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Thursday, September 13, 1984 Paga4 Daily Nobresksn 7s T! o -4i IK ,m t rr. r tvpc ft) ?! T! 77i1 TO ON (TBTr3! rol I ' l!.(0)TfB.i!glj V 1. J"- A. --. lfl ugure oui vvnai auer monuaie s V budget reduction plan would mean to them, columnists and commentators across the country were teli; .4 them the plan wouldn't work. The Federal Reserv e 1 card wont stand to have the pre?' ' 't tell tl in what to do." "Why, he's going to restore spending pri;.an i Reagan cut out of the budget." Ard "his plan will cost the average famuy more than $1,000 a year." Thank you, commentators and colum nists. Reagan aides invented the $1,000 fig ure for average families. Where they came up with the figure is obviously their little secret. Mon dale's campaign in sists that a fam ily of four earning between $25,000 and $35,000 per year will pay no more than an additional $95 in tares in the plan's final year 1939. A family earning between $35,000 and $45,000 would pay about $200 more. The balance of the $85 million tax increase would be taken from wealthy individuals and corporations. We can't necessarily take the Mondale camp's figures as gospel truth, but at least it is based on a plan. Reagan's best effort at budget reduction must still be a file labeled Top Secret." Mondale said he will decrease the cur rent budget by $54 million, with $25 bil lion from the defense budget being the largest reduction. The MX missile and the B-l bomber wouia oe nistory. This large reduction will be offiset, how ever, by $30 million in increased spend- Analysts critical of Mondale somehow try to paint the picture that he tries to hide thLs $30 million. On the contrary, Mondale, ever the party's man, is quite proud of the $30 million increase in spending. The money to earmar ked for the tradi tional babies of the Democratic Party: social programs, Including school ranches, educational and environmental programs. Finally, and maybe most importantly, Mondale's reduction program rests on the cooperation of the Federal Reserve Doard to lower interest rates If the deficit indeed begins to thin. The fed persumaMy will not let Mon dale tell It what to do. The reason? Why, their traditional independence from the executive branch, of course. You can't beat the system If the system wont let you play with It. Jimmy Carter, ever a fine man despite his political weaknesses, failed miserably as governor of Georgia and as president of the United States because he tried to provide basic justice outside the present, corrupt Institutions. Again It seems & democrat will be beaten by the system and the press before he even takes tha field. JeHBrowr.e Dill Nefcrcslia Staff Editor Communication p roves vita! m mi I O tae rgnoit acinummoct nia f nmulocym gnidaerr fouoyk nahT... Sorry, com puter went nuts. It does that from time to time. Computers are like that. No matter. After the computer finished digesting my copy and burping out this gibberish, I got T A a 01 1 1 i I . '"'W ' ( ( 711 i Fussell to thinking about how important communication is in this mixed up, nutty world. From our first good cry to our last gasping sigh, communication is our only way to survive. If it gets messed up, we're in big trou ble. Remember when you were 3 months old and you were just dying for some nice warm milk? You told 'em, too, nice and loud. But what did your mom do? Slap ped a new diaper on ya and went out and talked to the neighbors. Trouble. No communication. My father has a nice way of communicating. When I was a boy, I remember marveling at my father's suggestion that I could write as well as any of the famous writers that I loved. "Naaa," I said. "Not me." "Sure you can," he said in his best Ward Cleaver voice. "With this book." And he led me over to the dictionary stand where the mammoth Webster's Second In ternational stood guard over the hallway. "It's got all the words in it already," he said. "All you have to do is recombine them." Subtle. Li U l U H yet powerfuL Open your eyes, communica tion abounds. It's going on even as you read important com munication. If it wasnt impor tant, you wouldnt be reading this ' column, now would you? Let me tell ya, I've got my eyes open all the time. Communica tion isnt just another buzzword to me it's my life. Permit me to share with you a few examples of communication I stumbled onto recently. From the Federal Register, I kid you not, comes a federal regu lation written by a federal em ployee of the federal government. The findings and determina tions hereinafter set forth are supplementary and in addition to the findings and determina tions previously made in connec tion with the issuance of the aforesaid order and of the pre viously issued amendments thereto; and all of the said pre vious findings and determina tions are hereby ratified and affirmed except, insofar as such findings and ddennimitions rmy be in conflict vAth the findings and determinations set forth herein. Well, Amen. I don't know about the rest of you, but that'll sure keep me in line. From Love library's East base ment wall, south corner. (In heavy brown pencil) "Kilroy was here!" (In blue pen) "So was I, so what?" (In pencil, again) "Kilroy isn't a specific person, he's a symbol" (In lighter blue pen) Actually Kilroy was a specific tl'Af ShsffarDsSfy Netrssksn verson, but his real name was not ILtlroy. (No one knows the true identity of Kilroy.) Kilroy worked in a packing plant dur ing World War II. He became famousfor stamping his persoeial trade mark (Kilroy was here) on crates. H2 started putting his trademark on crates when his boss accused him of being lazy. His trademark was his way of showing his boss that he was working. Furthermore, the Kil roy trademark became an inspi ration to American soldiers who were in battle overseas. Kilroy was truly one of America 's grea test heroes. Long live Kilroy. I don't know if this is true, but if it isn't, it should be. True or not, this guy is eloquent. And what's worse, he's sitting in a basement being eloquent. Meanwhile, we're stuck with some $40,000 a year federal yutz who cant even write home to mother without tossing in a few thereto's and hereinaf ter's. Maybe we should start writ ing federal regulations on base ment walls. From the speech communi cations department. Thumbtack ed to the department door, on fourth-floor Oldfather, is a plas tic playtime clock with movable red hands. It reads "Will return." I like that. Good communication. (Nevermind that it was 3:30 p.m. and the hands were set for 1 o'clock.) From a local paper. I recently ( saw an article that defined Nancy Hoch as the long shot Senatorial candidate." Yeccchh. Bad com munication. Bad and misleading. No matter how you feel about Nancy Koch, she doesnt deserve that albatross. From the mouth of former president Gerald Ford. To you and to the p-eopb you represent, the great people of the govern ment of Israel" He was toasting Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt, at a White House dinner in 1075. (Not a real good icebreaker.) And finally, nrom tne esteem ed William Randolph Hearst Foundation, in a December 1983 collection of editorial winners. First page, seventh word of a second paragraph, the word is "administration"? Why, Mr. Hearst Tsk, tsk, tsk. Corekt speling iz esenchall 4 gud comunikashun. By the way, the first sentence ofthis column is spelled correctly. It's just backwards and creatively spaced. 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In a memo was based on "third-hand information f f ox, we're not surprised when it sent to all regional public-relations peo- that he "didnt check out" Dy way of apol V V kicks una lot of dust and tries to pie, "senior communications specialist" ogv.Oates said his memo "wasnt intended cover up tne mess. But false charges are a little unusual for the generally cautious swivel-chair set. Jack Anderson and Joseph Spear That's what resulted, however, when our reporter Joel Bernstein began inves tigating the Farm Credit System s muiti Gates wrote: for the public." He promised a written "Joel Bernstein, an investigative repor- retraction of the false charge, but it has ter for Anderson (and a delinquent Farm yet to arrive. Credit borrower), recently contacted banks Here are some of the embarrassing that have recently moved or are planning details Bernstein dug up on the FCAs to. construction spree: . Those banks we talked to did a good job The Central Bank for Cooperatives of responding to and, in some cases, frus- completed its new headquarters in Denver trating Mr. Bernstein with sound answers last yar for $21 million. Apparently to and objective reasoning for their new reflect the bank's mission of providing buildings." short-term loans for such improvements As it happens, Bernstein is a life-long as irrigation systems, the Denver ofiice million -dollar extravagance in building city person. The closest he's ever been to a features a spectacular indoor waterfall luxurious, new, regional, ofr.ee buildings, when more American farmers are going broke than at any time since the Great Depression. The total cost cf the faxmsr-fiiianced 1? n cling agencys regional paper-proces- ontrsi a cfSciaL Jeffrey D, Osles, tried to farm, let alone a farm loan, was when he In St. Louis, the SI 8.7 million expan got a guided tour of the elegant new sion of the system's regional headquar- headquarters of the Farm Credit Admin- ters includes two Isveh of underground istration the government agency that parking and a central atrium, and costs oversees the Farm Credit System in roughly $75 a square foot suburban McLean. Va. fThpre's a rpmn. ;one .most S5T.2 psiaccs comes w nxm iy tuuuuu. on u.m-u iaxm-resiaurarit just ers are usnintz Dians to ouna a new Evidently afraid that the facts would across the road.) million Farm Crprfii hu!!d:n on what rathe nation's hard-Dressed iarmers. v nen our associate John Dillon ouesti- dtsjfustfd rtmehpr rfDwrihd as the Farm Credit system public relations oned Oates on his defamatory denuncia- crime oiece of real estate in Austin. .1 CWi. tion, the erring official admitted that it It 4 Un!ttd ftszm Crneisstt