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Episode #50 OBD: Dec-64 TRT: 60 min Description: This month’s AT ISSUE surveys the growing number and variety of unpleasant sounds that are plaguing the American public today. Through narration, still photographs, film footage, sound recordings, and interviews with experts, the program views America’s acute noise problem, its many causes, the physiological effects, and the steps being taken to curtail it. THE NOISE-MAKERS lays much of the responsibility for the country’s increased noise level on modern advances in technology (e.g. jet airplanes), the population increase resulting in new, but “thin-walled” apartment construction, the proliferation of noisy household appliances (e.g. vacuum cleaners, dishwashers), and the growth of the trucking industry and automobile traffic. According to Dr. Samuel Rosen, a prominent New York ear surgeon who appears on the program, this rising noise level is responsible for a great increase in the loss of hearing. The program looks at areas in America where the effects of noise have had their greatest impact. For instance, in the southern part of San Francisco viewers see houses that have been literally shaken to pieces by the noise of jet airplanes flying overhead. A renting agent in New York City describes the complaints of tenants concerning the flimsy protection modern apartment dwellings afford them against outside noise. New York City Housing Commissioner, Harold Birns leads substance to these claims by charging that apartments offer little refuge against “the alien contraptions which incessantly seek to attack and destroy man’s nervous system.” The suburbs, once considered the hub of peace and quiet, have not been spared from the growing profusion of noise. According to a “noise” consultant, power mowers, chain saws, garbage trucks, road construction work, and commercial trucking have made the country’s suburbs sound almost as noisy as some of its big cities. Efforts are being made to reduce the noise level. Leo Beranek of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, an acoustical consultant firm, describes how noise is transmitted, the various devices such as noise cushions that can be employed to reduce it, and the relative costs of such devices. Professor Cyril Harris of Columbia University, the president of the American Acoustical Association, points out that economics is the basis of the issue, and that noise can be suppressed effectively if dealt with at the source. However, he also notes that the technical problems are great and the constitutional restrictions, perhaps, even greater. AT ISSUE: NOISE-MAKERS also examine the legal restriction and their degree of enforcement in handling the noise problem. Focused on are New York and California laws which regulate the degree of noise permissible in industry, the provisions regarding noise that are currently being written in New York City’s building code, and the successful efforts of Memphis, Tennessee’s police and traffic departments to make that city one of the quietest in the nation. However, the overall picture shows that the number of anti-noise laws is inadequate, and the enforcement of those in effect is at best, spotty. Wolf von Eckart, architectural critic for The Washington Post, sums up the cultural implications of noise in America by concluding that it is “detrimental to the art of living.” AT ISSUE: THE NOISE-MAKERS A 1964 production of National Educational Television Executive producer: Alvin Perlmutter Producer: Andrew Stern Associate producer: Lois Shaw Writer: John O’Toole

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INTERVIEW CONTINUES: Robert Lipsyte 18:30 You're obviously not relying on on the media, even public television to get the message across. Ralph Nader 18:35 Oh, yes, we are because one of the things that community advocate, Ellen Thomas did in that small town in Connecticut was Council, the local public access channel where volunteers were there. They didn't know what the cable system had obligated to provide by way of, of facilities and equipment. And she got them underway. And now they are showing the city council meetings of selectmen meeting as they're called other board meetings, and they are covering the town. So this is an example Mr. Lipsyte of what I am talking about. We had our 20th anniversary of Nader's Raiders a few weeks ago. And instead of having a whole day agenda, on the same kind of problems we read about in the media, air pollution, pesticides hunger, we developed what we called an empowerment agenda. And these are the issues that for example, the establishment of group buying by consumers so they increase their bargaining power visa Vee insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, utility companies fuel buying consumer groups, and also develop an expertise through their full time staff to redress the imbalance of power between corporations and consumers on momentous economic issues. Robert Lipsyte 19:57 Now, I noticed that in in all your list you haven't thrown up against the wall, those issues, crack, AIDS homeless, which generally come up with people say what's going to happen in the 90s. Ralph Nader 20:11 Let me give you an indication of how they're related. One of the things we want to do is start a youth citizen court. Older kids teaching younger kids a proven success in areas where it's been tried around the country. Why isn't it tried more often, we want to try to implement Professor Edgar Kahn's idea which he calls service credit. So the time dollar, where he gets communities establishing a computer bank, and all these millions of Americans who have no money, but they do have time. And if they spend that time, servicing others, they can bank that time in a computer, run by a community group. And then they can get people servicing them. When they need it. For example, older people tutoring younger people, younger people cutting older people's grass, or shoveling your sidewalk, or younger people helping middle class middle aged people, and they transport older people. This is called the service credit time dollar. It's now operating in 10. States programs in 10 states led by Miami, which is generating 8000 hours a month, and people who were for alone in their community because they didn't have money, they had plenty of time, I know actually encouraging others to generate service credit, bank him in the computer, and then get help where they need it. And in return, it's an alternative form of currency. That's why he calls it the time dollar. Now you see how that binds the community and the neighborhood together, no bureaucracy, no tax money needed. But that's the kind of empowerment agenda that we need, including political action committee or campaign finance reform, Robert Lipsyte 21:53 and you think things like that will have impact on age and crack and homelessness. Ralph Nader 21:59 Of course, one of the reasons why there's such desolation at the local level in poor areas is because the government programs haven't worked. There was a study out in Northwestern University recently, which said that 780,000 people receiving government services and welfare in Cook County, Illinois $4.8 billion is going to those people every year. If they all got it in cash, each family would have $18,000 a year which is above the poverty level. Instead 80% of that money never reaches those people. It is absorbed by the welfare bureaucracy and all the other ways to drain off the taxpayers dollar miss you know, Robert Lipsyte 22:40 Mr. Nayar, let me let me ask you this, what so much of what you're saying is, is really personal empowerment, but there's always will be larger forces. And and the things that we've seen recently is the continuing power of the multinational corporation, the increased power of Japan, glass, nose, I mean, these are things that will have impact on the 90s.