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'Profits Motivate Soviets'-Shaffer
Personal material gain is the primary motivation for Soviet workers and managers according to Harry Shaffer, assistant professor of economics.
Prof. Shaffer spoke on "A New Incentive Plan for the Red Executive" at the Current Events Forum Friday.
SHAFFER SAID the principle "from each according to his ability, to each according to his work" is being applied now in the Soviet Union because government officials realize the man who would contribute unselfishly to the limits of his ability without regard to personal material rewards is not yet realized.
He took his speech from an article he has written to be published in the May-June issue of "Problems of Communism."
"The present economic system fails to make the personal interests of managers and workers coincide with those of the public," he said.
This plan provides monitory bonuses to managers on the basis of volume output alone, he explained.
Shaffer said the quality or volume of goods was of no consequence to the producers.
"THE MAJOR shortcomings of the present system may be subdivided into four main categories," Shaffer said.
- An inducement to hide productive capacity in order to be assigned an easily fulfilled or over-fulfilled output target.
- An induction to hoard capital goods, such as machinery, raw
U.S. Aid Program To Foreign Lands Discussed by Peck
The Rev. Harold Peck discussed the United States foreign aid programs at the Arab-American Club's annual dinner Saturday.
The Rev, Mr. Peck, of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, Sylvia, Kan., replaced the Rev, Dale Ferris, field representative of the Church World Service for the western half of the United States, who was unable to speak because of illness.
The Rev. Mr. Peck told the group that those countries receiving American aid think the United States gives to get rid of surpluses and to secure prestige.
Turning to recent Arab revolutions, the Rev. Mr. Peck said Americans are interested in these movements for three reasons. He said Americans are interested in free, independent nations, Arab unity, and anti-Communist movements.
The Arab students entertained about 450 guests at the dinner with traditional Arab food and popular music.
Main dishes at the dinner were shish kabab, dolma, baklaw, mohallabia and baba ghanoonj.
Other entertainment at the dinner included the performance of an Arab dance by June Royston, assistant instructor of English. A documentary film on Jordan was also presented.
Graduate Student To Show Etchings
An exhibition of etchings and drawings by Thomas Coleman, instructor of drawing and painting, is currently on display in the Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
Coleman received his B.A. in Drawing and Painting from KU in 1956. He currently is working on his M.S. in drawing and painting. He has been teaching at KU for two years.
Coleman presently is exhibiting prints in the Northwest Printmakers International Exhibition, Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Ore., and in the National Print Exhibitional Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The prints and drawings in the Kansas Union exhibition are for sale
materials, and equipment, is involved because quantitative output is the major base for bonuses he said.
- An inducement not to innovate. New inventions or modern equipment and production processes take time and the output target may temporarily be unfulfilled, cutting deeply into bonuses.
- An inducement to produce the "wrong" goods.
The "right" goods, according to shaffer, are those of the type, design and quality prescribed by the central planning agency.
The ambiguity involved in such a large operation makes it possible for managers to produce those goods most easily manufactured with no regard for quality or variety.
Volume would be judged by a profit plan submitted by the manager himself and bonuses would be paid for success in meeting this plan.
"THREE TARGETS would be set up for judgment on bonuses," Shaffer said.
The assortment of goods and meeting of delivery schedules would be introduced as criteria for judgment, he said.
"These innovations would encourage a better quality of goods because the amount purchased instead of the amount produced would determine bonuses," he said.
Shaffer said experiments are being carried on with this plan and it has been openly discussed in the Soviet.
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Correction: Berger To Speak Wednesday
It was incorrectly reported in Friday's Kansan that Prof. Berger would speak Friday afternoon.
U.S. Troop Movement Insures Open Routes
BERLIN — (UP1) — The U.S. Army today began moving 3,000 troops in 600 trucks and jeeps to and from this surrounded city over the 110-mile highway through Communist-hold East Germany.
Today's movement on the Helmstedt-Berlin highway began the exchange of a 1,500-man army battle group based in West Germany for one based in West Berlin.
The movement was a new demonstration of the Western Allied right of access to West Berlin. It indicated American determination to keep the routes open.
The exchange is expected to last a week.
Such large-scale movements to and from Berlin began soon after the Communist wall was built on Aug. 13, 1961.
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WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Adm. George Anderson, chief of U.S. Navy operations, believes the Russians have not built any submarine bases in Cuba.
But, he said some of its ports have been used for refueling and overhaul.
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On another topic, he said that recent Russian overflights of U.S. aircraft carriers reflected Kremlin concern about the threat to their security of these ships.
During the Cuban crisis, Anderson said no Soviet missile-firing subs were sighted in the area. Those that were seen, he said in a television interview (Meet the Press — NBC), could have been "killed" if necessary. He added that, so far, no Soviet type missile-firing subs have been detected in the seas around Cuba.
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