Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday february 13, 1965 . Optimism reasserts itself by Godrey Hodgson Washington special owns imperceptibly yet with gathering momentum Over the four years since the inauguration of the late president Kennedy something important has been happening to americans cheerfulness has been breaking out again. This is not a vague unverifiable judgment on the general Outlook of 190 million people. It is some thing More specific than that. American intellectuals and the american govern ment Are now throwing off the fears that oppressed them during the Eisenhower years and reverting to the traditional american Faith that problems Are there to be solved. Recent . Reverses in South Viet Nam and the decision to launch air strikes at North Viet Nam have done Little to diminish this growing wave of optimism president Lyndon Johnson was not flannel Ling when he said in his state of the Union message feat the . Has re emerged into the fullness of its self Confidence and let me give three con Crete examples 1 american economists and the american administration now believe that economic recessions Are not., inevitable. A o wrote the president in this year s economic report to Congress. Will we tolerate. The ravages of the business and his economic advisers in the same message spelled out the same claim in More Learned language both our increasing under standing of the effectiveness of fiscal policy and the continual improvement of the detail accuracy and timeliness of our economic information strengthen the conviction that recessions can be increasingly avoided and ultimately wiped widely held nor is this merely a comfortable illusion that is being sold by the administration to soothe the Public. The belief that recessions Are not inevitable May be wrong. But it is increasingly widely held Here. The often gloomy Dean of . Commentators Walter Lippmann has endorsed it indeed he goes further than the guarded claims of the president s economic advisers. He has described the new economics introduced Federal policy by or. Walter Heller president Kennedy s chief adviser As a benign revolution which makes it possible that the costs of improving schools and colleges of reducing poverty of rebuilding slums can be covered by calculated increases in the National output of nothing could Easey be More optimistic than that. 2 with a new Confidence and a new purpose the idea has taken Root in washing ton that poverty is not inevitable and that Educa Tion is the weapon with which it can be Defeated. This idea indeed is the fashionable one in washing ton at the moment and it is Only a slight exaggeration to say that All roads Lead to it. The one conclusion for example that has been drawn by officials in the department. Of labor from their efforts to reduce unemployment is that Educa Tion is the key. As one of them put it to me. This year a Large proportion of the funds set aside for retraining unemployed workers in new trades is being diverted with con Gressional permission to give these same workers general Basic education. War on poverty the same idea is at the heart of the War on poverty which is or. John son s most distinctive graft on the ideas of the Kennedy administration. A Large part of the Money that is being spent is going on schools but beyond that is the idea influenced by such different thinkers As the Tough minded economist j. K. Gal Braith and the Catholic socialist Michael Harring ton that it is through inferior education that Pov erty is transmitted in the body politic just As characteristics Are carried in genes and that Only education can therefore make poverty tolerable by making it no longer Heredi tary. Or. Johnson s bold Educa Tion program is not the cause but the result of the new interest in education. One revealing sign is that Young Liberal journalists and intellectuals in Washington Guch As Christopher Jencks and Marcus Raskin for example who were preoccupied with foreign policy a few years ago Are now absorbed in the theory and practice of educational re unlike the generation whose idealism was battered v by the successive blows of the depression the War and mccarthyism the intellectuals under 35 in this country Are by and Large optimistic. Even the civil rights movement which is As important to them As the Spanish War to their parents has not induced Des pair. The other Day i went to see the film Point of order which was made from the t e revised army Mccarthy hearings in a Cinema in a student neighbourhood Here to my astonishment and that of americans in their thirties the students re action to Mccarthy s menacing explosions from the screen was to Roar with laughter. That ghost it seems has been exorcised. 3 Well informed americans now no longer fear he communist Powers nor do they expect the cold War to last for Ever. This is a sweeping state ment. Many americans still fear what Russia might do in a crisis. Many Are increasingly uneasy about chinese policy since the chinese nuclear explosion. And the administration has always been careful to qualify its Hopes of easing East West tensions with Many a solemn rider and warning. But the fact remains that in the state department and even in the Central intelligence Agency the tendency now is to Down Grade earlier estimates of russian military economic and Ido logical strength. It is. Accepted As an article of Faith for example that russian Aid and diplomacy have flopped that communism is intrinsically unable to solve the problems of agricultural production that As Laii economic system it is bound to adjust itself More and More closely to the Western system of incentives. The other Day Robert Mcnamara Secretary of defence was asked whether the country had not the Power with its allies to win any War it might be called upon to fight. He eventually gave a Brilliant and careful analysis of what America could and could not do. But his first answer was simply v general since the Ken Riedy Mcnamara build. Up of strategic and conventional strength and especially since Cuba Well informed people Here Are quite simply less scared of russian military Power than they were in 1961, just As government scientists Here no longer seriously fear that russian space research is ahead of theirs except in individual details. T of course the new optimism May turn out to be unfounded in Many particulars. But it is not arrogant or fatuous there Are plenty of things that worry people in Washington and worry them deeply. It is simply a reversion to an ancient and healthy . Tradition. Compare president John son s definition of his great society to count de Tocque Ville on the american Char Acter in 1840. Here is or. Johnson it is the excite ment of becoming always becoming trying probing falling resting and trying again but always trying and always and Here is de Tocqueville on the american forever seeking forever falling to Rise again often disappointed but not discouraged he tends unceasingly towards that unmeasured greatness so indistinctly visible at the end of the Long Toronto up Kortell Beck 17, and Donald Pendleton 20, both of Toronto were charged with Possession of stolen property and. Illegal pos session of explosives Friday after police spotted trying to explode a railway torpedo on Street car a torpedo is an explosive charge that detonates when a train passes Over and is used As a signal to the Engineer. Electrical timing National electrical week in Canada feb. 7-13, has been timed to coincide with the birth Day of Thomas a. 11, 1847. 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