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PAGE TW O BRENHAM BANNER PRESS THURSDAY JULY 29. 1971
EDITORIAL
Pound of Cure
Could Sink Us
The ecological cure can, sometimes, be worse than the
disease.
A graphic illustration is what happened in Suffolk
County, N.Y., last year. To prevent ah outbreak of gypsy
moths, officials wanted to apply two .pounds of Sevin,
a substitute for DDT, per acre. But antipesticide groups
— blocked its use ------------—
Later, when the tree caterpillars were everywhere, an
A irate public caused the county to undertake a spray pro-
gram. By then, however, it was necessary to use 10 to J
20 pounds of Sevin.per acre, much of the gypsy moth
damage had been done and control of the insect was
insabislac.".,” :-
'. “ And, according to Cornell .University pesticide expert
. - Dr. James E. Dewey, the environmental impact of 10 to
' 20 pounds of the chemical per -acre was far greater than
just five or 10 times the impact of two pounds.
It seems, he says, a poor way to reduce the effect of
pesticides on the environment.
In another area, there is no question that run-off of
agricultural fertilizers contributes to pollution of water
supplies: Here again, the obvious solution is to stop or
. drastically curtail the use of fertilizers.
Not so,»says Frank Viets Jr., chief soil scientist for
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s soil and water con-
servation laboratory at Fort Collins, Colo. Restricting -
fertilizer use so that we would have to expand our crop-
Jand base would be a national disaster, he warns.
Instead, he says, farmers should use more, not less,
fertilizer on their best fields to realize top yields. That
way they can concentrate, on land that is least subject
====*S-OTCAIITIAN are pourer land to less intensive use-* —
He points out that the great strides made in erosion
control and in increased agricultural productivity during
the past 20 years have let farmers retire more than 50
million acres to grasscordess.inteneive-use.-He predicts--------
that by further intensifying agriculture, they can retire
"He Doesn’t Look Like Much of a Candidate
But He’s Got It Right Up Here! —
Today
In History
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, July 29,
the 210th day of 1971.
The moon is between its new.
phase and first quarter.- 0
The morning stars are Ve-——
nus. Mars and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer-
cury'and Jupiter.
GLOBAL VIEW
*. Saigon's Conditions
For Quick Pullout
A . By BAY CROMLEY
WASHINGTON (NEA)
So far as can be determined from sources close to the
Thieu administration, Saigon is now convinced a step-up
in the U.S. withdrawal rate would be desirable. -
There is now apparently strong sentiment for complete
withdrawal by some time in 1972—provided, we are willing
to supply the arms and economic aid necessary for South
Vietnamese survival.
Those born on this day are
under the sten a'eos Denso This p.ok.a 52 Zihinate entires," Zeresiduat %
American novelist Booth American force mentioned by Defense Secretary Laird.
But it might necessitate continuing air support based on :
Thailand and on islands in the Pacific. ----------_
Tarkington was born July .29,
1869.
* On this day in history: -
In 1914 the first transcon-
tinental telephone was com-
pleted with a conversation be-
tween San Francisco and New
York City.
In 1967 fire swept the air-
craft carrier USS Forrestal
off the coast of Vietnam, kill-
ing 129 men.
In 1968 Pope Paul VI upheld
the prohibition of all artificial
means of birth control for
Roman Cat holies.
In 1969 the first photos ta-
ken by men on the moon were
shown, including graphic shots
of footprints on the lunar
surface. *
: another 20 million acres.
But the call for drastic cures and a return to a simpler,
more "natural" life goes on.
Americans have simply got to stop consuming and pol-
luting, says geneticist Dr H. Russel Hulett of Stanford
Medical School Conservation education must be con-
. ducted so intensely that it produces almost a “religious”
c nversion" in. students, he urges. ,
As an example of a target for this-“religious” zeal,
since fossil fuels are the base of our consumption and our
pollution he recommends continued pressure for repeal
of the oil depletion allowance.
This would as effectively end the drilling of oil as an
outright prohibition Fuel prices would skyrocket, people
might freeze in the winter, the automobile industry could
collapse and hundreds of, thousands be thrown out of
. . work—but at least there Would be no pollution and Amer-
icans wouldn’t be wasting oil any .more.
442
A thought for today: Latin
writer Syrus said, "A good
reputation is more valuable
than money."
Privately, these sources say a quicker U.S. withdrawal
would add to the dignity of the'South Vietnamese and
stimulate national unity
But to make more rapid withdrawal possible, some
Vietnamese leaders emphasize in private, both govern-
ments must make it clear to the Vietnamese people what
program is going to be followed.
The Vietnamese must be told how rapidly American
troops are going to be withdrawn, and that this program
of withdrawal must be negotiated with the South Viet-
namese government, not with the North Vietnamese or
Viet Cong. They must be told in detail what -that with-
drawal means, why it is being carried out, what is to
happen as it progresses and after completion and what
U.S. aid can be expected in the years just ahead.
If this is not done, the South Vietnamese may believe
they are being deserted. And this belief, should it spread,
could have disastrous consequences.
It would be especially dangerous if. the United States
negotiates its withdrawal (or seems to) with the Viet
Cong or North Vietnamese. This could appear to be a
sellout. ,
There are some major barriers to a quick and complete
withdrawal:
Obviously, there are limits to our fossil fuels, our min-
erals. our land and water and air. We must eventually
develop more permanent sources of energy, such as solar
or atomic energy, and recycle all our natural resources
in a rational system_______.
Passenger Lines Cruise
To Meet Jet Competition
By LEE MUELLER designing of passenger
NEW Ac ships. Since jets began
NEW YORK NEA AS trans-Atlantic flights in 1957,
the summer of 1971 trudges passenger ship companies
toward- its conclusion, 5 ' 1
cruise operation now is more
profitable than the trans-
Atlantic voyages ever were.
ate the cruises all year
rather than make trans-At-
breathing heavily and per-
spiring about the armpits, a
- nice long vacation would be
But only technology can provide us with the means nice.
whereby we can do this, and at present our economy.— . If you are 25 or under the
and hence our technology—is geared to wasteful con- thing to do this year is to
sumption take advantage, of the re-
’ Stopping the machine of technology will not preserve duced airline rates and fly
the future. It will simply foreclose it. ., to Europe. If you are over
----------------%---------------------------------------25, Pan-American Airlines
would have you believe that
“The problem now is not
expanding the demand, but
finding what the public is
going to want 10 or 15 years
from now. The cruise is
slowly taking the-place of
• The very long time it takes for the United States to
train the required numbers of Vietnamese civil and mili-
tary administrators and other technicians. (There are
serious shortages of experienced pilots, economists, police
technicians, communications specialists, maintenance
supervisors and a wide range of other skills.
• The reluctance of the South Vietnamese government
and its American advisers to reorganize the South Viet-
namese army to make it less dependent on highly sophis:
ticated and expensive U.S. arms and equipment and on
an extremely complicated line of supply. Even with lavish
U.S. assistance, Vietnam does not have the wealth nor
the technical base to support the type of military force
we have created there.
lantic crossings in the sum- country to bear
mer, that is what we will
do.”
• The reluctance of the South Vietnamese to stream-
line the oversized, overly bureaucratic civil government,
now too complicated and inefficient for the people of that
The world is 70 per cent
water. The French Line will
start its first around-the-
world cruise in January
the trans-Allantic.voya ge. ARTESTS Souma an, n."
said M. Potier, “we have a
BERRY’S WORLD
but the ships still have the
a face of the old steamships.
It's like automobiles at the______-
turn of the century. The first TIMELY
cars, you will recall, had the - ■
shape of horse carriages.” QUOTE
What, exactly, is the shape We recognize there must
of the futu re for —cruise be some balance between
ships? “Well, Potier said, our traditional freedoms
"a lot of people have a very guaranteed by the Bill of
early concept of ships, which Rights and the need to pro-
makes it very hard to tect the security of the
change. They expect a sort United States. The question
of traditional life, extremely we intend to examine, how-
formal, that sort of thing. ever, is whether the present
“I believe we’re going into balance is the correct one
a less formal approach, which will ensure the con-
There’ll be no high ceilings tinuation of a truly demo-
in the new cruise ships, cratic society which is so
,. They’ll be modern. There is dependent upon an informed
Jean-Claude Potier_____talk of on]y one class, al-' electorate._ -------
A lot of room to operate, though our first class is suc- —Rep. William S. Moorhead,
“Your average European cessful because, I think, it’sA*
is now demanding the same like the French Line and getting more and more diffi-
level of comfort enjoyed by Cunard have nau 10 concoct cult to get refinement in
Americans. . new reasons to justify—and life. Let's just say that we
“We now are designing finance—their existence, will have a very elegant in-
new cruise ships to fit the The cruise ship business formal party. A more flexi-
new tastes All cabins will has been the most profitable ble type of life.”
be equipped with a bathtub, todate. Withsuchemphasisonthe
air conditioning, music and, “The airline boom made cruise business, Potier does
certainly, television Imag- ,t appear that ships were ob- not predict a glowing future
ine taking a cruise to watch solete," Potier, 42, pointed for trans-Atlantic crossings,
television: But it’s there for out. "This is a false 3P- “We are not a philan-
a reason the blanket c°m- proach. The French Line thropic organization,” he
.. • now offers vacations at sea said. “We are a business. If
-— - ----------------......— The airplane, of course. — sometimes trans-Atlantic, the day comes when it is
omotoc ied to be the nie aunt, co mopenicoae e.EATtimes cruies—ana the economicany sound to oper-
BRUCE BIOSSAT
What's-His-Name,
Our Great Leader"
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEA)
you'd better go this year
anyway because‘you're get-
ting along in years there,
kid, and you never know
about those things.
There are other reasons
for escaping to Europe this
summer, however, one of ′
them being that if you don't
hurry, in a few years it’ll be
like visiting Peoria, Ill.
We hear plenty these days about the country’s need for
better leadership, from the presidency on down. But how
goes it with the led?
Not really very well Too many people seem to be try- _______.______________- ...
ing either to fob the whole burden of social responsibility the French Line in America,
off on their leaders, or to shock the load by insisting the
only important thing is being able to do what one wishes.
Fact is. the "led ' don’t even keep very good track of
who their leaders are, or might be
Everybody in politics is moaning about the high cost of
campaigning. The critical cost factor is television. And a
very good part of a candidate’s television effort is de-
signed either to gain or to hold recognition.
There isn't a single 1972 presidential prospect in the
Democratic party who hasn't been on national television
many times this year, and who hasn’t had his name in the
papers endless times. But - some of them have aston-
ishingly low recognition rating.
Is it wholly or even largely the contenders’ fault? Or is
it possible that millions of viewers scan the tube with a.
kind of in one eve and gone tomorrow” indifference?
The-metsseonseamot tonton.. Tied to be the
best informed citizen in our history. It seems reasonable
that he ought to be able to identify six or eight presiden-
tial bidders without the promotion man’s television ham-
merstrokes coming every hour on the hour as a campaign
waxes hot .
“‘More and more, Euro-
pean life resembles that in
America,” said Jean-Claude
Potier, general manager for
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lot of room to operate.
D-Pd., chairman of a
House government infor-
mation subcommittee, call-
ing for an investigation of
U S policies on secrecy of
documents
We always get things that
no longer have any value.
The cities have been.cleaned
out ... If Felix the cat
wanted to run for mayor he
would pick up a good follow-
ing. That's how bad things
have gotten.
—John A. Williams, author
0*ug God Dida t‛2
Save.” —
971 by NEA, Inc.
"He's been eating everything with chopsticks, since he
became President—now we know WHY!"___
g .===**0
Before China pushed the Pentagon papers into the 11- s
brary, a lot of leading U S figures were saying that the
country’s handling of the Vietnam problem would have g
been vastly different “if the public had known what the S
papers show was going on in high government circles at g
thetime." -
Really'’ The public's response to the papers themselves S
did not exactly encourage that notion. Polls showed 45 per
cent of the public had never heard of them. Indeed, only g
‘ 14 of 435 U.S. House members had studied them.
As 1 reported once before, one person familiar with the %
Pentagon study from the beginning says he learned as $
much from the newspapers of the time (up to 1968) as he %
did from hitherto unpublished Vietnam war documents. a
Several observers have established that the key elements g
of the U.S effort on Vietnam were laid out in print long g
before the Pentagon papers "exposed" them.
When this,point was made recently at a briefing by a «
former White House official, one observer said:
"Well, maybe the stuff was printed, but the leadership $
didn't get the story across to the public.” S
Actually, the “leadership" leaked many of the earlier $
accounts. Some of them hit newspaper front pages, and S
some took many minutes of television’s prime evening 8
news time What are the leaders supposed to do? Read s
the stuff over the tube like the late Mayor LaGuardia $
reading the funnies on the radio'’ •
In a democ i acy we’re all supposed to be grownup %
folks who take in great volumes of information, digest it, s
weigh it. and come up with sound judgments of men and $
issues.’
The evidence, off our history, is that we’ve been pretty g
lucky on this seere “Americans go by very broad impres- #
• sions in picking leaders. At the presidential level, they’ve, 3
avoided disaster; though not mediocrity They've turned s
up some good ones when they most needed them.
But often (quite often of late) they’ve tossed out good s
governors who were tough enough to tax them when 2
money was needed, and have penalized others for limited s
reasons having little to do with over all competence.
Too many Americans think leadership should strew . S
roses in their path They don't want hard demands from $
a. leader Nor do they want to make hard demands on «
themselves, as the "led” should do when acting respon- 2
sibly.
HOMAGE TO WINDMILLS
Condensed from
New YORK TIMES
STEWART L. Udall
. . Reprinted From Readers Digest
TAST summer, to
1 get away from
suffocating smog, ,
I drove my fam-
ily west from Wash-
ington, D.C., to San-
ta Fe, New Mcxi-
co. As we crossed
the country, our car 4
radio kept us in- *
formed about the or-
deal of the big cities 4
and their faltering ' #
machines. Around d
us, however, the w
Great Plains told a
afar different J
story. Above all, we a
marveled at the
. . sight of working V
windmills, creaky
sentinels of a ′
bygone age. And' ,
the contrast left_n
— me with windmills on my mind.
, Windmills are much, much more
than relics. They are symbols of
sanity for a world that is increas-
ingly hooked on machines with an
, inordinate hunger
for fuel and a pro-
digious capacity to
.or pollute.
Ecologically, the
windmill is one of
V man’s few perfect
E devices. It harnesses
a completely free re-
source to pump wa-
• ter under conditions
that respect the laws
and limits of nature.
• - . . Consider this con-
trast: In Arizona,
western Texas and
many other places of
the arid Southwest,
anchcis have long
used electric pumps
to deplete ground--
water stored up over
* - the centuries by geo-
— logic processes. The
costs of such exploitation are now
tragically evident in shrinking
farmlands and in the fast-growing
thirst for “replacement” water from
Canada and Alaska. But ranchers
who still use windmills to tap near-
surface water for their livestock-
taking only as much as is replaced
each year—face no such crisis. They
are working with nature. And there-
in lies the message of windmills.
Like waterwheels and sailboats,
windmills have Zero Environmen-
tal Impact (ZEI). They remind us
that science can save us over the long
haul only if it designs a new genera-
tion of machines that come much
closer than their predecessors to
achieving ZEI.
The automobile is the antithesis
of the windmill. It symbolizes our
hell-bent rush to increase produc-
tion, convenience and mobility, with
little thought for the trade-offs in
fouled air, congested cities and high-
ways, and hundreds of thousands of
automobile accidents each year. Like
so much of our present industrial
technology, the automobile works at
cross-purposes with life.
Today the evidence is clear that
our high-energy, high-waste society
is making exorbitant demands on
the resources of the planet. Largely /
because of U.S. consumption, most
of the world’s petroleum fuels will
be exhausted within a century.
I certainly do not propose a return
STEWART L. Udall, Secretary of the In-
tenor under Presidents Kennedy and John-
•on, u chairman of the board of the Over-
view Corp., an environmental consulting firm
headquartered in Washington, D.C.
^wawmwimsi^^
to a windmill economy. In fact,
there is no way for us to achieve a
low-pollution technology overnight
— and Zero Environmental Impact
has been an impossibility for human
societies ever since they began hunt-
ing and burning on the savanna
plains of a million years ago. Be-
. latedly, however, we are beginning
to realize that our technological
skills must be bent toward an ac-
commodation with natural laws-
laws such as the recycling of mate-
rials. We now see efforts to ban the
use of long-lived pesticides, to re-
move phosphates from' detergents, to
take the lead out of gasoline, to clean
up or completely, place the inter-
nal-combustion engine.- One hopes
that these steps mark the beginning
- of a historic reversal of our “raid-
and-waste" style of development.
As I contemplate my family’s trip,
•I cannot help but wonder if 1, like
.that dreamer Don Quixote, have
merely been tilting at windmills. Is
it only nostalgia that makes me and .
millions of other Americans hope
for a more modest technology? I do, ost
not think so. The issue is nobler than
survival. It is whether we can equip
ourselves to live truly decent lives.
If we are to meet this challenge,'our
inventors and technicians will have
to pay homage to windmills. They
will have to build us machines that
use, not abuse, the unearned gifts of
nature.
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