European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday december 11,1987 column today s crossword is . Going Down the tubes i typically discouraging these Days Story appeared Lic paper recently. General electric and general by Andy Ognev it always surprising considering How slowly things Smit to Progress from Day to Day. Him quickly great Cli an Gilt Lake place in the world. Remember the Egypt of your history Hooks re member what happened of Rome and Greece in re cent times. Great Dri Iain has gone from one of the dominant world Powers 1o a quaint country Wilh wan ing influence in world affairs. Japan has developed from an inconsequential maker of cheap trinkets o the biggest producer of Quality goods in the world. Is in possible some major and terrible change is Tak ing place in our great country Are we seeing it happen without knowing it s thai big we can console ourselves with the thought that there was probably never a time in the 200 years since the Constitution was written when it did t seem As though things were getting worse. If that s True these must be typical times because things sure seem to be getting worse. What do i mean 1 mean american Industry in t making most things very Well t mean our scientific work is being done More and More by foreign visitors and less and less by native americans the brightest kids in Many of our schools weren t bom Here. Our Money in t Worth much in other countries. Our manufactured goods Don t Sci Well abroad. A in the motors arc fighting a Battle with inc government try ing to get permission to use soviet rockets to lift their communication satellites into space. They want to use the soviet rockets because our space program does t have any. Can you believe it be and pm going to the rus sians for help Here arc two of the biggest corporations in the United states admitting that i they want to put their satellites in space they have to use russian Rock ets because the russians arc making them belter than we Are. Here Are iwo companies that ought to be spend ing More Lime making their products like rockets maybe and less Lime making Money pleading to their government to let them use soviet products. It s a sad Day. First thing you know the russians will be telling us Light bulbs toaster ovens and tanks which vice president George Bush says they make so Well in Spile of its rockets the soviet Union does t yet seem about to Bury the United states economically but then who would have though the japanese would be doing in 25 years ago i recall we used to laugh at the Large panics of visiting japanese engineers who always were being shown through the technical areas at lbs. There arc no longer any japanese visitors. Obviously they Gol what they wanted and now they re Selling lbs much of the equipment it uses in those technical areas. I m wailing for the japanese to take Over Dan rather and the evening news. The United Stales pays Japan 54 billion More a month for goods than Japan pays us. Our big Gisl Export to Japan in terms of Cash is food. That cold Comfort because the biggest reason we have More food than we can eat and Japan does t is that the United sink s is 25 times As big As Japan and has the land to grow ii on. Japan in t even As big As the stale of Mon Tana and has half the population of the United states. What should we do How do we get Hack to where we were when we were making so Many things better than anyone else in the world Columbia University has hired a Wall Street wheel or a calf to teach a course in corporals takeovers. It s called corporals raiding the Art of  Bright Young americans Are being Laughl nol How to make something but How to make Money by taking Over established companies built on hard work. Lorelta Griffin of Aliquippa pa., is taking a writer s course and one of her assignments is to write a Publ Shable article. Loretta wants to do in on epitaphs and asks me to Send her an epitaph describing myself my life my philosophy or whatever i would like to have remembered about me. I detect a slight change in the Type Between dear or. Rooney and the body of her letter so i assume Loretta has a computer and put my name on top of a form letter. No grown person answers form letters and anyway i Don t plan to die for awhile and 1 Hope no one could describe my life my philosophy and everything i d like to be remembered for in the eight or 10 words a Tombstone has room for. Yesterday there was a great letter from Donald Funk in Spring Hill Fla. He was born in a House just behind the one we be lived in for 36 years. Ours was known As the Pepper House after the family that built it in the late Soos. If you bring up four kids and spend years in a House it s a special place to you and out House is special to me. Don Funk told me a lot of things about in i never knew. My oldest brother Charles and my Sisir Polly obtained permission from the Bank which owned the property during the 1930s to live there As caretakers Polly and Chuck were pre beatnik hippies in those Days of deep economic depression and the Pepper mouse had a reputation up and Down the Hast coast As a  for Many of their jobless generation. Polly cooked for As Many As 30 drifters at a Lime. Lord knows there was room enough in the old House for All of them to  How s that for a Little history about your House out of the Blue we be fixed up the House some but there arc Days when it still looks As though 30 drifters were living in in. When someone Calls himself or. William a. Bums the chances arc he in t the kind of doctor we think of when we use the word doctor. Anyway Wil Liam Burns of Florence s.c., writes a Good letter with his theory that most conservative like Ronald Rea Gan part their hair on the right. Everyone s entitled to his theories. There Are people who think holding your breath cures hiccups or. Burns. A to Bune mix Berv Roi Ouin we criminal Fth Kut to face Justice w5w throngs t\8i out to wkhhv5 execution he Kerbs upon his Kun heinous owes. It 1=. Not Bee woj the dose is put w3jhd his neck. Id that this 15 the end off. Some of u5hweto to. Utie Evem Wil. 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