simply going from rural bar to rural bar As long as feasible With a date? or by yourself or with a whole bunch Going was largely a state of mind utilizing the props of (a) roadhouse shelter (b) beer and or liquor (c) country and pop music on the jukebox and (d and optional) dancing It worked like this: you wanna do tonight Well Go I reckon Yawl want to go in mv car? Mv back right so slick I got a whachamacala in under the oooc go in mine Me and pick up Paul and Sadie and stop by the Gulf for you and Clara Maybelle It Clara Lou no more know her Visiting from Auburndale Ut Cr10Ck you would aU So to the Harmony Inn and start from there It took about two hours to get started from the Harmony Inn or three hours if it was Saturday night and they fist fights But the idea was to hit all the places and with the proper inspiration you could start in Plant City at eight 8tU1 at dawn 20 miles north of Clearwater with two total strangers an unexnlained euitar ySrsidJ the and Maybelle by get on down the road to the Oak View somebodv waS 8001 aS Ernest Tubbs nuS was over Maybe it was even more fun than Part of my evidence is missing youth Odd Even Again There is an abundance of plans to discourage gasoline consumption in order to reduce the reliance on Middle East oil imports Most of these plans seem highly punitive in one way or the other President proposal to discourage gasoline consumption is built around a boost in the tariff on crude oil imports now a fact of life which will raise the price of gas at the pumps Congressional Democrats favor mandatory rationing Details are lacking but their plan implies coupon rationing AL CIO President George Meany has checked I in with a proposal that the US embargo Middle East oil until the price drops His move will require the nation to adopt strict fuel allocation and rationing programs Instead of these the administration ought to examine the possibilities of implementing nationwide the which Virginia employed last year to combat a severe shortage of gasoline Motorists whose license tags ended with an even number could buy gas only on even numbered days those ending in odd numbers on odd numbered days Certificates of exemption were issued for emergency vehicles and those who could show they needed their car in their business Although the plan was not designed to discourage consumption it was developed to assure a more equitable distribution of the then short supply of gasoline it did curtail driving Consumption did fall Motorists were reluctant to take trips of any distance Pleasure driving was curtailed The odd even approach also served as a sound base for implementation of reasonable car pool programs Reinstitution of the odd even plan with the mandatory 55 mph speed limit and shorter daily hours of operation for service stations might be a less painful and less punitive way to discourage gasoline consumption It might possibly reduce it to the level sought by the administration and avoid some evils inherent in other plans To undertake full fledged coupon rationing as indicated by Meany and the Democrats will require the creation of a huge and costly federal bureaucracy to administer the program The proposal is expected not only to boost the entire fuel bill but in turn fuel the fires of inflation thus aggravating one half of our existing economic problem In light of all this perhaps the odd even plan deserves closer scrutiny at the highest levels of government If it will discourage a significant reduction in gas consumption it seems to be an inexpensive and an equitable approach to the problem The actor i In The a I a PUBLISHING CO INC 123 Union St Danville Va 24541 Published Daily Except Saturday and Sunday DIAL 793 23 1 1 OR ALL DEPARTMENTS Subscription Rates THE BEE in the city and suburbs is served bv carrier heir account at 55c a week republication of all news dis WV Mjr ueuiers ar i oc a copy THE BEE by mail $2250 a year $1125 six months $565 three months or $190 a month payable in advance Notice is mailed before expiration Sub scribers should give prompt at tention to renewals Entered at Danville Va post office as second class mail mat ter Member Audit Bureau of Circulation 3 A A 6 I a 13 TSw S' 'XI 1 xoK I IZ I tn un vfA tell 11 irn 1974 by NEA Inc "As one student to worried! There seems to be a lot of adult unrest these tt a.