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Sunday, July T, 193
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Affluent Society And Alcoho
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Somewhat like mental illness, alcoholism
was for long decades a problem consigned to
the shadows.
The victims turned up in "drunk tanks"
at the jails, in grim hospital wards, in "save
a soul" missions in skid rows everywhere. It
was a problem to hide, to keep secret, to attach
heavy stigma to in "polite" society.
While this view of alcoholism lingers in
some places, since World War II far more
thoughtful attention and study is being given
the problem by a host of interested parties.
Alcoholics today are generally regarded
as sick people, needing medical, psychiatric
and social help. Doctors, academicians and
various kinds of social specialists are mount
ing an attack.
Comparative figures do not exist which
would permit one to say whether alcoholism
has Increased proportionately in recent times.
Certainly the awareness of it and the fuller
reporting have risen.
So we can make a fairly accurate guess
that there are more than five million alcohol
ics in the United States today most of them
not on skid row but in some aspect or other
of respectable society.
The National Council on Alcoholism esti
mates that some $430 million a year Is lost
in wages by alcoholics through .absenteeism
resulting from excessive drinking. Many high
ly valued persons who have climbed high on
the business ladder are lost at a time when
they could be most useful.
Plenty
We've been all through it again and
again. The teen-agers are bored. They have no
challenges, no useful conflicts. They get into
trouble because, whatever else it is, trouble
is excitement.
New studies are underscoring anew that
this empty, aimless habit of life is as much a
fact among well-off youngsters with cars and
money as it is with poor lads roaming the
'- streets In the slums.
There has been enough fuss about the ed
ucationally underprivileged, the school drop
out, the product of the broken city home, to
focus attention on this phase of the matter.
Action, of course, is still meager.
But the problem at higher economic lev
els seems to be dismissed as so much fantasy.
The overprivileged youngsters in suburban
families resort to vandalism, thievery, drink
' and a variety of other passing excitements
while parents pile on the kindly favors.
Little that is wholesome, innocent fun
has any appeal these days for the more ener
getic, aggressive young ones. Sports, dancing,
you name it these things are regarded as
"tame."
In a New York Times survey of suburban
youth, one boy said:
"Yes, some kids drink. Maybe they do it
to forget about things."
At 16, what is that they have to forget?
The memory of the emptiness of yesterday?
The time of growing up used to be
thought of as filled with its own natural ex
citements developing one's bodily skills,
Proposed Test Ban Harmful
Congressman Craig Ilosmer
(California) recently released a
statement which describes pro
posals offered by Soviet negotia
tors as "blueprints for a U.S. sui
cide weapon or a Soviet murder
weapon, depending on which side
of the Iron Curtain they are
viewed from."
Warning of a potential "nuclear
Pearl Harbor," he declared the
treaty's on-site inspection provi
sions arc "meaningless because
machinery to sjxit test cheating is
so inadequate suspicion of moni
tors will never be moused and
no on-site inspectors ever will be
dispatched."
Ilosmer, ranking House mino
rity member of the Joint Com
mittee on Atomic Energy and
Chairman of the House GOP Com
m 1 1 1 c e on Nuclear Testing,
charged Disarmament Agency
and State Department advisers
"have censored data and with
held from President Kennedy sci
entific evidence proving a 'big
hole' for Soviet test cheating in
revised administration test ban
offers soon to be made to the So
viets." This evidence definitely exists
and is ignored completely by
these officials who also arc try
ing to keep it from the public,
Ilosmer claims.
He described what lie calls a
wcll-orgnnined campaign of dis
tortion and half-truths aimed at
brainwashing the American public
into meek submission to a disas
trous agreement - for-agreo-ment's
sake cave-in soon to be
made to Soviet negotiators at Ge
neva In the form of drastically
scaled down treaty demands.
The causes of alcoholism are many,
varied and complex. The sources of trouble of
ten lie deep in the human personality, or in
.subtle physical differences.
But such experts as Dr. Scldon Bacon,
director of the Center of Alcohol Studies at
Itutgers University, lay particular emphasis
on the argument that the affluent society in
America today offers heavy encouragement to
potential alcoholics.
Not only is (here more money for what is
an expensive habit, but, says Bacon, the
"drinking custom" is steadily being built into
more and more parts of our daily life.
The cocktail party, the great general prev
alence of partying, the long business lunch
with liquid trimmings, these and many more
things contribute to a significantly "permis
sive" atmosphere.
Such rituals will not capture the person
who is physically not susceptible and has his
problems under control. They can get the po
tential alcoholic started on his perilous road
and later give him cover for a habit that has
gone beyond mere "social drinking."
The specialists now suggest that unless a
victim's friends and family realize this facet
of the difficulty, "cures" given at the medical
and psychiatric level may all too often fall
short of permanence. Vital help can come if
those in the victim's circle will relieve him
of the social pressure to conform, which so
many feel today.
Of Challenges
exploring the world of animals and trees,
opening the book of knowledge wide for the
first time.
Fortunately, millions of American young
sters still find these wonders along the ado
lescent trail. But too many do not. They are
proud of being more mature than their coun
terparts of a generation ago. But they have
lost their innocence while finding nothing to
replace it.
There is nothing new in saying what is
part of the'painful truth that overindulgent
parents must bear heavy blame for this.
But the youngsters themselves cannot
be absolved. If they are mature enough to be
half-adults, half - children, they are mature
enough to understand they need something
better to lie into than tomorrow's "kicks."
We hear a lot these days about the "hid
den America," the 30 to 40 million people
spread about in city slums, hill country, dying
farms, who live in distress, disease, oppres
sion and ignorance.
You don't need to join the Peace Corps
to find these folk. They're a half-hour drive
from any suburb.
Maybe some of the overprivileged, who
can't find anything that appeals to them for
more than a few hours at a stretch, ought to
go and lake a look. There are some chal
lenges there that will be around a good while,
worthy of the attention of even the most ma
ture hall'-adult who ever spun his wheels in
suburban idleness.
It is carried on hy statements
and letters to the editors of key
newspapers over names of well
known personalities who want an
effective test ban treaty, but
who have not been informed of
tho facts proving administration
proposals will result only In an
ineffective treaty one which
stops all U.S. weapons progress
while simply trusting an unpoliced
Soviet promise not to continue
theirs secretly and attain the nu
clear weapons siqieriority needed
In back up a "surrender-or-dio"
ultimatum.
Ilosmer stated facts establishing
the "big hole" for Soviet cheating
were placed on public record by
Atomic Energy Commission and
Defense Department expert wit
nesses during "little noted" hear
ings of tile Joint Atomic Energy
Committee, March 5-12.
"Itather than face them, admit
errors in judgment and mistakes
in evaluation. Presidential advis
ers on the test ban question stub
bornly have refused to budge
from dangerous positions which
undermine the very foundation of
national delense against Commu
nism's drive to achieve world
domination and bury the l olled
States as part of the process."
"It nu:.t never be forgotten that
these eoplc arc part of the same
crew which so badly misjudged
the Boy of Pigs situation that
disaster followed. In tlie present
instance the magnitude of disaster
which could follow only a lew
years of clandestine, one-sided So
viet nuclear progress Is infinitely
greater," Ilosmer said.
He said only demands by ah
aware, aroused American public
can reverse the proposed "sure
lose" ban strategy of gradual
nuclear self-mutilation. "T h a t
strategy, in the end, will bring
a terrifying rain of H-bombs on
America if we choose not to sur
render. Only if we demand and
get nn effective test ban treaty
one which stops nuclear prog
ress equally on both sides of the
Iron Curtain might the risks our
country (aces in the nuclear
world be somewhat i educed."
Al
manac
Hy lulled Press lnlrrmilional
Tmlay is Sunday, July 7. the
1811th day of with 177 to
follow.
The moon is appiuaching the
last quarter.
The morning stars are Venus.
Jupiter and Saturn.
Tho evening star is Mars.
On this day in history;
In IK-tti, the Mexican garrison
at Monlerev surrendered to the
V S. Navy.'
In into, our persons named as
accomplices in the assassination
ol President Lincoln were hanged.
Ill Ilftt, President McKinley au
thorized the annexation of Ha
waii. In 1I1. riots swept the Congo
end natives murdered white per
sons on sight.
A thought for tlie day Ameri
can novelist, Washington Irving,
said: "A woman's whole hie is
a history of the affections."
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McNamara's Conscience Man
Pentagon
By COL. RAY CKOMI.EY
Newspaper Enterprise
Military Analyst
WASHINGTON (NEAl-In the
long corridors of the Pentagon,
big gruff Dr. Robert Steadman
is unknown as "McNamara's con
science." Steadman likes the job
and the title.
When Defense Secretary McNa
mara makes a decision to close a
military base or awards a large
contract to Whatzis Company in
stead of Whoozis Company, men
and women frequently lose their
jobs and communities can lose
much of their income. When the
base or industry is important
enough, a McNamara decision
may threaten rugged times for a
community. Currently, the loss of
defense business threatens belt
tightening in towns through the
U.S.
This is where Bob Steadman, the
conscience, comes in. His job is
to move in unobtrusively, at the
invitation of civic leaders, and
give them tips on how they them
selves can solve their employment
and loss-on-income problems.
Like many a conscience, Stead
man has no money to offer and no
authority. He has only his person
ality to work with.
When there's a crisis, Steadman
sort of sidles into a town, unbut
tons his shirt collar, makes a wry
face or two and tells the towns
people. "Well, we're in the soup
and we've got a problem. We cre
ated the problem, but you're the
ones who are going to have to
solve it, not us. So what do you
want to do? Can I help you with
any ideas?"
Steadman's job. as he sees it, is
to get people thinking.
"If 1 can do that," says Stead
man making a grimace, "that's
halt the battle." What Steadman
can do is to put the local people in
LETTERS "
TO THE
EDITOR
Warning
To the ones that can't read:
I noticed in Sunday's fi-30-S.I
Herald and News an ad thai was
put in the paper hy the Enter
prise Irrigation District quote:
"We are mossing with poison
chemicals. It is advisable to
keep livestock Irnm drinking the
irrigation water."
How about children that cnuM
not read this ad'.' Only recently
several deaths have " happened
bom this typo of tiling.
Our officials give lust concern
about livestock. What about hu
man health? The milk we
is from the cattle that
this water or eat the r..,.
drink
drink
How about the fish in Lost Rjv.
'ha! ean't read newspapers.
I he dm- and all other defenseless
erentures that aren't aare of the
ison squad hemg actively
at
" K' to contaminate
land and mine.
vour
,, Aml' R. Cosier.
- South Sixth street.
Thanks
I would like to h.. , ,ink
, note published i 0,e
"wnnanot tb. ennnuttee.
Mitigates
touch with all the government
agencies that can help. "But they
really can't help much," said a
Steadman aide. "The townspeople
are the ones who finally have to
do what's to be done to get the
town out of the doldrums we
cause."
"1 used to take a gang into a
.town," says Steadman, "and
they'd all make speeches and ev
eryone would be bored and noth
ing would happen."
Then Steadman got the idea of
just sitting around and talking
sometimes almost all night in
sliirtsleeved bull sessions. He just
starts people off to talking and
things go on from there.
"The first feeling people have,"
said Steadman, "is helplessness.
Things seem black. Apparently
there's nothing that can be done.
After that period of gloom ends,
people start thinking. They start
coming up with ideas. Once that
happens the battle is half over."
Of course, when a military base
is being closed, Steadman and the
Defense Department do have
something tangible to offer.
Take three different types of De
fense Department - created prob
lems: Case one: An obsolete !IOO-acre
Air Force base was to be closed
quickly on the outskirts of a
community of 13.000. The base
payroll was $3.5 million, including
270 civilian jobs. Local procure
ment totaled $2 million a year.
Steadman's federal task force
met w ith community leaders. With
Steadman went representatives of
the Air Force, Small Business Ad
ministration, Civil Service Com
mission, Federal Aviation Agency,
General Services Administration,
and the Departments of Labor,
Commerce and Health, Education
and Welfare.
Hero is what happened:
The GSA assigned 80 acres and
there's nothing that can be done.
Air Force donated $108,000 worth
of machine tools and equipment
lo a new state vocational school
organized to take advantage of
the site.
Another 25 acres of the land was
transferred for a new junior high
school.
The city obtained title to the air
strip, including hangars and util
ities. Steadman cooperated when the
community eslablislied an indus-
BE
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"If bl u frt hert uitb facklt, and didn't i hit ui
THAT uould bt another tbint'."
am
Disasters
trial council with a full-time direc
tor to seek out new industry.
Now the community has a new
plywood manufacturing concern,
which is reactivating a dormant
forestry industry, a new furniture
factory and a new paper branch
plant. An airline is expanding its
terminal facilities. The new junior
high school is under construction.
The vocational school is in opera
tion. Case two: A 3,200-acrc arsenal
employing 2,600 people with a pay
roll of $15 million was ordered
closed.
The phase-out of this installa
tion covered a three-year period
with slow reductions in personnel.
Every employe was offered a new
position with all moving expenses
paid. Those desiring not to move
are being offered jobs in other
services and government agen
cies, where possible.
A nonprofit organization, formed
to develop ways for taking up the
slack, set up an industrial and res
idential development council.
Steadman asked the government
to make available some acreage
from the buffer zone which sur
rounded the arsenal so that em
ployers might be induced to locate
there in advance of the closing.
Within 48 hours, the Defense De
portment announced the buffer
zone strip would be released for
development.
Case three: A city had been
heavily engaged in bomber pro
duction. Defense cutbacks in or
ders necessitated laying off a
fourth of the work force. Further
cutbacks were in prospect as a
result of defense shifts for air
craft to missiles and the resultant
shift in orders to plants in other
cities.
Preliminary planning has begun
on the possibility of expanding
meat packing, grain handling, pe
trochemical processing and ,the
manufacture of light executive air
craft, electronics equipment and
boats and other recreation items.
As Steadman emphasized, the
communities have got to solve
problems themselves, even though
the Department of Defense
created them.
Steadman sees himself as a
mixer. He's willing to sit up all
night in a back room with his
slioes off listening and encourag
ing if that does any good. He
thinks it does.
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ri- vaw
I've often pondered tie trend of
modern girls to put up their hair
so it looks like a mop. Just the
other day, the answer occurred.
It's because most girls don't
know what a mop looks like.
Responding to a request herein
for material, an unidentified read
er says: "Recently you called on
the readers for ideas for your
column, and I'm enclosing a
poem, rather long, but timely for
this day and age, don't you
think?"
I do think, and here's the mes
sage: THE TOUCH OF
THE MASTER'S HAND
'Twas battered and scarred, and
the auctioneer
Thought it scarcely worth his
while
To waste much time on the old
violin
But held it up with a smile.
What am I bid on, good folks?"
he cried,
"Who'll start the bidding for
me?
A dollar, a dollar, then two!
Only two?
Two dollars, and who'll make it
three?
Three dollars, once, three dollars
twice;
Going for three . . ." But no,
From the room, far back, a grey
haired man
Came forward, and picked the
bow.
Then, wiping the dust from the
old violin
And tightening tlie loose strings
He played a melody pure and
sweet
As a caroling angel sings.
The music ceased, and the auc
tioneer With a voice that was quiet and
low
Said, "What am I bid for die
old violin?"
And he held it with the bow.
"A thousand dollars, and who'll
make it two?
Two thousand! 'And who'll
make three?
Three thousand once, three thou
sand twice,
And going and gone," said he.
The people cheered, but some of
them cried,
"We do not quite understand
What changed its worth?" Swift
ly came the reply:
"The touch of a Master's hand."
And many a man with life out of
tune.
And battered and scarred with
sin
Is auctioned cheap to the thought
less crowd
Much like the old violin.
"A mess of pottage," a glass of
wine;
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON iNE.M There
wasn't a single pessimistic predic-'
tion from the panel of big busi
ness experts analyzing the eco
nomic outlook for the second half
of 1U63 at the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce board of directors
meeting.
No boom was predicted, just
continued good business with
steady though slow improvement
into 1W4.
This was not just the usual
chamber of commerce bally-hoo.
The chamber's national headquar
ters here has been consistently
critical of administration econom
ic policy as harmful to business
and its forecasts have been
gloomy.
There were a few guarded state
ments from the panel of econo
mists that continued business ex
pansion was dependent on a tax
cut. But the consensus was that
Congress ultimately will crash
through with favorable tax legisla
tion this year.
There w as an admission that un
employment is still too high. It
was recognized that unemploy
ment might even rise during the
last half of liimt even while em
ployment was rising
"If we are to get unemployment
under the 5 per cent rate during
the next five years." said Chase
Manhattan Bank's director of ec
onomic research, William K. But
ler, "business will have to pro
duce 10 millon new job opportun
ities. In the i.ist five years onlv
It million new job; were created.
We need a 50 er cent increase in
business activity because tlie la
bor force is increasing 50 per cent
(aster in tlx1 6s than in the 50s."
There was a little concern over
tlie continued unlavorable I' S.
balance oi payinents. which has
Nfn running at about $3 billion a
year for the last two years.
But Butler foresees favorable
trends in a possible rise in interest
A game and he travels on,
He is "going" once, and "going"
twice,
He's "going" and almost
Gone."
But the Master comes, and the
foolish crowd
Never can quite understand
The worth of a soul and the
change that's wrought
By a touch of the Master's
hand.
My curiosity is aroused. Re
cently, the Covington, Tenn.,
Leader carried an editorial
calling attention to reductions
in telephone rates. The writer
of the editorial, to make a test,
called someone in Klamath
Falls to see how much it would
eosl lo call 3,000 miles just to
sa,y "hello" to a friend (or
maybe it was a relative, for all
I know). Anyway, I'd like to
know who was called.
Maybe a quote from the editor
will bring some response from
the Klamath Falls' recipient of
the call. Here's what the writer
had to say, among other things:
"... The discussion pro
gressed to the point of wondering
if one really could telephone the
west coast for only a dollar. We
decided to call some friends in
Oregon for that nominal fee.
"Upon inquiring of the local
operator what the charges would
be for a three-minute station-to-station
call to Klamath Falls, we
found that we could speak to
friends all the way around the
country for a charge of 90 cents
plus nine cents tax. An outstand
ing bargain we thought.
"We made the call and we
were gratified when our friends
registered what we considered
a proper degree of surprise at
our calling nearly 3,000 miles
just to say hello, and we en
joyed a four minute conversa
tion which will appear as a
$1.27 item on our next phone
hill."
Twenty five years from now
there will be letters to the editor
about how all tlie juveniles are
delinquent on account of they
haven't the old-time chores around
the house any more, like turning
up the thermostat or pushing the
button to open the garage door.
Any idea we might have had
about the ferocity of the Rus
sian navy has been dispelled
by the news that Capt. Yevgeni
Ivanof, the London lover boy,
hears the nickname "Honey
Bear."
Quick. Can you rattle off the
names of the 12 Apostles?
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Chamber Outlook On
Business Optimistic
rates, a cut in U.S. defense expen
ditures overseas and some im
provement in international trade.
"The fact that Europe is having
a little inflation now improves the
outlook for U.S. exports," says
Butler in summary, "and the
prospects for improvement in the
balance of payments situation are
all on the favorable side."
"Nine out of ten U.S. econom
ists say there is nn danger of in
flation in the United States in the
next six months." . declares Dr.
James .1. O'Leary. research direc
tor for the Life Insurance Assn.
of America.
On the steel outlook. Vice Presi
dent Irwin H. Such of Penton Pub
lishing Co., Cleveland, believes
that "the new labor agreement
n)cns the way for uninterrupted
production for nearly two years
or, for that matter, the foreseeable
future ... to build a 'new' Ameri
can steel industry."
Such predicts production of m
million tons of steel in 13, the
largest for any year since 1037,
at generally stable prices. "For
the remainder of l3 and 19M."
he says, "I am willing to go along
with the optimists."
"A-OK" is the way Robert J. Eg
gert. marketing research manager
lor Ford Motor Co. summarizes
the automobile industry outlook.
This is steel's best customer and
directly or indirectly the em
ployer of one of every seven U.S.
workers.
He foresees 7 4 million new car
sales this year, breaking 19il
sales by 3nn.m.io and equaling the
I H55 record.
Touching on oilier business
fields. Dr. Emerson P. Schmidt,
director of economic research for
Hie U.S. Chamber's national staff
points to the new all-time high of
the construction industry reportrd
lor May as a favorable' indicator.
"The second half of Hny will
show less expansion than the first
half." Schmidt predicts. "Bit
cams in 14 will be equal to or
better than those in 1 ',!."