Rage Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, October 26,'1975 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, October 26, 1975 PRESENTING THE RETURN OF Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band A 60 song review of all the great Beatles hits, complete with Beatle costumes and Beatle history. An absolute must for any Beatle admirer. U alumni visit alma mater Sadat desires *with memories of the past Aid (Continued from Page 1) comingr game!" more enthuisiastic than he ex'- MONDAY, OCT. 27 $2 STUDENTS; $2.50 ALL OTHERS AND Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys ing dock in the morning." MERRY Berglund, a '67 Edu- cation School graduate, remem- bers the renowned "Bell par- ties" as one of the big sources of campus entertainment. "When you turned 21 (the legal drinking age until a few years ago), you would go to the Pretzel Bell and stand on the table and chug a pitcher of beer - the Bell provided the beer," said Berglund. "I love Michigan," she add- ed. "I enjoyed the game, but I enjoyed more hearing that Michigan State lost their Home- NOT ALL the alumni were as caught up in University events. Martin Monroe, a '56 Business School graduate, said he was "not even familiar with the campus any more." However, Monroe enjoyed yesterday's game against Indi-j ana. "What can I say - we won," he said unemotionally. James Stinchcombe and his wife Edie both graduated from the Rackham graduate program in 1949, and now live in Phila- delphia. STINCHCOMBE found the game relaxing and the crowd 4 Vlil/.ll$ sC1111V s also appearing: GRIEVOUS ANGELS TUESDAY-8 PO. OCTOBER 28 Admission $2.50 pected. "It looks like the Homecoming spirit is coming back," the alumnus said. However, Edie said, "The displays were bigger in our day. We had a pep rally with a. bonfire." She said she regretted miss- ing Friday's phone-booth stuff- ing contest, but made it to yes- terday's Mudbowl and the bi-I cycle race. "I think the campus looks bet- ter now," she continued on a different note. "It's more uni- fied - looking somehow." Finally the small crowd of alumni thinned down, and even! the weary Homecoming spon- sors, University Activities Cen- ter's Don Lovett and Richard Sherry, ambled out to eat din- ner. A lone figure remained in! the vast, darkening room, chewing on his pipe and slow- ly sampling cookies - perhaps, recalling those Saturday nights: in the old ballroom of the '40's. Wit. . J _ .. . ._ r Performing some of their most popular hits, "Ride Em Jewbov," "High On Jesus," and "Beach Party Boo Boo." Combining the styles of Merle Haggard and Lenny Bruce Kinky persists in writing for and singing to, that most neglected group: Bigots! ". . . Their lives are just as dreary as those of enlightened folks," Kinky reminds us. Never intend- ing to offend, Kinky and his band produce some of the finest country western rock today. Kinky and the boys are in Ann Arbor fresh from a 5-day sellout appearance at Ratso's in Chicago. Don't miss them! 5 EL t9 5 516 E. Liberty 994-5350 S"... To Establish Justice ..."!! PETITIONS ACCEPTED NOW FOR 5 VACANCIES ON CENTRAL STUDENT JUDICIARY (ALL CAMPUS SUPREME COURT) PETITIONING CLOSES NOV. 6, 1975 Men, Women, & All Minorities of All Colleges Are Encouraged To Apply. Stop by SGC Offices, 3rd Floor Mich- igan Union to pick up a petition and sign up for an interview. - _ _ _ - Sadat LECTURE-Tuesday, Oct. 28 DR. ITAMAR RABINOVITCH (Director Shilooh Institute for Middle Eastern Studies-Tel Aviv Univ.) WILL SPEAK ON "THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO THE PRESENT CRISES IN LEBANON" i i I 4:00 p.m.--Rm. 200 LANE HALL Sponsored by Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies (Continued from Page1) complained about reports of U.S. aid commitments of $2.3 billion to Israel. "But there will not be any announcements or any deci- sions as to a program for mili- tary aid to Egypt at this time," he said. The United States "will look very sympathetically at Egyp- tian requests" for economic aid, Kissinger said, and add- ed: "We are not in any posi- tion to make any specific com- ments at this time, but we are prepared to have a general discussion." Sadat is the first Egyptian head of state to make a formal visit to the United States. As Sadat began his trip, the Soviet Union attacked his poli- cies and the recent Sinai agree- ment negotiated by U. S. Secre- tary of State Henry A. Kissing- er. Without naming Sadat by name, the article in the Com- mnimist mnrtv daily Pravda call- ed the Sinai accord a "blow to the Arab peonles of Pales- tine" and to "the unity of Arab peones." The article ac- csed unnamed Egyptians of undermining Soviet - Egyptian relations and distorting Soviet actions. Its timing pointed up the Kremlin's anger at Egyp- tian - American rapproche- ment. Ohio State's Archie Griffin leads the nation's returning col- lege football players with 3,820 yards rushing. Joe Washington of Oklahoma ranks second with 3,124 yards and Kentucky's Son- ni Collins is third with 2,685. THE MICHIGAN DAlY Voinme LXXXVI. No. 46 Sunday, October 26. 1975 s edited and managed by students at the: niversity of Michigan. News th'ane 764-0962. Second class postage psid at Ann Arbor,-Micigan 48106. Pmblssheds d a i sy Tuesday through Suyday morning during the Univer- ste year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Abor, Michigan 4104. Subscription rates: $12 Sept thru April (2 seme= tars); $13 by mail outsde Ann Ar- hor summer sessin published Tues- day through Saturday morning. Subscription rates: $6.50 in Ann Arbor: $7.50 by mail outside Ann jArbor. "U"Towers IvRAELI ART EXHIBIT at HILLEL WEI L-SHAR I R-ROTHOLTZ FRIDAY, OCT. 24- THURS., OCT. 30 (Mon. thru Thurs. 9:00-5:00, {7 :00-10 :00 P.M.) 1429 HILL ST. 663-3336 Subscribe to The Michigan Daily 04 eclipse jazz presents A message to future bill payers: Your well-being, and that of your family's, depends on a sound economic climate. Yet there are millions of people exerting an in- fluence on that climate who have never had a basic course in what makes our system tick. Realizing that every citizen has "a need to know," The Business Roundtable is sponsoring messages about the inner workings of our American free enterprize system. They are giving this special "mini-course" monthly exposure be- fore the country's largest reading audience in Reader's Digest. ADVERTISEMENT YOU PAY FOR, WHAT YOU. GET Nothing is free: money from Washington, new safety devices for your car, the reduction of industrial pollution. In the final analysis, the bill lands in your lap 4z wO1 0 HE city of New York awoke rom a disastrous dream last pring. For decades it had Slived beyond its means. Many of its citizens had come to believe they could get something without paying for it-"free" col- lege educations; huge welfare bene- fits; wage increases for city employes double and triple those in the federal government; extravagant, fiscally unrealistic pensions. Result: The city' found itself $750 million short of meeting its current operating expenses, andwas forced to pay close to $2 billion yearly on its past debts. "No other city in the United States has provided such a range of free services and diver- sions," reported one news magazine. The only problem was, those "services and diversions" were not free at all. In fact, the most elemen- tary economic truth is: Few things are really free. We must always pay- the piper when the dance is over. In our personal lives, this pay-the- piper principle seems so logical, so matter-of-fact, that we seldom ques- tion it. Whether we're offering a child piano lessons, buying an air conditioner or choosing steak over hamburger, we weigh the benefits to be derived, and we expect to pay the price. But somehow we seem to aban-' rently popular "Tax the big corpo- rations-let them pay for it." But who really does pay? Let's examine just one case. The Union Carbide plant at Al- loy, W. Va., which produces ferro- alloys for the steel and aluminum industries, used to be known as "the world's smokiest factory." It poured out 91,900 tons of particles a year, more than that emitted by all of New York City. In 1971, Union Car- bide began to take steps to meet a clean-up schedule developed with state environmental officials-and today the air is clear over Alloy. Thanks to a vast complex of envi- ronmental equipment that requires almost as much room as the plant itself, emissions have been reduced by 97 percent. What has the Alloy clean-up cost? Union Carbide spent $33 million for the elaborate anti-pollution devices. Operation and maintenance of the system cost more than $3 million a year. As a result, plant operating costs have risen more than io per- cent. Who will pay this cost? The company initially, certainly. But ultimately the clean-up has to be reflected in the prices of alloys for high-strength and specialty pur- poses, and for aluminum products. Eventually, all of us, in buying goods made from steel and alumi- Such decisions are easily resolved at the personal level. (Is the extra room on the new house, the tape- deck for your car, worth the extra dollar outlay to you?) But when it comes to social goals, we may not be fully aware of the facts, main- ly because the decision-making is in the hands of our surrogates- Congressmen and regulatory-agency officials. Whether the decisions they make for us are wise or unwise is ultimate- ly decided by the voters-although it may take a long time. But wheth- er these decisions will cost us money has already been immutably decided by economic reality. Americans, for instance, have spent an estimated $2.4 billion extra on their automo- biles since 1972 to accommodate various government-mandated com- binations of wires, lights and buz- zers to force them to buckle their seat belts. Ordered "on behalf of" the public, these devices proved to be overwhelmingly unpopular, and the law requiring them was finally re- scinded by Congress as a "social goal" not worth the cost. As you read this, other bills for social goals-many of which we may find admirable-are being tot- ted'up. We will pay for what we get, so we must be sure that as a nation we want, need and can afford them. In the steel industry, for example,. we must be prepared for the possi- bility that new, stiffer government anti-pollution standards will cause steel-industry costs to increase by $25 to $30 a ton over the next eight years. Other costs-energy, raw ma- terials and labor-will also drive prices up. The companies will bear the brunt initially, but we consum- ers will finally pay. (Steel men don't print their own money; they make it by selling their products.) Part of the increased cost of a new car or refrig- erator will go toward clearing the air over Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh or Birmingham-wherever steel is made. Or consider, for instance, the ef- fect of a nronosed federal reulaition companies estimate that this regula- tion will add at least 75 cents to the retail cost of each tire. In other words, according to the manufactur- ers, if you buy four tires, you will pay $3 for both symbols you can't under- stand and additional testing that will add nothing to the safety already required by previous regulations. Presumably, astute consumers will bone up on traction, wear and heat- generation information before they buy their tires. We must ask our- selves: Is this regulation really worth the cost? Another example: flammability standards for upholstered furniture suggested by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The regula- tions, aimed principally at cigarette- caused fires, are expected to increase prices of upholstered sofas and arm- chairs by up to 25 percent. The furniture industry fears that the standards could eliminate about 70 percent of fabrics now made for up- holstery. If we, through our surro- gates, decide that it is correct for the government to impose such flam- mability standards, then we must be prepared to pay the cost the next time we buy a couch. And we may not like the feel or look of the new- er, nonflammable fabrics. What all this means is that we, as part of a complex and interrelated economy, cannot merely wish for or advocate some benefit for a "remote" part of our society. We must also be prepared to accept a part of the financial burden. Are we prepared to pay higher electric bills when we ask a utility in our area to provide more generating capacity with less harm to our environment? Are we committed to reducing auto emis- sions and increasing auto safety to the extent that it may add as much as $xooo to the price of our cars? Only when we realize our funda- mental financial role in the laws passed and regulations promulgated by our public officials, will we be sure to set wise and realistic goals. 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