New U.S. Govt “Business-like”

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31908, 8 February 1969, Page 2

New U.S. Govt “Business-like”

Americans looked forward to a more business-like approach to the running of their country under President Nixon, a Long Island newspaper editor, Mrs I. L. Cahn, said last evening. “We feel there has been a lot of money, time and effort spent inefficiently on the Great Society under the Johnson administration,” she said. “The aims of the programme were wonderful, but they were handled badly.” Mr Johnson probably went too far too fast, wasting enormous sums of money without achieving what he set out to do, Barbara Cahn said. “We feel Mr Nixon has much the same goals as Mr Johnson, but that he will administer them better.” The “Massapequa Post,” which Mrs Cahn and her husband own, supported Mr Nixon in 1960 and in 1968. Awards Published in the town of Massapequa, Long Island, about 30 miles from New York City, their newspaper was recently judged the best weekly in New York State by the New York Press Association—the second time it has

won the honour. It has also won many awards for community service in the State and for its feature stories. Mrs Cahn, who handles the political and general news and writes three editorials for the weekly, has been placed several times in the National Newspaper Association’s Herrick Award for editorials on Government topics. Mr Cahn is in charge of the business side of the newspaper. “Husband and wife newspaper teams are very common in the United States. It is a tradition in the weekly press,” Mrs Cahn said.

In New Zealand, Mrs Cahn will write articles about the country and the people and Mr Cahn will take photographs, as well as slides and movie films to illustrate lectures he will give to community organisations. “We started taking an annual trip to a foreign country about 15 years ago, writing and illustrating articles about our travels to tell our readers something of what we have seen,” Mrs Cahn said. “I don’t do definitive analyses but merely introduce the countries to readers, who are begibing to travel, to give them some insight into what they might expect.” They have travelled extensively through Europe, the South Pacific, Israel (twice), through the United States, and in Australia. “And in all the touring we have done through agencies we have never been looked after with such efficiency and warmth as by the Government Tourist Bureau at New Zealand.