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Show Editorial Page Feature Romania, Yugoslavia Get Russian Warnings Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah 19, 1968 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Hats Off to the Blood Donors pints of a fairly rare type blood were needed. The night the Herald carrying the story was published, the family's phone rang almost continually as volunteers offered blood. We had occasion to talk with sov.ie of the donors and found that most of them had piven blood many times in such emergency situations and took a great deal of pride in ioing it. Very few of the donors knew the young man. It didn't matter. He was a fellow human being in need and they were ready to help. This is the spirit of the program. The young man of whom we write had his operation. It was touch and go for a time. But he steadily regained his health, filled a mission for his church, and ton businessman day is a in a Utah County community. Our hats are off to citizens who stand ready to donate their blood it's in a spectacular emergency case or the routine contribution to to help their fellow men whether the hospital blood bank. to note how and docause to the rally peope needed blood is nate blood when a some in or heart for a operation It's heart-warmin- g other emergency. Time and time again when a Central Utahn has needed blood in quantity it has been forthcoming simply through a news item in the Herald or other means of making the need known. The latest case is that of Elmer York of Orem who is scheduled for open heart surgery Sept. 26. Already there are nearly enough donors to meet the requirement of 20 pints of B plus blood. (Many of these came from Tooele Ordnance Depot where a daughter is employed.) A few more donors undoubtedly would be appreciated, since somebody is disqualified or otherwise unable to give, despite good intentions. We recall a case about five years ago in which a young man of our area needed an operation to close a large hole in one of the walls of his heart. Something like 24 oft-tim- blood-don- es By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst As the Soviets press toward a to "normalization" designed crush Czechoslovak freedoms, they also have been stepping up the venom of their propaganda against Romania. Yugoslavia and especially West Germany. East European diplomats in London say both Romania and the have been Yugoslavs warned of "serious consequen ces" should they cMtinue their criticism Soviet action in Czechoslovakia. allied Warsaw Pact forces A similar warning went to West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger who was told to stop "meddling" in Eastern throughout Czechoslovakia, has led western planners to take a new look at their own defenses under NATO. For example, it is all well and good now for the military to say they knew all about Soviet plans. it was not until Nonetheless Europe. plus the speed and efficiency with which the Soviets distributed more than half million of their own and This, after the Russians did move that the allied command acted to increase the number of its observation posts along the - ; Now, when it seems vital to tha President that Justice Abe Fortas ; be confirmed by the Senate as the court'i chief justice, there is parent rebellion at the idea. Many of the senators, prodded I by voter reaction to some of these decisions of the past decade, op- pose Fortas' nomination, remem-- : bering that it was he who partici- pa ted in the court's majority rulings. Also, many Americans are jus-- ; tified in their belief that several ; of these rulings have made it easier for the criminal to elude justice and more difficult for the law en- -' to bring the ; lorcement officer to justice. lawless and wrongdoer They are keenly aware that in ; this age of wholesale lawlessness, the offender has been encouraged ' by high court decisions to shout ; cries that his civil rights are being violated when he is prevented from further abuse of the law and the public alike. a-p-- Johnson, IP Av.-- m however, rgn says the Current-Argus- ). Holmes Alexandei sen. di W sr m m m a m m m cw tnoris m m w 10 Stop Nomination of Fortas m LA WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Bob Griffin (R., Mich.) is next door to an exclusive pantheon of orators whose forcf of voice and argument has reversed the course of public events. Griffin has not yet moved into the godly company of Cicero and Marc Anthony, Daniel Webster and William Bryan whose memorable addresses turns in major situacaused tions of state. But the vigilant and spunky Griffin, conqueror In 1966 of the ove; weaning Soapy Williams, will have atived in a big way if he pulls off the deed that he undertook last June enthe defeat of the tirely on his own nomination of Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice. Let nobody belittle what Griffin has attempted, nor the audacity and power of his forensic presentations on the Sen--a floor, as a witness before the Judiciary Committee and in the public forum. Jen-Bin- gs Catiline, the powerful and corrupt Senator wliom Cicero's oratory brought to book, was not more of a menace In the Roman state than is the threat posed by a politically dominated Supreme Court. Marc Anthony's celebrated funeral oration that turned the populare a?.nr,st Caeser's murderers has more dramatic but it will hardly be more his. tnrirally significant than a Senate voi that restores the public confidence in the Supreme Court, Webster's great Seventh of March speech and Bryan's spellbinder about the Cross of Gold Hoiked astonishing changes in political twits of their day. But if Griffin wins out, he will have set s precedent M Supreme Court appointments that will stif'en Senatorial backbones, and will serve warnings on presidential and will revitalize the separi-Un-o- f powers principle for years and Court-builce- rs to come. Sudden events at t White House, on Capitol Hill, by Mr. Fortas himself tray have forced a decision before this piece it )n print, but the country needs reminding of how well Senator Griffin bus served His lest wis yttrs i r K lar, his speech was not a blockbuster, but his timing, his persistence, his informational content have combined into a mighty performance. Without it Mr. Fortas would have been confirmed long ago. Without it the Supreme Court would be condemned to a continuation of its decline and fall. On June 26, President Johnson announced his appointmet of Justice Fortas to become Chief Justice, but five days before, on June 21, Griffin had already declared his position. Griffin said h would not vote to confirm a new Cli'ef Justice named by a "lame duck" President who was obviously acting to place his political stamp on the future of Die Supreme Court. A day later Griffin amended his statement by saying he would not oppose the naming of Arthur Goldberg because in a sense Goldberg has bee.i on a "leave of absence," having left the Court to serve as UN mhassador. At this point, the elevation of Mr. Fortas seemed a certainty. Who could stop him? Not the Southern Senators. Not the Right Wingers. Not the If any there were. All of the se nnlural opponents had expended their orr"nnre in 13 when Abe Fortas was nominated and1 ratified as Associate Justice. If there was to he an open-fiel- s, d the goal bound nominee. It would have to be by a Northerner, who wis moderate, and who was above sus plc'on of racial prejudice. Griffin of Michigan, first named to a Scrste vacancy by the certified RepublL can liberal, Governor Romney, and already on record as agreeable to Gold-behad the" qualification Put tV coMs against stopping the promotion of a sitting Justice, under all these circumstances, were so steep, and the political risks of trying vrre so conspicu-ot- . that Griffin's friends regretted to are him involved. How the Senator marshalled his arguments, how he brought hidden facts ("to the case, how he lifted his appeal tito a crusade for the good nam of the Supreme Court, is still a running story Wvkle of rf that eslta tor further renew. border. increase the NATO's early of efficiency warning system seems to be one of the first orders of business. For the West Germans, the presence of a dozen or so Soviet divisions along their border with Czechoslovakia was most dis- turbing. But the West German call for an immediate summit confer ence of the nations of the Atlantic Alliance met with little positive response. The Frenci. opposed it on grounds it only would accen-tuat- e allied difference and point op western inability to help the Czechs. The British felt nothing much could be accomplished toward strengthening the alliance until a new administration takes over in Washington. f "Z X 1 WASHINGTON (NEA) Many of us one time or another like to fool ourselvrt with words. g device which helps us give up or It's often a shouldn't. we fa know when we give Strangely enough, we sometimes attempt to fool ourselves even when an enemy is being bluntly straightforward, about his aims. We see this tendency today in the talk about the fighting "lull" in Vietnam We saw it in World War II. Hitler made no bones about his objectives. He outlined them In detail in "Mien Kampf"; he amplified them in his speeches. We have forgotten it now, W there were many Americans who could not, at the time, bring themselves to believe what he said about his movement. g made no secret of In Asia in World War II, Mao his communism and his totalitarian objectives. d Yet American officials insisted that the men in State Yenan were agrarian reformers. Read the Department documents of that day and you will note with astonishment the emotional vigor with which some Department men insisted that this communism was merely a front behind which some very democratic people were hiding. It is understood that Khrushchev's men used to joke among themselves about this American characteristic. They would compete among themselves to see who could think up the best label for whatever the Kremlin wanted to accomplish. The best label, of course, was the one which would be most acceptable to people in the United States and in countries allied with us. Ho Chi Minn learned this tactic early in his career. Around the end of World War II, when other nationalist groups wouldn't ally themselves with his Communists (because he and his men had betrayed many of them to the French for execution), Ho set up a front wich was the thinnest of covers for his Communists. Everyone knew at that time what Ho's front was, but they never, theless accepted it in their councils. Ho's front then took over by assassination and boring from within. In the past few weeks some Americans have insisted He has the war. Ho's attacks have, on occasion, been less intense than during Tet and in the May offensive. face-savin- or indefinitely. It is apparent that the majority of Americans want a change in the tone of the W?h court. And it is just as apparent that blocking the nomination of Fortas, alone, will not fully achieve this change. But it does do th!0: It registers the displeasure of the citizen with the liberal direction in which the court is turned, and it chastises Fortas and other justices of his ilk who have indulged themselves in decisions at the expense of justice. The mst tangible effect of blocking his appointment will be to give the new President an opportunity to choose a new chief justice who is in tune with the tone and temper of our times. (Guest editorial from Carlsbad to Fooled By Words Tse-tun- high-place- effort to block Fortas nomination is the work of a minority, using "parliamentary tricks." We cannot blame the President for attempting to save face and prestige in this matter, but he is wrong in continuing to insist that Fortas be foisted upon the next chief executive, or the nation that must live with the appointment the high court jurists. h now USA Must Not Be Always Room for One More well-know- Indications are that the major unwise decisions of the U. S. Su- preme Court have finally come back to haunt both the admini-- : atration of President Johnson and German-Czec- Ray Cromley Those Unwise Court Decisions ' West Action In Today History Free Enterprise System Has Made America Great Editor Herald: Freedom of the press and speech still exist in Provo. It has to exist when letters like the one by Y. M. Offret entitled "At Mercy of Capitalists?" is printed. The whole letter is so far out in left field that it is hardly worth the effort to comment on. When we find ourselves living in a nation with the highest standard of living, the lowest unemployment rate, the highest educational standards and other achievements too numerous to mention, it is difficult to imagine what a man has to be thinking about to even write such "hogwash". Where have e heard this line before? Free the workers, divide up the wealth, love the losers, hate the winners, discourage excellence, encourage mediocrity and on and on. Freedom is not free, free men are not equal and equal men are not free. Capitalism and the free enterprise system have made this great nation what it it today and you will have to look very hard to find a working man who is not in some way a capitalist himself. Thank God for the men and who had the initiative and guts to go the extra step needed to give all of us what we have in this country today and it is much. Max A. Eggertsen women Beware of Red Objectives Editor Herald: The prime objective of the Red brainwashing and propaganda programs used on Americans in the Korean war was to instill the belief that they make weren't Irying munists out of us, but that communism was a great thing for Asiatics. If the plan had worked, there would now Le to Com- wherever they inhibit raucous, violent dissent as opposed to thoughtful, orderiy, democratic procedures. This is certainly not to say that all people who oppose the Vietnam war or who are angered at hat they saw on television in Chicago are Commun- - BERRY'S WORLD By United Press International Today is Thursday, Sept, 19, the 263rd day of 1968 with 103 to follow. The moon is between its last quarter and new phase. The morning star Is Mars. The evening stars are Venus and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1777, American soldiers won the first battle of Saratoga, N.Y., in the Revolutionary War. In 1863, Union and Confederate soldiers met in the battle of Ga. The rebels Chlckamauga, won the following day. In 1881, President Garfield died in Elbcron, N.J. He had been wounded by a disgruntled office seeker July 2. In 1960, Soviet Premier Nikita received a cold Khrushchev reception when he arrived in the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly. ident thought for the Garfield said: "This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for the security of the future I would do everything." A day-Pres- ists; but those pople should be very careful in forming it's just decisive opinions possible they're being led by the hand. We should all be keenly aware of our best interests what they are worth and how they are best served. J. J. Pangburn Orcra BY JAMES O. BEERY who millions of Americans would believe that we should not interfere with the "orderly" spread of communism in Asia in American Intervention Vietnam simply shouldn't have happened. The demonstrations at the Chicago convention were influenced to a great extent by pro. rle who would provoke the police Into violent reaction. This reaction, widely publicized through all nationwide news media, would do a great deal toward discrediting our police structure as being mere tools of the power structure and not worthy of the respect of the Paul Harvey Drink to Go Down Easier Next Time Young years ago in the Pacific left me with an undulating appetite for Polynesian, Melane-sia- n and Oriental food. Stateside, Cantones: cooking is a reasonable facsimile. This is not about that. But during a recent visit to Kansas City I learned that such cuisine was available just down the street and downstairs from the Muelbach; I went Early to bed means early to eat, so I was alone in the simulated tropical setting or I might not have noticed the next four customers. They were a man and wife, a comfortable, respectable crew-cu- t son wearing horn-rim-me- d glasses And the girl. She like the young man, was Her eighteenish, white and gray suilace-blous- e tress became her neat, pret ty. The white bow in her hair belonged there. Her face glow-e- d In. softly with rojnd-eyenocence. If that innocence were contrived, which I doubt, mors the pity. I sm not usually a r, except with profession-a- l I sm never an purpose. eavesdropper except with professional purpose. But part of what ensued in words and gestures could not have escaped my notice. "What shall we have to drink, dears?" the mother asked. The large menu was decorated with three-colo- r sketches of such exotic rum base cocktails as "Hula runch," "Voo Doo," "Navy Grog," "Heavenly Flow, d people-watche- American public. If die Communist propagandists would show us a list of their most cherished goals, two items would appear high on their list: (1) to have the government and people of the I'nited States disinterested in the affairs of Asian countries and (2) to harden attitudes of the American public against laws anl law enforetineni These Americans have argued that if President Johnson didn't immediately take advantage of these "lulls" to cancel all bombing in the north, the Communists would despair and attack. Now, strangely enough, Hanoi never did say that it was responding to Johnson's limitation on northern bombing with a of its own. Read carefully the reports which claim Hanoi hinted at deciprocity. You will find it a strain on your, credibility to find a sign of any Hanoi claim that they were cutting back. On the contrary, Hanoi regularly has stated positively that it would not respond. Ho's men have insisted a U.S. bombing halt should be unilateral, with nothing given in return. Certainly, some Hanoi man said Ho's military actions were politically significant. All Hanoi's moves military and otherwise are directed at political aims. Certainly, on occasion, Hanoi has made no comment in response to questions on the meaning of the "lull." As one of Ho's former strategists has told this reporter: "If the Americans want to fool themselves, that's their problem." m 7 tr hi, w cu ore willing fo work try had onrf practice, proehce, practice you could bt at joorf as DtNNY McUINr er and "Secret Kiss-li- mit two!" From my rattan table across tie room the girl's hesitancy was apparent. Her wish to make a favorable Impression on the more sophisticated prospective wu also apparent. Though km ei tb words reached my ears, the smiles of reassurance and the nods of acquiescence affirmed that, "These are very mild drinks, you know, hardly more than soda pop . . ." And there was a skillful assist from the waitress; surely I only imagined her reluctance. ' So each of the four was served something tall and frosty and colorful with a straw protruding through a cone of ice and a garnish of mint leaves and fruit peel and a bright red maraschino cherry. Three drank. She sipped. I hurl Tli 3 girl in Kansas City was really not my rightful concern. I'd never seen her before and I'll not likely see her again except in indelible recollection. For in the unfolding of this significant little drama amid.it phony palm fronds and simulated bamboo curtains and gaudy paper lanterns and pagan carvings and recorded music another generation was being subtly seduced by the artfuly camouflaged trouble which always start: out seeming fun. Her soft, girlish laughter was louder as I left. She was eating. The glass of "Heavenly Flow-er,- " Its or whatever it was k melted, its mint leaves wilted, Its straw soggy, lis cherry was moitlv still missing there. It was about empty. It would be easier next time. one-thir- d American Indians art not to remain on reservs. forced tions. The eptoloni and stste-snen- u expressed by Herald columnists are tbrtr ewi and da tot aecessirtly re fl ft the vlrwi ef thli news |
