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         %AUTHOR POLITICAL EXPERIENCE IDEALS VALUES 911208

     The  Japanese  attacked the USA because in  terms  of
their ideals and values they were frustrated with the USA,
uninformed  about the USA,  and believed that  they  could
manipulate others in the presence of the USA.   They acted
in ignorance of the ideals and values of the USA,  and  in
ignorance of the potent power that the USA could bring  to
bear  upon  them.   The Japanese did not seek  to  resolve
their conflict with the USA,  they created a contest which
they sought to win through domination.

     Should  anyone experience frustration because of  the
contrast between  their  ideals  and the ideals and values
articulated in these essays,  they will do will  to become
informed about the ideals and values  of the author,   and
informed of the quiet political power of the author.   For
this  reason  the  author here offers an  account  of  his
political experience:

     My  mixing  of science,  politics and religion  began
early.    I  was elected President of my 6th Grade  Class,
active in the High School Science Club,  and was Chair  of
the Geneseo, Illinois Christian Youth Fellowship.  At Park
College  I chaired the Academic Problems Committee of  the
Student Government---dealing with problematic professors--
and  was  active  in efforts to draft new bylaws  for  the
student  government.    I   initiated a tradition  of  the
student    government   of   annually    recognizing    an
outstanding  member    of   the   faculty   and    brought
students    and  administration   together   during   some
times  of   mutual misunderstanding;    having  served  as
house-boy  in  the President's Home.

     While  working  on my Master's Degree  at  Washington
University  I  did  informal  research  on  fall-out  from
nuclear weapons testing the the continental USA and in the
Pacific.  My work was recognized with a few pictures of me
at work when the  formation of the "Saint  Louis Committee
for  Nuclear  Information"    was announced in a two  page
center  spread  in  the St.   Louis  Post Dispatch.    The
magazine "Environment" is an outgrowth of the formation of
that group.

     While working on my Ph.D.  at Tufts University I  was
active  in the Social Concerns Committee of  First  Church
Cambridge,   Congregational  and  involved  in  the  peace
movement   in   association   with   the   Fellowship   of
Reconciliation,   the American Friends,  and the Committee
for  a Sane Nuclear Policy.   I  was march captain  for  a
protest march from Boston Commons to the nuclear submarine
yard  at  Groton,  Connecticut;   and  was  one  of  seven
nominees to  represent the US East Coast Peace Movement at
the  meeting of  the Big Four  in London in the  summer of
196?.

     While  in  the  Boston Area I began the  practice  of
flipping  a post card in my ancient type-writer and typing
a  brief note to the Christian Science Monitor;  of  which
they  printed  about half.   The Monitor featured  a  much
longer piece of mine on the impossibility of inter-stellar
space  travel  in a traditional human interest box in  the
middle  of  the  editorial  page.   Thus  were  laid   the
foundations for my practice of writing many essays.

     My letter writing to the newspapers continued when  I
came  to  Coe.    Under the editorial  leadership  of  Art
Heusenfield at the C.R.  Gazette virtually all my  letters
were published.   I  suggested to Mr.  Heusenfield that it
would  be  good  to  open the  paper  for  more  extensive
commentary by citizens such as me who might be  interested
in writing significant editorial commentaries,  and I gave
him a couple dozen of my essays as an indication of what I
might  offer.   Soon thereafter the tradition of  Outlooks
Columns  was  started  in the Gazette  and  I  contributed
regularly  to  it until I found that it appeared  that  my
work  would long term be more fruitful if concentrated  on
publishing my essays on computer media.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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