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Show Editorial Page Feature U.S. Years From Revamping Voting System By STEVEN GERSTEL WASHINGTON (LTIj-T- he United States is 1ms than five months from a national election, but years from revamping Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah SJNDAY, JUNE 16, 1968 Sop to Predators on High Seas There r many reasona why our enemies, the North Koreans, can seize a U.S. ship and fet away with it. What is amazing: is that our friends, the South Americans, have been doing: the same thine; for years. In the last seven years, mora than 60 AmericAn-owne- d fishing vessels hav? been aeizcd by Chile, Ecuador and Peru. In most cases it has been in the same manner as the North Koreans took the Pueblo at gunpoint. In several d cases, the capture was an American that by ship had been loaned to the friendly nation. Norn of the American boats was within th internation. limit, which ally accepted even the North Koreans recognize. So far, the U.S. government, has accom-V'ishe- 12-mi- le Books Disappearing "Almost every sheet of paper made in the United States since about 1860 is eating away at itself at a terrible rate," says book restoration expert William J. Barrow, ai quoted by th Washington Post Books dating from before th Civil War, however, are still in good condition. The reason is that they were mad of paper with a nonchemical rag content. The "Id papermaking procesa was replaced by one using chemicals and wood fiber to meet th demand for larg quantities of cheap paper which arose in th second half of the ' 19th century. Barrow estimates th average life expectancy of 99 percent of the books manufactured in this country at 25 to 40 years. Only one percent of th books made at the turn of th century will b usable at th start of the next. This suggests that the "information explosion" may have its own builtin solution. But much of value as well as much trash is going the way of all pulp, &nd even trash achieves a historical value 11 it stay around long enough. Thus experts are constantly copies of seeking and books preservdeteriorating ing others on microfilm. Future archivists may not have this problem. A new paper, not yet widely produced, has a life span of 2,000 years. much-talked-- of well-preserv- ed 2Lt paid almost $500,000 for the release of captured boats and crews. What has happened is that these three countries, plus four others in Latin America, have extended their territorial limits out to a fantastic 200 miles in order to throw a legal net over all the fish in this vast expanse of water. Th United States, like most maritime nations, claims fishing limits while maintaining Meantime, our energetic Caucasian ancestors discovered that Negro slaves could be bought or captured in Africa, which was a profitable business and a source of cheap labor. They were misfits so we made slaves of them. In time the slaves were set free, but with nowhere else to go they moved into reservations in the big cities, called ghettos. We sent our kids to reservations called colleges, but from what we read the kids are taking over the reservations. They have been joined by other young rebels called hippies, and thousands of discontented and hopeless young Negroes. What happens if they become the majority? Will they become the misfits or will we? are The misfits, or those who differ with the accepted order. If some defenders of the status quo had their way we would probably go back all the way to the reservation system against which even the Indians are beginning to rebel. We would hav reservations for protesting students, hippies, Negroes, boozers, and for those who don't go to church. Indeed for all who disagree with the majority. in Congress-m- ore in the Senate, less in the House to not get but enough anything done before he leavei office. Sen. Birch Bayh. the young Indiana Democrat who handles amendments, constitutional promptly fell in iove with But as soon as Bayh started hearings, he became convinced the better solution was abolishing the electoral college and holding direct elections. amendThis constitutional ment, which Bayh sponsored, row has considerable backing in the Senate. But it remains questionable whether supporteri s could muster the reeded vote. two-third- Bye Line by Piping Hot! The latest ord out of Cuba is that the government is trying improve dry cleaning service so customers can gt. their clothing back in seven day:,. Service now takes about two weeks with some delays up t. 4S days. If it's fast service they want I suggest we send fome of our Utah County dry cleaners. They're so fast the spots don't start to disappear until you get your clothes back. And that's to speed! Naturally, Cuba's Commerce Minister blames most of their dry cleaning problems on the United States saying equipment is old and American-made- . So what else s new? Ho-Hu- From the Provo chamber Gram comes this bit of philosophy titled, "What's in a Name?" IF a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight. IF a child live-- with fear, he learns to be afraid. IF a child lives with pity, he learns to feel sorry for himself. IF a child lives with jealousy, he. learns to haie. IF a child lives with love, he learns to love. IF a child live? with fairness, he learns justice. IF a child lives with friendliness, he learns that the world li a nice place in which to live. s With attention focused on student riots and college campus one could get the impression that ten years from now it'll be a littl? tough getting these student to contribute to the alumni fund. sit-in- Say When people ask me to compare the 20th century to older civilizations, I always say the same thing: "The situation is normal." historian Pulitzer Prize-winni- There is no statute of limitations on the Germans' debt to the Jews. West B erlin Mayor Klaus Schutz, on the 25th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto up- rising. This is my first revolution, so naturally I'm a little nervous. Daniel Akir, volun- teer manning a Paris rioters' aid station. But, come right down to H. who knows what the will of the majority is? What majority and what will? Here in Utah the majority belong to what is called the dominant church, but in most states it is not the dominant church. I happen to have been raised in that church, many of my best friends belong to it, and I have contributed to its support, yet I have been publicly accused of being an enemy of that church because I don't support its prrctices 100. Mst of its members support my right to voice my opinions, but there are fanatics who cannot tolerate any disagreement. What person has the right to enforce his will or belief on another? What parent can absolutely enforce his will on his own child, and who is the misfit, the parent or the child? Once I was young and useful to my family and others. Now I am old and few have any need for me. I am a misfit without a home. It has been hard for me to abandon my home of more than 30 years and live in a hotel among strangers, yet I have adjusted to it and am not unhappy. A home is mere than a house. It is a family, and that is what I miss, but, when I become a misfit in my own house, I move out. Adjustments are hard to make, but th Today In History ng Will Durant. are possible. If an individual can make adjustments, why can't society as a whole make them and live with other races and people of other religions and political beliefs? Had we done so the terrible tragedy of Senator Kenny's assassination need not have happened. Instead of trying to control others why not admit that we are all misfits in one way or another? We hear much of the generation gap, yet it is crossed every day, and would not exist at all if there were more communication, understanding and tolerance; but, it must extend to all, not just a chosen few. We should feel sorry for those who cannot see beyond their own point of view, for as I said in the beginning, we are all misfits to somebody, and misfits keep life from becoming unbearably dull. re-co- nt I . Jensen There Is no substitute for planning ahead w let me be ihe first to inform you that you have 160 shopping days left btfore Christmas. Just thought you'd like to know. le So They R-S- Lip -- British Style any nation. Yet by paying tribute to these unilateral laws, the United States ii strengthening the validity of the limit and, charges the National OcearDgraphy Association, "is doing irreparable harm to the concept of the freedom of th seas." "Freedom of th seas beyond reasonable territorial w at era," states the association "is a right of al nations and must be jealously protected and maintained. The United States, one the greatest sea power th world has ever known the leader in protecting the rights of nations now repudiates that leadership by bowing to the brigandage of nations whose actions are repugnant to our ideals of world freedom." Evidently, however, the good will of these three countries is to our wider security. We will buy it at any price, even at the cost of established interna-tion- al law and our own 200-mi- There are two other proposed reforms which have strong to backing possibly enough stop an amendment which would lead to direct elections. One, long espoused by Sen Karl E. Mundt, . D., would create electoral districts, each with an electoral vote. A candidate, for instance, could win the electoral districts in the state's cities but lose those in the rural areas. Keep A Stiff Upper 200-.ni- le Everybody is a Misfit apart excitement Johnson's idei. the traditional three-mi- l territorial limit. It does not recognize fishing sovereignty of The Chopping Block By FRANK C. ROBERTSON have always resented misfits; that is people who are different from the rest of us. Our forefathers came to this continent and found it already inhabited by a race they called Indians and set out to kill or dispossess them. Through the carelessness of the Spaniards, who were also carrying the cross as they plundered the natives of their gold, the Indians obtained horses aud became formidable fighting men. They traded furs for guns and being mobile as soon as they were driven from their land they moved somewhere else. In time it become necessary to recognize them as people; misfits, of course, but people. We killed off the buffalo, the Indians' chief source of food, shelter and clothing, but they rare still an offense to the eye so after a lot of bbody wars we invented the reservation and herded thi Indians onto them, which kept us elector. Johnson wanted the states to retain the electoral votes but he wanted them cast without defectionsto the candidate who carried the state. He wanted to close the loophole under which an elector can cast his vote for anyone. itined a little Johnson 12-mi- le i We the antiquated machinery used to elect a President At least one and maybe many future Presidents will have to hazard the vagaries of the Electoral College, suffer the of and electors, whimsey possibly risk their candidacies in th House of Representatives. The widespread demand for reform became a serious movement in 1966 when President Johnson asked Congress to adopt a constitutional amendment abolishing the position of Springville Man Decries Provo City Tank Action Editor Herald: I read the editorial in the Sunday (June 9) Herald. It was with interest and disappointment that I read that the Provo City Commission had more or less accepted a bid to have a concrete water tank installed instead of a steel tank even though the steel tank bid was less than the concrete tank. (Editor's note: Two steel bids were submitted in the case in question: One, using Corten steel (a new, superior grade of steel) was slightly higher than the successful concrete bid. The other, using ordinary steel, was slightly lower than the one for concrete.) I don't know what the city were engineers' calculations when they figured that maintenance costs on concrete were less than steel, but they should give it a lot more study before recommend something they like that. If Corten Steel is used, the maintenance cost would be practicall nil, and g steel tank can be made to be an asset to the surrounding land scape. If the towns in Utah and surrounding counties don't support the hand that is feeding them how long do you think they will or can stay in business. The County Commission and the City Councils should insist on locally made products on any bids, made by the contractors. If tlit people don't support the business that is paying their wages and a good portion of the taxes who do they think The Almanac By United Press Internationa Today is Sunday, June 16, the day of 1968 with 198 to follow. The moon is between its full 168th vest their money here or not. A lot of the time and money that Uvida has spent trying to get new industries into the County will go jown the drain. When we go buy anything, whether it be a fish hook or an automobile or some thing even larger .we should insist on it being made in America. If we all would do this it would finally get back to the suppliers and wholesale houses and it would do a lot to curb the inroad that Japanese steel is making in our country. If they couldn't sell the steel they wouldn't buy it. This along with some legislation to curb the amount of Japanese steel that is being shipped in would be a big bene, fit to all of us here in Utah and help make our own jobs more secure. Let's not bite the hand that is feeding us. Let's support it and insist that the city and county officials do this also. Error Zero has gone a long way to keep Geneva in a competitive position, but without the support of everyone, whether you work there or not, we could lose it all. Let's support the business that supports us. Byron Pace SPRINGVILLE BERRY'S WORLD phase and last quarter. The morning stars are Saturn and Venus. The evening star is Jupiter. On this day in history: In 1871 the ancient Arabic order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine was set up in New York City by Dr. Walter Fleming. In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act the N.R.A. In 1955 riots broke out in Buenos Aires as the Argentine to Navy tried unsuccessfully oust Premier Juan Peron. In 1963 Russia put its first woman into space. She was Valentina Tereshkova. A thought for the day: Plato once said, "Of all the animals, the boy is the most The kit fox, just slightly larger than a house cat, is the smallest of the fox family. The opinions ana statements expressed by Herald columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of this news paper. BY IAMES O. BERRY s Speaking of dry cleaners. I read an item where many of th nation's dry cleaners, ki cooperation with the American Legion, will dryclean a flag free of charge between June 1 and 18, provided the owner of the flog promises to fly K on Flag Day, June 14. Good idea. Why don't some of our dry cleaners offer to do it for Independence Day. July 4th? "Keep a stiff upper lip" is a remark that each of ut have heard many times. But the following is probably the ultimate of that colloquy. Uxbridge: "By God, sir, I've lost my leg!" Wellington: "By God sir, so you have!" Whether or not this famous colloquy employs the actual words spoken when the Earl of Uxbridge was struck by a cannonball while talking to the Duke at Waterloo, it does convey the character of these two extraordinary practitioners of Ah yes, those British are something. Soooo, keep a stiff upper lip and have a nice day too. Paul Harvey The Tele-Funer- al Study In Morbidity Newspapers managed to print other news that first week of June, but TV and radio didn't dare to or didn't want to. News services and newspapers continued to cover all news fronts legislative, financial, sports, foibles but the electronic media felt themselves compelled to describe, detail, discuss, debate and repeatedly re lay the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and that subsequent funeral to the exclusion of all else. I have tried to imagine myself as one of Sen Kennedy's vociferously devoted fans. Would I then feel that 'iV and radio should publicly bathe themselves in their own tears for days and nights on end? Perhaps. Most of us were intrigued by and then ashamed of our own morbid interests; when cameramen had to be begged to remove their hot lights from above his near lifeless body-w- hen TV eyes intruded on the privacy of the bereaved family even during the widow's lonely vigil in St. Patrick's when the tedious funeral train trip from New York to Washington, more than eight hours and resulting in additional deaths, kept an army of newsmen eulogizing in hoarse whis- will? Any business that is anticipating or investigating a site in Utah County to establish a business will read the editorial with much interest and it will probably have a big influence on them as to whether they in pers. Now to what length can we go to show our respect for men of ever greater stature and acTwo aged complishment? Presidents are likely to precede most of us in death. Indeed, public servants of the tenure and stature of J. Edgar Hoover and Sen. Everett Dirksen are altogether deserving of national mourning. Yet you and I know that a day with the Flag at half-stais just about the most our nation will do to mark the in- Barbs John Adams, married M years and three days, was the U.S. president longest-we- d ff California is the leading producer of vegetables in th United States. 1961 Scientists have described about 350,000 different species ef insects. "Conditions in br HtK t--c 'Resurrection City' are almost as bad as m 'Fun CHiT: evitable passing of such giants. During those four uphappiest days when cynics said the sen. ator was being "overburied," his devoted disciples were emo M tionally rushing through Con-gre- ss legislation which the sen- ator supported. Purposeful immediately initiated the notion that the lease we tan do now is to hand brother Ted Kennedy the Vice Presidency at least. If the major networks were seeking to provoke a "national conscience" making the entire nation feel responsible for the diabolical deed of one gunman thon these important news services were themselves quite out poll-ticia- of bounds. If the unprecedented saturation coverage of a senator's death can be attributed in part to the comparative newness of these media, then perspective may come with TV-rad- maturity. Yet one remembers that Sen. Joe McCarthy and Gen. Douglas MacArthur and President Herbert Hoover and Helen KeL ler got no such astronomically expensive and elaborate send-of- f. must be deduced after assassination extravaganzas that it is at least possible that Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were in death the beneficiaries of a "prejudice" which they in life renounced. Perhaps it was Sen. Ted Kennedy who, at the televised funeral service, said it best: "My brother need not be ideal-ize- d or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life." 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