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Monday, April 25, 1977
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Ford rushes gripes
Mild-mannered Jerry Ford has turned cantankerous, and it's not very becoming.
Now that he can view the world from the greens of a Palm Springs golf course or the lectern of a University of Michigan classroom, Ford has become a critic of the Carter administration. Special counsel Rudolph Giuliani talks with the Soviet Union and that the new President is about to toss more fuel on the country's smoother inflation.
This isn't vintage Jerry Ford. His remarks about Carter, which come just three months after the transition of administrations, lack the touch of decency and taste that marked Ford's days in office. Worse, the criticism smacks of political hay-making.
FORD SHOULDN'T be so hasty in forging that he handed Jimmy Carter a wobly Vladivostok agreement on which to try to build a long-lasting arms pact. He also shouldn't forget that it was Jerry Ford who lost the Presidential election largely because the nation's unemployment level crept steadily upward in the last months of the campaign while his administration cried inflation and covered from any action.
The bald facts aside, it's unbecoming for an ex-president to second-guess his successor before his change-of-address has even cleared the Post Office.
Saying that Jimmy Carter miscalculated and was over-optimistic about an arms agreement can only undermine the American position. If Carter is to form an alliance, he must be careful, he can't be worried about the shadow of his predecessor creeping up from behind.
JERRY FORD, who was haunted by the memory of his predecessor for months, should know about the horrors of trying to make decisions while ghosts of days past burdened him. But Jerry FORD's memories are short in politics, and logic changes with a change in climate.
It's not unusual to hear Jerry Ford complain about a Democratic president's inflationary policies. He did it all the time while he was in Congress.
But Jerry Ford isn't in Congress now. He
is or he is supposed to be—a distinguished American statesman. That's the picture he and his public relations men would like to paint, but off-the-cuff criticism of Carter won't make the picture much more attractive.
ONE MUST wonder what Jerry Ford has to say about the new President's energy proposals. Probably not much, because all Ford could say about any energy plan would be "Gee, I wish I'd thought of that." Which doesn't look very good in print.
Harry Truman was a critic of Republican presidents after he left office. But Truman gave Dwight Eisenhower time to familiarize himself with the Oval Office before popping into Washington, Harry Truman wasn't being taut as a potential presidential candidate.
The same can be said for Lyndon Johnson, who showed remarkable self-restraint considering that Richard Nixon, who followed him in office, campaigned on the grounds that the party that was unable to stop the Vietnam War in four years shouldn't be prosecuted. The United States remembered, proceeded to keep the United States in Vietnam for four more years.
EX-PRESIDENTS can a lot of shoes in both politics and society. Herbert Hoover, who was active for years after he left office, described weather he heedened, is a prince example.
But one role an ex-president shouldn't be filling is that of second-guesser of new administrations. He won't do the country any good, and if he merely is plotting to improve his political function, he should be a bit embarrassed.
JERRY FORD might be around in 1980, but he isn't doing anyone any good by hitting the campaign trail in 1977. Even if political considerations aren't prompting his remarks, the ex-president deserves to be chastised for poor judgment.
Ford's criticism can be called sour grapes, or they can be called pure politics. Either way, they are uncharacteristic of a man who has no touch of class to the office he just left.
Editorial editor's note: It was bound to happen. Sooner or later, the editor was destined to run out of notes related to the event last week ("Editor's Note" departs from the norm; the subject matter has nothing whiscreew to do with the operation of the event), however, deal with something that is just as close to his heart.
McDonald's stands the corpse of a burger joint with a "For Sale" sign as its tombstone. It looks rather like the small, greasy operations one still finds in many U.S. restaurants concrete block walls and a grey gravel parking lot. It is used to be—Moore Burger. It is or-
Burger joint only bad good food
Up on Sixth Street, they are building a new McDonald's. Soon the color-coordinated bricks and plastic tables will be in place and Lawrence will be able to contribute more Big Macs to the billions already made as efficient and popular as all the other members of the chain. It will make money.
Moore Burger represented the early 1950s, when a burger was a burger and there were still such things as diners and dog wagons. When you ordered a hamburger, the person behind you had to walk away from the raw meat out of a little refrigerator and cooked it. He
A block or so east of the new
when the June bees flew in swarms around the light bulbs by the order window or on a hot day, when women in chartreuse shorts and plastic sunglasses stopped by in their Chevys to buy fried mushrooms for their brood.
Editor's Note
Jim Rates
used to be—a DeSoto to Mc-Donald's Granada.
POOR MOORE Burger. The only thing it had going for it was good food. It had no class, not even the fake computerized menu. It was the way operations. All it was was a genuine piece of America.
EATING AT Moore Burger was a journey back in time, especially on a summer night.
The food, too, was a journey back into time. The innocent and naive quality that was manifested in the quote marks on the sign is much better than what was manifested in good food. Maybe it is just wishful thinking, but it doesn't seem that you can make a hamburger taste right if you're churning matter how much you talk about juiciness or special orders.
anachronism. In the end, time caught up with it and it died.
MOORE BURGER was an
New hamburger joints (or, as they are now known, fast food franchise) die all the time in Lawrence. Texas Tom's died in record time and Griff's died a long, lingering death.
But it is hard to feel the same sense of loss for these other deceased businesses. They, too, are part of America's culture. But Texas Tom's was a part of the super-fast-packaged-ultra-whamburg culture and Griff' was part of the mid-60s, early movement. Not only that, the food was nearly as good.
Yes, it is hard to feel a sense of loss about Texas Tom's. In fact, there is almost a sense of fear thaturger, however, will be missed.
Store's name causes headaches
What's in a name?
That's probably what Kim Kern and Jane Glotzbach are wondering.
Kern and Glotzbach are the owners of the Drug Store, 706 Massachusetts St. Their business is in which Douglas County Atty. Mike Malone says the name "Drug Store" violates a state statute that forbids the use of the name "drugsorute", or "pharmacy" in a title unless the full-time registered pharmacist.
WHAT'S SO bewildering about this case is that the Drug Store doesn't even sell drug products. Many items of merchandise are
Malone has notified Kern and Glotzbach of the alleged violation and they have countered his move by filing a petition in Douglas County District Court for a restraining order and injunction against the state and the Kansas Board of Education. In the law, Violators of the law can be fixed $25-$50 for the first offense and $50-$100 for each subsequent offense.
money from their non-narcotic items as well as from their prescription items. When a soda fountain calls itself a drugstore and doesn't even sell prescription drugs, it's messing
candles, incense, cigarette papers, papers and other types of pipes. The business is what many would call a head shop. It's clear that the statute Malone is trying to enforce
wasn't intended for businesses such as the Drug Store.
Jay Bemis
Editorial Writer
The law that Malone is referring to—Kansas Statute 6536—waspassed in 1925. This law gives head shots we are any head shots in Kansas.
ALTHOUGH ITS practically impossible to find the reason for a lawsuit, it has become the law was passed to protect registered pharmacists from soda fountains that sold aspirins and other medications. Registered pharmacists have to make
Also forbidden under the 1925 law is the use of "apothecary" in a title. An apothecary is the person who makes an apothecary or a drugrust.
with one of the registered pharmacist's forms of profit.
is its forms of pront.
Because the Drug Store is a head shop and not even close to be a soda fountain, it's hard to see why local pharmacists like Malone about the Drug Store. The name shouldn't hurt their businesses because the Drug Store doesn't sell anything like aspirin or Nyquil.
be confusing to those who might think that it's a real drugstore.
There probably have been many people going there to fill prescriptions only to find that they were not prescribed. The Drug Store has tried to avoid confusing such people by saying in its advertising that it does "not employ a registered pharmacist or sell prescription drugs."
In their legal battle, Kern and Glotzbach could get technical by saying that the spelling of their name, "Drug Store", is different from the "drugstore" stature in the statute.
Instead, the case probably will end in favor of the pharmacies in town that are opposing the Drug Store's name, and the business will have to change its title.
BUT SURELY that wouldn't work.
hurt the Drug Store's business since its customers aren't the "controlled substances" that "real drug stores contain."
In fact, changing its name might be best for the business because the name can be misleading to its usual customers. Even though the prospective customer should know better, the name Drug Store implies that the business sells recreational drugs, while the drug store makes the use of recreational drugs more recreational for its customers.
Changing its name shouldn't
BETTER NAMES could be suggested—names like "Paraphenalia Memorabilia" or "Weed Needs."
These suggestions might sound sickening to some.
But there's little possibility that there are any Kansas statutes for bidding these titles.
Carter is pussyfooting with new energy policy
Carter plans to enact legislation that would tax gas-
to enact legislation that would curb the ever sprawling suburban areas?
Carter forgets that, although gasoline and cars have become increasingly expensive, cities continue to sprawl even farther from their nuclei. Suburbia spreads, lawn after lawn, freeway after freeway, and suburb dwellers has no choice
Most of Carter's proposals are directed at the common consumer and are related to their use in observation v-a-i-s vehicles.
President Jimmy Carter's national energy policy, though well intended, will hit the wrong people below the belt.
Although the American gasoline appetite is atrocious and gas prices are ridiculously low compared with those in other countries, Carter should keep in mind the American family's need for gas.
Where are Carter's offers of large metropolitan areas, so massive public transportation systems can be implemented?
Diane Wolkow
Editorial Writer
guzzling automobiles while providing "taxi credits" to those persons buying low gas-consumption cars. He also proposes to impose gas-pump charges of five cents a gallon each year.
ANY DRASTIC impositions on the consumer's ability to buy equipment equally drastic proposals to alter liquid transportation in urban areas.
Where are Carter's proposals
but to use a car if he wishes to remain a participating member of society.
CARTER COULD also use his imagination in other areas to reduce carbon consumption from person's gasoline consumption. He should try to enact laws limiting the manufacture of the gas-eating area.
A few years back, during the 1973 oil crisis, rumor had it that a miraculous car, one that would be able to travel an amount of gasoline, had been designed. Where is that car now? If its existence was only a rumor, perhaps Carter should have been involved in the development of such a car
and car owners in America. Perhaps Carter's plan is only a preliminary for what is yet to come. Still, it would have been encouraging to the common, nonobligation citizen to learn that carbon dioxide to limit energy waste would extend to the all-powerful industries.
President Carter, by necessity, has opened a Pandora's box by trying to curb ordinary gasoline consumption. Now he needs to find a few clues to the problems that will result.
U.S. culture kev to world harmony?
It happens so often—the United States supplying military aid to foreign countries—that small details such as who got what, when, and how often get lost in the shuffle.
This month, Zaire, under attack by Angola-based Katatenga rebels, is being sent a C-130 transport, radio quaintness and aircraft parts, a package containing $13 million, and all labeled "nonlethal" by the Carter administration.
This month it's some god-forsaken country; next month it will be someplace else. It's the student of geography bananas.
Idi Amin has offered some military help.
Other biggies are supplying aid as well to one side or the other. Israel, China, Egypt, Cuba and the Soviet Union. Even Big Daddy
SO WHAT else is new?
An estimated $60,000 worth of Coca-Cola.
SO WHAT else is new?
CARTER ENTERED office with the reputation for being a liberal. His efforts to develop a law that would prohibit him as much in the eyes of many.
soldier to fight on a Coke-ease stomach," one State Department official has said. (Nobody said the lokes were funny.)
The deal is a private one between Coca-Cola and Zaire and involved no taxpayers'
Anyway, when the C-130 takes off for Zaire, most of its cargo will be Coca-Cola.
New energy proposals crop up frequently. For example, in February, Lockheed-California received a grant to technology to start commercial production of wind-powered electrical generating units. All in all, the federal loan guarantees for the project, and as few as 95 orders.
Yet Carter could go much further in every area. The federal government should be pouring money into energy exploration in much the same way it has financed space research.
WHAT IS lost in this little sale
dollars, President Mobutu Sesek of Zaire just feels his troops need a little liquid refreshment, and the reports there indicate the quality of the drinking water isn't to good.
Bill Sniffen
Editorial Writer
The sale has become something of a joke, as is to be expected. "You can't expect a
is the possibility to insure permanent world peace. Instead of shipping only Coca-Cola, why doesn't the private sector get on the stick and ship everything whole American lifestyle?
SIMILAR PROPOSALS have been announced by scientists and corporations nutrition-wise that a starlike planet that uranium will become scarce in a few years, plans only to support nuclear energy
The possibilities are endless. What soldier in his right mind
would fight if he knew he could snarf off a Tony's frozen pizza or a Swanson's pot pie? Who could resist a "Big Mac" who couldn't? What heated battle? What insensitive friend could snub the opportunity to receive a free road atas, perhaps pinpointing a land mine location, just for listening to aancer agent for an hour or two?
The sight of loyalists and rebels together, glued to the tube, eating Pringles and chips, is enough to start the world's
Americans have a reputation of being generous, warm-hearted people. So why not,
PICTURE GOOD old Kate belting out "God Bless America," above trees and eagles, not to mention the undetermined number of pygmies who are at the tannage against the Kananganes forces.
If the troops haven't had enough by then, the United States could drop the big one—a seven-strong heavyweight—John Denver, the captain and Tentile, Minnie Pearl, John Davidson, George Burns and, saving the best for America's own Kate Smith.
THAT'S JUST for starters.
Once Burger Kings started
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the heavy artillery—reruns of "I
Love Lucy," live broadcasts of
"The Young and the Restless"
or "A Million Dollars."
peace-monger mouths watering. World salivation could be NCS's next "Big Event."
during this season's spring cleaning, dig out those old copies of Better Homes and Gardens, U.S. News and World Report and Seventeen to the boys on the front?
But then, perhaps the Coca-Cola people know more than they're saying.
The method—sending America to Zaire and various other trouble-spots in the world—is surefire.
THESE ostensibly innocuous items could be the most lethal of all. They include mass-circulation magazines, soap operas and Big Events, soldiers on both sides would either be too anemic or nondurable.
It is, after all, The Real Thing.
While most of the proposals included in Carter's plan are worthwhile, they are only a drop in the bucket.
It seems that Carter, while trying to maintain his image as a stamina liberal and energy visionary, is taking the easy road. The sacrifices must be made, but most of the sacrifices are passed on only to the individual consumer. He announces programs of energy exploration, but plans to pour only into socially accepted areas of energy sources.
AMONG CARTER'S other plans is a massive program of insulation installment. Better insulation is needed in most housing, but somewhere along the way contractors are going to foot the bill that corporate contractors should have picked up long ago.
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