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Show And If You Don't Get Admitted There, What Other College Would You Like To Shut Down? DESERET NEWS ART BUCIIWALD SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Gaps Within Gaps We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired PAGE FDirORIAL 10-- THURSDAY, WAY 8, 1969 WASHINGTON What everyone is discovering in the recent youth turmoil is that there are gereration gaps within gaps. g e neration The over 30 dis- - Ef tinction, as 'ar as Too Much Defense Is Better Than Too Little the generation gap is concerned, passe and now only a few years sepa-rat- e the groups that aren t communicat- ing with each other. When even the experts disagree on the effectiveness of missile system and the the proposed Safeguard need for it, what is the ordinary citizen to believe? This is the quandary in which Americans find themselves this week after two panels, whose members included eminent scientists, issued conflicting reports on the controversial anti-ballist- ic A As a study commissioned by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy sees it, the Safeguard system cannot perform effectively the missions suggested for it, would start a new round in the arms race, and besides the Soviet Union cant threaten a first strike attack for five to seven years. Not so, replies the National Strategy Committee of the American Security Council, which tprms the ABM the soundest insurance for peace and against war that the U.S. can buy in 1969, for the 1970s. As Americans weigh the merits of the contradictory it would be well to bear these funclaims and counter-claimmind: in damental points firmly missile defense system First, Russia has an are Soviets wasting their time and but we dont. Maybe the if But hardware. are, such they they dont know it, money on to been have said are developing missile defenses since they them. If Russia can develabandoned and 15 havent for years can do as much. we ABM effective an surely system, op without the Second, Safeguard system or something like to shoot down even & single missile unable seems U.S. the it, fired at us by accident, let alone an entire barrage launched on purpose. Third, imperfect though the Safeguard system may be, an imperfect defense against a missile attack is certainly better than none at all. Fourth, its hard to believe that any shortcomings in the ABM system cannot be overcome. Surely a nation that has sent rockets and satellites into outer space with pinpoint accuracy, as the U.S. has, is capable of doing what is technologically necessary' to defend itself. Fifth, if Russia develops an effective ABM system but the U.S. doesnt, Americans become subject to nuclear blackmail. Sixth, as for Safeguards supposedly setting off a new round of the arms race, theres no gettirg around the fact that Russia didnt express an interest in nuclear control talks until just after the U.S. announced it intended to mount a missile defense system. W'ith the lives of millions potentially at stake in this age of mass annihilation weapons, if we must err it should be on the side of too much defense rather than too little. ic Water holds a fatal fascination for toddlers and young children. With the spring runoff season at hand, the need to child-prodangerous streams from toddlers and young children is particularly important d As this weeks tragic drowning of a Sandy girl showed, it isnt enough to fence a canal and then assume the problem has been solved. A small child can wriggle through or under almost unbelievably small holes in a fence, as the Sandy tot did. Constant attention to such fences is essential. Although fences are no safer than those without. cure-al- l, streams with fences are Unfortunately, little has been done by public agencies to fence the streams since a drive was launched by parents three years ago following the drowning of a Granger At that time, canal companies estimated it would cost $4,498,560 to fence Salt Lake Countys 213 miles of main canals which, they maintained, would bankrupt them. And certainly costs have gone higher since. But not all the streams need to be fenced, only those in more populated and most dangerous areas. Furthermore, couldnt the costs be shared among various property' owners and canal companies so that no one group would carry too heavy a burden? The problem needs a fresh examination. There are strong reasons to expect significant changes for toward Europe, Britain, the better now that Israel and the United States President Charles de Gaulle has removed WASHINGTON himself from office. and it seems If this proves true it would reanimate the spirit probable of the whole Free World. It m--- es Afterthoughts . . . To the mechanists who still stubbornly insist that the universe is just like a machine, one can only repeat Robert Frosts question: Did you ever see a machine without a pedal for the foot, or a lever for the hand, or a button for the finger? fg and anti-Britis- h. It wasn't even it Gaulle. They did so in the was pro-D- e presidential elections of 1965 when the total vote of his opponents was substanthis tially higher than De Gaulles after all his opponents were explicitly critical of the mainlines of De Gaulle's foreign policy. Charles de Gaulle Unquestionable loved and idolized and idealized his France, but it is hard to escape the conclusion that he disdained the French people. And now the French people voted to take back control of their government. It is sometimes overlooked that the R. Drummond U. Drummond strength and security of the free nations come primarily from what they do in behalf ot each other, not what they do against their adversaries. This is where De Gaulle did his greatest harm. He had his vision fixed on the past and he never wavered. He wasnt strong enough to harm his enemies but he was strong enough to hurt all of the causes which his allies were ready to embrace In the common good. What, then, are some of the things which can be expected to flow from the departure of Gen. De Gaulle who for so long vetoed so much against so many? Think what it would mean for the free Woild to make a fresh start in these diiections: 1 A resumption of the movement toward a European Europe, with a high degree of political unification which the Germans, the Italians, the French and others increasingly endorsed until De Gaulle interposed his massive non. 3 President Nixon's proposed repeal of 7 per cent investment tax credit is dangeiously shortsighted. It is gratify ing, of couise, that lie has asked for an early reduction of the 10 per cent c i n c ome-t- a surcharge. But to compensate for the loss i n revenue, he should have scheduled much deeper cuts than he has in the present profligate level of federal spending. This he has not had the courage to do. Instead, he proposes to reduce the income surtax on individuals at the price of increasing the t.ivs on corporatonis. Tlii' m.ij he politic, il' popular, but in it Hill pune a cosily ex change for every bodv t!r loii'. HENRY HAZLITT ini Thp high tax on corporation income, which for large coiporations now averages close to 52 per cent, is the most dubious part of our whole tax structure. Corporations are the key productive element on which the whole nations Income and economic growth depend. The economy grows only by new Investment, by the expansion of its productive plant. The more and better tools and equipment we put into the hands of the workers, the more hourly worker-capitproductivity increases. And the more productivity the mure labor is paid in real v ages. di.teieiice between Top d: joi.Uio Ai.ic.ican and fmeign wages is almost wholly the result of tills dif.erruce i:i investment per winker. The National Industrial Conference Board calculated that as of 1964 the investment of American industry in plant and equipment amounted to more than 17,000 per employe. The present figure must be considerably higher. To encourage such investment Presi dent Kennedy in 1961 recommended and Congress subsequently enacted a 7 per cent investment tax credit. Its purpose, in the words of then Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, was to increase our efficiency and productivity at a rate at least equal to that of other leading industrialized nations and to bring our tax treatment of capital Investment into line with the standards which our European competitors have used so successfully." Mr. Dillon insisted that the credit must be a permanent part of our tax code as opposed to a temporary remedy for recession. 4 A more politically united and economically strong Western Europe which can do more than anything else to end the cold war, build East-Wedetente m substance, not just in appearance, and safely work toward a mutual reduction of the confrontation of Warsaw forces. Pact-NAT- None of these things will come all at once or quickly. National policy doesnt turn 180 degrees overnight, but several or all of them are likely because they reflect the trend in Europe and in France before De Gaulle imposed his personal blockade, and they reflect the clear trend of French In recent years. President Nixons trip to Europe was fortunately timed. He wisely stressed that the United States wants to see a Europe united by its own initiative, not by ours, and strong enougn and independent enough to make its own decisions. This will make changes in French policy easy. De Gaulle did much to rescue France from economic and parliamentary chaos, but when he was free to look ahead he looked backward. voter-opinio- n v Nixon now calls the credit a to blMiip.s investment and contends that the not i for i' lias passed. Iii the pally Gib." ho says. America's productive capacity needed prompt modernization to enable it to compete with industry abioad. But the need for new investment for increasing efficiency and lowering costs is constant and unremitting. It is even greater today than in the early 60s. Our export surplus has been shrinking to the vanishing point. The American steel industry is fighting desperately even to hold its markets at home. To repeal the Investment credit can only hurt our competitive position and aggravate our balance of payments problem. v The idea, recen.ly expressed bv of the Treaty David M. Kennedy and others, that rorio,'ate invcstme.it is enusmg inf! uion is a nargnous f ida If is inflation, the increase m the money supply, that tends to i, urease investment as well as consumption. But President Nixons tax proposals amount to saying that instead of part of the new money going Into increased investment gull more of it should go into increased consumption. This a shortsighted view from the standpoint cf the economls strength and growth. You have no idea. Theyre a bunch of spoiled brats. Theyve been given too much. Everything comes to them on a know what silver platter. We i' is to light for something, but a 13-is hardly out of diapers and ear-ols how to run hes trying to tell their lives. v d teen-ager- to I naturally sought out a see if they were having a generation gap. You bet your sweet life we are. The subteen-ager- s are disgusting. What they need is a good beating. I assumed the generation gap would but I was wrong. stop with 11 year-old- s friend of my daughter An said the most hopeless, useless task was trying to get through to the 8 and , . - - she said. They ruin everything, alThey wreck the school bus, theyre use laiv noise, dirty they making ways guage and theyre mean. Ugh. . the rext day, and I saw a he confirmed how serious the generation gap had become. If you think were bad, he said, throwing a rock at a cat, you should see the kids in kindergarten. Urges Wilderness Area On behalf of our members in Utah and nearby states, I want to thank you for your excellent March 11 editorial, How Large Should Uinta Wilderness Be? You have done the conservation cause a real service by explaining some of the issues involved in this important matter and expressing support for the establishment of the High Uintas Wilderness. We stiongly endorse the Forest Service proposal to include the 102,000-acrUinta River drainage in the High Uintas Wilderness. The Uinta River unit represents magnificent pristine wilderness which, once destroyed, can never be restored. Downstream sitps and thp already partially-develope- d Moon Lake area, offer alternative watpp storage opportunities that will not destroy irreplaceable wilderness values. The Bureau of Reclamation should be encouraged to consider them. We have spent many enjoyable days in the superb High Uintas wild country. It is the only National Forest wilderness in Utah and a great recreational attraction to visitors. Citizens should urge its prompt establishment under law for wilderness purposes. -C- LIFTON R. MERRITT Director of Field Services, The Wilderness Society Denver e Put Children First - I am a third grade school teacher and a good one, and I applaud your recent editorial calling cm the Utah Education Assn., to put children first in their contract negotiations. It is my conviction that if our children arent getting quality education, it isnt because their teachers dont have the supplies and equipment but, rather, because their teachers (many of us) arent quality teachers. 1107 It is true that a tax credit may not be the soundest way to encourage corporate investment. A much better way would be to allow corporations to write off depreciation faster and more completely than they can at present. The truth is that with present overall corporate tax rates, even allowing for the 7 per cent tax credit, our tax system is on net balance heavnew investment, not ily penalizing subsidizing it. If that is indeed the choice, it would be much better to continue the 10 per cent individual income-tasurcharge than to repeal the 7 per cent investment tax credit and to endanger our economic growth, the rise of wages and jobs in the capital industries. GUEST CARTOON - AL NAGEL E. South Tempi Sex And The Schools Much has been said lately concerning sex education in the schools. It i3 refreshing to find a U. S. congressman outside Utah take a firm stand against this insidious threat to our youih. We are referring to the Honorable James B. Utt from California who, in a rcreH 'Hcrre' released March 26, gives information concerning the dangers of the SIECUS-propose- d programs and objectives. We will be happy to provide this statement without charge to any of the readers of the Deseret News who will send a stamped, envelope to us at Box 111, Logan, Utah. --MR. x Mi. "subsidy I are pretty bed? The said. Penalizing Economic Growth the We students said, Two know what we want. We want the right to aiive cars. Why should the 16- - and be given licenses? If we'ie old enough to go to school, we're old enough to drive. They better listen to us, because if they dont theyre going to have to deal with the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR free-tradin- g is probable: Because Gaullism without De Gaulle is hard to conceive and would be hard to carry out. Because De Gaulle leaves office not only at his own volition, not through illness or death, but by the decision of the French people. Because the majority of French voters have already shown themselves opposed to the central thrust of De Gaulles foreign policy which was n, Al-luii- te A 2 A welcome to Britain as a participating, coequal ally in the cause of European integration, politically and economically, including membership in the Common Market which Britain has so long sought and De Gaulle, alone among the Europeans, has so long opposed. 3 The prospect that Scandinavian countries and others, along with the United States and Japan, can ultimately join in the widest possible area to the vast benefit of all. THE DRUMMONDS By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND blunt-spoke- of Western Europe; suopoited the creation of the North Treaty Organization for mutual aid in event of attack on member NATO nations; sent U.S. forces to South Korea as part of a U.N. peace force to repel North Korean Communists; initiated the Truman Doctrine, committing $400 million in military aid to Greece and Turkey to thwart a Communist takeover; called for the Berlin Airlift of 1948, when Russia challenged U S. access to West Berlin; and "didnt hesitate a minute in using nuclear power to gain Japans surrender, rather than risk half a million U.S. casualties in taking the country by land. Still spry and brisk, Mr. Truman not only has left a deep mark on history, but continues to advise his successors when rerues4 rd. As h another m?vstc' 'm Vs lifo locbv. we .Americans with join everywhere in wishing him health and hapniners. ear-ol- d France Will Now Go Forward Happy Birthday, Harry Besides being a milestone to the former president, the 85th birthday of Harry S Truman today also may remind Americans of how the dismay many once felt over the home-spun Missourian has turned to respect. recent In years, historians have tended to rate Truman highly in his performance as president. Time has softened judgments of him that previously were harsh. W'ith the benefit of hindsight, Americans have come to appreciate the diffeiulty of many decisions President Truman made that changed the course of history'. For example, he approved the Marshall Plan, which is credited wUh rebuilding all VsA-.w A neighbor protested that his group was moderate compared to the Have you ever 14- - and about tried to talk to a 14- - or anything? he asked me. They dont of three-year-ol- VVtf ' 'mine Imw Mr. Buchwald recently graduated from college, said, I dont know what's gotten into the k'ds today in the universities. I can't seem to get through to them. Every time I try to discuss tilings with them they tell me I'm too old to understand their problems and people like me are part of the corrupt system that they are determined to destroy. Evpn my kid brother says its hopeless to change my way of thinking. His kid brother, aged 19. came in a little later. At least we know what we want out of life better education, a say in the aftairs of the school, a right to choose our own curriculum, no ROTC, abolishment of the draft, an end to the war in Vietnam, the destruction of the military industrial complex and the finish of the Dow Chemical Co. But these 16- - and don't know what they want. Theyre ready to tear down everything. I really get frightened when they get involved in our demonstrations. s, Fences And Drowning 23-- y i friend of ABM. anti-ballist- j is want to listen to anybody. But when you' ask them what they want, they have no idea. AND MRS. IRVIN C. McCLAY Logan Importing Bodies A recent article in U.S. News and World Report indicates tint approximately 30,00(1 US. servicemen hav' been Mind H dm war j(1 Vietnam. Out of nuiitiip; , 200 have en foni Utah. These sfatist.es are human beings with the tears wiped off. It appears that our most frequent impoit from Vietnam i caskets bearing the bodies of our tiii-- i servicemen. Unless our politicians give our men in Vietnam permission to fight to win, the blood of these servicemen must stain their hands. -- J. M. ANDERSON 501 W. Capitol ' Daylight 7 Slaving It took God millions of years fo creere ih ens and the earth, to separate the lands a tea, to srp rale 'lie night Hom the day a brhnc-- in HI ;t few off trials things Se"-retai- -id s Piitne t pre.tio".!, Pi thru-- ; tiling eff b'.lri few mmuic.-- . Abo, from where j st,.nd th ilvv make the loss they do. the more lie hire and the more time tiiey want for play. Daylight saving may be great for the'm but to most of us it just adds to our burd weariness. A pure case ot daylight si c. Coexistence L'VKvfn -LffHffi-- LOYD B. PETERS! c I |