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Wednesdav. July 16, 1975
University Daily Kansan
1976: forward, not back
Is there anything else planned for this nation's 2009 birthday besides cake and wine?
We are already celebrating and of course
we are candies and cake and flags and
flowers and cookies and sweets.
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there is also some serious study and thinking done.
A recent informal poll by the Lawrence Journal-World indicated that some people were ambivalent about the Bicentennial. One person said that if it was going to be just fireworks and glory it would be worthless. True.
But look round. Along with the building of monuments and the reprinting of warm-toned books, the city is a great place to explore.
People are going beyond the physical forms of our past, which are meaningless in themselves, and getting to the substance. The myths that bind us to a false history—"America was united in spirit during the Civil War," for example—are being broken down.
People are realizing that the country was divided in spirit then, that a lot of propaganda was used before any bullets, and that there were honorable people as loyal to England as the patriots were to the idea of a new nation.
More serious reflection about our past is needed. All we have to lose are stereotypes to gain a truer sense of the spirit of the nation; to expand the communication to the future—intellectual courage.
Perhaps people would get more excited about the Bicentennial if there were more emphasis on the substance of our heritage and its emphasis on the forms associated with it.
To give this emphasis means to look beyond the temporary and envision the future. Let's scale down our parades and collect every kind of local talent, time and resource for any of a number of worthwhile projects.
I can get excited about contributing to groups researching the practical application of solar, wind and thermal energy. I am especially interested in local tax structure might be made more equitable. Or determining how we might introduce efficient transportation into the community. Or planning how we might help elderly older workers provided for our elderly and our poor.
Coordinating efforts to change society in ways more fundamental than a fireworks display could do a great deal toward recreating the spirit of 1776.
And it could give something to get excited about.
—Peter Porteous
FTC rule smothers consumers
No doubt the Federal Trade Commission will soon be battling with Joe Narnath.
Namath has signed a reported $2 million contract with Faberge, an international cosmetics company. Namath will promote its products.
It probably will be long before one sees
Namah on the TV set flashing his dimple-
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ridden toothy smile and saying how great some women's perfume is.
According to an FTC ruling passed in the spring, one has to use the products before he can pass judgment on them. Well, I doubt whether Namath will start using women's perfume, but I'm sure he will find a way to get by that ridiculous ruling.
It was too long ago that Narnath was endorsing panty hose. Now, one might ask
how the FTC can put up with that. Easy.
Although Namath did not wear the panty
hose, he was considered a reliable endorser
because he looked at women who wore them
and thought they helped the women's appearance.
The FTC probably had the consumer's best interests in mind when it passed the test, but its success was still resulled has been more red tape, more confusion and more loopholes. Let's face it: the FTC is going to have a hard time that endorsers use certain products.
In addition, viewers should feel rather insulted that the FTC thinks most people take Broadway Joe at his word anyway. Celebrities look good on TV and might help a product's appeal, but most people don't rely on the endorser's judgment.
Perhaps Zsa Zsa Gabor put the situation in its proper perspective when, during a commercial, she was asked why she was answered. "They paid me, darling." She answered.
I suppose the federal government thinks it must protect all the poor dumb people in America, but it appears more and more that they are protected from an overgrazed government.
In addition to the FTC ruling, the government has passed laws that forced an interlock system on cars and provided for a driver's license. It also outed to pollute more than the old ones.
Locally, motorcycle riders are bothered by a law that says they must wear helmets. It's ironic to see a rider wearing a helmet not but wearing shoes or a shirt.
Why have laws like these at all? People don't need a watchdog over their everyday affairs, especially one that is likely to bite a friend as easily as a foe.
In the meantime, it wouldn't be a bad idea for the FTC to rescind its ruling and allow celebrities to endorse products. The FTC doesn't seem to be able to enforce the tax laws if it does, so spending plenty of the taxpayers' money doing it. — Sol Aleksandr
Editor's Note: James W. Henderson writes a column on the arts for the Saginaw (Mich.) News. This article is reprinted with the permission of that newspaper.
BY JAMES W. HENDERSON
For犹豫 purposes I mention a difficulty correctly; the word "callicor" distortion." In simpler if more symbolic terms, the difficulty may be stated thus: "The wheel of life doesn't turn fast enough for individual evidence."
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Let me try to illustrate from the field of theater review. In 1965, say, you saw a production of a play well called "Drama-10." Good or bad in your view at that time, in
1975 you see another production of "Dramma 10" by a different company. Try as you may, dig out the 1965 notes through you do, the two productions are too far apart in time and too dependent upon memory for you to make any beneficial comparison.
OR CONSIDER IT IN A context much larger than the theatre: life it makes the life span-at best is lamentably small in contrast to ongoing life as a whole. This makes possible at least two understandable but dangerous tendencies.
The first is the foreshortened perspective of the young, who simply haven't lived a large enough segment of the turn of life's wheel to command a valid observation of such things as progress or decay. The other suspect tendency is the propensity of the elderly to allude to "the good old days," as well as to "Ask with the matter reviewer, even though for the elderly the wheel may have made more than one full turn, any two are too far apart, distracted by affinity, or scented by nostalia to be quite valid.
IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE why the young think that color-TV, landings on the moon or computers are evidence of progress. For one thing, the scarcely known technology are not at all reluctant to claim such identity. And if not you're young enough to accept such claims and can count no track time before these developments, you very easily believe that "Bliss it was in that place, be alive, but to be young was very heaven!"
On the other hand, even the longer perspective of advanced age can be mistaken. The causes aren't, of course, the same. The older one is likely to have the old age are likely to cite the wrong evidence.
Don't lose perspective; it's long run that counts
There is no need to indulge in argument
Law student at KU to be county intern
The Douglas County Attorney's office has announced the hiring of Greg Law, a third-year law student at the University of Georgia as a legal intern for the rest of the summer.
The county attorney's office traditionally hires a summer intern. The interns receive $125 a week, most of which is paid under a federal grant. The county is required to pay social security and a small portion of the salary.
Justice will handle traffic offenses and assist other lawyers with their cases. He is authorized to practice law under a Supreme Court order to students to work under a licensed attorney.
Villages plan sun, wind energy
By BRAD JONES
Karisan Staff Reporter
Two Lawrence attorneys hope to equip a
binary child with alternative
energy sources.
By JAMES W. HENDERSON
Lance Burr, Douglas County director of Villages Inc., and Bill Ward, director of Great Plains Windsturies, Inc., have been working for six months on plans to build an offshore oil pipeline at the Topper-based Villages, Inc., a home for neglected and dependent children.
The Villages project, an offshoot of a five-cottage development for neglected children in Louisiana, will begin before the Lawrence-Douglas County Commission July 28. If the site is approved, the plan will then be submitted to the Lincoln County Commission for final approval.
IF THE SITE is approved by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission and the Douglas County Commission, Burr and Ward hope to equip one of the two cottages proposed for the home with wind and solar generators.
BURR SAID ALL costs for construction and operation of the program would come from contributions by local residents. A letter to Mr. Burrow expressed interest in the program, he said.
One of the major considerations in the forest management villages in Tyokea as well as in Douglas County, Northwest is awareness of nature, Burr said. The location, near the northwest of rural roads, would make this possible.
"The roof of the cottage will have one or more glass plates built into it," Ward said. "Beneath the glass will be a network of tubing into which water will be continuously pumped. As the sun shines through the glass, heat will be absorbed by the heat heated the water in the tubing. Insulated water will then run down into an insulated hot water tank, where it will be stored until
The solar plates, built into the roof of the tentage, will act on the same principle that grids do.
Ward said he thought the cottage would make use of solar collector plates and possibly one or more windmills to produce electrical power.
Ward said the alternative power source would help build a "conservation ethic" in the community.
"It will be a great feeling for those kids to switch on the light, knowing that the wind is moving."
WINDSTRIES, a corporation formed by Ward and Burr in January to study alternative energy sources, hasn't yet agreed on how the cottage will be nowed.
Man burned aboard plane
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A bearded man in a T-shirt hunked to death after he apparently set himself afire in the restroom of National Airlines jet yesterday, police said.
William P. Smith, dean of the School of Engineering who has also been engaged in wind and solar power research, said yesterday that the Windindustries project was possible if an adequate amount of money could be raised for the project.
Smith explained that one installation could produce almost two-thirds of all the energy necessary. If Windstorms wanted to add several windmills and solar plates to the project, the project would come closer building 100 per cent of its needed energy.
However, because sunshine and wind aren't always available, Ward said, conventional utilities will have to be included in the act to act as an alternative power source.
"THE PROJECT is entirely feasible, from the standpoint of installing and maintaining the energy sources. What they must decide is how much of the possible amount of energy the building will need, can be produced," he said.
IN ADDITION, the cottage will be connected to a wind turbine powered by a windmil. The windmill will create power for electrical appliances. Ward said.
needed for steam heat, taking a bath or whatever."
"A five-room house, equipped with wind and solar installations can run in cost without a chimney."
Kennedy International Airport. No other injuries were reported.
The jetliner was over Wilmington, N.C., when the man entered the restroom, apparently dressed himself with a highly tinted goggles and left off, spokesman for National Airlines said.
"We need to get some useful projects going so that people can see the benefit in implementing alternative energy sources," he said.
The DC10, which was on route from New York to Jacksonville, was made an unscheduled stop at Jacksonville.
But costs for the project will increase accordingly with each addition, he said.
"There was a flash of light," another passenger on board the flight of Miami, said Marvin Bender, the Incubator in the incident.
WARD SAID Kansas was probably the most easily adaptable area in the country for switching from electrical and gas utilities to wind power.
The unidentified man was one of 58 passengers on board Flight 1601 from
Windies, which is run by membership donations, has two other projects for KKU.
agreed to look at plans to convert a generator in its fertilizer plant to wind power.
Ward also said that the city council of Garden City had approached Windstorms about building a demonstration wind turbine to provide the city's electrical power.
THE GARDEN CITY project is awaiting approval from the federal government, which may pay for the municipal improvement project, Ward said.
In Dodge City, Farmland Industries has
The reviewer's notes are a help, if they are kept and used; that is what in the slow turning of life is served by history and one-space speech. But even in such cases, encountering an artist is often it is illustrative. A few days ago I heard a singer announce her next selection as one of the new hits, attributing its status to a very famous songstress. She is, I suppose, too young as well as too careless in simple words. "Melancholy Baby" was a hit in 1925.
The reviewer of a play and the observer of life ought but seldom seem to do is to make people feel so uncomfortable too long and individual lives are too brief to make motor cars, electronics, the latest social cause or even Women's Labible relaxes of progress—or for that matter, of decay.
about whether "the good old days" ever really existed or were that much better. If they were, then I'd go to bathrooms, high-speed presses and free color printing with Indian runners and smoke signals, or Dobbin and a chase with the Pickens, if it could radicals, the conclusion is predictable.
ON THE OTHER HAND, if you remember rural quiet, very low incidence of crime, or a less freeticty and more leisurely life, you can fraternize and law scorning may be too predominate to allow less than a wistful and humble sense of age even memory of tenthoughts.
AS LONG AGO as the 16th century-a rather significant length of perspective,
please note—the historian Giorgio Vasari observed, "Once human affairs begin to deteriorate, no improvement is possible until the nadir has been reached."
The question for us to settle, it seems to me, is the truth or falsity of present deterioration in human affairs. Then we can determine whether the lowest point has been reached—or whether we may expect worse before it gets better.
BUT THERE ARE VALUES, there are fulcrums and there are indices of Vasari's "human affairs" which may have been lost, compromised and distorted. They have become electronic communication or the ballyhoo communication or the ballyhoo southavers and false prophets.
This is true in all aspects of life. If you are immature enough or susceptible enough to vauntings to think that Edward Abell, Neil Simon or Alan Ayckbour are impure Shakespeare, playwriting over Shakespeare, Shaw or a declaration this moment very heaven. If you dismiss the degradations of the drug traffic, the corruption of high office or the profitable ruin of the land as no more than phases of human error which money, and banner-waving clichés willgon reverse, then we aren't in much trouble at all.
They are well displayed in modern music, modern art and modern theater but so often the reviewer's notes are lost and we consult the most superficial evidence: the evidence of taste, creature comforts, lavender remembrance and analysts with a personal gain at stake.
Gas rate may reach $ 75^{\mathrm{c}} $ a gallon by fall
The last one at the nadir is a chump.
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK--Motors们 who recently saw gasoline prices pushed up three or four cents can expect to see them go even higher before the summer ends. Some estimates indicate the price of gasoline could reach 75 cents a gallon by fall.
By JOSH FITZHUGH AP Business Writer
Experts say price jumps of a penny or two are likely to dribble out during the summer, but there could be a major increase some time after September.
Nobody knows what the next move in oil pricing will be or how big the increases will be. The price paid by the motorist will be influenced by decisions in Washington, oil company headquarters, gas station offices and oil exporting countries.
There is the possibility that Americans will be paying 15 cents a gallon more if price controls are lifted at all once, one Senate committee says. In addition, oil companies and retail outlets could raise at any time the price by a combined total of $3 \frac{1}{2} cents by passing federal allowance increases. If regular gasoline would be 77.5 cents a gallon. The average current price is 59 cents a gallon.
President Ford has urged Congress to end domestic oil price controls over a 30-month period, a change which he could say could have cost of gasoline another seven cents a gallon.
Herbert Hugo, senior editor of Platts Oligram's Price Service, said gasoline prices should remain relatively stable throughout August. However, he also said that gasoline prices should increase to 70 or 75 cents a gallon by the end of the year.
Currently 60 per cent of domestic production, which is old oil, is controlled at $2.5 a barrel. The rest of U.S. production, new oil, represents oil production since 1972. New oil is freed from controls and has been sold for prices close to those charged by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)—just under $11 a barrel.
A summary of the situation follows:
"The Senate yesterday passed and sent to the Senate bill to extend current price controls beyond Bill to include price controls beyond Bill."
piration date. The Senate Interior Committee said an immediate end to federal price controls on old oil could raise fuel prices 15 cents a gallon.
OPEC is also likely to increase its prices in September, which would influence the prices of domestic crude oil as well. The States imports about 37 per cent of its oil.
-Economists also say that the oil industry has about $800 million in costs incurred but not yet passed along as permitted by federal regulations. This could increase prices another 1½ cents a gallon. Gas station owners are estimated to have an additional two cents of allowable increases they have not yet used.
County seeks plan consultant
Five consultants interested in developing Douglas County's comprehensive plan for unincorporated areas will be interviewed during the next two weeks.
Dick McClanathan, city-cityty planning director, said the field was narrowed from 15 applicants based on distance from Lawrence, experience and work portfolios.
McClanahan said that he wasn't at liberty to release the names of the candidates but said that two were from Kansas, two from Missouri and one from Nebraska.
The funds are to be administered through the planning and community development division of the state Department of Economic Development.
They will be interviewed by the executive committee of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission. The group probably will have a recommendation ready for the commission during August or July or the first week of August, he said.
Local officials have been notified that they will have federal assistance in preparing the plan. A federal grant totaling 1000 has been approved for this fiscal year.
Douglas county will have to pay $250. It may take 9 years to complete the plan for the project.
A raft of fun
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Finding the Smith pool too crowded, Tim Harris, Scott Butler and James Smith brought the inflatable raft to Potter Lake
yesterday. The leisurely outing soon degenerated into a splashing contest with Butler (center) absorbing most of the punishment.