European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes april 1977 Tom Wicker Carter deserves Praise for Energy message the worst aspects of the Energy crisis president Carter has described to the american people probably would not arrive until after he had served eight if particularly those who Are narrowly elect Are Apt to regard themselves As too weak to make major demands on the american people until after they have won a second term in any they cant run again deserves Praise for laying Down his comprehensive Energy policy within three months of taking and Only five months after having barely and news crisis is our Oil Reserve were facing a 1jajter and getting worse x now the William Buckley no longer master of its Fate there is a kit of grateful talk about the survival of new York and of course it has though As much can be said about the stirrings in the race for mayor of new York Tell More about what has actually happened in the past our it comes Down to the Sattl ligation of new York City to Albany first to the Federal govern the external signs Are the intervention by a democratic governor from Brooklyn calculated to replace an incumbent demo cratic mayor from this is More than merely a breach of political it is Pointblank in other it would almost predictably have ended the career not of Abe but of Hugh 11 is too Early to say conclusively that it will be the other Way but already one can deduce that the measure signifies an altered relationship Between the City and the not Only does the mayor need to be a member of the same political party As the he needs to in a member of the governors lieutenant governor for new York so to As in where the presi Dent routinely appoints the governor tas they Call it of the prostration of new York in 1975 did to the City what some Brave souls in and out of the Senate it took from new York the autonomy Over Many had made the mayoralty an intrinsically important political position As they used to put the third highest executive position in the after the presi Dent and the governor of new York but the excesses of new leading to its the exodus of business and of the repudiation of its forged shackles on the con Gress is disposed to help new but not to chuckle along As it continues to live the life of the logical bar gaining unit Steps and he is the governor of the whole rather than the mayor of the Hugh Carey is disposed to be fatalistic about Liis and other circumstances that have removed even his own capacity to write in recent Hugh object of Liberal enthusiasm in the most Liberal state in the has for All the world sounded like Bracken he launched his austerity budget by saying something so straightforward it might have come from the Mouth of Ronald what he said to the Wel fare class in new York state was this you get paid out of surplus accumulated by economic activity in the if no surplus is How will it be possible to pay you anything it was then that he proposed such unheard of reforms As Relief for overtaxed to attempt to Stop the flight of capital into Connecticut and new the other he granted state workers a raise of 14 per cent Over the next two which is probably less than the workers will suffer from he cited his ability to do so As arising from one simple Factor a reduced interest rate in state the Day seems historically Remote when the budget of the state of new York crystallized in the philanthropic mind of Nelson who merely signed the chit and sent it along to the new York the mayor of new York nevertheless will continue to occupy a conspicuous Posi Tion As something of a he will go on addressing All the municipal gather the conventions that come to the Kings and the it is a Nice opening for someone who has some thing to say that restores the Hope of new yorkers one Day to recapture control of their own cd Washington stir we Trsek Defeated Gerald he could have soft pedalled the whole thing at least until after but he met it Headon with his Call Tor the moral equivalent of but did that phrase and the other terms of Carters presentation of his As Well As the Basic elements of the policy f represent a persuasive Appeal to the Public that remains to be Daniel the opinion recently completed a study in the United Sweden and West Germany of i Public attitudes toward he f found for one example that the Oil shortage f of 1973 and the following recession had per f shaded so per cent of his american respondents that there was some Benefit to i adapting to a situation where they could not take an abundance of Energy for Grant i Yankelovich findings enabled my to f devise a checklist by which to gauge the Public acceptability of Carters heres a test based on that if 4 your answers reflect a generally positive and if you think most americans i probably feel As you the Carter pro 1 Grams prospects Are Good does the program convince you that the Oil shortage is real and Lon term rather than a temporary problem created i by Oil company the arabs or 1 Domestic politics has the program and its presentation i caused you to think beyond Short run in conveniences to the Long Range Imp Lica Lions for the your children and the Good of the country do you think the program reflects an understanding of the Public psychology does the philosophy behind the pro Gram appear to be one of protecting people from themselves or does it offer enough Freedom of Choice to avoid an implication of the regulators moral Superior Ity do you think the program represents a Lon term National plan with specific goals in Energy conservation and production docs the plan make a concerted 1 attack on the Energy Supply problem i through effective efforts to harness new j sources of Energy is the president insuring a co opera live Effort by labor and others to prevent them from jockeying i for position at the expense of the Public in i Terest 4 will the program tangibly strengthen the Overall economic Well being of the country for reducing depend j Deuce on foreign sources of or leading to a better life does the program seem to encourage j Many or does impose uniformity for the convenience of administrators i Are the proposed regulations Nant with what people think should be done and would do if they had the willpower Carter says the sacrifices he oils for j Are fair for do they seem so to you i do you think the program wills sacrifices from All segments of the business and Rich and does it encourage cheating so that people who conform to it will feel Lite tools t i does it undermine your belief Tot hard work pays off do you believe 11 person who has worked hard to cons err Nerp receive nothing More than oat will the proposed conservation sures encourage a conservation ethic for the american people a docs the program allow for improvements in the Standard of for a luxurious car that May Erth Eless use less Gas w cd new York the in the columns and is Page represent nose of authors and Art to be considered at Ine it to or United slates