4 Friday, February 23, 1973 University Daily Kansan KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. To Each His Own The following story is fictitious. The formation of a new campus organization to deal with the problems of sex roles was announced recently. The new group, the Commission on the Status of Men, will attempt to inform the public about the problems of males in society. The leaders of the commission said they would pursue many methods of delivering their message to the public. Their program will include a series of "Human Virility Seminars." These seminars will feature visual aids and speakers on the entire spectrum of male problems. Commission leaders also said they would approach University officials concerning the establishment of a centralized library containing information about men. Included in the library's collection will be copies of a pre-law handbook, a premedical school handbook and graduate information. "Men have many problems adjusting to the socio-economic situation of the University," commented one leader. "It is our desire to bring all elements of the male population together to concern themselves with the problems men must cope with," he said. This leader said he hoped the March Brothers here would cooperate with the Commission on the Status of Men. The commission will offer counseling for men about various subjects, including the male sex role, birth control, rape, self-defense and divorce. Men experienced in self-defense will offer classes every Thursday night. The commission hopes to have a "Male Awareness" week late this spring. The week will incorporate a series of speakers, seminars, dissemination of materials about coping with male problems in a bisexual world and a career day conference. "It is sad but true," said one commission organizer, "but the advent of affirmative action has yielded preferential treatment for women. "We want to stress that affirmative action means equal rights for all based upon a merit system, regardless of race, color, creed or sex. Men, too, have day-care problems. Men, too, are misunderstood in their sex role. Men, too, are humans and must cope with the difficulties of our society and life." A handbook developed for the commission, "Him." explains the central function of the group and all it hopes to accomplish. Copies of the handbook can be found on campus. R. E.Duncan Report Urges Reassessment Of World Resource Policies By STAN BENJAMIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON—A report from researchers and businessmen says the United States must reduce its consumption of certain raw materials to help avert a global crisis in natural resources. The report said the industrialized world in general and the United States in particular should begin to slow consumption of highly processed food to move forward greater use of abundant materials. It mentioned forest products, which are renewable, and also said offshore and deep sea waters should be looked to as an abundant source of materials. The report was issued by the National Commission on Materials Policy, and was based on a series of discussions held last year among representatives of industry, government, universities and private research groups. "As projected demand curves push up against known reserves, a global crisis may It said that U.S. resource needs were virtually certain to increase and that imports would continue to rise. The developed nations, the report said, are becoming increasingly dependent on the mineral reserves of developing countries. occur if there is not a movement toward cohesion and distribution of world resources," the reason was. Experts on the panel said that any natural resources policy must include measures to equalize the incomes of those nations and individuals now classified as rich and poor. The coming resource pinch, they suggested, will require deep changes in the market system and in manufacturing designs and methods to recycle those that are used. Other points, summarized by the commission included: "The changes most required seem to come down to two: one, a substantial intervention in the market economy to provide needed public goods; and, two, a substantial shift in the distribution of income toward greater equalization." "The idea of a no-government economic policy in the immediate future was rejected out of hand. Zero population growth, however, was very strongly supported. . . ." —On energy, "The pursuit of great inefficiency in conversion, transmission, and end use—neglected in the past—was cited as perhaps offering the greatest opportunity for fusion to bring the spinning demand for energy into a better cost-benefit balance with supply." James J. Kilpatrick groundhole hole in the budget. Like smart foxes, they can wade upstream; they can leap from tree to tree; they can run across plougged ground. Every time the House votes against the Speaker Carl Albert sees John Ehrlichman snickering in a hollow log. WASHINGTON - If you have formed an impression in recent weeks that official Washington is running in circles, your imprint has been on the first of the year, Congress has been baying like a pack of hounds on this matter of "impoundment." At this writing, the House and Senate are dizzy; even begun to work up a sweat. Executive Foxes Vex Congress President Nixon will win this contest. His people know every fence row, briar patch and The question ought not to be who will win, but who ought to win. Here one runs in circles, too. The President is at once both right and wrong; and 27 is the Congress. The President is right in trying to keep a lid on federal spending. He is right politically, and he is right as a matter of public policy. The president has control over the people, fighting off the reckless money-singers on the Hill, Nick is playing the part of Matt Dillon. This is the good news; Mr. Obama can snuffer all night without a rude handshake the villain. On a more serious note, the President again is plainly right in terms of fiscal policy. As last week's devaluation of the dollar made clear (if it hadn't been clear before), our nation is in danger of losing its currency was brought on by forces beyond the President's control, but that is beside the point. Federal spending has to be controlled because it's right in trying to sum upress it. On the constitutional issue, the President is just as plainly wrong. In his news conference on Jan. 31, Nixon, who happened to be full of vinegar that day, flarly asserted that "the constitutional principle allows the United States to impound funds is absolutely clear." Nonsense! The right, if it exists at all, is exceedingly obscure. What the President is demanding—and getting—is a power of item veto. This the Constitution denies him, and so has been rightly outraged at Nixon's Olympian disdain for congressional powers. But what is the Congress to do? Critics in the house could introduce a resolution of impeachment, but so feeble a gesture would be universally regarded as absurd. There was talk of delaying confirmation of his cabinet, but this was idle talk. Mr. Trump made new appropriation bills, inviting a veto, but such a course merely takes the chase once more around the barn. The unpalatable and disturbing truth is that Congress is just about helpless. It could double the debt limit, thus deying Nikon the convenient excuse that any particular expenditure would carry the Treasury past the statutory limitation, the President has other excuses. His constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed has been buttressed in times past by laws directing a government to save money whenever savings are possible, and to see that funds are spent in the most effective and economical fashion. In its present condition of baffled anger, the Congress cannot even pick a nice strategic field for battle. On Feb. 7, the House voted 821 to 142 to reinstate the American education program, which the President in December had marked for extinction. If the Senate concurs, Nixon surely will veto the bill, and the votes to override are not in sight. Rural subsidies, amounting to a proposed $225 billion, would be mildly useful but very nitial. The money ought to be saved. Conservatives, watching this chase, are likely to find their sympathies divided. They resent the abdication of a senator that effectively could nullify the most important function of the legislative branch. They equally resent the abdication of fiscal responsibility on the Hill. Right is wrong, and wrong is right, but if, in fact, betting on the executive foxes. (C) The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc. Green Beret 'KISS' Is Dynamite Jack Anderson WASHINGTON—Sheepish executive of American Telephone and Telegraph would rather not talk about the KISS incident. But October, they thought their vital transcontinental microwave station outside Flagstaff, Ariz, was going to receive an explosive A communications craftsmans discovered five mysteries notes, signed KISS, indicating that bombs had been planted to blow up the station. The notes were discovered inside the sensitive installation. In a panic, he turned in an alarm and ran for cover. Faster than you can say boom, telephone security men were alerted, the county sheriff was called to the rescue. The alarm was also flashed over the bell system all the way to New York City. This threw M.Bell into a telephone machine began scurrying. About this time, the sheriff remembered that a Green Beret unit had been operating in the area, testing security. A call to the unit commander, Col. W. R. Smith, established that the notes were written by bomber calling himself KISS but by Special Forces team K155. "Do you really think he can end this war, too?" The commandos had crept into the microwave station the previous night, and had left the notes where dynamite might have been planted. The exercise proved, as the enterprising colonel suspected, that the microwave system is dangerously vulnerable. Among other things, this carries the circuit that Washington uses to keep in voice contact with military installations throughout the country. Grain Drain Aids Nation's Taxpayers By DON KENDALL WASHINGTON-High farm prices and huge export orders, for the first time in 25 years, are clearing government cupboards of grain surpluses, a once bothersome mountain of wheat and corn that has cost taxpayers $1 million a day to store. Only a year ago, the Nixon administration faced the prospect of a growing grain surplus and nursed worries that a president could be sensitive in a presidential campaign, would plummet by half. But the now famous sale of 400 million bushels of wheat last summer to the Soviet Union changed it all. Additional orders for wheat and feed grain came in other countries, and prices jumped. Wheat rose from $1.32 a bushel last July to $2.38 in January, the highest price farmers have received since 1947. Corn and wheat have gone up. Soybeans, the hottest items, have out of sight. A year ago the Commodity Credit Corp. (CCC) in the country owned outright some 372 million bushels of wheat and 144 million of corn, a relatively small amount by standards of a decade. Grain stock holdings are on the verge of being liquidated entirely first time in 1940s when United States was helping feed war-torn nations. "if it wasn't for the transportation situation, we would have gone into a grain, I'm sure," Glenn A. Weir, associate administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and Service, said recently. The CCC wheat supply was down to 728 million bushels by last Jan. 1 and corn holdings were cut to 140 million bushels. But Agriculture officials say the figures do not tell the full story. "Even if it eases this spring, we would soon be out of business. As it stands, I don't know. But we should be gone because we be gone quickly." We said. The CCC is the buying and selling arm of the Department of Agriculture. When market prices are low, farmers take out price support loans on grain. If prices do not increase in due course, farmers can let the government take over the grain and thus satisfy the loan. That is how the taxpayer, through CCC, became owner of 1.1 billion bushels of wheat and 1.4 billion of corn in the early 1960s. It seemed that surpluses would never end. But tighter acreage controls, a mini-boom in the mid-1960s and rising exports, mainly for wheat, help dissolve the surpluses. Consumers began eating more meat, and extra corn was needed. Now, it appears to Weir an other Agriculture experts, the demand for more wheat and feed grain is on such a solid footing that all stocks held by the amount soon will be depleted. As a result, Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz has ordered more land back into production this year. In all, off-agricultural land in California in 1873 will be idle under the 'set-aside' programs. Last year, when it appeared the surplus problem was getting out of hand again, farmers idored more than 60 million acres. Agricultural programs have been adjusted to save taxpayers $1 billion in direct crop payments, estimated at around $2.5 billion for this year compared with $2.5 billion in 1972. If farmers plant as much corn as they may under the relaxed acreage-control program, department experts think a record crop will be harvested next fall. That will not add to the surplus, the department says. Exports and U.S. feeders will need that amount of grain a year from now. Measured there is no shortage of grain but only a light supply situation. More wheat also is needed and farmers are expected to boost spring plantings sharply. Winter wheat growers, who planted fields last fall, also have increased acreages. Part of the reason that the administration released more meat and poultry to relieve rise food prices. By producing more wheat and feed grain, the White House hopes that it will increase the meat animals, milk and poultry. Soybeans are another reason for expanding crop program acres. Prices for beans have been high for months as the result of export and domestic demand for meal food produced from them. The Department of Agriculture predicts that farmers will plant *more soybeans on acres made available under the 1973 feed program, perhaps a record 1.5 billion bushels. Despite widespread weather problems during the harvest last fall, government experts do not think crop production was cut so severely as to have a big impact on supplies. Soybeans, for which any loss is sensitive in the market, are the exception. But Bell's district manager. D.J. Lysons, was more indignant over the prank the Green Berets had played on him than he was to be punished for his security. He sent a bristling letter demanding reparations. "It is estimated," he wrote, "that the following costs were incurred as a direct result of this unannounced intrusion of our property; Craft wages, $132; immediate supervisor direct involvement, $65; other long lines management directly involved in their work; information to those people having a need to know, $150; and Mountain Bell Security office, $75." There was one other thing; he also wanted to be notified before any military unit entered Bell property in the future. This is a formally, of course, that a real saboteur crew might overlook. Thai Connection A report now in preparation will charge that the United States is really trying to cut off drug trafficking because Thai leaders are too leeply implicated and might detain by closing U.S. military bases. The report will be submitted to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Rep. Lester Wolff, D-N.Y., who has been investigating the drug problem in Southeast Asia. He came back from an inspection tour last year to report that some Top officials were moving the tanks and the moving tons upon tons of 1 opium to Hong Kong for shipment to American addicts. He is now back from another tour of Southeast Asia, where he found the Thai smugglings operation relatively unchanged. The Thai opium, he will charge, is handled by dealers who are virtually immune from legal threats in the country of the most powerful men in the country, whom the United States doesn't wish to offend. that illegal drug labs are still operating in the state, despite his report on State Department's report will also be critical of the government's strategy of buying up opium crops. The practice does little to stop drug smugglers from lavishly expensive, he will charge. Woff will point out, for instance, that the United States is still fighting the military men in Thailand, but can't scrape up enough money to hire more than 35 narcotics agents to protect this nation from drug traffickers. The report will claim that most of the money allocated for the war on drugs has gone into cutting off the Turkish opium supply, with little left to fight smuggling in other areas. The report also says the Connection "blossoms like a poppy in the sun." Finally, the report will recommend that American aid to Thailand be shut off unless the drug smuggler, snashing the drug smugglers. Copyright, 1973 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN An All-American college newspaper Kansan Telephone Numbers Newsroom—UN 4-4810 Business Office—UN 4-4335 Published at the University of Kansas during the academic year except holidays and examination periods prescribed by the university. Licensed to Lawrence, Kan. 60444. 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