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WEDNESDAY
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Martha Angle and
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Collegiate Dictionary defines "grits" as "coarsely ground
bulled grain. which is not to be confused with "grit," mean-
ing sand or unyielding courage in the face of hardship or
danger "
One can hope, however. that the 39th president becomes as
much identified with the singular form as he already has with
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resources and to create efficient export
and import-competing industries " Very
interesting
Sen Hubert Humphrey wrote to say
that he favors transferring the functions
of the passport office to a new agency of
the Department of State That was a
timely tidbit
The governor's office took time out to
let us know that the governor would be
planting a tree in the courtyard of the
Pinecrest Elementary School in
Hastings Unfortunately we could not at-
tend
The National Endowment for the
Humanities wrote to tell Iron Rangers
who the “Chinese Painting Delegation to
the People's Republic of China" will be
this year There were no Hibbingites on
the list
Finally. Rep Bud Shuster of Penn-
sylvania sent us an 11-page letter just to
say that he opposes the Youth Camp
Safety Act now before Congress
In the midst of this epic piece of
reasoning. Shuster jok time out to
philosophize, "It seems, too, that we in
the Congress have a duty to the
American people not to squander their
money It's money that was hard earned,
and it ought to be well-spent " Well said.
Rep Shuster
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unemployed politician and fat-cat categories
________e on the hustings A small number of career
diplomats have been nominated, as have some college
presidents and academics who may even know something
about the countries to which they are going
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Coming clean.’
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Nevertheless, Carter’s record so far of using embassies as
political patronage is on a par with those of the Ford. Nixon
and earlier administrations
What is distressing is the gap between what Carter said and
what he is doing He repeatedly promised to appoint only the
beet quallfied pople, and dearly he is engaging in politics as
usual Thia can be damaging to trust in government st a time
it is much needed
Bernard J Cutter is chief editorial writer for the Washington
Bureau. Scripps-Howard Newspapers
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A good recommendation
By Martha Angle and Robert Walters
WASHINGTON - ( NEA) - Anyone brooding about the fate
of all those dispossessed Ford administration folks can put
away the old oyuw towel The vast majority are doing very
well thank you
Few of the erstwhile movers and shakers, ittisatrue. can
begin to match the standard for gracious living set by Gerald
R Ford himself whose two years as president stand to being
him a cool 8 million or so over the next few years primanizh
from broadcasting and publishing deals E I
But Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Treasurer f
Secretary William Simon are likely to come reasonably close 1
as a result of their own highly profitable deals in bankingah
broadcasting and publishing ventures Ml
And most of the lesser lights from the outgoing administra®,
tion should have little trouble keeping the wolf from the door,
judging from what we have found in surveying the current job
status of more than 300 former big shots and small fry who
held political appointments in the Ford administration
Upper and middle echelon officials appear to be cashing in at
a brisk clip on the reputations, professional experience and
contacts they developed while in public service
President Carter, with his new ethics code, hopes to halt the
revolving door traffic between the government and private
industry that it deals with, but the Ford people faced no such
obstacle A few have shown little squeamishness about taking
• 'advantage of their public service in the private sector
A notable case in point is Malcolm R Currie former direc-
tor of defense research for the Pentagon, who is now a vice
president of Hughes Aircraft Co in charge of the missile
programs he used to monitor for the government
There are numerous less obvious instances of officials
parlaying public service into potentially profitable private
jobs William F Gorog, former executive director of the
Council on International Economic Policy, has formed his own
company, the Arbor Group, specializing in international in-
vestment management services Edwin H Yeo 111, former un-
dersecretary of Treasury, is now executive vice president of
First National Bank of Chicago And Mary T Brooks, former
director of the Mint, is a part time consultant on international
numismatic (coins) and philatelic (stamps) affairs for Para-
mount International Coin Corp.
There is scarcely a member of the Ford cabinet who is not
now gracing the board of directors of some major corporation
with his or her presence Former Transportation Secretary
William T. Coleman Jr, for instance, has been nominated to
the board of American Can Co., while former Housing and Ur-
ban Development Secretory Carta Hills was claimed by IBM
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is both president and
chief executive officer of GD Searle & Co , the drug firm, at
a reported annual salary of $200,000 plus generous stock op-
tions.
Of some 300 former Ford appointees, slightly more than
one-third have accepted jobs in private business or trade
associations, we have learned Another 25 per cent are still on
the government payroll in executive branch jobs. Capitol Hill
staff positions or at the President Ford Transition Office,
which is scheduled to shut down on July 20
About 8 per cent are practicing law, 7 per cent are in
academic jobs or at "think tanks" like the Brookings Institu-
tion or the American Enterprise Institute, while 25 per cent
still report no employment five months after leaving office
"'Potomac fever," most often viewed as a Democratic dis-
ease, has taken its toll, about two-thirds of the Fort ap-
pointees are still in the Washington area
The experience of the Ford officials is typical of the success
Singular question
Now that they have been placed on the White House
breakfastmenu everyone should know what grits are But is
there such a thing as one grit?
Dr Frederick Mish, an editorial director of the G & C
Merriam Company was recently asked if grits, a popular duh
among President Carter's southern countrymen, came in the
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“Ladies and gentlemen! Once again the one and only,
the captivating Mr. ..
partners - and the term "partnens" is the correct one
Al stake was and is nothing lem than *• county‘» commib
mart to the principle of the
with the fewest possible ar
rejected by Wyoming voters last fall. is Carter's choice as am-
bassador to the Organization of American States His entire
Spanish vocabulary consists of the word "si," which makes it
fortunate he's not a girl
Then there's Wisconsin Gov Patrick J Lucey, who cam-
paigned mightily for Carter but whose own re-election
chances are dubious He's to be Ambassador to Mexico,
though he knows even less Spanish than McGee Dumping
grounds, anyone?
As he did in choosing his cabinet and White House staff.
Carter reached into Atlanta's power structure for a couple of
diplomatic plums Anne Cox Chambers, whose two Atlanta
newspapers strongly supported Carter, gets the U.S embassy
in Belgium and Philip H Alston Jr , an Atlanta lawyer, will be
ambassador to Australia
Now nobody would call Mrs Chambers, heiress to the Cox
publishing and Broadcasting fortune fat or bloated but she is
very much of a campaign contributor She and her family gave
Carter OS SOO for his 1970 governor’s race while lawyer
Alston and his wife kicked in $7,276
To be fair, not all of Carter’s diplomatic choices to date
By Bernard J. Cutler
When Jimmy Carter formally started his race for the White
House on Doc 12, 1974, he declared loftily that "all federal
judges, diplomats and other major officials should be selected
on a basis of strict merit "
During the campaign he accused Republicans of using high
government posts "as dumping grounds for unsuccessful can
didates " And he claimed to have been shocked when traveling
abroad to find U.S. ambassadors who were "fat. bloated con-
tributors to Richard Nixon who couldn't even speak the
“NgcartraasuntaieaI"rsiclutc or diplomatie »
pointments and, goodness gracious they don’t seem to have
been made on the basis of strict merit and language proficien-
man; it belongs to him by
right of his humanity, in-so-
far as this consists with every
other person’s freedom —
Immanuel Kant, German
philosopher
TUESDAY brought me into darkaess
"Let him take his rod away without any light; surely
from me, and let not dread of against me be turns his hand
Mm terrify me Then I would agate and agate the whole day
speak without fear of Mm. for long. - Lamentations 3.1, 2.
1 am not so in myself." — Job 3.
9:34, 35. Man is never helped inhis
When you’re afraid, keep suffering by what he thinks
your mind on what you have to for himself, but only by
do And if you have been revelation of a wisdom
thoroughly prepared, you will greater than his own It is this
not be afraid - Dale which lifts him out of his dis-
emperor - 1 Peter 2;16, 17. When angry, count ten
Freedom is the birthright of before you speak, if very
‘ .an hundred — Thomas
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FRIDAY
I am the man who has seen
ailliction under the rod of his
wrath; be has driven and
enjoyed by most who come to the nation's capital to serve at
the command of a president There is always a lot of belly-
-ing at recruitment time about the "financial sacrifice" in-
ied in government service, but the rewards at the end of
functions of government is to keep the
people informed of its doings through the
press The purpose of our survey was to
find out, however, whether there might
be too much of a good thing
if every piece of mail sent to us cost
the government 13 cents then the total
cost to Uncle Sam would be $58.89. Since
a good percentage of the mail was larger
manila envelopes or booklets that cost
more to send, then ISO per month would
not be too far off for an average
That means that it costs about 5720 per
year to keep us informed Multiply that
by the 25 daily newspapers in the state
and you get 518.060 per year And then
there are about 130 television and radio
stations. And there are about 350 weekly
newspapers in the state
But perhaps that's pretty cheap, by
government standards for letting us
know what’s up
That is, providing that they had
something to say that was worthwhile
Most of the mail did have some per-
tinence. however remote, to our area
Some of the mail did not
The Congressional Joint Economic
Committee wrote to say that multi-
lateral development banks should assist
the developing countries’ adjustment to
higher energy costs by financing pro-
jects to exploit domestic energy
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SATURDAY
are you afraid, O mea of little Let the thief no longer steal,
faith?" Thea he rose aad but rather let him labor, doing
rebuked the winds and the honest work with his hands, so
sen; and there was a great that he may be able to give to
calm And the men marveled, those in need. — Ephesians
commission and the larger its staff, the more effective the
comminsion is in regulating the root of electricity to con
sumers, says a Cleveland State University political scientist
Assistan professor Thomas M Pelsoci bases that conclu-
lion on a statistical study of 4 state regulatory agencies
While tactors such as the coat of fuel and labor have a great
influence on rates in any given area, he found that "the best
way to reduce electricity rates, at least from my study, is to
reduce the number of commissioners and add staff "
A sizable staff is needed to check complicated accounts and
records on which rates are based he says But the more com
missioners there are, the more political careers are in-
volved They tend to displace staff recommendations and
make decisions based on other considerations "
Pelsoci’s study also disputes the notion that the popular
election of ututies commissioners leads to lower rates On the
contrary, he found that those states with elected com
missioners have higher rates than those with appointed com
missioners
The reason, he theorizes, is that elected commissioners are
more responsive to the utility industries than the public
because of campaign contributions from the industries
What's been happening with the children of the counter
culture" - the offspring at those young Americans who broke
away from the traditional marriage system in the late 1060s
and went in for communal living and other unorthodox family
stylesf .
A tentative answer has been reported by the Family
Lifestyles Project of the University of California, which for
the past four years has boon gathering data on 153 alter
nauve" families and living groups and comparing them with
M traditional families
The researchers have so far found almost no differences
between the children at iradtUoatl and various forms of non-
traditional families Furthermore, parental upbringing during
the first year of the children's lives did not vary appreciably
despite the philosophical and ideological differences between
the parenta’ indeed. It was discovered that in most cases It
was the child’s presence that molded the parents’ behavior
Even in supposedly egalitarian 'social-contract'’
marriages, the mother was the primary caretaker at the child
la M per cent of the families The results were the Mme in
communal situations, even though the child was exposed to
more adults Alan, surprisingly the "alternative" mothers
wanted to be at home more with tbs kids than did the
traditional mothers
The researchers suggest that one reason for this is that
traditional mothers have been more affected by the women s
movement because they already have the support at a family
aad have yet to break with accepted practices in some way
They also believe that more pronounced differences among
alternative lifestyle youngsters may show up as they grow
older, primarily to the direction of more independence for
their parents.
MONDAY THURSDAY
Live as free mea, yet "Because of the iniquity of
without using your treedom as Ms covetousness I was angry
s pretext for evil; bet live as I smote Mm, I hid my face and
servants of God Honor aU was angry; bat be went on
nn Love the brotherhood. backsliding to the way of Ms
Fear Ged. Honor the own heart." — Isaiah 57:17.
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l. and coatnuMs to be under pressure from shoe
textile, steel and other industries, to ratse or impose taritts or
establish quotas to stem the flood at foreign products
Ou the one hand is the undeniable fact that cheaper foreipn
saying. "What sort of man is 4:28.
this that even winds and sea I believe in the dignity of
obey Mm’" - Matthew 8:26, labor. whether with head or
2. hand, that the world owes
Belief is truth held in the every man an opportunity to
mind. faith is a fire in the make a living - John D
heart Joseph Fort Newton Rockefeller Jr , American
American clergyman philanthropist
•elf defeating
That the Japanese recognized this is shown by their volun-
tarily agreeing to reduce their exports of completed and per
tally aiembled TV units to the United Mates from last year s
2 M million to 1 75 million over the next throe years This is a
substantial reduction, better than « pee cent
Concurrent with the signing of the agreement was the an-
nouncement by the Japanese government that it will en
courage its electronic manufacturers to invest in plants in the
United States - which means more jobs for American
workers
With the agreement in hand the Carter administration will
now undertake to persuade other countries to sign similar
voluntary agreements limiting their exports For their best in
terests and ours, it is to be hoped that the U S -Japan accord
becomes the model and standard for the future
imports have comt thousands of American workers their jobs
- an estimated 70,000 in the television industry alone - and
forced many manufacturers out of business (though at the
same time giving American consumers better bargains than
they would otherwise have had).
do the other head is the equally inescapable fact that the
ereetion of trade barriers by one country inevitably leads to
protectionist cquntermeasures by others Mi s process from
which nobody Benefits All countries must trade to live some
more than others, and one country i temporary advantage
over another - whether because of aruhicial barriers or
superior technology or lower labor costs - can ultimately be
By De Oakley
High marks Ise economic diplomacy are due the J apse ret
and American negotators who forged the just concluded
agreement limiting reports of Japanese ester television sou
to this country
For President Carter, who hea been accused of all style and
no substance in the accomplishments at his admnistraton so
for, the agreement wm a happy romteretaw of both that
bodes weor the coarse of relatlons with all our other trading
By Al Zdon
One of the daily routines at the
Tribune, as at many businesses in town,
is for someone to trudge down to the Post
Office each day to pick up the mail
The majority of the letters the
editorial department receives every day
are from people who have some sort of
news for us The majority of those with
news for us, by far, are the various
state, federal and local government units
and agencies
in an effort to find out how much
government mail the Tribune receives
we decided to keep track for one month
From Apr 8 to May 5 the Tribune receiv-
ed 453 letters, packages post-cards,
books, magazines, pamphlets and other
mailables from our various
governments
The mail came from 86 different agen-
cies and units which tends to lend weight
to the statements by President Carter
and others that our government is get-
ting a little spread out
Of those 86. the state of Minnesota led
the way with 36 different offices or agen-
cies sending us their valuable informa-
tion There were 30 federal units and 17
local units represented in our mailbag
OPINION
The Minnesota House of Represen-
tatives was the runaway leader in the
mailbox derby Over the one-month span
they sent the Tribune 52 letters
The University of Minnesota in the
Twin Cities finished a poor second with
33 missives, followed closely by its sister
the University of Minnesota at Duluth
with 36 in fourth place was the Universi-
ty of Minnesota Agricultural Extension
Agency with 26
Finishing strong were the Ui Senate
with 13 the Minnesota Senate with 17.
the U S House with 15. U S Array, the
Navy, General Services Administration
and the U S Department of Agriculture
N) each
Topping the frequency list locally were
Hibbing Community College with nine.
District 701 (Hibbing schools) seven, the
St Louis Counts Health Department
with ux and the St Louis County
Heritage and Arts Center and the Hib-
bing Public Library with four each
Hardly anyone will deny that one of the
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