News & Views
WgWS a VIEWS ~oakis~ t h e Poor | . , The prices of farm prodnets and processed foods and feeds rose 6.4 percent in July and 7.6 percent in August. Over the 12 months of 1973, home food...
...Ficker lost...
...As for the causes spoken of by Governor Shapp, Rice conceded that he doesn't go around looking for them any more...
...mHow would you like to have been Robin Ficker, Democratic candidate for Congress from Maryland's 8th District...
...The legislation exceeded Nixon's budgetary recommendation by $540 million...
...The poor workers...
...Much of that amount could be attributed to the rising cost of the food-stamp program...
...Labor may have been an erratic lover, but Rice still calls labor the "backbone" of the nation, saying that the unions "do what they are supposed to do better than any other institution...
...Nothing could be more demoralizing at this point---not just to professional military men or diplomats who would be thus displaced, but also to the public at large--than the spectacle of a mutual protection society among the powerful, of spent men being packed off to comfortable government jobs because anything less would seem to burden them unfairly for their service in Mr...
...But I haven't lost my desire to help," he adds...
...Msgr...
...This double blow happens," Powell notes, "as higher income classes shift from more expensive, higher quality food to lower cost, lower quality foods---in other words, causing the cost of those foods eaten by the poor to increase even more dapidly than the already absurdly high overall rate...
...But he had no other choice Sept...
...The Washingwn Post likewise had misgivings over the Haig appointment: "Why should General Haig receive such a reward any more than Mr...
...As ever, the poor get hit the hardest...
...Economists, as these figures indicate, have some specific data for gauging the impact of food prices on the poor, but nowhere near all they need...
...He has had enormous influence among Pittsburgh's people, but as often as not he was, in editor Russ Gibbons' phrase, as popular a figure as Teddy Kennedy at a Boston anti-busing rally...
...Powell, for instance, sees a need for the government to compile regularly a poor-person index that more accurately reflects the prices paid by the poor than does the consumer price index...
...The poorer a person is, and hence the more they faust rely on items like potatoes, rice and beans, the worse off they become...
...They pay the "exorbitant" prices for the staples of their diet--and then more...
...Nixon's verbal hatchet-man, Patrick Buchanan, should have been considered (apparently at General Haig's suggestion) as a candidate for an imp o r t a n t ambassadorship...
...Charles Owen R t c e They honored Msgr...
...Rice told those attending his luncheon, "my family and friends in the Democratic party, in the clergy, and in labor attacked me...
...At a time when NATO has serious internal problems ( p a r t i a l withdrawal of Greece...
...Rice exclaimed...
...Their kids got killed in Vietnam and they didn't notice the children of the bosses didn't even go...
...Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh's controversial clergyman, on his 40th anniversary in the priesthood, and if it wasn't his most visible day, it was certainly his most ceremonious...
...budget problems in every country) and is surrounded by the growing land and naval power of the Warsaw Pact, The Economist finds it strange that President Ford should "force out a popular and effective commander in favor of a controversial officer who lacks the most valuable credential of all--oommand experience...
...In fact, in the current food inflation spiral the poor are being doubly clobbered, according to Joseph B. Powell of the Institute for Research on Poverty of the University of Wisconsin...
...Rice: "he can make the dumb talk but cannot make the deaf hear...
...Incidentally, how many noticed that the same day that Richard Nixon announced his resignation he vetoed as inflationary an agriculture appropriations bill that had cleared both houses of Congress by two-thirds margins...
...Thus one has the paradox of the food budgets of the poor actually rising faster than these of other groups...
...For instance, items that make up a large portion of the food budgets of the poor --such as potatoes, beans, rice, fish and chickenmhave doubled and even tripled in price since 1967...
...Over the 12 months of 1973, home food prices for all consumers leaped by 20 percent...
...Governor Milton Shapp flew out from Harrisburg, and said "if the cause is just, this man will fight for it ." The Wright comment summed up some of the frustration of Rice's career...
...By any standards," wrote The Economist, Goodpaster is "one of the most distinguished officers the American Army has produced, and one of the best NATO commanders...
...When I broke on the Vietnam war," Msgr...
...He is only 59 and has given no sign that he wants to retire yet...
...Every community needs one...
...Cardinal Wright came from Rome, and said of Msgr...
...Rice has never been a great one for ceremony...
...The cheaper the food was initially, generally the greater [has been] the percentage increase in prices...
...Cothran favors it in rape cases, or when "the life of the baby or mother is in danger...
...In its voters' guide prior to elections, the Washington Post listed Ficker's view on unemployment as his view on how to curb inflation...
...9; he had to sit still for more ceremony than his 66 years have collectively known...
...Shirley Cothran, our Bible-quoting, teetotaler Miss America, offers ethicists, moral theologians, et al., a new norm to consult in the matter of abortion...
...A P a t f o r Gt~dpaster For the London Economist, the most curious note in the curious scenario by which General Alexander Haig was dumped on NATO is that "hardly any mention has been made" of General Andrew Goodpaster, the commander shunted aside...
...JOHN DI~,DY 4 October 1974:2...
...In March of 1974, the low-cost food budget cost as determined by the Department of Agriculture was 169.4 percont of the base year 1967, while the moderate-cost plan had lisen to only 159.2 and the high-co~t plan to only 166...
...Nixon's cause.'" Odds am/ Ends ---Ms...
...His health went bad because of it...
...He has always been his best on the unceremonious occasion: in a labor picket line, at a war protest demonstration, or civil rights rally...
...This is signal that as newspaper columnist, radio commentator and assorted activist, Charles Owen Rice will continue to be Pittsburgh's hairshirt for the indefinite future...
Vol. 101 • October 1974 • No. 1
