European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the Tarsan stripes february 1981 Russell Baker new York not no Brake system on Karth can Stop a freight train on a and it is unreasonable to expect of resident Rea Gan to end inflation and restore the Economy to the uncorrupted glory of the 1950s Over the what is surprising about his first at tempt to pass the Miracle is his tentative touch on the after so much melodrama about the horrors of the impending trillion Dollar deficit and the possible calamity just around the one might have anticipated a prescription of Radical surgery and powerful though extensively hailed As Strong medi his proposal to Cut the budget by billion seems almost How timid can be seen from closer examination of the presidents own metaphor of the stacked thousand Dollar a trillion Dollar stack of thousand Dollar he would reach a height of 67 billion is percent of a trillion and percent of 67 Miles is his budget cuts will bring the stacks Down to but stay what is this after the his budget will show a billion thanks to higher military spending and inescapably rising obligations created by Laws of Long billion is percent of a trillion and percent of 67 Miles is 3 doing our we find though the cuts reduce the stack from 67 Miles to the deficit then adds three Miles to its leaving us a stack of Bills two tenths of a mile or feet higher than we started in reagans Medicine does not try to lower the but Only to slow its rate of As he the patients ailment cannot be cured in a year or two his aim is Only to make a this is the policy of a truly conservative not the Radical right Winger some liberals had suspected of lurking behind that goo Guy the question is whether he is too conserva Tive to succeed in his economic an important facet of the plan is an anticipated increase in the Money taxpayers devote to savings and the theory is that cutting both government spending and taxes will put More Money in private hands and that we will put this Money into savings and investments that will generate economic growth without More when you look at the budget at least from a new yorkers it is very hard to see How the tax cuts will give you any added sum of Money significant enough to be Worth saving or for example the program will end Federal subsidies for mass transit this provided million to new York last and in spite of it the mass transit system still clanked resolutely toward a spokes Man for the transit system says with loss of the fares May have to Rise 15 per cent just to maintain the present rate of break for a new yorker using the subway twice a this would mean a per year increase in the Cost of going to if we consult the tax tables that will prevail if the Reagan tax cuts Are what do we find a single person with salaried income of will receive a tax Cut next year less than needed to pay the higher subway a married person making for a Vou to kiss me kadi5h w Mike family of four would be his tax would be Cut leaving for saving or or More probably for putting on a nags with a family of four earning you would receive a Nice tax leaving after paying the higher subway fare conceivably some of this might be saved or invested the entire and a Little More might have to go for payment of new York state taxes and new York City the presidents program proposes to do away with Federal Dole and make work jobs which now help keep new Yorks marginal people subsist ing at a relatively peaceful when the Federal juice ceases to the relatively peaceful level is Likely to give Way to hardship Breeding extensive this in turn is very Likely to require the local people to Lay on More police and expanded assistance programs in neighbourhoods where desperation Breeds contempt for civic these in turn Are Likely to require taxes taking a Good part of that Reagan Boon you have left after paying the higher subway there May be parts of the country where reagans timid grasping of the nettle will leave the citizenry with cause to but it is not a Good bet that new York will be one of those Here it is More Likely to be a Case of what Reagan Carey and mayor Koch Tabeth in the Long of the Reagan pro Gram May work a Miracle for the entire coun in the Long for that any of us May end up with Bills to stack in the in the Long of As the economist John Maynard Keynes pointed we Are All teenage suicides double in decade Washington up the number of teenage suicide victims has nearly doubled in 10 years and family problems Are the major a study according to research conducted by Psychol Ogist Carl 46 adolescents who at tempted suicide from 1978 to 1980 had parents who were More depressed than parents of a control group of 46 no suicidal the parents of the suicide prone teenagers also drank More and had a lower self image than the other across 1 health resort 4 French Illustrator 8 author Ludwig 12 Irish sea god 13 sister of arcs 14 Spanish Painter 15 author Irvin 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15 18 19 2t 28 33 37 29 30 52 38 44 13 16 20 34 42 22 39 45 57 60 23 43 31 17 24 35 46 14 32 40 25 33 47 10 26 48 11 27 49 225 Clear Arm Landers dear Ann Landers the letter from the smar Taleck 13yearold who knew the right name for a liven partner was the census Bureau in vented the word pos Seq As Junior miss brain Bank pointed but she didst Tell us what it stands for which is very import for those who have not figured it its person of opposite sex sharing living i would like to Cut your readers in on a few stanzas of a rather funny poem i heard on lbs radio new break a few weeks i took it Down in shorthand when Charles Osgood delivered it in disown inimitable theres nothing that 1  do if you would be my you live with me and i with you be my and everything we will con fess even to the someday on what we both May perhaps Well file a joint re and i will whisper in your ear that word you love so much to hear and love will stay forever if you will be my Phan based in fun City dear Phan my thanks to you and Charles Osgood and lbs and William Rukeyser of Money Magazine who discovered the word after the census Bureau invented a department that can come up with a doozie like that cant be Alt whats is so simple to so non judgmental and pleasing to the and its much easier on parents than this person in living dear Ann Landers several months ago a letter appearing in your column caused a great Deal of talk and More a Little havoc in our it was a diatribe against written by a High school the first line was our father who Art in heaven where in the hell have you been the senior was asking How a just god could allow starvation of Little children and the murder of innocent people by nuts with earthquakes and so my son assures me that he did not write that i believe a certain person in this Community insists that the boy is by i know you cannot divulge the origin of your but i would be very grateful if you could Tell me if the letter came from Dan its All i dad dear dad i would never reveal information about a Tetter that might identify the but 1 see no harm in telling you that the letter you Are inquiring about did not come from confidential to the Wom an in who talked too much and regrets it she gave no the Way to save face is by keeping the lower half of it c Field