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                              Address by         P11 093636
                            Elmer B. Staats
                Comptroller General of the United States
                                at the
                         Commencement Exercises
                       College of Social Sciences
                       Brigham Young University                       a   3
                             Provo, Utah
                           August 15, 1975


               Recipes for Living in a Complicated World

     President Tanner, Dean Riddle, ladies and gentlemen. Two honors

are extended to me today:  the privilege of talking to you all,

especially you of America's  future who are about to graduate; and the

selection of me to receive, this year, the Abraham 0. Smoot Public

Service Award for service to the community and the Nation. I am grateful

for both these honors.

     In Washington, where I have lived and worked most of my life, they

tell many stories--some cruel, some charitable, some witty, and some

windy.  A popular word in this Washington dialogue today is future.t'

There is a World Future Society in the capital which publishes a magazine

called The Futurist.  Everybody talks about the future and to some extent,

we are learning how to plot our future, but this is still a new science.

Well, here I stand as I said--looking at America's future:, you in this

audience.  I am not trying to be prophetic. This is what you are-

     At the same time, I feel a little like a certain U.S. Senator they

tell about in one of those stories.  It seems the senator had as his

administrative assistant a former newspaper reporter who had worked for

him for many years, ever since he had been governor of his State. This

man was a better speech writer than his boss and the senator had developed


                                -72

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