LETTER TO MR. BUSH FROM EUGENE A. HAGGERTY

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N A T 1 0 N A L P U B L I C B OAR D 0_F E DUCAT 1 0 N AppTpvetWoC6WWa%e420C*dGd 3:)yCaAERD r Ot8e5POOD0b69t O1Q( P U B L I C C H O I C E I N E D U C A T I O N 1290 Bayshore Highway Burlingame: (415) 344-1173 Burlingame, California 94010 San Francisco: (415) 661-9980 December 1, 1976 Ivt've Pye, g;.aRxy F:* I 9i For your information, we enclose materials on publism, on 400 Public- esteemed Americans, on the First National Forum on Publism, along with your Moderator Form. We have reason to believe these materials can lead to a more harmonic and democratic America, and, through that,to a more harmonic world society. We have been encouraged greatly by responses to our original report of March 1976; the responsiveness of Walter Cronkite, Margaret Mead, Robert Hutchins, Milton Friedman, Morris Udall and of many other scholars and public figures was related to quotations we have used or to other aspects of the report. On the merits of the enclosed material, we are turning to 400 responsible American leaders, asking you to bring about thought in America on serious questions. You can do this without cost or compromise by being informed on, and by moderating such questions before the public at events like the forthcoming First National Forum on Publism (please see the enclosed Moderator Form). We hope that you find these materials thought-provoking, and that you can employ publism as a tool in your professional, volunteer and personal endeavor on behalf on the public, to prevail in your efforts as you intend. Respectfully yours, (;, W_rrl~ Eugene A. Haggerty Superintendent a nonpartisan, nondiscriminatory, nonsectarian, nonprofit public--not government-association Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 c P ( r ,'1 S*t" I V -d J2 < -r z~ u~..n tQ / ,~4 YJ v Al A-(-_ /'1.L 6q EJL . Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Next 1 Page(s) In Document Exempt Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved FpiAlI fse ZRO~/f1 /T3 ~ GF1F P88 i 2I (~Od360~9(%( `-6 g e rst revision o our report: Publism: American Democracy-Beyond Capitalism And Communism (A Declaration of Public Independence Provisional List ** es gnates t 9o;; receiving our original report o arc 9 , responded.) Abernathy, Ralph Adler, Mortimer Agronsky, Martin Albee, Edward All, Muhammad Allen, Steve Alsop, Joseph Anderson, Jack Anderson, Robert Anderson, Roger Angelou, Maya Arness, James Arrow, Kenneth Ashbrook, John Askew, Reubin Astaire, Fred Atkins, Orin Baez, Joan Bailey, F. Lee Bailey, Pearl Ball, George W. Ball, Lucille Baraka, Amlri (Jones, LeRoi) Barth, John **Bayh, Birch Beame, Abraham Belafonte, Harry Bell, Daniel **Bentsen, Lloyd Bernstein, Leonard Bathe, Hans Bike), Theodore Bishop, Jim Blackmun, Harry Blauvelt, Howard Block, Herb Bogdanovich, Peter Bok, Derek **Bond, Julian Boone, Pat Boorstin, Daniel Borlaug, Norman Bowles, Chester Bradley, Thomas Brando, Marlon Braun, Wernher von Brennan, William Brewster, Kingman Brinkley, David Broder, David Brooke, Edward Brown, James **Brown, Edmund G., Jr. Brynner, Yul Brzezinski, Zbigntew Buchanan, Patrick Buchwald, Art Buckley, James **Buckley, William F. Burke, Yvonne B. Burnham, D. C. Burns, Arthur Bundy, McGeorge Burger, Warren Bush, George Bryd, Robert Caldwell, Erskine Campbell, Glen Carey, Hugh Cary, Frank Carney, Art Carpenter, Walter, Jr. **Carter, Jimmy Case, Clifford Cash, Johnny Cavett, Dick Chancellor, John Chavez, Cesar Chisholm, Shirley Chomsky, Noam **Church. Frank Clark, Kenneth **Clausen, A. W. Commager, Henry Steele Conant, James Connally, John **Cooke, Alistair Cooke, Terence Cooper, John S. Coppola, Francis F. Cosby, Bill Cosell, Howard Cousins, Norman Cox, Archibald Cranston, Alan **Cronkite, Walter **Crosby, Bing Daley, Richard Davis, Sammy, Jr. **Dellums, Ronald DeYoung, Russell Dole, Robert Douglas, Mike Downs, Hugh Dunlop, John Dunlop, Robert Durant, Will Dylan, Bob Eagleton, Thomas Eastland, James Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenhower, Milton Ervin, Sam Farmer, James Fitzgerald, Ella Fong, Hiram Ford, Betty Ford, Ernie **Ford, Gerald R. Ford, Henry 11 Foy, Lewis Frankel, Max Frankenhelmer, John Franklin, W. H. Freeman, Gaylord ove r many o whom have' Freeman, Nelson W. Friedan, Betty **Friedman, Milton Fulbright, J. William Galbraith, John K. Gallup, George Garagiola, Joe Gardner, John Gerstacker, Carl Getty, J. Paul Glazer, Nathan Gleason, Jackie Glenn, John Godfrey, Arthur Goldberg, Arthur Goldwater, Barry Graham, Billy Graham, Katherine Granville, Maurice Grasso, Ella Gray, Harry Greeley, Andrew Greenspan, Alan Gregory, Dick Griffin, Merv Griffin, Robert **Halberstam, David Harness, Edward Harriman, Averell Harrington, Michael **Harris, Fred Harris, Louis **Harris, Sydney Harris, William, Jr. Hart, Phillip Hatfield, Mark Hauge, Gabriel Hayakawa, Samuel I. Haynes, H. J. **Hearst, William R., Jr. Heilbroner, Robert Heller, Joseph Hesburgh, Theodore Hess, Leon Heston, Charlton Hitchcock, Alfred Hope, Bob Hughes, Harold **Humphrey, Hubert Huston, John Hutchins, Robert Inouye, Daniel Ives, Burl **Jackson, Jesse **Jackson, Henry Jackson, Maynard Jamieson, John K. Javits, Jacob Jaworski, Leon Johnson, Lady Bird Jones, Reginald Jordan, Barbara Jordan, Vernon *This early-draft list includes names representing the broad cross section of American Inter- ests. Your suggestion of omitted or mistaken names will help inform our search for, and create a refined, respected Index of those 400 of greatest benefit to the American people (see Moderator For proved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 National Public Board of Education, October, 1976 Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Provisional Llst:___400 Public-esteemed Americans continued) Karnes, William Kaye, Danny Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Rose Kerr, Clark Kilpatrick, James k*Ki ng, Coretta k*Kissinger, Henry Kristol, Irving Kubrick, Stanley Kurait, Charles Kuznets, Simon Laird, Melvin Lancaster, Burt Lapham, Lewis Larkin, Felix E. Larkin, Frederick, Jr. Lear, William Leontief, Wassily Levi, Edward Lewis, Jerry Libby, Willard Linkletter, Art Lipset, Seymour Lodge, Henry Cabot Long, Russell Longley, James Lowell, Robert Luce, Clare Boothe Lyman, Richard MacGregor, Clark Macl.a i ne, Shirley MacLeish, Archibald Mailer, Norman Manning, Robert Mansfield? Mike Marshall, Thurgood Martin, Dean Marusi, Augustine Mathias, Charles Mauldin, Bill Mayer, Martin McCarthy, Eugene McClaskey, Paul McColough, C. Peter McCormick, Brooks McGovern, George McNamara, Robert **Mead, Margaret **Meany, George Medberry, Chauncey J. Menotti, Gian-Carlo Michener, James Miller, Arthur Mitford, Jessica Mondale, Walter Moore, William H. Morton, Rogers Morton, Thruston Mott, Stewart Moyers, Bill **Moynihan, Daniel Murphy, Thomas Muskie, Edmund Nader, Ralph Newman, Edwin Newman, Paul Nisbet, Robert N i ven , David Nixon, Patricia Novak, Michael Nozick, Robert O'Brian, Lawrence O'Connor, Carroll Onassis, Jacqueline O'Neill, Thomas Paley, William Pauling,, Linus Pealle, Norman V. Peck, Gregory Percy, Charles Perelman, Sidney J. Phillip, Kevin Platten, Donald C. Pottier, Sidney Porter, Sylvia Powell, Lewis Procknow, Donald Proxmire, William Quinn, Anthony **Reagan, Ronald Reasoner, Harry Redford, Robert Rehnquist, William Reneker, Robert **Reston, James Rhodes, John Ribicoff, Abe Richardson, Elliot. Rickove.r, Hyman Riles, Wilson Rizzo, Frank Roche, John Rockefeller, Nelson Rockwell, Willard Rodino,,, Peter Romney, George Rowan, Carl ttuckelshaus, William Rumsfeld, Donald Rusher, William **Rusk, Dean Rustin, Bayard **Ryan, Leo Safire, William Sailinger, Pierre Salisbury, Harrison Salk, Jonas Samuelson, Paul Sanford, Terry Sarnoff, Robert W. Saroyan, Will iarrii Sawhill, John Saxon, David Scala, John Scihenke l , Chris Schlesinger, James Schulz, Charles Scott, George C. Scott, Hugh Scranton, William Seaborg, Glenn Seeger, Pete Sevareld, Eric Shapp? Milton Sheen, Fulton Shore? Dinah **Shriver, Sargent Shumway, Norman Simon,,, William Sinatra, Frank Smith, Howard K. October. 1976 Smith, Margaret Chase Sommer, Charles Speer, Edgar Spivak, Lawrence Spock, Benjamin Stapleton, Jean Steinerrl, Gloria Stevens, John P. Stevenson, Adlai, 3rd Stewart, James Stewart, Potter Stokes, Carl Stokes, Colin H. Stone, W. Clement Strausz-Hupe, Robert Sullivan, Leon Susskind, David Swearingen, John Symington, Stewart Taft, Robert Talmadge, Herman Teller? Edward Terkel, Studs Thayer, Paul Thomas, Danny Thomas,, Lowell Thurmond, Strom Tower, John Townsend, Lynn Trautman, Gerald Truman, Bess Tuchman, Barbara Tunney, John **Udall, Morris Ullman, Al Usery, W. J., Jr. Van Dyke, Dick Vidal, Gore Volpe, John Von Hoffman, Nicholas Vonnegut, Kurt Wagner, G. A. Wald, George Walker, Daniel **Wallace, George Wallace, Mike Walters, Barbara Warner, Rawleigh Wayne, John Weicker, Lowell Weinberger, Casper wellies, Orson White, Byron White, Theodore Whitmore, James Wilkins, Roy Williams, Tennessee **Wilson, F. Perry Wilson, Janes Q. Wilson, Thornton Woodcock, Leonard Woodward, Joan Wriston, Walter Yankelovich, Daniel **Young, Andrew Young, Coleman Zornaw, Gerald Zumwalt, Elmo National Public Board of Education 1290 Bayshore Highway Approved For Release 2004/10/13: CIA-RDP88-0#Y'~~RBBB BA6C$b01obr~'t a 94010 Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 CONCISE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE FIRST NATIONAL FORUM ON PUBLISM What .ib the pwtpo4 e o; the 4o4um? Our purpose, and that of the forum, is to explore the potential of publism as an ideologically neutral means toward realizing the goals of people throughout America and the world. Who .r.4 4ponson.Lna the Aonum? The National Public Board of Education is Inviting an as balanced as possible cross section of organizations and individuals to co- operate in sponsoring the forum, thereby assuring a rigorously fair discussion of all public issues. When and where .i4 the 4onum to be head? The forum is calendared for the week of November 27, 1977, in San Francisco, the birthplace of the United Nations. We have reserved accommodations at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel. Why have you invited 400 pubti -esteemed Americans to mode'uvte. thus and other. 4onum4 on pubtL m? We think that the. 400 most respected Americans, the objects of our search, are people with the greatest likelihood of bringing about thought on matters of greatest importance to America. Sa.n Does moderating the ~onum nece44aniey negaL' e my pkeaence at the Fnanci.4co dear:bmtion4? No. We recognize that many of the 400 may be unable to attend the San Francisco sessions but that they will want to moderate questions in their area of experience, nonetheless. Special communications equipment will be on hand for this purpose. IJ I accept your. invitation, doesn't this .imply cost, commitment, advo- cacy on endo ement o~ your ongawi.zation4'4 objectives? Unmistakably, no. Your acceptance serves, rather, as evidence of your public-spiritedness and your open-mindedness on questions of importance to the public. How #4 the ~onum related to other po44.i.b.te 4o& ti.on4 to 4ocJ.etat pnobtemb? Cooperatively. We are inviting proponents of all possible solutions to cooperate in the resolution of public problems. We would liken the forum to a garden of flowers using their differences to show their beauty. What quati.{c.iee you to pict on a rat .Drat. {Drum an pubti.bm? Although we have discovered publism, and have developed it to a sig- nificant point, we intend to cooperate with and to learn from every organization and every individual able to help us put on a publicly beneficial forum. W..LL the ne.sttLtb oA the 4onum be made pub!-Le? Of course. This is our means of valuing people everywhere. It is our hope that, together, we can contribute to thought in America on vital public Issues, thus conquering the tyranny of public ignorance. don Aunthen .in~onmctt on: National Public Board of Education 1290 Bayshore Highway Burlingame, California 94010 (415) 344-1173 Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 PUBLISM REPORTER formerl PU,LA C CH %5j P YZE November 1976 published by PUBL MR16 9% RM ~~q]1tq -~ L~ O 9 R OR M ATION ThL6 %epont pnea enta {y.indi,ng4 {nom a 4 eaneh eon pubti.c education and JnbonmatLon beginning with a counae on "Edueationaf. Vaei.detLea" at San Fnan- aiAco State UnLveuity in 1968. It .intends to eL,ah.ijy the di4tinetion between 4etten oneea (which nepnea ehat pn%vate .in tenea on .c eo og.i,ea I and the pubtie .inteneat. PUBLISM: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY--BEYOND CAPITALISM AND COMMUNISM Toward Checking Seller Society, and Creating a Public Society (A Declaration of Public Independence) "The capi.tatiat and Commun"t woAtda are two bankrupt 4yatema in con?!tct now, neither adequate to the nequ,ucemenata and po444bititi.e4 of a 4afe and decent woAtd. [Ghat L nequiLed .c4 a 4oAt o j nadLcat innovation and eeadeAAhLp that rescued the Amen.ican economic ay4tem #nom the depnea4.ion o6 the 19304." HENRY KISSINGER, Secretary of State as reported by columnist James Reston Dr. Kissinger's statement is part of a rising tide of experience and information which calls for a new era for humankind: an epoch safely beyond the profoundly futile and undeniably dangerous capitalist- communist struggle. Can there be any possibility, or any realistic method of escaping the hypnotic spell cast by capitalist, communist and other seller-driven forces? If a departure were feasible, what would be the agreed-upon features of the escape engine? We propose to show that publism can be the engine of public liberation, and that each and every American and world citizen can easily understand its value for the survival and betterment of all humankind. Publism is founded on a series of discoveries which have lain bare un- examined questions, and that have suggested solutions to several of the world's most appalling problems. In pursuing an understanding of events it has been useful to cast aside common assumptions about the nature of contemporary phenomena in order to reconsider their significance in fresh ways. Concern has been focused on the public factor and public Approved For ReleQ 1O r3 HVA bP8W3E315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 -2- effect, on lobbyism being sold as professionalism, on government school- ing being sold as public education. Special attention has been given to describing the seller classes or institutions as they differ from the public class, and ways sellers oppress and deceive the public--and themselves. Perhaps most Importantly, publism has issued from inves- tigation of public principles, values and purposes, whose understand- ing has brought about a coherent and practical sense of public society. This report continues with consideration for these discoveries as they unfold to describe 1) the existence of a seller society, and 2) an ap- proach to public society (primacy of the public over government and other private interests). How real is seller society? How dangerous? We have become aware of the power the word "public" has through Its association with ideologies, In determining not only the quality of education, but also the reliability of Information, the accountabil- ity of government, and even the success of democratic society itself. PUBLIC FACTOR AND EFFECT The action of the word "public" thus constitutes a "public effect" which may be stated as follows: Whichever iwteicea.t, pubtic- on, 4 eUen, cont OtA the meaning and app Lcctt on ob the ward "pubLLc" wilt 0240 cont4ot 40- cLety-a+t-.ecvcge. Society, zhute4ore, ih ether pubZi,c oA 4C22eh 4ociety. By this test, seller interests (specifically lobbies and governments) now control the public. For example, our exhaustive experience with government-school lobby- ists establishes their opposition to public hearings for the NPBE's search for public education. We are Inclined to agree this opposi- tion illustrates a first law for seller interests: the suppression of public information. Their grounds for refusal are "questions in the minds of educational leaders on the effects of the [public choice] system on the future of public education." Obviously, these educational leaders take "public" for granted. We do not. Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 -3- Their assumption, that they speak for the public, is altogether unac- ceptable, for it Is our principle that each of us be accepted as peo- ple--as the public, so far as our persons and children are concerned. We've found that the lobby system really does work--but only for a powerful (yet short-sighted) minuscule minority who can reach politi- cians. Lobbyism being sold as professionalism in fact deceives and disserves both the public-at-large and virtually every seller--with catastrophic effect. Lobbyism is seller (rather than public) access to government, and this condition systematically and decisively kills public information on all-important questions. GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING Public information killed? How else can one Interpret easily verified evidence 1) that "government schooling" is granite-hard fact everywhere obscured by claims that it is "public education"; 2) that such claims are extremely unprofessional (being utterly unscientific and, of course, self-serving); 3) that these same claims result In publicwide decep- tion? The effect of such duplicity undoubtedly destroys the hope for public information about public education--and very much more, as we shall see. The real question here, of course, is whether government schooling is in fact either "public" or "education"? Our experience with government schooling has helped us see into a more comprehensive and greater question: should seller forces, in either government or nongovernment sectors (or should the public, as the in- tended beneficiary) finally decide public policy? PRIVATE GOVERNMENT Clearly, the real nature of government may be private, and not at all public. We know that governments are used as fronts by lobbyists, often in dir- ect opposition to interests of the public. We also know governments have their own very special or private interests which must be either sold or forced upon the public. Doubtless, governments represent the seller, which Is to say the busi- ness, the special, the private Interests of government as well as non- government lobbyists, Do these pressures (government-school lobbyists, for example), by presenting themselves as "professional", as "public school educators", also use, deceive, or in any way misgovern the pub- lic? Does the lobby system in effect constitute a private theory of public information? Does it display a basic contempt for democracy? Is the regularly overlooked fact of lobbyism a cause of catastrophe for people everywhere? Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Apparently, neither public education nor democracy can flourish insofar as government serves as the agent of seller forces. The problem of private government runs very deep, but it has proved to be the key to our discovery of "seller" and "public" as the two under- lying classes constructive of a new public order, of a people consciously building a harmonious and just public society. SELLER AND PUBLIC CLASSES Who are the seller*, really? Since selling Is, of Itself, honorable, why do sellers sometimes fall to identify themselves? The seller class includes anyone selling ideas, services, and goods to the public for- money or other value. Philosophers (superpoliticians?), politicians, government and nongovernment regulators, professionals, corporate managers and workers are sellers, and of course, selling is a natural and potentially most beneficial human activity. But what of unprincipled and undisciplined activities? Should not selling deceptively (such as when the seller Issues false claims stat- ing he serves, accounts to the public) yield to the public? How can we cope with the most sophisticated and deceptive of all seller strategies: the iliigitimate claim that the seller is the buyer, through the use of the word "public"? The seller-identification problem is aggravated by sellers denying their true activities, because selling is entirely more difficult when the buyer understands the pitch. Many if not most sellers are also sin- cerely unaware of their role, because they are part of low-key systems -governments, professions, and assorted organizations-all asserting noble or "public interest" claims. Government, however, goes one step further, it says it is the public. Possibly the greatest source of misunderstanding camouflaging the seller class in every setting results from the misapplication of the terms "private" and "public''. Is not the "private" sector, when buyer, really public? The "public" sector, when seller, really private? To avoid ambiguity we have adopted "government" and "nongovernment" sec- tors as the two divisions of the seller class. Although "private" and "seller" are the same in fact, we avoid the term "private" whenever it unfairly focuses on nongovernment interests. The term "seller", in any case, accurately describes the operating principle. Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 THE SUPERSELLERS The most effective sellers in the world, dominating the sale of virtu- ally all Ideas, services, and goods, are undoubtedly those of capital- ism and communism. Both of these systems reveal remarkable similari- ties which give testimony to a substructural Ideology, to a deeper, more certain reality which may be called sellerism or privatism. Each habitually equates "government" with "people's", "popular", "republi- can", "democratic" or "public". Each (as special-interest lobbies, in the case of capitalism; as a political party, in the case of communism) sells through euphemization, using highly sophisticated techniques to corrupt language (witness cap- italist advertising and communist propaganda)-If not through calculated deception or downright suppression of information. Neither, directly or satisfactorily, accounts to the public. It is frightening that both of these supersellers also seriously threaten thermonuclear holocaust and the resultant incineration of modern human civilization to preserve their order. Both, Indeed, betoken the seller society. SOCIETAL FAULURE The apparent failure of the present (seller) system is not a secret to best-informed Americans. How else are we to read Dr. KTssinger's and the following statements? "We ate taek.ing to each o.the'i in 4honthand. We are u4.ing mean.ing.ees4 phtae- c.' Zi.ke "detente" and art the white wi,thdtaw- .ing ~t'ttket and ~atther 4tom teatity. The truth of the matter .iA that there no Longer .i.6 any ptaee to hide. We must make a major eUUott to avoid wait and not be nenvou.s." DEAN RUSK Former Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson "The Viet Cong and North Vietname4e de6eated u4 with 4upeA- iot . w.it... An idea .c.4 more powetjut than any m,i,P.i:tat y Sotee we can being to Vietnam."* "What we need in this heterogeneous bociety Lo enough o4 a common punpo4e to 4utvive." EDMUND G. BROWN, JR. Governor of California (*interviewed by William F. Buckley) "Whiee pre4etv.ing the 6undamen.ta.es of the Amen can RevoLu- tion, iea4L upon you [Stan6otd Jre4hman] to embank on a revo.e tLon just a progound ab the one which 4ptit the Amer- Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13:6CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 scan colonies nom Mothex England. The ptesexvation of demo- atacy demand6 no tesd." WALTER CRONKITE, TV news authority at Stanford University "Out 4 oc iety -i..6 4a Lira d i.4 matty, mi4 ena.bty to con tAot the 4 plead o4 nuc2eax a4m6 and nuc2eax mater i,at6 . We must do 4o i.j we axe to 4utvi.ve tong enough .to ~otm a better won.Ld." "In this countxy, advent A ement4 pnov.i de a 4 etting which 44 o4ten unnetated to the 4act6, but tempting and 4educt%ve-- #,iIze the detached white-gneen 4hwtteu in which alt "Amex- #can6" axe teptebented 4 t ving." DR. MARGARET MEAD, anthropologist-author "They (Ameni,cans ) 6eax that in the pursuit o4 theist otgan- .izationat goa24, the poUti.ciano and the bu6i.ne64men and the unions and the pto4a,6ion4 have toot 4i.ght of any tax- gex obUgati,on to the public and axe i,ndii4exent on won6e to anything that doe6 not bene~yit--.Lmmediatety and dixectty -them4 etv e6 on th wt i.n6 .i tutianb . " DANIEL YANKELOVICH public opinion analyst "It i6 .intexe6ti.ng to 4 peculate that both cap.ttatism and communi.4m may cottap4 a .tope thex, 4on dixect2y oppo4i to tea- 4on6--the Jonmen, because of gto44 neglect of the public .intexe6.t, and the tattex, because o4 xuthLe64 bup4e64i.on o, the private need..." "Potiticat cont ovensi.e6 do not teach to the heaart ab out modern maLa.i.4e, which -L4 the tobb o4 pensonat deci,4i.on. ai,gne64, complexity, Lntendepenaence and 4.mpex6on ' m axe the 6oux horsemen o~ the modexn wot.2d, tunn+ing nough6hod oven alt o4 u6 a. ke- Ze4t, night, and Centex." SYDNEY J. HARRIS, columnist "Lacking maze coherent phito4ophie,6, candidate6 wit not &"e above menety competing to puxeha6e the allegiance os pAivate Lntetest6...Peopte 4hould be citizen6 expxe44.i.ng then6etve4 a4 a eOpte a community of 4ha4ed vatue4, nathex than a6 met y a co ect'on o4 competing p4ivate #ntene6t6 inhabiting the flame eountAy." GEORGE F. WILL columnist "I'd be a6taunded i th i4 planet i s 4tc,tt going by 50 years Prom now. I don't think we Witt peach 2000. It wou2.d be a miitacte. " ALISTAIR COOKE journalist-historian Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13: f:JA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 "We deapenately need new ideas, great thoughta...Ptati.tude? Great tnuth4 o ten ate ptatitudea." DR. GOBIND BEHARI LAL, Pulitzer prize-winning science reporter "The academic community has let the nation down. IJ we want our young4tena to appreciate thevt heritage, we as panenta 6houtd demand that the academic 4y4tem teach the zeal eeo- nomic truth o J what hat made thins country as great as it i's... One o4 the obfectiona I encountered in teaeakchi.nq thin 4ub- jeet comet sxom aeademiciana who 4ay that i{c we cute to teach the 4ubject of basic eeonomie4 in out 4choot4 we must not ju4t teach about the 44ee-entenpnise 6y4tem, but o6 all other by4tem4, too Ouch a4 communism and 4oc%aWm. Tha,t'4 great, ab tong as .the teaching IA done aecuxately and objeel ivety." WILLIAM R. HEARST JR. Editor-in-chief, The Hearst Newspapers "More leadeuhip and .involvement in public a46ain4 by ci,t- izen4 #e needed in the pnea ent eJea o6 economic and p4 ycho- logAczzl depne44ion." JULIAN BOND Georgia State Senator "Aa o, this moment, the public #a nightly 4fzeptical of our practices and out preaehing4...Integnity i.4 not 4ome impnae- tieal notion dreamed up by naive do-goodena. Our integi ty .ca the 4ou.ndation ion the vent baoi4 o6, out abit i,ty to do buainea4. IJ the market economy even goes under, our 4avon- i.te villain won't be to blame. We will. IA we' ne not coneenned, then we' ne just not 4 enaitive to the xeatity oJ the ptobtem on today'4 woxtd." A. W. CLAUSEN President, Bank of America "There ib only one boAi.c value, one ba4ie idea, that can 5onm the babia ob our Ameniean 4tJtategy in world aJ6aino and provide an appeal by Americana to all the other peoples of the world: the desenae o6 6reedom and the extension o4 demo chacy." GEORGE MEANY President, AFL-CIO "it l.a wrong to 4uborn government o6jjicLalb thxough bribes and other # Legal activitieb. It la doubly wnonq when con.- ponate 6und6 are involved. It la management, and paxtLeutaxty the ehieg exee'Ltive o46ieeh, who 4et the moue and ethical tone jor a conpokation'4 decision-making pnoceaza. This commitment cannot be leglatated ox codi4ied, not can the %e- Aponsibitity be avoided. It cornea with the job." PERRY WILSON, chairman, Union Carbide Corp. Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13_8CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 "Panent4, iS you don't actively move you' pubttc 4choot4 S'om a labor manh.et debate into an organized patent action jot ed- uca.t onat ke4orm to en4ure a better education Son every ch 2d, you may 4oon.bee the end os pubt c education." DR.. HARVEY B. SCRIBNER, school chancellor, New York City, 1970-73 "We have the night to go to any 4choo.e in America but we can't pay the tuLtLon." REV. JESSE JACKSON, founder, Operation PUSH pointing to blatant con- tradictions within our society The above cross section of opinion points to our need to embrace a new and distinctive understanding of current problems. NATIONAL ENCOURAGEMENT We've received a most gratifying early response for our efforts from an entire cross-section of American leadership and citizens. Here are but a few public-spirited Americans who have selflessly given their encouragement: Bing Crosb endo'se your esso4t4 to insonm the Amen- J.can peop e about public choice? in education." Congressman Ronald Dellums, offering to assist us: ."in qe. ng icn oAm on eonce&ni_ng.Public Choice out into the community bon Su'the' di,4 cue4.ion." Congressman Leo Ryan: "The only teat an4We' to the eduea- toff pro nmn that thi4 country Sacu iA to provide the public w%th an adequate variety o6 choice4 a4 tong as the4e choice4 are not de4igned to create racial o' Si.nancia( 4 eg- 'egatLon." Congressman, Civil Rights Leader, Rev. Andrew Youn : eabe accept my eb wl e4 a' co nue 4uecea4 in your essort." "BUT WE ARE THE EXPERTS." Finally, to understand the perspectives of a bureau official who has concern for the public-at-large, we cannot improve upon a courageous letter to the editor of Harper's Magazine (October 1975): "Pete' Schuch'4 antLce.e (Why Regulation Fa.it4, Septembe') .c4 pe'eeptive, thorough, and balanced. It showed be tequiAed reading on every founna.U4t and potc,ti,cLan. My only comment Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 9 is on the closing paragraph. It is my .cmprea4.Lon that no program actual y has a .gauge valid constituency, eon .the s.cmpte reason that it is not 4ea4.ibLe..to subsidize the many at the expense of the #ew. (1~ the Aew have 4u~(4icient 4esou4ce4 at their dispo4aL, they ate pnobabt y able to identify and evade .tire 4 hon t end o& the stick.) U would be better, 1 think, to recognize that essentially all Large programs subsidize the sew at the expense o4 the many, and that i4 the nature oS the subsidi- zation can be made c.Cean to alt the participants, the pto- gn.am wiU said o J its own weight. I work so,% a regulatoty agency. We do not, as an .institu- tion, 1Lnd it palatable to express accutateLy the amount of harm we do. It is di icutt to tepott to Congnea4 that out job #4 bas.ica ty .cmpo4s.LbLe, because the people who maize the economy tun w tt tame Jurthen advantage o? any new set o4 tines that can be conceived. This #4 diiii.cuP.t because we ate all human, because we really like .to b tieve we are ac- comp 26hi.ng a net good, because Congress would probably gave the same job to some leas honest group of bureaucrats, and because you get along by going along. But we ate the experts. Whenever an outside skeptic tti.es to document any of the counter productive ej4ecta we have we Aimply prove that he doesn't have the 4act4. We can al- ways count on Congress to believe that we ate goLLow.cng the on.iginal mandate, and to #ntenpret any attack on out kesutts as an attack on out worthy purpose. 1s ,there a solution? yea, but not an easy one. It #4 ne- cessary to dig Sot all the 4acts, not just the ones which support the agency. Who really pay {nor good stamps? What drove the independent gad stations out of business? Who ready bene4its grom price controls on cU and gas? Who really reaps the beneJi.t os added educational funding? Which Aanmer prq.cta Jtom gatm subsidies? While .the conatituen- c.ies on each og these groups #4 the beneiithvuj, the small constituency will in every case have a Lange and vilol .in- terest, and resources to match, with the Hutt concuntence and 4uppott o4 the televent bureauch.acy. The issue, in my mind, is whether enlightened analysts, journalists, and pot- it cidn4 can work thew way down to the (acts. On a mote optimistic note, I do not be Leve that Large num- ben4 os citizens need to vote against their own 4eL -inter- est. It is 4uj~.ici.ent (.ij only Got a start) to per4o4m and publicize some thorough, hard-nosed, independent appraisals o4, who is reapy paying jot what." NAME WITHHELD Kensington, Maryland Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/1.3iflCIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Here we have it; an expert who should know attests to the fact that government supports the few at the expense of the many. PUBLIC VIEWS How do the American people now view capitalism? Government? A recent poll by Hart Research Associates found 33 per cent polled "be..Ueve the caps taU4t 4y4 tem ha4 neaehed At4 peak in term o{s pen- "onmance and Ls now on the decline." Neither does government appear to be the solution: 81 per cent said that they think "It would do mon.e. harm than good 'doh, the government Co .own and nun major. compan.iee. " "Thought, are but dre.amea t iU .the.ve e~{yee s be tried." -SHAKESPEARE Definitive analyses of seller society (and the full realization and flowering of publism) must necessarily await publicwide discussion. Nonetheless, the preceding may suffice to establish the fact of seller society. The moment we discover seller society we free ourselves to a new uni- verse of possibilities in public society. We free ourselves from the complete mercy of domestic lobbies interlocked with totalitarian par- t eT s of-worldwide scope. Indeed, we are no longer totally dependent upon governments, whether cruel or well-meaning, which are able to destroy mindlessly the promise of humankind. But so long as the public-at-large is kept uninformed of seller and public realities, all benefits consequent to public society necessar- ily will remain unrealized. Neither public information, nor public consciousness, nor public society is spontaneous; each requires the development of a formula to release humankind from seller society. Such is the purpose of publism. What is publism? How can we understand Its full significance? Even now (before publicwide discussion) we can see the major characteris- tics of publism: Publism refers to the values of the public. Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/131:1(;IA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Publism is an ideologically neutral meeting place for people of every belief and interest. Publism is a formula rooted in the democratic experience of the American people. Publism contrasts vividly with the insufficient and obsolete formulae originated in Europe for different conditions and different ages, including the captivating theories of Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations, 1776), and of Karl Marx (The Communist Manifesto, 1848), which have brought the world to its present unsafe condition. Through most of the 19th and 20th centuries the world was created in the images of Smith's or Marx's economic ideas. Their influence overshadowed, and at times derailed the ear- lier democratizing tradition of separation of nowers that had descended from documents such as the Magna Charta (1215), from Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1689), through Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws , down to the Ameri- can Foundina Fathers and thee. S. Constitution (1789). Of course, today democracies are a minority among the nations of the world. Publism, then, would revitalize the earlier democratic tra- dition. Let us remember that we can easily create publism, because as a people we are today heirs to an incomparably greater array of facts than any of the above theorists. Publism is a framework for the consideration of questions of natural importance to the entire public; a basis for a uni- fied theory of information; a testable standard of knowledge based in nature, and more certainly true than "knowledge" based in seller societies. (Seller society, obviously and inherently, is dependent upon trust and belief in either lobbyist or totalitarian frameworks. In contrast, belief in publism, commitment to publism, is not required.) Publism is a direct means to dissolve the deleterious effects of capitalism, communism, and other seller systems in a bath of understanding; in effect, publism is a remarkably simple tool which both the haves and have-nots can try without de- tectable detriment to the hones of either. Publism is not a trade-off (sacrificing one beneficial effect for another ; if publism doesn't work, we can always an back to our original feuds. Publism neither endorses nor rejects seller formulae but rather encourages public moderators to mediate the claims of all seller interests. (Public moderators are the self-inform- ina.public and their elected public - as distinct from govern- ment-?revresentatives.) Specifically, publism is a system of public principles, stud- ies, institutions and boards, designed to nrovide people APio MthForvR(klea t O4/1i1 Or! iOl -F008fia-d'fg'f3fkObb3'bbbb 56 Approved For Release 2004/10/13T2CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 and accuracy of information. Publism strives to realize lev- els of human understanding, of harmony, of security, of free- dom and of civilization which the present seller society is not looking for and therefore can never achieve. The basic principles of publism below, of Public Choice in Education (as in the Public Choice Reporter, Vol. 1, No. 1), and of the National Public Board of Education are the same. In spite of tragic Ideologi- cal distortions wrought by supersellers, the edeals of public inter- est are generally agreed upon throughout America and the world. In behalf of these principles, then, we seek further and-precise defini- tion for each public verity: Public: "Public" is the overall subject of this report, and, as we've see, it is the sovereign principle of public society. Who, precisely, Is the public? The public is the consumer, who shope and buys the ideas, services, and goods provided by the seller. Being such, the public is complementary to the seller, evaluating the sellers' claims and ultimately functioning as the employer of the seller. The public is each person in every commun- ity regardless of apparent differences of sex, of age, of race, of belief, of standing in the spectrum of political opinion. The public consists of all people joining in a harmonious dedication to human survival and betterment as a goal for all humankind. in a very real sense, you are the public. The public comprises a new class-the public class-that is contrasted to the worker-management classes (both of whom obviously sell, and who exhibit characteristics of seller- focused theories). The public class concept opens up a new basis for harmony among people everywhere, and encourages the growth of public institutions: the individual, the fam- ily, the community, ta public state (see below), and the world public. The discovery of seller and public roles thus points to a need to nourish truly public Institutions, that have so far been neglected, and frankly urges a supportive role for seller institutions. All people have a profound yearning to moor with their pub- lic class. The evidence is Indisputable and worldwide as can be seen by governments' us of alluring words meaning people ("public", etc.). Also witness in America the robust consumer and public-interest movements. (These movements, however, have yet to mature, for they may lack the clearly defined purposes and values of public society.) Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/11 f flA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 What is most Important to consider is that each public Insti- tution will naturally seek the fullest value among all seller offerings. For example--among the people-Who cares which seller makes the sale--so long as real value is found? In the local com- munity, Who really cares whether the employee or the employer Is the seller; at state and national levels Who is concerned whether government or nongovernment interests vend authentic value; worldwide, whether capitalism, communism, or other seller systems prove the value of their claims? Because the public class is neutral to every seller method, the public is uniquely qualified to moderate all public ques- tions and mediate all seller interests. Information: In our experience, the only way people can check governments and other seller forces is through information. Information is the compass which gives direction to all eco- nomic and political power. Information Is power (as David Halberstam has found), and public information is public power. Who controls information? Anyone can observe (as we have) governments and other de facto private organizations, con- sciously or not, promulgate lobbied, self-serving "informa- tion" while unreviewable nongovernment news media respond to government (as distinct from public) priorities. For in- stance, it is no secret that news media label the fact of government schooling "public education" thereby selling gov- ernment schooling as well as the news. Other instances of advertising, propaganda or ideology as information may more readily come to mind. Clearly, the present system of information is inadequate as a general theory of information. Our point is not to disturb the proper role of either non- government or government media whose business is in fact to sell Information and policy as they see fit. To be sure, on a world scale, American media has done a commendably excel-- lent job. Our point is, rather, to balance seller information with an unimpeachable quality of public information. Information of this quality can illuminate all other principles and there- fore be the key to public consciousness and human progress. Such information can also constructively regulate the public, balance the claims of sellers (in order to protect against demagogic and totalitarian governments), clarify public pur- poses, and significantly qualify the public to regulate the seller. These programs are ambitions, but as we've seen, they are very possibly imperative to human survival and well-being, Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13.1 IA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 and, as we shall see, they are remarkably feasible for the first time in human history by reason of the availability of unprecedented communications technology. To underscore our purpose in this matter, we precisely call our overall approach "informational publism:". To secure the necessary standard of discussion on public information and on a public society, we are inviting a balanced-as-possible list of 400 public-esteemed Americans (see attached roster) to moderate these questions, and to oversee the development of the National Public Board of Information. In good time, the formation of an International Public Board of Informa- tion seems inescapable. The role of media leaders being critical, we are inviting America's greatest media authorities to assist us in devel- oping an unimpeachable public--not government--information system (to the extent possible, one without conservative, liberal, or whatever political connotations). Community: Public community Is the consummate achievement of hu- mankind which one day can issue from public fellowship in concert with societal harmony. PUBLIC FELLOWSHIP: The most significant achievement of the NPBE is public fellowship, the voluntary reconciliation of the interests of a full public spectrum. SOCIETAL HARMONY: Also, since we all are at the same time both "public" and "seller", we can naturally achieve societal harmony, the comity of our seller interests to our public purposes. Because we are all sellers our public perspective can never be anti-seller. While capitalism, communism, and related ideologies press the classic formula for class conflict, be- tween business and worker interests, and even between gov- ernment and nongovernment sellers, ours is a non-violent, harmonizing formula which permits a natural approach to the still hypothetical classless society. Democracy: What is democracy really? Existing conceptions of "democracy" worldwide are largely habituated to the Montesquieuan ideal of governments with separated powers, established in the American Revolution; or to the Marxiao working-class Ideal, established in the communist and socialist governments (mostly since 1917). Today many nations, including the United States, combine these ideals as the interplay of constitutionalized "checks and balances" and the worker-corporate class struggle ethic in the present lobby system. Seen in this way, the present system amounts to seller-driven democracy (plainly, a con- tradictory set of terms). Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 lill 5R000300690001-6 O a` M = V m Approved For RIIMA 20g"/13: CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/1. 1A-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 And yet, the separation-of-powers experiment has served American government very well. Publist democracy therefore would extend throughout society, for the direct benefit of people, this (Montesquieuan) inheritance now limited to gov- ernment. For example, publism would create three great states in one society: the public state and two private states (government and nongovernment), each with powers suited to its nature, and each checking, balancing, and complementing one another. (in totalitarian societies, publism is a way of realizing two states [public and government states]. And globally, publism sets the foundation for a world pub- lic state, one complementary to the United Nations ideal.) Two hundred years ago, at a time when publicwide'information was impossible (or at least unreliable) society naturally placed its confidence in guided (seller) governments rather than in the public. Today, on the other hand, a veritable public democracy is possible. In fact, in America, the public state can be as- tonishingly easy to create-no law need be passed or defea- ted! What are the mechanics of a public democracy? The extraor- dinary capability of modern communications technology is available to serve public as well as seller purposes. For example, people now can identify public-esteemed leaders and elect public board members according to refined indices of benefit to the public and to exactingly scientific opinion polls, even on a daily and worldwide basis, whenever neces- sary or desired. This means the nublic can be empowered through a system of informed and responsible choices operating on a continuous basis for the highest number of people, compared to and par- allel to the present ratificatory system of voices (votes). Voting at present is exercised by rather few ootiew voting-ace population (by 53.4%% in the 1976 presidential election, regis- terinn a gradual decline since a high of 62.8% in 1960) and on noticeably few occasions (usually every 2 or 4 years). Professionalism: True professionalism, as distinct from lobbyism, fearlessly informs, never deceives the public; for such pro- fessionalism is really self-confident salesmanship fully com- mitted to public as well as to seller benefit. In light of human nature, professionalism may always be more of a challenge than a reality. In any case the professional standard can be attained most convincingly in the open forum, not in the obscure lobby. Because professionalism calls forth the greatness of our na- ture, the steadfast people in every profession will serve public society greatly. Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/11)(t3: CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Science: Science, as distinct from arrogant scientism, has fully proved its value to the people. However, perhaps because science is now a kind of public hero, sellers are able to use science to cloak their salables in a not-to-be-questioned scientific aura. Ever so little is scientifically known about either public nature or sales to the public. his is the case despite ha- bitual claims of communist historians, white-smock TV com- mercial actors and of eclectic bureaucrats. Even opinion pollsters can shade statistics into a kind of numerology. Not only is publism inherently verifiable, but, with publism, other societal formulae are also finally testable. Publism creates entirely more rigorous standards for science, avoid- ing the rampant scientism of lobbies and of totalitarianism. Education: Unmistakably, public education, as distinct from government schooling, is impossible unless people have ac- cess to basic Information on the meaning of public and "education". We have discovered a genuine approach to public education. We have found, for example, that public "choices" In educa- tion (based on an average annual outlay, in 1975, of $2000 per student) are much more valuable and believable to the public than "participation" or "Involvement" goals charac- teristically sought by PTA and other parent networks. These parent groups are systematically coopted by government boards on such basic Issues. (That government educators should call upon the public to "participate" in school programs Is an astonishing Irony-why not ask government to participate In the concerns of the public?) These have been among our most difficult lessons to learn; having learned them, we can now more realistically and com- pletely inform the beneficiary public how they can choose their own sense of public education. Econom : The principle of economy requires that the seller not be a welfare recipient who is disguised in the name of tTie public good. Economy also provides for competition between sellers, and therefore creates reasonable choices for an informed public. In money terms alone, the public can invest billions beyond comprehension simply by questioning seller doctrine. Limit- Ing our scope to dollars spent for education in the United States, people can shift control of up to $119 billion an- nually (1975 Office of Education figures) from seller inter- ests direct to the public as intended beneficiary, without costing a penny beyond the present education spending levell if our model describes a harmonic public society, as is at Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/14 7CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 least possible, we shall the sooner understand how total glo- bal resources are wasted. Economists can utilize the pub- list formula as a fresh means toward the fullest development (education) and employment (jobs) of human capacities. Can the public afford public information on a public society? It Is quite obvious that the public can not afford the incal- culably greater cost of deceptive seller "information". Pub- lism, therefore, is an investment without comparison. Choice: Choice is the catalytic principle which tests publism, and every principle, for coherence and definition. Public choice naturally tests every seller value. Public and choice are inseparable values; without either, neither value has real meaning. PUBLIC STUDIES In order to assure an exhaustive study of seller and public society, we are checking seller studies with an orderly formula for public studies: Publism: In the epistemological sense, publism is public philosophy, complementary to political philosophy. Publism searches for public purpose and sound, realistic approaches to human survival and bet- terment. As such, publism is an independent yardstick and a balance to seller philosophies, to capitalism and communism, for example. Publology : Publology is public science, a search for objective pub- nature, complementary to political science which is now subsumed by, and the logical client to, seller society. Democratics: Democratics Is the responsible and skillful practice of public self-government. As such, it is a valid and proper alternative to politics, the skillful practice of government of the public by the seller class. (For information, courses and forums on publism and related studies, inquire at the Burlingame office of the National Public Board of Ed- ucation.) PUBLIC BOARDS AND FELLOWSHIP CLUBS The public state is composed of a united system of public boards, at subnational, at national and at world levels, and concerns information and other public policies. These boards are designed to moderate pub- lic questions, to account to the public-at-large (rather than to gov- ernment or nonoovernment authorities) and to assume complementary ra- ther than adverse relationships to governments and other seller insti- tutions. Legitimized by refined democratic criteria, these boards provide pub- Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/ifg-CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 lic yardsticks and describe real checks, balances and alternatives to seller systems. As public boards, they can credibly invite all seller interests to forward information of precisely the same value to the public and to public boards as are forwarded to government officials. Obviously, these boards are instruments of extraordinary capability. They can detect the true effects of detente, nationalism and other is- sues of greatest national and global consequence. Unified as a public state, they can generate a third great voice in society, recognized as clearly as that of any voice Identifiable with seller society-as clearly as an Walter Cronkite, as any president, or as an possible world ruler on questions of direct concern to the well-be of the people. The National Public Board of Information has the goal of public infor- mation on public-policy questions in America. (Since Information in America Is not controlled by the political process, at least directly, it is not essential that public information boards be developed paral- lel to government bodies.) Public fellowship clubs answer a most profound worldwide need for in- terpersonal (and intergroup) hospitality and conviviality, directly addressed to the highest ideals of public society. These fellowship clubs can serve as harmonizing centers, as points of purpose and hope for our youth, the jobless, the disillusioned, for countless millions bypassed In every society, whose evergy can otherwise reduce the world to ashes. DECLARATION OF PUBLIC INDEPENDENCE The promise of publism fairly calls for a Declaration of Public Inde- pendence. In America the surging mood for public independence may be stronger than that for national independence 200 years ago; world- wide, It is common knowledge that many people look to America and the American people for ideas and leadership. Hence, we have plans for a magnificent, forward-looking celebration worthy of the highest ideals of the American people-and of people everywhere-after 200 years of national independence. In this spirit, we offer this report as a refinable (by the 400 Public-esteemed Amer- icans) and perfectible (by the public-at-large) Declaration of Public Independence, as a democratic basis for America's Third Century, and as information for people everywhere interested In an harmonious pub- lic society. The cry for public independence is timely; it can rescue an America which now Is noticeably dispirited. THE VERIFICATION OF PUBLIC SOLUTIONS These are the broad features of publism, of a refined American demo- cracy. Almost certainly, we have not yet told, nor can we see the full Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13n1817-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 potential of publism. To really understand the possibilities of the program the best we can do at this point is to seek further verifica- tion of our findings by submitting them to the unassailable rigor of publicwide review. In this way the public can continuously develop Its own amply coherent and useful sense of publism. In view of statements by the distinguished Americans above regarding the sobering, even terrifying aspects of seller society, the publist formula can have timely value for all. This applies as well to the capitalist and communist supersellers, for they, too, may want desper- ately to extricate themselves from their addiction to mutual terror, to stupendous waste, to a suicidal struggle. In fact, there is very good reason for capitalist and communist leaders, finding each other's ideology unacceptable, to vie for the support of the conscious public as the unifier, harmonizer and constructor of public society. To be sure, there are some who will view this perspective as improb- ably optimistic. This we accept with the awareness that the impossi- ble has regularly throughout history yielded to the obvious. (We re- cognize that extrapolations from the present seller society give ample reason for pessimism; however, the goal of public society is, we sub- mit, more valid and allows for more positive actions and achievements.) In any case, the range of opportunities inherent in publism affects the entire scope of society; any number of benefits could dawn upon the world. Why not a veritable public-education system featuring $2000 choices in education? Why not an independent American public no longer at the complete mercy of unseen lobby forces, no longer to- tally dependent upon government? Why not a world having public con- sc usness beyond the divisive habit of nations? Certainly, we can no longer responsibly withhold information on publism. Publism belongs to the American People. NATIONAL MODERATORS But how can we guarantee the public unfailing Information on all- important public questions? Without powerfully prestigious moder- ators heard on a national, and when necessary, international forum, the facts and merits in publism cannot accurately be heard above the deafening roar of seller Interests. Ironically, many seller forces may be unable to open their minds to developments which can really be in their own best interests. We have heard the American leaders (above) urging the American people to take decisive heed of a starkly serious state of affairs. We are encouraged that our leaders understand our plight. Just In this spirit, we invite these American leaders to moderate publism for its potential value for humankind. We also are inviting many others, 400 in all, to balance the experience, including President Ford, Mrs. Martin Luther (Coretta) King, and anyone else who can help forward a faultless discussion of nublism and of public society. Let us understand that we-both the American people and the world pub- Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 Approved For Release 2004/10/13-2 A-RDP88-O1315R000300690001-6 lic-lose nothing by opening our minds to the proven merits of pub- lism; that we court ignorance, misunderstandings, and possible so- cietal failures should we miss its apparent opportunities. AMERICA NEED NOT DEFAULT... There's really no need to allow America to default, to drift onto a foreseeable storm of violence in this country, and multiplying hostil- ities abroad. Having publism, we have now a single thought, a single approach reasonably able to unify the interests of every individual and the world public. We can even take heart in the vision of a little-known American con- tributor, D. E. Colores: "I4 mankind cowed ube .itb di4jehenceb the way 4toweu in a ,garden do, we'd have a baeonced wottd." Eugene A. Haggerty Superintendent National Public Board of Education Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300690001-6 - ? NAT 1 B L 2C B 0 A R D O F E D U C A T 1 0 N* 1290 ,> rh r ' k4"ase 04/10/13: CIA-R g o000M6 1- $~3 Bun c,ngame, Cat c orna.a 94010 San F.'canc i,a co : (415) 661-9980 Eugene A. Haqqerty? Superintendent Marian E. Hampton, Chair , Chair, San Fnancieco Community Cod~ tcon on Education Eugene E. Bieck, M.D. Chjtdren'4 +404p.,i tai, StanAord llnLvena.i ty Fernando Gonzalez l,i.necton, Bay Area Center 40)t Attenna ve Education David H. Keyston Executive VLeP Pnea.i.dent, Anza Paci ji,c Corporo.ti.an Gertrude Wllks PreaLdent, Mothena Am Equat Education; member, Board 04 Supervj-6ora, East Pato Alto, Cc UAonnria *Vue to the undi aputed ,importance o l( pubtic I,n~onma .i.on, the NPBE -i4 '4 erv- .ing a. a prou.c a,innal Natinnat Public Board o4 Tn?ouma. i.on (NPBT) . 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