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The Plight of the Democrats
Larry O'Brien, former National
Committee Chairman of the Democratic
Party, put the issue facing Democrats
clearly recently when he called for a
party composed of all traditional seg
ments.
“I don’t know how any party can
expect to continue to call itself a
national party when you take something
like 170 electoral votes, something in
that vicinity, and hand it to the other
party for starters. How you win national
elections that way eludes me,” he said.
This is what many Democratic
strategists did this year. They were so
enthused over their ideals for party and
government, they, in effect, conceded
the South from the beginning. Sen.
McGovern’s backers in the South often
thought differently and McGovern him-
A Knowledge Gap?
Too many of the nation’s youth
envision the businessman as an individual
who spends his tune grubbing around for
more and more of those delicious
profits, oblivious to the needs of man
kind.
Although this picture is tragically
out-of-date, one out of five high school
seniors “think our free enterprise system
is so bad it needs to be completely
overhauled,” according to a White House
Conference survey cited by Louis W.
Menk, chairman of Burlington Northern
Inc.
He said. "Obviously our young
people are seriously underinformed. I
think the American free enterprise
system, as effective as it has been, should
expand its pubflc information efforts
Environmental Experiment
In Oregon, citizens have been return
ing beerand pop bottles, by compulsion,
for two months. A law to reduce litter
and trash went into effect October Ist.
Disposable bottles are not for sale
nor are pull-top cans of beer, residents
must once again buy beer and other
drinks in returnable bottles, which re
quire a deposit of two cents or more.
The Oregon Environmental Council
says no-return, no-deposit bottles are 21
to I better bets to end up along the
Other Editors Sav:
(Industrial News Review)
Since 1962, drivers in the United
States have seen a 1 15 percent rise in the
cost of repairing auto crash damage.
Now the basic groundwork has been
completed, in the form of an insurance
industry research study of “Crash
Damage to Automobiles,” which pro
vides definite guidance for the kind of
auto design improvements required if the
amount of damage and resultant repair
cost for the most common types of
low-speed auto crashes is to be reduced
The conclusions of the study were
based on analysis of more than S2B
million in crash damage in 1969. 1970,
1971 and 1972 model cars on a nation
wide basis 89.060 cars were involved It
was found that over half of all auto
crashes and more than one fourth of the
repair dollars involved damage costing
less than $250 Crash tests have shown
that most damage up to that amount is
caused by collisions of vehicles closing at
speeds 10 miles an hour and under.
Much of this damage could be prevented
by improved auto design.
One reason is that about 70 percent
of all auto crashes involve impacts at
either the front or rear-end of the car,
both of which can be protected against
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self several times tried to change things
by telephoning Gov. George Wallace. But
the zealots didn’t really want Dixie elec
toral votes, if it meant concessions of
any kind.
In one way this attitude represents
true dedication to a goal; as politics, it’s
a hopeless course in a country like
America. The McGovern current is and
was a minority current. Trying to win a
presidential election against an incum
bent President by sweeping practically
all the country except the South, which
is conceded, is, in the most charitable
description, naive.
And that is why Democrats must
again aim at a national party of divergent
interests if they are to have a solid
chance in 1976.
immediately and begin a nationwide
program designed to open communica
tions with the great mass of American
high school youth.”
Profits have never been the only goal
of the dedicated entrepreneur. But the
trick is to instill understanding among
those of the younger generation of how
private enterprise satisfies the most fun
damental desires oman.
Only when youth takes to heart the
fact that profit-making private enterprise
operating in a free market works better
than anything ever before invented to
fulfill all aspects of human need will we
have the markings of leaders with the
knowledge and foresight to build a
better world for us all.
roadside or in undesirable places. The
state has begun its own survey of the
litter problem but its findings will not be
available for some time.
The outcome of Oregon ecology ex
periment will be of interest to citizens in
other states; if it proves successful, and if
the law isn’t found unconstitutional in
the courts, where it’s being challenged, it
could influence other state legislatures to
enact similar legislation.
low-speed crashes much more easily than
the sides of the car. The most vulnerable
parts of the automobile are the four
corners. Need for greater protection of
these areas is emphasized by the fact
that they are involved in about 40 per
cent of the total crashes recorded in the
st udy.
Bumper standards for 1973 are in
tended to only protect safety related
items such as brake lines and headlights
in front-end crashes at 5 miles per hour
and in rear-end crashes at 2.5 miles per
hour The expensive corners of the auto
mobile are still vulnerable. Knowledge
able authorities judge that mpers
protecting up to about 10 miles per hour
are economically feasible. And this is the
speed range in which a significant part of
collision damage occurs.
The automobile is the prime mover
of the American people. The research
work done by the insurance industry
pointing to changes in auto design to
minimize the economic damage to cars
involved in collisions, lower insurance
costs and reduce the price of transporta
tion for the average family is a public
service of the highest order. It deserves
the close attention of the auto manufac
turing industry and of Congress in set
ting design standards.
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SEASONAL SLIGHT-OF-HAND TRICK
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following
article, in part, was written by John
Lewis, executive vice president. National
Small Business Association.)
Without it, you’d be out of business!
With not enough of it, you wouldn’t
sleep. Without what? Without profits. In
a nutshell, without profits there is no
America. Profits are the backbone of the
American economy. Profits are the life
blood of business.
Generally speaking, man goes into
his own business for very few reasons.
He will wear no man’s collar. He believes
he can do better what others are doing
or fill a new need. He believes he can
make a genuine contribution to his com
munity. And he expects to be re
warded in the form of profits if he
succeeds in serving the community
through his business.
However, a small but noisy segment
of the population blames profit as the
cause of much that is wrong in this
country. Unfortunately for all of us, this
view is taught in many of our schools
from bottom to top.
Most people in the United Stat’es are
fully convinced and where they got the
idea no one is sure that net business
profits average around 28'. They believe
that out of SI.OO worth of sales, the
merchant has a net profit of at least
30 Years Ago
DECEMBER 10. 1942
Chattooga County voters overwhelmingly disapproved the sale of beer in
the county, casting 985 votes against and 138 votes for . . . Subligna High
School students purchased $54.10 in War Bonds on ‘Pearl Harbor Day.’
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20 Years Ago
DECEMBER 11. 1952
Business firms advertising this week: Community Center Theater. Trion;
Copeland & Mitchell Pontiac and Implement Co.; Lendennan-Perry Supply
Co.; Summerville Cash Store; The I lowerdell; Menlo Theater; Davis Brothers
Motor Co.
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10 Years Ago
DECEMBER 13. 1962
The Chattooga County Board of Education has given the architect a
go-ahead to investigate the possibility of installing “climate control" (air
conditioning) in the proposed new high school here ... Former Mayor M. H.
Copeland was slightly injured in an accident.
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5.28. The facts are that business is real
efficient if it can net 3% on the sales
dollar. Not $.28 but $.03. Profit is the
money difference between the cost of
the goods and the selling price less light,
heat, rent, advertising, wages, unemploy
ment compensation taxes, workmen’s
compensation taxes, social security
taxes, property taxes, depreciation, tele
phone. upkeep,etc.
Then from what’s left the business
still must pay Federal income taxes and
in many cases state income taxes as well.
So when you subtract from SI.OO of
sales the cost of goods, overhead, and
income taxes, the $.03 left—net
profits does not make fat, greedy,
grasping businessmen out of otherwise
nice people. Believe me, not for $.03 . . .
The National Small Business Asso
ciation cherishes its role as the spearhead
of profit protection. The continuing
battle with the socialistic mind has no
end.
The profit system means investment
in plant, equipment, and jobs. Without
that system there is no hope for either
management or labor.
It’s your business and they are your
profits. Protect them both.
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HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS SEALS
When you see gaily colored Christmas Seals on
packages and letters, do you ever wonder where the idea
originated?
The idea was born in Denmark, home of the fairy
tales of Hans Christian Anderson. Einar Holboell, a
Copenhagen postal clerk, was sorting mail one snowy
afternoon before Christmas, 1903, when he thought of
the idea of a penny stamp to swell the fund for
childrens’ hospitals.
Authorized by King Christian, the first Christian
Seals were sold in the Danish capital in 1904.
Holboell’s scheme outgrew his wildest imagination,
and before he died in 1927, he lived to see his idea
spread to 45 countries.
The seals found their way to America on packages
and letters, and first attracted the attention of Jacob
Riis, who wrote an article about them.
Few people, however, were interested in the idea.
Then, in the autumn of 1907, Emily Bissell, a
public health worker concerned about the fate of a
small sanitorium, recalled Riis’ article and sat down to
sketch America’s first Christmas Seal, a wreath of holly
encircling the words “Merry Christmas.”
With 50,000 stamps printed and no place to sell
them, Miss Bissell at last enlisted the aid of a columnist
on a Philadelphia newspaper. The idea caught the public
fancy and within a few weeks, $3,000 was collected.
The first nationwide sale was held the following
year and was backed by newspapers all over the
country, religious and civic groups, and was sponsored
by The American Red Cross and the National Tuber
culosis Association.
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STRICTLY INSIDE STUFF
Are you looking for a different main course to serve
at that next party? Or perhaps you would like a change
of pace from the traditional turkey and dressing at
Christmas.
The Bedouins have the record for the biggest single
main course in the world, informs an article in the
current issue of Epicure magazine.
It’s roasted camel . . . and was served at a wedding
feast. The recipe? Stuff cooked eggs into fish. Cook fish
and stuff into chicken. Stuff chicken into a sheep
carcass and stuff sheep carcass into a whole camel. Then
roast and baste lightly.
Is it good? Well, some people will walk a mile for a
camel. And how do you feel after you’ve eaten it?
Stuffed, of course!
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THE OLD TIMER SAYS:
“Remember when the SIO,OOO-a-year man was a big
success? Now he’s a plumber’s helper.”
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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
“I ain’t got no pencil, teacher,” Johnny remarked in
class one day.
Horrified at his breach of grammar, the teacher
replied: “It’s I don’t have a pencil; you don’t have a
pencil; he doesn’t have a pencil; we don’t have any
pencils; they don’t have any pencils. Is that clear, now?”
“No,” replied the bewildered Johnny. “Where did
all them pencils go to?”
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STAYTON, (ORE.) MAIL-The trouble with get
ting older is that you learn more. And the trouble with
that is the consequent loss of illusions.
The most recently shattered concerns ‘special deli
very’ service by the post office, and what shatters our
previously held belief about it is an announcement that
NOW the postal service is going to give it special
handling (which in our innocence we had thought came
with the extra postage charged for all these years).
“Special delivery letters and parcels in the entire
U.S. Postal Service’s Western Region will now be en
closed in transparent plastic bags imprinted with the
word "Speedy” in large green letters. This new identifi
cation will prevent special delivery pieces from being
overlooked or intermixed with regular first-class mail at
receiving stations,” says the announcement.
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TERRE HAUTE. (IND.) TRIBUNE-’Litterbug’
sounds cute, but there’s nothing in the least cute about
the littcrbug. He or she. lor the female of the species is
as deadly as the male is rather a nasty creature who
brings to mind the bird that fouls its own nest. More or
less innocent carelessness plays a part in littering,
granted.
Is carelessness much of an excuse? We think not. A
park or picnic ground or roadside blighted with people
residue scraps ol paper, garbage, throwaway cups and
.ans and bottles is no less so because the litterers were
not vicious nor nasty, but simply careless. The results
ire the same.
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