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Pollution to Get
Worse, Cure Also
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEA)
The threat of pollution to this and other industrial so
cieties is getting worse. Yet only a few notes of hard
realism are being struck in the fight against it.
To give you an idea what is being tunneled into the air
and what is going to be, consider this:
In 1970, the United States consumed the energy equiva
lent ot 2.2 billion metric tons of coal, a very sizable part
of the world’s 1970 consumption of 7.5 billion metric tons.
That works out to around 11 tons a person per year for
America, and two tons a person for the world. In the un
derdeveloped lands, the annual average energy consump
tion per capita has been a mere 220 pounds of coal.
But the big, affluent polluters are going to befoul the air
a lot more as their populations and their economies ex
pand. Thirty years from now, the United States will have
nearly tripled its annual energy consumption—to the
equivalent of six billion metric tons of coal. And the
world? Its total then is expected to reach 32 billion tons!
So what do we do about it? Abandon technology? Put
stiff limits on industrial production?
Some economists say that as man’s numbers double
(which they are now doing every few decades), his ma
terial demands and output triple. And his wastes, a ter
rible water pollution problem, also triple.
With the poor nations clamoring for entry into the af
fluent club, with their unemployment spinning to stagger
ing heights, with the poor in already affluent nations
looking for a better break, does anyone seriously imagine
we are going to smother technology and hold down indus
trial output?
We obviously are not going down that route. No ad
vanced modern society will accept mounting joblessness
and poverty as the price of freedom from the suffocations
of pollution.
That’s not all of it, either. Real action against pol
lutants also requires enormous applications of imagina
tive technology.
Writing in Harper’s magazine, social scientist Peter
Drucker says environmental controls will demand tech
nology “at a level at least as high as the technology
whose misuse it is designed to correct.”
There can be no making of things, even anti-pollution
devices, without use of energy. So the whole drive for a
cleaner environment compels great energy output.
Drucker says that it has to be electrical energy. That
means more power plants, which are themselves pol
luters. Environmentalists would like it if no one ever
built another standard power plant. They talk of a turn to
solar energy. But using the sun’s power is not yet a well
advanced art. Much time and experimental money is
needed.
In Drucker’s view, it is sheer hypocrisy to contend, as
some environmentalists appear to do, that the techniques
and the great cost of an anti-pollution attack can be man
aged without an expanding economy. He writes:
"If there is no expansion of output equal to the addi
tional cost of cleaning up the environment, the cost bur
den will—indeed, must—be met by cutting the funds
available for education, health care, or the inner city,
thus depriving the poor."
He argues that even severe cuts in defense spending
would not free the kind of financial resources needed for
the environment fight.
None of this means the battle can't be or shouldn’t be
fought. It’s just going to take far more money, time,
imagination and hard, hard work than most of the cru
saders seem to understand.
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Almanac
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By United Press International
Today is Saturday, Feb. 12,
the 43rd day of 1972.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Venus,
Mars and Saturn.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Aquarius.
British biologist Charles Dar
win was born Sept. 12, 1809.
On this day in history:
In 1912 China became a
republic when the Manchu
dynasty was overthrown by
nationalists.
In 1942 the German battle
ships “Scharnhorst” and
“Gneisenau” escaped from the
French port of Brest into the
North Sea.
In 1953 the Soviet Union
broke off relations with Israel
when terrorists bombed the
Soviet legation in Tel Aviv.
In 1963 a jetliner crashed into
tlie Florida Everglades, killing
43 persons.
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THOUGHTS
Conduct ijourselves wisely
toward outsiders, making the
most of the time. Let your
speech always be gracious,
seasoned with salt, so that
you may know how you
ought to answer every one.
—Colossians 4:5, 6.
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God has given us tongues
that we may say something
plasant to our fellow-men.—
H e n r i c h Heine, German
poet
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Editorials
From other newspapers
Political 'Sacred Cows’
Virtually Things Os Past
This world and all of its facets, from
education to business, are undergoing
change. Some of it is slipping into place
like gears which have been fitted and
lubricated, but as might be expected,
some of the changes are writhing and
kicking amid sounds akin to a death
rattle.
Our political structure, likewise, is
undergoing reform. Some of it we may
like and some we resent, but change is
coming, nevertheless. The old “sacred
cows” are disappearing and soon will be
no more.
Georgia’s program of reorganization
submitted by Governor Jimmy Carter to
the legislature is not being accepted in
full, and we doubt if it would have been
good for the whole kit-and-kaboodle to
have been adopted without question or
debate and even compromise.
Some of the program, however, is
being enacted, and more of it may get
through when the legislature reconvenes
to adopt a budget and take final votes of
some parts of the reorganization plan—
notably the Department of Human
Resources which has faced stern op
position in the State Senate.
As the General Assembly recessed for
two weeks to allow committees an op
portunity to study the governor’s
proposed 1973 budget, the Senate op-
We’ll vote for these
NEWS-DAILY, JONESBORO
Doctors estimate that as many as three out of four
patients who seek medical care are suffering from
psychosomatic illness-emotional ailments which manifest
themselves in physical ways. 50....
1. Stop listening for a knock in your motor. People who
look for trouble frequently find it.
2. Learn to like your work. If you hate your job, find a job
that you can like.
3. Have at least one hobby and work at it. Hobbies are
invaluable for relieving tensions.
4. Learn to enjoy people and to forgive and forget af
fronts.
5. Learn to accept with equanimity what cannot be
changed.
6. Learn to accept adversity. If you live long enough you
are certain to meet it.
7. Learn to be cheerful even when you don’t feel cheerful.
The sunshine you spread will warm you as well as those
around you.
8. Learn to face life with confidence and decision.
All of this is good advice and maybe will be a good help to
many of us who rush so we miss too much.
Here’s a vote for doing better in the future.
Mystery Os The Missing Rifles
The Daily Sun. Warner Robins
Readers of The Daily Sun have been fascinated by the mystery of
the missing rifles.
This story, which was the result of several months of in
vestigation by reporter Joel Ferguson, has the elements of intrigue,
suspense and sheer drama.
The Department of Defense came through with information, at
Mr. Ferguson’s request, on guns that have been reported missing
or stolen from the armed forces. The number was quite inpressive.
Two rifles, supposedly shipped from Perry, were reported
missing.
Rhett Milam of Warner Robins said late in the week that he
shipped some rifles back to the Army, but he made the shipment
from Warner Robins and not Perry.
The National Guard in Perry says no guns were shipped by that
organization.
Meanwhile, two rifles still are missing, according to Army
records.
Mr. Milam says the local recreation department came up two
rifles short when returning some used in a marksmanship program
... but he has a receipt showing that they were paid for.
Meanwhile, the Army’s records do not match the facts in Houston
County. It is a confusing matter, to say the least.
The first steps are
just the beginning
Your recent radio message left the
impression that all we have to do to be a
Christian is to “go forward, and say we
believe in Christ, and repent, and we are
saved." I know that is the basis, but so
many take this step, and then fall away
into indifference. Please say a word about
this. I.MU.
Evidently, I was addressing myself to
people who had made a decision, and I was
telling them the steps to salvation.
I agree with you, there is certainly more,
much more, to the Christian life than going
forward, confessing Christ, and repenting.
This is the threshold, the beginning, but
just as a door to a palace is not all, these
beginning steps are not an end in them
selves.
The Moultrje Observer
position to Gov. Carter’s reorganization
of the health board into a human
resources board with wider scope and
increased jurisdiction was seemingly
fading into a compromise. The Georgia
Medical Association and the Board of
Health, controlled by doctors, were
bitterly assailing any attempt to "water
down” their authority and the former
health department set-up.
If Georgia is to face the future with an
efficient, economical and modern
government attuned to the new demands,
the Health Board and the departmental
structure must change with the others—
else it will be outmoded and out of step.
As new programs and problems arise,
Georgia must be prepared to cope with
them—in personnel, know-how, and
financing capability. This cannot be
accomplished through the old political
“sacred cows” and a heavy hand
dragging at the halter.
Surely those who are engaged in the
business of reorganization and those who
are “dead set” against change will
awaken to Georgia’s needs and, if
compromise is the avenue to success,
work out the kinks before the legislature
reconvenes. Georgia people, who also
are the taxpayers, are owed that much
allegiance from their politically elected
and appointed officials.
The Christian life is a continuing adven
ture, and anyone who looks at it as a once
and-for-all experience has missed the
meaning of following Christ. Jesus said,
“No man, putting his hand to the plow, and
looking back, is fit for the kingdom of
God." Luke 9:62. In Hebrews 6:1 the Bible
says, “Therefore leaving the principles
(rudiments) of the doctrine of Christ, let us
go on unto perfection. . . ”
The challenge of Christ is so great, the
opportunities for growth so rich with
promise, and the power that can be
released to us so unlimited, that no person,
living or dead, has ever attained the full
potential of Christian growth. Every day I
find some new truth in His Word, and see
some new opportunity to serve Him more
effectively. Serving Him is exciting.
MY
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REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
THE PRESIDENT is to be commended for pursuing every
avenue possible to obtain the release of American prisoners of
war and to end hostilities in Southeast Asia.
More importantly, he needs and deserves the full support of
the American people in his efforts to extricate the United States
from the unholy mess in Vietnam and to stop the fighting and
bloodshed. This includes members of Congress. The desire for
peace is bipartisan and shared by all our citizens. It transcends
party lines and politics.
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THE PEACE PLAN now proposed by the President offers the
means for a settlement and peace in Vietnam. The President, in
effect, is telling the Communists that we will get out of Vietnam
if they will guarantee the safe return of captured Americans.
This is a reasonable proposal. The Senate has repeatedly urged
the President to set a definite date for withdrawal of United
States forces from Vietnam. Now, he has done so, contingent
upon the release of all American prisoners of war.
We cannot just tuck tail, run from the war, and in effect
abandon these men. No one wants that. Any U.S. withdrawal
must be predicated on assurances of the well-being and release
of American soldiers and airmen held captive behind the Bamboo
Curtain.
If the Hanoi regime really wants to stop the fighting as do all
Americans, it will abandon its stubborn and inhumane position.
The Communists should seriously respond to our peace proposals,
and elevate the meetings at Paris from the farce they have been
for the past three years.
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I HOPE AND PRAY that we are on the verge of the beginning
of the end of United States involvement in Vietnam and Indo
china. This has been a terrible 10-year war that has taken a
tragic toll in American lives and treasure. It has dangerously
divided our country, weakened the economy, and created disre
spect for our leaders and institutions of government.
I hope it will be a lesson to us and that our government will
not intervene in military matters of other nations unless our own
national security is involved.
(not prepared or printed at government expense)
L M BOYD
Little Women
Save on Tax
“The littler the woman, the more powerful her
advantage."
E. V. Durling
In England, if her bust measurement does not tape
more than 32 inches, she may buy schoolgirl dresses,
not adult woman’s clothing, so thereby save 10 per cent
sales tax. That’s the law there. And slim little ladies
now are found in great numbers in the children’s de
partments, it’s reported. Incidentally, in this country, a
scientific study by a medical team reports approximately
35 per cent of the women hereabouts have no
need whatsoever for that appurtenance known as the bra,*
but they enjoy no tax advantage.
THAT STATE wherein
the average working man
got the lowest boost in
his income last year was
Washington. The highest
boost, Arizona.
WHERE IS she now,
that Connecticut girl whose
birth certificate official
ly lists her name as En
cyclopaedia Britannica
Dewey?
DID I TELL you a
professional prizefighter
has only one chance in
9,000 of making what
might be called a financial
success of his life?
DOG’S LIFE
Once a dog reaches age
2, its life expectancy is
12 years, that’s all. Age
2 supposedly is when said
dog is fully grown. Life
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expectancy of a cat, when
it’s fully grown at 1 year
6 months, is 10 years. A
horse is not said to be
fully grown until age 4.
Then its life expectancy
is 25 years.
AFTER AN argument
with the Broadway pro
ducer Sam Harris, play
wright George Kaufman
added the following codi
cil to his Last Will and
Testament: “I desire
that I be cremated and my
ashes thrown in Sam Har
ris’ face.”
Addreu mail to L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1971 I. M. Boyd
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