European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Friday the stars and stripes Page f p. Buckley. Or. .�0gmwmi guilty of anti communism not huh a Symbol and there Art those who have never forgiven or. Hubert Humphrey announces that we should make not anti communism and Humphrey for it. But he is not Falls for a new Era of Intima going to be caught guilty of the tonal relations which presume sin of Post mature anti Corn ably would reach a Climax of mull so. Lev under a Humphrey adm no we have now a fresh sym ration. J1 new York times Bol for soviet american relations meditating on or. Humphrey s a non Stop flight inaugurated credentials to inaugurate such an tuesday new York to Moscow tra Points out that in the past aboard Aeroflot soviet airlines. Or Humphrey has been guilty the institution of the service is of anti communism. The Point is that we should be charitable about people s pasts and pre pared to believe that or. Humphrey can outgrow his. Indeed it was or. Humphrey who in 1954 sponsored a Bill which became the Law of the land. It called for outlawing the communist party. Said act never amounted to very much for a number reasons one of them in enforceability another the party s decade Long disappear Ance from formal political zing on election Days. Still it was announced in full Page ads around the country. I called the lady at the number listed for fun to inquire whether the Union of soviet socialist republics airline had a first class Section. She did not get the joke but answered matter of factly in a thick accent that yes of course first class seats Are available. But then in a Greta Garbo no nonsense Ninotchka voice she announced that any reservations would have to be confirmed so Many sic Howers Ashett Uff time. Presumably there is no problem about confirmations from Moscow to new York where the people s state is in charge of discipline. No shows will by executed see a no hands. The soviet Union is of course different from the Way it used to by under Stalin and even under Khrushchev Back when sen. Humphrey called for Ille Gal izing the communist party s american Branch. Unfortunately in Many respects it in t different. For instance they Are still the most unmitigated liars in the history of the world and care nothing at All about it on the contrary it is a Way of life. On the advertisement for instance it says under Aeroflot soviet airlines world s biggest and busiest airline. 55 million passengers in 1967." i thought maybe i had missed a major they might As Well Havo said 55 billion passengers while they re at it and i m surprised they did  in America we make a big Point of commercial hyperbole. But we make distinctions. The Royal typewriter company for instance while perfectly capable of saying the world s finest typewriter would not say in 1967 we sold 146 million  or. Hubert Humphrey who is in favor of continued sanctions against Rhodesia is against any sanctions at All against a coun try which tolerates no labor unions no political Liberty no Freedom of speech no Freedom of Assembly no Freedom of religion no Freedom of emigration no Freedom of economic movement and besides that makes Hydro  than that developed by the old master Joseph Stalin whose memory is widely Rev ered. On the other hand it in t the same country. One reads in the morning papers that the Che Guevara guerrilla operation in Bolivia was messed up by the ineptitude of a russian girl spy. It appears that the lady broke fundamental rules of espionage behaviour and left clues strewn about like a lady s hosiery for the Bourgeois imperialist police to pick up leading to the Cap Ture of Guevara. Alger Hiss would never have done that. Well or. Humphrey has proved that he can change with the times. If Only we could contrive to elect him president of the soviet Union he might be development and maybe they Gen bombs and intercontinental " � to in to prove that the missiles the purpose of which is to times will change to harmonize intimidate people and if a with the  of the sol utely necessary to liquidate politics of of. People on a scale even More the Washington Star Syndicate inc. Are flying All their political prisoners to and from Siberia. I called a Friend who keeps statistics. He cackled with mirth. Family Grants vital m expect we should do something about this Pearl Harbor has been bombed1 by Clayton Fritchey Washington the most affluent of countries the . Is the Only developed one that does not have a government system of family children s allowances but a misconception which has prejudiced Public acceptance of the idea has just Ben struck a severe blow. Politically various proposals for insuring children against extreme poverty by monthly pay ments to All american families has been effectively inhibited by the widespread belief that this would trigger a population explosion especially among the poor. If this belief was Well founded there would be Good reason for serious concern. An average in crease of Only one child per family in the next decade for example would require millions of additional school seats a few years later. Twenty or 30 years later the Cost would be astronomical. Now however a group of the nation s leading demographers economists and social welfare experts have come to the conclusion that there is no evidence that children s allowance plans affect the birth rate one Way or the other. Their consensus l based on studies presented to a National conference the it port of which has just become available. The conference was sponsored by the citizens com Llhee for children and financed by the Ford foundation. Canada we learn has had Universal children s allowance program since 1945, but it has of altered the country s incl of Fertility. Both Canada and the  have had hit taint Fertility trend a rapid decline until the 1930s, a Small increase wring world War ii a sharper a thereafter until near the end of the 1950s, followed most it w1y by dropping birth a crts. It i also impossible to Dos Juver any upward of fact on the Jujj rate in european countries a children s allowances. Don Mark and Sweden not Only Havo Ompre Henslee National social a fore programs but offer com care of children from Unhul n,9nf/ a that Mother need not give up her Job and the income from it. Yet the birth rates in both countries remain Low. Denmark s is 18 per thousand Sweden s is Only 15.9. The . Rate is about 18.5. It is the same Story in the communist european countries where benefits and services to mothers Are even More Exten Sive. Besides family allowances there Are maternity Grants maternity Cash benefits maternity leaves up to one year reduced working hours rent reductions and subsidized clothing. Yet Hungary s birth rate is Down to 13.1, the lowest in the world and Czechoslovakia s has drop Ped from 23.3 to 16.9. There Are presently children s allowance programs in 62 coun tries but there is no evidence in any of them that ultimate family size is determined by the character of economic conditions in a Given  in the . The two to four child family is the Norm regardless of income. Contrary to popular opinion one study reports very poor people do not want Largo families they simply have More difficulty in family plan  the poorest couples already have the largest families and thus have less reason for further increases and More reasons for decreases. Naturally if a government was reckless enough to give a family $10,000 a year for each child it might Boas sued they would Havo Moro children but Nono of the present allowances around the world probably covers the Cost of Rais ing child As of today there Are 34.5 million americans living in Pov erty. Almost half 14.9 million Are children. An additional 19.2 million children Livo in families whose incomes Aro about the so called poverty lint but still below that required for a mod test but adequate Mode of existence. C 1m8. New Day inc. The opinions exp Reed in the column and cartoon on this p8 represent Troio of the author and Aro in no Way to to considered at rear Entona the View of the Star and Stripe Luelf or of Tho United state government. How Many More people new York an englishman named Douglas Houghton said recently that Large families might soon become a form of social  if his compatriots did t limit population growth by themselves he suggested it might have to be done through their government by ration ing babies. Of course britons were furious at the Specter of government in the  but the outrage was t so unanimous As might have been expected from libertarian English Flora Lewis Man whose Homes Art tradition ally their castles. Commentators pointed out that with 55 million now Britain has 50 per cent More to put per Square Milt than dots India. And ont asks in the respected sunday observer How Many to put do it really want in Britain quietly gradually aware Ness is spreading that population in t Only a problem in Asia and Africa. Tho . Has 200 million now three people now for every two alive in the coun try in 1940. Tenements and hopelessly jammed roads and crowded schools Aren t just the result of Farmers moving to the cities. There Are literally More of us every Day scrambling for the same amount of Elbow room. This was the underground is sue of the late Robert f. Ken Nedy s presidential Campaign. Al most everywhere he spoke in almost every Coffee gathering where supporters spoke for him the question of his 10 children and eleventh expected was raised. During the Oregon primary Campaign a Man put it this Way to two Kennedy speakers mrs. John Bartlow Martin and mrs. Arthur Schlesinger  i m a bit embarrassed i Don t want to sound personal but if it s True what it read about famine and War becoming inevitable the Wen population is growing How can a . President with 10 or More children give the kind of leadership that s needed to do something about it in the California primary Campaign the question came up so Many times that a Headquarters statement was issued on Ken Nedy s behalf saying he believed voluntary family plan Ning should be available to ail people everywhere. And yet there was always the remaining unanswered question about How the number of people in a family can be a strictly private matter if the number of people in a country is a Public matter. The usual summation when people talked about it afterwards was of Well Ken Nedy can afford  but that was uncomfortably incomplete too because either there is an absolute personal right to have As Many children As one wants or there is an implicit Means test limiting that right to How Many one can afford. Deeper Down in the under ground there was another ques Tion Why should i pay taxes so negro prostitutes can have a baby every year to put on welfare it is ugh but it is what some to put have been saying and thinking. So it is Well to fact it. Because making population a question of wealth or of act is simply a Way of skirting Tho question of How Many people do it really want in America and then More fundamentally the question of who is really responsible for deciding c 193, new Day inc