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Show Editorial Poge Feature No School for 5 Million Indonesian Children a (UPI)-O- nce JAKARTA month, Herman and his friends give two kilograms of rice to Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah their teacher. They do this so the teacher need not seek a second job to fsed herself.For in Indonesia, a teacher's monthly salary barely lasts a week. Herman is 11 years old. Each morning before dawn, he delivers newspapers to earn a few coins which help pay the cost of SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1968 Warning System for Quakes Iran's tragic earthquake which killed some 10,000 people and left tens of thousands more injured and homeless may have been telling: us something ominous. For five years there has been a relative lul! in major earth tremor '9. That may be coming to an end. The world's normal annual quota Is 18 (measuring 7.0 to 7.9 on the iiichter scale) shocks and one great (8.0 and up) earthquake. The last great qua'.te hit Alaska on March 29, 1064. Since then, m:ir Hazards Of Rock 'N' Roll the earth has been relatively quiet. From 1966 through the first part of this year, only 16 major shocks less than a norwere recorded Herman must pay part of the bill make up for deficits government budgets. Herman lucky, because he does go to in is to school. figures r e p o rt that at least five million Indonesian children are unable Government more classrooms and repair old buildings. An emergency training program for teachers was started in 1967 with an enrollment of 18,930 persons. This year the number of training teachers doubled to 35,000. UNICEF, a United Nations organzation, will provide $1.05 million next year to improve and expand primary education. Also with UNICEF assistance textbooks are being printed his year. Ten million more textbooks will be printed to be given to schoolchildren free of charge. Dr. Estiko Suparjono, secreta- 3.5 million ry general of tne Indonesian Teacher's Association, raid also that not much could be achieved in educaton without cooperation from the community. Jensen For A Change -- Say Something Nice! Isn't it wonderful to hear someone say nice things about your friends, neighbors, and community!!! In my opinion, people who say nice things about other are the biggest people in the world. people Unfortunately, there are too many of us that don't make a habit of it. ... However - there's one guy around that apparently makes of it - as indicated by the following letter I received the other day. It sez: a habit "Some people would have you believe that Provo small town that doesn't want any is a narrow-minde- d outside element to Interfere with its routine. We found that is not true! We found Provo to be a city with a big heart, with both residents and merchants extremely gracious to make any outsider feel most welcome. During the Riverside Country Club hosted Famlee Utah Open (September 3 through 8), we stayed in Provo and the first day needed a few services (tailor, etc.). Our requests were accomplished within a very short time with quality workmanship (particularly Mrs. Chipmaa where there was no wait at U). We had time to visit other businesses in your downtown area, and found their personnel to be courteous and friendly. Bill and Jane Korns, together with the Riverside members and employees, were tremendous hosts throughout the Open. Your news media representatives did an outstanding job in coverage of the Tournament, and tha At a The Chopping Block from the intellectuals and the thinkers just as it did in the American Revolution. There will be mistakes as there hr.s always been, but theirs is the wave of the future. The leadership will not from the disspirited who cry, com "Whither, America?" I am one of the old and tired. I chastised my son for telling me how I should snend my declining years before I am ready to retire. I thought I would of. fend Mm, but instead he told his wife happily, "There is fight in the old boy yet." We aged aon't have to stand still and hold up our hands in horror. We can't dominate, but we can give the young the benefit of such wisdom as we have acquired without interfering with what they are trying to do. It will be hard for us to become but we can become interested observers. We had a Writers' Roundup in Ogden to which I didn't want to go though I played an active part in starting them thirty years ago and am honorary pres. ident of the organization. I said I was too old, but I was cajoled, pushed and threatened, and when Winl Jones, who was once secretary of the League of Utah Writers with me, offered to drive me up there I went and had a wonderful time. Younger people now run things, and very succcssfuily. My excuse for going was that I wanted to see the two visiting speakers, Sam Taylor and Monty and their wives, old Mcntgomery friends. It was worth going just to see and hear them, and as usual it wound up Saturday night in a party in my room that lasted until tw.i in the morn-inOld friends as well as new wen there. Some of them worried about rr,e getting tired, but I was sorry when it broke up. Some of us didn't stay for the "nets' Breakfast, but among those who jointj us for breakfast was Bonnie Emmert-son- , the young woman president. She said she felt inadequate, but it rave me pleasure to tell her that it was the largest and best convention I had ever atterdod. I was the one who was inadequate. The jourg can do better when we id ones step down. g. gallery spectators were great. You have every right to be proud of your lovely, clean city, and especially of the friendly gracious people who represent your community so well to the visitors." Sincerely, K" Bud Vosburg Utah Golf Association Director Ogden. Utah like By The Herald Staff SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT POLICEMEN I was not at the Chicago Democratic Convention so I what hacan't say first-han- d ppenedbut I'm getting more than a little fed up with the beating that police, generally, are taking because of it I don't deny there are some bad police, like there are some bad teachers, or plumbers, or doctors or newspapermen. I don't deny there are some brutal police, because a certain number of human beings are brutal and police work is where It can crop out and still be legal, so to speak. But I do say the number of bad or brutal policemeu is very, very small in comparison to the total number of men who wear the badge and lay their lives on the line every day they venture on duty to protect you and me, and our families, from any danger that may threaten us in addition to giving traffic And giving traffic tickets. tickets, if you want to make a point of it, is a much more necessary and useful activity than the guy who gets the ticket will usually admit. I have covered, or know fair, ly well, the Provo Police Department for a good many yars dating back to the days of the old Salt Lake Telegram. In all that time I have known one, and only one, Provo policeman who had a tendency toward brutality and who, on occasion, gave vent to It. That doesn't excuse him, but it shouldn't tar all the rest of them with the same brush, either. I've gotten a few traffic liek-e- ts in my time. With exctp of protesters-trrned-riote- rs parently no longer believe apin. About Chicago. The best police minds in the nation have long been saying that the only way to handle a riot is to have sufficient force to prevent it from ever getting started. Chicago officials, for the first lime anywhere In the nation, too'c sufficient advance precaution to do this. The hippies just couldn't get started because there were always too many or troops at any policemen given point. It would seem to me they were more angry and frustrated at this, than from what most of them actually received from the police. A good many of the p.ess got roughed up by Chicago police in the legitimate pursuit of their (the newspapermea) duties in trying to cover the story the best way they could. And to them goes my respect and admiration along with a hope that they will obtain better understanding with the police. But as one source said, it isn't always easy In the heat of a battle for a beleaguered policeman to tell a reporter from a hippie. I'm somewhat offended at that statement, but I can see their point.-THERON H. LUKE. BERRY'S WORLD The Almanac By United Press International Today is Sunday, Sept. 14, the 259th day of 1968 with 107 to follow. The moon is between its last quarter and new phase. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Saturn and Venus. Those born on this day are under the sign of Virgo. President William Howard Taft was born on Sept. IS, 1857. On this day in history: In 1935, the Nazi Third Reich started a program of violent religious persecution against the established the Jews and swastika as the national Ger. man flag. In German armies 1942, began the siege of Stalingrad in Russia. In 1963, a bomb at a Negro church ham, Ala., killing girls and setting was thrown in Birmingfour Negro off rioting. Two Negro boys were shot to death the same day. In 1966, Gemini II splashed down In the Atlantic, ltt miles from the target ship. The astronauts were in fine shape after a record-breakin- three-da- y g flight. A thought for the day-Brstatesman Benjamin Disraeli said, "What we anticipate seldom occurrs; what we least expect generally happens." itish BY JAMES O. BERRY tion of one ra'her pompous exception in the north end of the county, they were ill given with courtesy and, I might add, with justification. No matter how peaceful the community, a policeman puts his life on the line everytlme he goes on duty. It can hapA d pen anytime. the in act, burglar surprised a doped-uunpredictable derelict. Think about it for awhile. I dont' agree with that sum impressario of (He airwaves, Farmers Can't Pay Production Costs When hued hands cost more, the farmer must mechanize to survive. If it's a crop which cannot be picked by mechani- cal hands, he must plow it under and plant something else. Ether way, the farm worker is out of work. It has happened to raspberries. Thousands of acres are being plowed under. As a food you can buy in the store, these dainty, delicious little berries soon will be no more. Extinction threatens plums though a new mechanical harvester may rescue asparagus. It could happen to table graces. A farm labor organizer named Cesar Chavez ii determined to unionize California's grape harvesters. Unable to interest these migrant workers in paying union dues, he redirected his campaign at the growers themand asparagus, g selves. Pleadng the "poor worker," Vice President phrey and the cil of Churches plight of the Chavez got Hubert HumNational Counand the AFL-CIbehind a nationwide boy. cott of all California grapes unless or until the growers would agree to his demand for a closed shop thus to force the grape workers into a union whether they like it or not The National Labor Relations Board decreed the secondary boycott illegal and ordered it ended. Grape growers got a reprievr. But this docs not resolve the inevitable phase out of farm laborers. Here is the problem: You can train anybody in two hours to cut bunches of table grapes with hand shears. You can pay him $2.50 to 83 an hour, plus California's fringe benefits, workmen's compensation, unemployment compensation and health insurance. But you cannot aflord to pay that a.an the $4 to (5 in hour which a cement truck driver fear-craze- p Johnny Carson, that a police man should be expected to endure more provocation than rnyone else. He has to endure it, and urually does, but tht way Brother Carson said It, it's practically legal to bait a The marvel to me policeman. is that policemen don't crack more skulls, the thing they are expected to take In this day el 1 Paul Harvey Historv right of protest, I believe in the right of protest. But I also believe in law and order, which is something a lot Surely a guy who would tke the time to write a letter would wouldn't have enemies in this ol' world that he? Today In Off ffie Beat ... By FRANK C. ROBERTSON 1776 alarmists have been sking in one form or another: Whither, America? It has never been asked more frequently than now, and there b always a despairing note at the end. Being a pessimist who always takes the pposing side I refuse to become alarmed. We have stumbled and sprawled aloiifc for nearly two hundred years and we haven't fallen ytt. Those who cry, Whither, America, are actually asking America to stand till. It never has, and it never will. It Is the revolt of youth that worries them. They fear youth will lead us into strange and forbidden paths, and it is indeed blazing some queer trails. We should look for a moment at the beginning of the Republic. The Founding Fathers were for the most part young men who dared oppose the Tories and the standpatters of their dy. Two of them, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, young Intellectuals, composed the Declaration of Independence which has guided our thinking to this day. The Constitution has been amended many times, and will be amended again, but no one has yet improved the Declaration of Independence. Tie young rebels of today are fighting for independence from tired old institutions. As yet many of them don't know where they are going, but the general direction is forward. The old will never b able to slop them. The men who fought the Revolution often fought among themselves as well as fought the British, and the Constitu-t'o- n was adopted by the narrowest of ins; gins. Why, then, are we so alarmed because the young people fight among Instead cf condemning ditmselvcs? then all why not give them a chance (a work something out? In 1860 when the country faced lis greatest crisis there were four presidential candidates and the country chose Abraham Lincoln, the most una, a ng and least experienced politician of Hi em all. He led a new party, and be saved the Union. The young people of today may save the worid, for war Is a outdated as slavery. The leader-Shi- p will nut come from the brawlers and the loudmouths, but it will come classmates class-room- "So Where Do We Go from Here?" rapid-deliver- Fver since and his to attend school mis year s because of shortages of and teachers, and poverty at home. Officials say the equatorial island republic of 110 million population needs 16,000 more school-houseand 93,000 more s teachers. With limited funds, President Suharto's government is trying to train new teachers, build st Speedy go-g- In theory, primary education But is free in Indonesia. Bye Line by mal single year. But since May, when a major quake took 400 lives in Japan, the one world's earthquake belts and Pacific Basin the the ringing from other stretching east-wehave Burma to North Africa been acting up with something liLe the old frequency. The Iranian quake was short of great with a 7.8 Richter rating, but it may have been only the deadly prelude of worse to come. Quakes, elemental as the dynamic earth itself, are in a class by themselves as natural phenomena. Coping with disasters such as forest fires and floods appears simply in comparison. The best that can be hoped for in the immediate future is that with intensified study of stresses in the earth's crust and development of more sensitive instruments to measure increasing strain, seismologists may be able to predict quakes and thu3 give warning of a coming disaster that all the resources of science and technology are incapable of A lot of people suspected it before; now there is proof. Rock 'n' roll music is hard on the ears. In an experiment at the University of Tennessee, Dr. David M. Lipscomb, director of the university's audio clinical services, o music at a Knox-vill- e recorded discotheque. The music wag played back to a guinea pig at 120 decibles (about the noise level of a jet engine), although sound in discotheques has been measured as high as 138 decibles, just below the pain thrcshhold. After 88Va hours of exposure Mail--to the music, spread over a period of three months U match the lisProfit tening habits of the average o goer, the cochlea of the aniAfter one good year which mal's exposed ear was photographed. It wa3 found that many of the ended almost $10 million in the black, postal authorities are anticells had "shriveled up like peas." Cells in the other ear, which had cipating an even better show durbeen plugged, were normal. ing the next 12 months with the books expected to balance out $15 roualso a that reports Lipscomb ahead. million tine screening of university freshAt present, 92 per cent of the men last fall revealed a high promail reaches its destination the portion of students with measurable hearing less. day after posting but the mailmen "We were shocked to find that think they can do even better. A y system beginthe hearing of many of these stu- new dents had already deteriorated to ning Sept. 16 should assure demail in the level of the Average livery of most first-clas- s 24 hours. less than he says. person," Hallucinations in the U.S. Post It could be a blessing in disOffice kids When however. theie guise, Department? become parents, they .won't be No, simply the current state of bothered by whatever noise their the service in Britain, where couriers not only actually do complete children decide to call "music." All they'll have to do is turn off their rounds swiftly but manage to turn a tidy profit to boot. the old hearing aid. go-g- education. 3 $or roe 4m i suppose WW . liOec wkk Gm bK JTJ JJeT I heima hk jets in Detroit. Grapes won't sell it 15 a fistful. Historically, our farms hive employed many men not otherwise employable. When leave Die farm and go to the they city they go on welfare. So lawmakers and unionists Intend on driving farm wages higher, either organizing the Is. jflf workers or by increasing the federal minimum wage, are penalizing the worker, the grower, the consumer and the taxpayer. All farming will eventually mechanize. Leave this evolu-tio- n to American ingenuity and it will take place gradually, painlessly. But if crops must immediately and forthwith be harvested mechanically or plowed under, we will throw an additional army of willing workers out of work, and nobody benefits. Already we have idled thousands of former tomato pickers. Switching from hand picking to mechanical harvesting of tomatoes, we're getting 18 tons an acre where we formerly but the grower got 30 tons can afford that loss belter than he can afford the higher labor costs. Handling is so potatoes pensive we are more than half ex- now marketing of that in au some form other processed than fresh. Like raspberries, fresh, potatoes may soon be a food of the past As consumers, we can learn to do without frerh potatoes and But plums and raspberries. if we arbitrarily increase the wages of farmhands, it will cost them jobs, growers income and taxpayers a further increased welfare burden. That, for a nation already neck-deein red Ink, could be field-grow- n suffocating. Prior to adoption of the the nation was governed by a committee of IS persons, one from every state, when Congress was not la session. FORUM RULES fll Nl lfnt l1tf friRl fMari pimw not tntt ruwti ltnai A4 limit. 1M trttifertr itvr wtru rxilr4 tiMfMt rttuMH. Mnnvtr, niy m"i Kfpllant, Intlvfini Mtffi pwlllcM In Mtur to rWcfi tttuMtlam m cMx-f-t fill Mm N lt r n nnw f M ft fnwtt MMHM mutt M VH IliMirmoull Mtttri IM M tlMliwrv PftarAc frenulum, ni ttktl r ft ntt'i tttmnl ft- - MH to ln tiM'mrt. hmiH nt r Wnery nictt hi ( ikli tof trt, ' fac |