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I am constantly amazed at the charitable attitude of
Brownwood citizens. Be it magazine or candy sales for the
school projects, the stadium fund, or any other drive the
results are always unbelievable.
The Lions Mothers Halloween Carnival was no exception.
I iue to all who attended and many who worked so diligently, it
was a great success. On behalf of all the Lions Mothers I wish
to extend a warm thank you to everyone connected - especially
The Brownwood Bulletin, KBWD, KEAN, and Brownwood TV
I able for the publicity; to the merchants who donated gifts;
the Jaycees for their support; to Faye Alexander (our real live
clown); Dwayne Westfall and the coliseum staff.
There is no better way to celebrate Halloween, so mark your
calendars for 1973 - the lions Mothers think it is a great way to
raise money for the father-son football banquet and entertain
the children of our community simultaneously.
Our sincere thanks to each who had a part in this years
carnival.
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Religious freedom
still not universal
By JIMMY R ALLEN
It is difficult for Americans, with our heritage of religous
freedom, to grasp the fact that there is severe religious per-
secution in our contemporary world. We are inclined to believe
that all of that is passed While we may shake our heads in
bewilderment and regret over the religiously-fueled strife in
North Ireland, we are inclined to feel that reasonable men may
hold their religous convictions without political harassment
nearly anywhere in our earth
The fact is, however, that religious persecution has been
increasing in intensity in the Soviet Union Our detente with
that country and our trade agreements give hope of better
days ahead for our international relationships However,
religious minorities there are having a tougher time than ever
This is true for the Russion Orthodox Church, the Muslims, as
well as the Jews and Evangelical Christians
A Nobel Prize winner for literature was prevented last year
from receiving the award because he stated he would give the
money to help the church. The Jewish community has felt this
heavy hand. World opinion has been stirred Soviet leaders
have revealed a sensitivity to that pressure
It is right for all men of religious and moral sensitivity to
support the Jews in their claims of religious liberty These
' claims extend to other communities, also.
The Baptist General Convention of Texas in its annual
meeting in Abilene was reminded of the fact that the largest
evangelical group in Russia is Baptist. While some Baptists
have agreed to governmental limitation on propagation of
their faith, a vast number have refused to do so. A spiritual
awakening is being felt. Persecution is severe.
Convention messengers went on record as calling on the
United States government, the President and all elective of-
ficials of the United States as well as the General Assembly of
the United Nations to exert moral, political, and economic
pressure that men everywhere might enjoy the inalienable
right of worshiping God after the dictates of their own con-
victions without suffering discrimination.”
Responsibility for citizens of every nation to be concerned
about basic human rights lies heavily upon our consciences.
We should become informed about the issues involved. We
should communicate to our political leaders the necessity for
। onstant pressure in the direction of freedom for all.
We should be praying for God's help for the victims of this
persecution. Religious hate is as old as mankind. It is tragic for
all mankind.
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"It'll Be Tough to Sweep This Under the Rug!"
- Good news for
tuition payers
An idea being adopted by a number of colleges and uni-
versities around the country promises some relief to stu-
dents—and their parents—from soaring tuition costs.
Entering freshmen are given a guarantee that their
tuitions will not increase during their four years of study.
With tuitions rising by as much as 10 per cent annually
at some schools in recent years, it is estimated that a
student could save in the neighborhood of *1.000 during
his or her college career, depending upon the initial tuE
tion.
Officials cite two major advantages of guaranteed or
fixed tuition: It should lead to an increase in the number
of freshmen entering a school, and a decrease in the
number of upperclassmen transferring to other schools
before they get their degrees Any losses due to continuing
inflation would, it is hoped, be offset by the increased
student retention rate.
Officials of private schools also believe that more par-
ents would be willing to send their children to private
colleges or universities if they knew what the exact cost
would be and could plan accordingly.
At least one college will adopt a five-year guaranteed
tuition plan in the fall of 1973, citing an additional advan-
tage.
Since more and more students seem to want to take
a hiatus in their college experience to work or travel or
study abroad, the five-year plan will enable them to do
this, and will encourage them to return to the school to
complete their educations.
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Big business as
free world tool
Five years ago, French publisher and politician Jean-
Jacques Servan-Schreiber shook up his fellow Europeans
with his book, "The American Challenge," in which he
warned that the countries of Western Europe had to inte-
grate economically or become subservient to American
Industrial might.
Today, he is calling upon the leaders of both Europe
and the United States to recognize that they have a
"golden opportunity" to end East-West rivalry and to
"emancipate the Communist people with new weapons of
peace.”
In an interview in Business Week magazine, Servan-
Schreiber recalls that the Marshall Plan rapidly built up
the European market after World War II. The United
States, he contends, is ready to do the same thing with
the Communist world—"subsidize the market to start it,
to make it take off."
He predicts that the multinational corporation will be
the tool for opening up the Communist countries of the
East.
The Communists, he says, prefer to do business with
large companies rather than a lot of different, small ones
Most of the time they want to work with American multi-
national companies because they are large and diversified
and can work on many projects with one management
team.
But the "American Challenge” is no longer purely
American, he says. The great multinational corporations
challenge all nations and their political sovereignty. The
sheer power of these economic giants has outstripped the
ability of states to control them
At the same time, he sees a growing antagonism toward
multinational corporations as a dangerous development.
Such corporations can be the instruments "for improving
the standard of living more efficiently than anything else
in history," he believes, and can serve as the dynamos
to sark progress in the Communist bloc and the Third
“We can emancipate the Communist people with these
new weapons of peace," says Servan-Schreiber "Once
the average Russian has an improved standard of living,
the Soviet Union will be open to change. A free market
implies a free mind."
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It comes as a jolt to realize that this man has been
prominent on the national political scene for more than
two decades—longer than the voting lifetime of a truly
emerging majority of Americans.
Now, with a mandate behind him greater than that of
any other president Richard Milhous Nixon faces the
potential of greatness. Who would have believed 10 years
ago that such a statement could ever seriously be made?
As he himself noted on election night, a majority doesn’t
mean Anything; it’swhat you do with it. And, “the great-
er the majority, the greater the responsibility.”
Richard Nixon must now chart the course of the nation
through 1976 Most Americans will be content with some-
thing less than greatness, and will be happy if the last -
four years of America’s second century are remembered
as a time of peace and of wise and good leadership.
Richard Nixon has been accorded a Roman triumph.
Just as the Romans commissioned a wreath-bearer to
follow behind the hero of the moment and whisper, “Re-
member you are only a mortal,” so the American elec-
torate has tempered Mr Nixon’s overwhelming presi-
dential victory by maintaining the opposition party in
control of both houses of Congress—as if to say, "Remem-
ber, this is our government, you are only one branch of
it and your power is pot without limit.”
So lopsided a mandate for one candidate can also be
seen as just the opposite, a lopsided repudiation of the
other candidate. Political analysts will be kept busy for
a long time trying to decide to what extent this election
was the one and to what extent it was the other. There
is much for them to chew on.
For instance, although Mr. Nixon carried normally
heavily Democratic Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), Ohio,
out of some 679,000 voters who went to the polls, 59,000-
could not bring themselves to vote for either presidential
candidate but cast blank ballots.
There is also much for the Democrats to ponder as they
attempt to recover from the greatest presidential debacle
in the history of the party.
Was George McGovern, as he suggested even in the
hour of his defeat, merely a little ahead of the nation?
Does he stand on ideological ground the majority of
Americans are heading toward, perhaps by 1976?
Or was McGovern really four time years behind the
times, campaigning actually against Lyndon Johnson as
he tried vainly to ignite the issues of the Vietnam war,
some vague, popular distrust of the government, and so
on?
In short, was McGovern to the Democrats in 1972 as
Barry Goldwater was to the Republicans in 1964, or have
fundamental changes been made in the grass-roots make-
up of the party which will never permit it to return to
what it was before McGovern?
As for the Republicans, the lesson of the congressional
elections is plain enough The party has a long way to
go before it even begins to emerge as the “new ma-
jority.”
But it is the result of the presidential contest that con-
tinues to amaze the very electorate responsible for it.
And when all is said and done, it is hard to believe that
all those votes could have been simply against George
McGovern rather than for Richard Nixon and what he ac-
complished in his first term.
No caviling can detract from Mr. Nixon’s tremendous
personal victory, a victory made all the more remark-
able for coming 10 years to the day after his famous
farewell address to the press, and to politics, after being
defeated in his bid for the governorship of California.
Get reds to tone
down, Nixon aim
By RAY CROMLEY
WASHINGTON (NEA)
President Nixon’s truce efforts with Hanoi and his rap-
prochement with Moscow and Peking are based on this
unproved but beguiling strategy thesis:
• When the chips are down, the men who run North
Vietnam. China and Russia will put their homelands first
and international Communist goals second—for the short
term
• For Communist countries facing an economic crisis,
trade, dollars and technical aid are more powerful than
ideology.
• However ambitious their long-term aims of conquest,
the new way of life brought by trade, dollars and technical
aid will, over the long pull, cause them to modify some-
what their propensities for aggression.
Take North Vietnam and the proposed truce in Indo- <
china. Historically there is no way to prevent Hanoi from
breaking the treaties the hour they are signed. But the
pact as proposed arranges for U.S. technical and eco-
nomic aid in the years ahead. This was inserted, I am
informed, at the eager urging of the men from Hanoi.
U.S. strategists, knowing how badly North Vietnam
wants this aid. hope (with fingers crossed to be sure) it
will be sufficient incentive to prevent Hanoi from flagrant
treaty violations Hanoi may believe the United States
will never bring the bombers back North; but that govern:
merit must be quite certain that breaches of the pact
which endanger the existence of South Vietnam, Laos or
Cambodia will result in a shutoff of American assistance
to the North.
If the group which believes North Vietnam’s first duty
is to build up the homeland is in power in Hanoi, as re-
ports indicate, there is a chance the Nixon gamble will
pay off.
Then there’s the U.S.S.R. Despite the skill of the Rus-
sian police in holding down dissenters, there is no doubt
the Soviet Union is hurting seriously because it cannot
supply the essentials plus necessary luxuries to the men
it depends upon to run the system, and to their families.
There are not sufficient supplies of meat, automobiles,
or refrigerators, or enough of the countless other niceties
the Soviet managerial class, and working class too, are
now insisting on. Each year the Soviet economy lags
further behind the United States, Japan and West Ger-
many.
Now comes Nixon with a highly favorable grain deal,
a wide range of trade concessions, a multibillion-dollar
technical aid-gas purchase agreement and other invest-
ment and aid measures in a variety of lines—which could
set the Soviet Union on the way to meeting the more
pressing of its consumer demands, easing the growing
political pressures on the Kremlin's men.
What Nixon strategists hope is that the bureaucrats
who rule in Moscow will not be willing to sacrifice U.S.
accommodation and these dollar-ruble advantages for
power showdowns in the Middle East, Asia, Africa or
Western Europe
Nixon's advisers don't expect the Soviet Union to give
up its goals, or to start down a peaceful path. They do
hope the Kremlin's men. thinking of trade, grain. gas and
• investments, will take fewer risky chances and will abort
some of their more dangerous aggressive techniques.
The objective is not Utopia — but a slightly greater
chance for peace
Negotiations with China have barely started. But there
are hopes here that the same approach can be made.
It is known the Chinese are badly in need of technical aid
and investment.
McG unacceptable
By BRICE BIOSSAT
WSHINGTON (NEA)
The numerical proportions of President Nixon's re
election victory have been reported only in broad brush
strokes by our friends in television-land and elsewhere
They deserve fuller, more exact accounting, so here goes
Since only about two per cent of the nation's precincts
haven 1 been heard from, most of what we now have will
stand up—at least until the official canvass comes out
in December
First off, Mr Nixon's nationwide margin over Sen
George McGovern is just a bit short of 17 5 million, com-
fortably beating Lyndon Johnson's slightly less than 16
million over Barry Goldwater
What is even more astonishing, and what we have
heard too little of from any source other than the some-
what indigestible wire service tabulations, is the internal
anatomy of Mr Nixon's triumph
First off. in taking 49 of the 50 states, he won 10 by
margins of 70 per cent or more, his highest being 79 per
cent in Mississippi Johnson passed the 70 per cent mark
in just three states, including tiny Rhode Island and
Hawaii.
Next, Mr Nixon won 26 states, more than half the coun-
try’s total, by percentage margins between 60 and 70 In
that list of 26 were five of the country's 10 most populous
states—Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas and New
Jersey. New York missed getting into that category by
just a point. Another in the top 10, Florida, was on that
70 per cent roster.
Johnson's 1964 performance gave him 22 states in the
60 to 70 per cent range
Mr Nixon took another nine states by percentage mar-
ginsof 55 to 60—a range still generally to be cdhsidered
"lardslide." These included, of course, huge New York
with 59 per cent, Connecticut at the same level, Iowa
with 58 per cent, Michigan 57 and California 56
So. Mr Nixon won 45 of his 49 states by proportions
ranging from landslide to avalanche He took four states
—New York, California, Texas and Florida—by one mil-
lion votes or more.
His only close shaves came in Wisconsin (54 per cent),
Rhode Island (54). Oregon (53) and Minnesota (52).
Rhode Island usually is preponderantly Democratic, Min-
nesota always tough for Republicans.
In his only losing state, Massachusetts, Mr Nixon still
got 45 per cent. His one poor showing was in heavily black
District of Columbia, where he got just 21 per cent to
McGovern's 79.
You can say several things quickly about the Presi-
dent’s showing. It obviously was without precedent. Poll-
ster George Gallup called it almost on the nose As with
Johnson in 1964, it knocks silly the idea a candidate has
to be "loved” to score a sweep
When you look at the eight most populous northern
states, you find that as has been true from 1948 on—
they tend to vote in a common pattern. Except that is,
for heavily Democratic Massachusetts.
In the other seven. Mr. Nixon won by margins within a
tight range of six points, from 56 in California to 62
per cent in New Jersey. McGovern’s losing percentages
were even closer, from a low of 38 to a high of 42. In
three. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, Mr Nixon got an
identical 60
With figures like these, don’t let anyone tell you Mc-
Govern lost because he didn’t get his message or his
“image” across. Rightly or wrongly, he was very clearly
perceived nationwide as unfit for the job. Most politicians
in his own party agree with that overwhelming national
judgment by the voters.
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