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pollution..
(Editor's Note: First in a
six-part series on the environ-
ment, pollution control and
suggested changes, written by
C. Wayne Smyth, a Troy at-
torney.)
by C. WAYNE SMYTH
Your life is at stake.
As President Nixon said re-
cently, “It is literally now or
never,” in announcing the de-
termination of the Republican
Administration to reclaim ‘“‘the
purity of our living environ-
ment” in the ’70’s.
Political analysts have sud-
denly recognized ‘‘the quality of
life” as the new crusade, sup-
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erseding opposition to the. Viet-
nam war and support of racial
equality, especially among
young people.
But there are two vital dif-
ferences between this crusade
and the radicalism of the re-
cent agitations: this crusade
should elicit support from all
bands of the political spectrum,
and it is not the kind of issue
so likely to evoke violent
demonstration.
Until recently, stories about
the deterioration of the en-
vironment were occasional in
the press and on the air. De-
cay does not make a good
“story.”
We had, once in a while, a
scholarly article by a pro-
fessor, editorial discussion of
the impact of anti-pollution
legislation (often in terms of
the cost to local municipali-
THE DALLAS POST, MARCH 19, 1970
‘It is literally now or never.”
ties) and a few flash ads on
TV urging people to write for
information about clean air
and water.
The truly important warn-
ings appeared, unfortunately,
only in special interest pub-
lications such as American
Forest magazine, the Pennsyl-
vania Game News, and other
hunting and fishing magazines,
the various nature and wild-
life house organs, and in a
few books.
Only one or two Congression-
al figures, like Representative
Saylor of Pennsylvania, were
both willing to adopt the role
of Jeremiah and knowledgable
enough to compile an accept-
able conservation record.
Even so ardent and prom-
inent an advocate of ecolo-
gical awareness as former
Secretary of the Interior Udall, -
The “covered bridge,
by reason of political pres-
sure, upon several occasions
defected from the ranks of the
true conservationists.
But now the voices of those
crying in the wilderness have
at last been heard by others
who are, often enough, those
made homeless as a result of
earth slides on eroded land
and people whose eyes, and
noses, and taste buds, tell them
something is wrong.
Smog has become more than
a joke for TV comedians.
Stories of oil pollution on
beaches, haze in the hereto-
fore pure desert air of the
Southwest, and the lingering
death of the Everglades, ap-
pear with more and more fre-
quency in newspapers and on
TV.
The chorus of protest has
reached the ears of the na-
invented by. the famous Americag
painter Charles Wilson Peale around 1797, quickly became
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Broadway production ‘‘Hair.”’
This was the hair-raising
message today from Bette C.
Clemens, director of the Penn-
sylvania Bureau of Consumer
Protection.
Mrs. Clemens received in-
formation from the Dauphin
County District Attorney’s of-
fice that an individual pass-
ing himself as a member of the
“Hair” cast has been appear-
ing on radio and television
station talk shows as a pro-
motional agent for the show.
Although he is able to in-:
telligently discuss the show, it
appears that his actual pur-
pose is to attempt to ‘sell
fraudulent tickets to the orig- '
inal Broadway show at a re-
duced price.
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Mrs. Clemens further in-
dicated that this impostor
tends to follow the road show
of ‘““Hair”’ representing himself
as a member of the New York
because buggy”
there from the eyes of peeping toms.
riding lovers parked
This bridge is in
cast.
Officials of the Broadway
show said he was an impostor
traveling widely promoting his
scheme.
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tional leadership. We must de-
voutly hope that our leaders
are indeed alarmed, not about
the protests which should
serve only to make them aware,
but about the urgency of the
crisis itself, for, it is worth
lieved in space craft before
Sputnik? How long can we
go on ignoring the plain evi-
“dence of things to come?
(Next week, are we inviting
destruction?)
repeating: your life is at stake. -
Gov. Reagan of California
“has put it only in mild terms
‘‘a booming economy and the
‘good life’ will be no good at
all if our air is too dirty to
breathe, our water too polluted
to use, our surroundings too
noisy and our land too clut-
tered and littered to allow us to
live decently.”
Of course, he is right. If life
cannot be lived decently there
is little use in living, but we
all know that we will go on
living by instinct even if life’s
quality is of the lowest grade.
What Reagan fails to say is
that we may not be able to
live at all.
With the national govern-
ment, at least on the executive
‘level, in Republican hands, it
is heartening to know that
the Republican Administration
and Republican leaders are
moving in the right direction
on this, which might best be
described as the quiet crisis
of human history.
It is especially gratifying
since the only previous political
‘perception of our danger has
come from a few isolated and
often ignored Democrats who
have added a few voices to |
those crying in the wilderness.
Our duty now as citizens is
twofold. First, inform ourselves
fully of our danger. Second,
let those in authority know
that half-hearted, half-way,
political measures will not be
enough.
We cannot censure our leaders
severely up to the present
time because we, the people,
have been lax.
We have ignored the lesson
of the atomic bomb and Sput-
nik, that the science fiction
nightmares and fantasies of
one time, when supported by
scientific data, are the realities
of the next era.
How many of us believed in
the bomb before it was ex-
ploded? How many of us be-
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