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Editorials:
The ebullient Martha Mitchell had some advice this week
for her American sisters-under-the-skin.
"Go out and spend your money and enjoy yourself," said
the wife of Attorney General John Mitchell, who revealed she
is doing her part in support of President Nixon's efforts to
stimulate the economy by ordering eight new dresses from a
New York designer.
"1 think everybody should have a good time," she said.
"Entertain as much as they want to and buy as much as they
want to, but just keep it at home. Let's have America for
Americans for a change and forget the rest of the world."
"I think that the average housewife should now
appreciate that President Nixon's the best friend she's got,"
said Mrs. Mitchell, who also revealed that her buying abroad
is restricted to antiques and French perfume.
Fired up by this patriotic call to action, we chastised a
woman we spotted buying a Japanese-made blouse in a
supermarket.
"It's splendid that you are following Martha Mitchell's
advice by buying as much as you want, but you should
remember to keep it at home."
"Martha who?"
"Martha Mitchell, the wife of the Attorney General of
the United States. She says you should go out and spend
your money and enjoy yourself to help President Nixon
stimulate the economy. She's ordering eight new dresses from
a New York designer as her contribution."
"Well, pin a rose on her! I haven't had eight new dresses
in the last three years. I've got three bucks out of my
husband's last unemployment check to buy a blouse for my
daughter to wear to school. If that's stimulating enough for
Martha Mitchell, great; if it isn't, to hell with her."
"That's a cruel thing to say. Martha Mitchell is a patriot.
She's doing her part to save our country and all she's asking is
that you do your part. You've got to quit hoarding the
money you have in savings and start spending if the country
is to get out of the doldrums."
"Hoarding! My husband brought home ninety-three
bucks a week when he was working, and he hasn't worked in
months. We've got four kids in school. We couldn't save
enough to buy a postage stamp. We had a battle every week
over a six-pack of beer on Friday night. How much does
Martha Mitchell's husband bring home?"
"That's really not important. What is important is that
you must recognize that your country is suffering from an
economic recession and high unemployment..."
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"Don't get so excited and please don't interrupt. It's
important that you realize your country is suffering from an
e onoraic recession and
¢ihterta~:~ore a~ s~lbend more
And you must buy American - except for antiques and
French perflinw, which Martha says are okay to buy abroad.
Now, wouldn't it brighten up your home if you bought a
Spanish refectory table?
"The only antique we have is our car. But that doesn't
matter because we can't afford to buy gas at forty cents a
gallon anyway. If the president wants to stimulate the
economy why doesn't he bring down the price of gas so we
can afford to buy it?"
"i'm afraid you don't understand economics. The
president and his advisers have determined that the economy
will improve if corporate profits are higher."
"You mean, like maybe somebody will be able to order
eight new dresses from a New York designer?"
"No, not just that. Everybody will have more money to
spend because more jobs will be created if corporate profits
are higher. But they're not going to make higher profits if
they lower prices. For instance, in the oil industry, Standard
Oil of New Jersey made a net profit - after taxes - during
the second quarter of 1971 of $352,000,000. That was an
increase in profits of thirty-four per cent over the
$262,000,000 for the second quarter of 1970. Isn't that
nice?"
"That's nice if you happen to own Standard Oil stock,
but how did it help the economy? While net profits went up
thirty-four points, unemployment also went up."
"Maybe we picked the wrong industry. Let's take the
automobile industry. Employment always goes up when the
automobile manufacturers make a big profit. That's why
President Nixon is asking for special incentives for the car
makers. I've got a little chart here in my pocket that should
show automotive profits nosediving while unemployment
climbs. Let's see - Chrysler Corporation had earnings, after
taxes, of $31,400,000 during the second quarter of 1971,
compared to profits of $10,100,000 for the second quarter
of 1970. Good heavens, that's an increase of 211%!"
"Yeah, just like the oil company. I knew it would be even
before you told me. Profits buy designer dresses.
Unemployment checks buy Japanese blouses."
"Tell me, have you studied economics?"
"No."
"You're sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure. Hey, where are you going?"
"I'm going home and drink a bottle of French perfume."
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EDITOR AND PUBI ISHER ..................... Henry G. Gay
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By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
A week before the state's
four-year institutions of higher
education were scheduled to open
for the fall quarter, at least one
feat had been pretty well
dispelled. No students apparently
would be turned away, except of
course at graduate schools which
traditionally have more applicants
than they can accept.
Concern that the institutions
wouldn't be able to accommodate
all first-year students had been
expressed frequently during the
last legislative session. But in
contrast, a representative of the
Council for Higher Education
informed the Legislative Budget
Committee that two of the
four-year colleges might fail to
reach their budgeted enrollments.
He named Western and Eastern
State Colleges, but a later report
indicated a last-minute surge
might bring Western up to the
projected level.
An-Encouraging Sign
The fact that a college-
education was losing its prestige
and status among many high
school graduates was one of the
reasons listed for the apparent
enrollment sag. Other factors
included increases in tuition and
student fees, advance deposits
and, of course, sagging economic
conditions.
But despite the economic
situation, there was one bright
spot. Enrollments in
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Editor, The Journal:
Your article, Huckleberry
Herald section re George Jones
behaved .just
quarter of the 1
grovel on
and his gardening. I'd sure lika a way up, verY
chance to ,weep-on-his-shoulder', I would s
"Harry's making a personal statement against President Nixon's especially bout pole beans! My by the vegeta
main trouble, getting the fool Especially:
spend-spend-spend philosophy." things to climb poles provided! some indiVi'
circumstances.
Dormitory Doldrums
Meanwhile, at the community
college level, some dormitories at
Too many reach over, climb other gracefully
poles, others crawl along ground, their lives.
And so-forth! and bottom,
Think I've found an Some
explanation -of sorts , producingzer°
behaviour my garden by the That's the
reading of an item, news, about a behave, some
young lady-schollar planting two curve and on
(2) rows of pole beans, she gave produce,
each equal water and fertilizing ground to
-etc-, but one row, she allways of the way
spoke-kindly to, even provided Nill!! Mid
Choppin music. The other row,tying my
she scolded, frowned at -etc.p o 1 e,
privately-endowed colleges and B u t this was offset at
universities are up an average of 5 numerous privately-endowed
per cent. Some credit was given colleges by a $100 increase in
the scholarship program enacted tuition fees. While this provided a
for private institutions by the shot in the arm for financially
1971 Legislature. This amounted strapped private institutions, it
to $1.7 million to provide $100 hardly could account for
each for 1,700 students, increased enrollments under such
Well-, the .beans .she ,loved,up
the two-year institutions find performed beautifully, climed I-,
themselves in financial difficulty fight ~ uS: theit'*lbTlesl~ p~3duced
because of a low occupancy rate. abundantly! The un-loved row
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By JOSEPH C. HARSCH
The American President and the American
Congress are in confrontation over whether it is
better to prime the American economic pump by
cutting taxes on corporations and on the rich or by
sustaining the buying power of the poor - and it all
happened before.
The great debate over whether one builds or
encourages a sound American economy from the
top or from the bottom has been rejoined in the
Congress. But it is only another round in an
argument which was opened during the debates in
the federal convention which drafted the American
Constitution.
Alexander Hamilton was the original proponent
of the Nixon point of view, but presented it in
terms which would not be deemed politically adroit
in these less candid times.
"All communities," Hamilton said, "divide
themselves into the few and the many. The first are
the rich and well-born; the other the mass of the
people.., turbulent and changing, they seldom
judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first
class a distinct, permanent share in the
government."
As first Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton did
his utmost to put into practice this doctrine. He
believed that the government should favor the
interests of the old families, the merchants, bankers,
shipowners, etc., and thus tie them to the interest of
the federal government. In Hamiltonian theory the
welfare of the "rich and well-born" would trickle
down among the "mass of the people."
The contrary point of view was put forth by
Thomas Jefferson who had both more interest and
more faith in the "mass of the people," although he
tended to think of the lower classes in terms of a
rural yeomanry rather than an industrial proletariat.
Neither Hamilton nor Jefferson seemed to have had
much awareness of what the Industrial Revolution
was about to do to Western civilization at the time
they crossed their verbal swords in the
constitutional convention.
But they did set forth conflicting doctrines
about the relative importance to society of the
upper class versus the masses, and Americans have
been rearguing the same subject ever since.
Insofar as American political parties have
significant differences they date back to that
original debate between Hamilton and Jefferson.
The Democrats take their philosophy, such as it is,
from Jefferson who openly preached "democracy,"
although in his time it was a most radical concept
and usually regarded as heretical.
Republicans have not consistently followed the
Hamiltonian line. Indeed, from their reorganization
under the "Republican" label at Ripen, Wisconsin,
in 1854, down to the great (Teddy) Roosevelt-Taft
split in 1912, they were
Populist and defender-of-the-peer
the then rather aristocratic
But the reform or
pushed out decisively by the
to be later incorporated into
Franklin Roosevelt formed in 19-"
to the present day the
think and act along th
philosophy lines of Alexander
Hamilton would have
the economic recovery problem
Hoover administration which was
at stimulating the economy tr
theory was openly presented
would then "trickle down" amOng
unemployed.
And Hamilton could
the formula Mr. Nixon is
Congress which seeks
welfare, family income
clearance, etc., while
industry and the income tax
various forms of tax relief.
Jefferson woud, on the
the Democrats who cc
about recovery from the wrong
stimulating the purchasing
of the rich.
The moral of the story
has always seemed to
Hamiltonian and jeffersonian ec
probably what will emerge froth
the old, old American debate.
from the
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They're really demonstrating support for a jagged splinter
By STEVE ERICKSON of their generation which lives off handouts from a society it
They were very earthy looking girls, these two. Their professes to despise.
Mien suggested dandruff and perspiration, but their When they can employ cheek to goad straight citizens
spokesman pretended fine manners as she approached a into ignoring their outstretched palms, they're being fulfilled in
necktied pedestrian downtown, a perverse, contrary way they can call their own.
"Parden me, sir," she said, tossing back oily, uncultivated
tresses that cascaded down her shoulders in a frizzy
avalanche. "My friend and I here, we just got into town from
Cleveland, Ohio."
Ohio, yokel. Cleveland is in Ohio. Make a note of that.
"Our car has broken down," she continued, pointing with
a finger that needed soap. "That's it over there by the bus
depot. It's sick."
She smiled at her footweary victim, a smile she should
have left in the car, unless pity were her ploy.
Hers was an elabora[e story as such solicitations go.
Maybe it was even founded on fact. But half-truth or
whimsey, what difference the fabric of any particular
fabrication? The bread-and-butter line remains invariable:
"Have you got any spare change?"
There's really no end to the cavalier arrogance these
pubescent pariahs reflect in their mismatched clothes, misfit
attitudes and misguided motivation. They usually don't need
money, either, or even want it.
They could work, of course, but most of these alienated
adolescents are parent-sponsored and don't need to. Who'd
want to anyway, in their place? Work is notorious for
consuming playtime, occupying the revolutionary mind with
bourgeois trivia, and replacing philosophical banana oil with
physiological elbow grease.
These grim and-homely facts oI life ao not, however,
discourage considerable enterprise - even ingenuity - in the
mini-world of the moocher. There's still room at the top of
their heap for bigger, better beggars.
For example, one floppy-coiffured vagabond with an
Italian comic's mustache still in.its peach-fuzz stage, leaned
out the window of a moving micro-bus recently and inquired
of an establishment fink standing on a street corner, "Got
anY spare change?"
Another such parasite leaned across the table of a
slumming pillar of society in a subculture saloon and hoarsely
droned, "I'm broke. Got any spare change?"
As a rock-bottom horrible-but-true
social oxen (who disgraces himself
was surprised - you could even say
embarrassed - in a public men's room
an adjacent facility offhandedly aske
etc., etc."
The fact that none of these
enriched for his efforts made them no
only slightly more entertaining.
Tolerance, while a wonderful
mankind, becomes increasingly
force whose objective is creatin
It finally reaches the absurd
citizen openly welcomes - embraces,
fly-infested dreg from skid road
stumblebum wanders up and mutters
o' wine, gov'nor?"
The candor of such an approach,
human vulnerability and warmth, such
The panhandlee gladly forks over
afterthought, a grateful gesture, the
And smiles as he realizes
soothsayer has tapped his pockets drY,
have any spare change, now.
Not that anybody ever did.
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