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Show fdlforlal Page PeafunT Million-Signatu- By DONALD E. MULLEN NEW YORK LTIi-Bro- oks e Mendeli is a philanthropist who believes a person can achieve just about anything he puts his mind to. In the last 20 years he has worked with the United Nations Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utoh free-lanc- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1353 Lessons, Not Recriminations In the opinion of Gen. William C Westmoreland, former U.S. commander in Vietnam and now Army chief of staff, the war would "probably" be over now ii the United States had continued its bombing of North Vietnam. The general voiced this view before the House defense appropriations subcommittee last Oct. 8 in testimony just made public. He added that he did not favor a resumption of the bombing, which was ordered halted by President Johnson 13 months ago, but supported President Nixon's policy of "Vietnamization" of the war gradually turning the burden of the fighting over to the South Vietnamese. We will never know if the gen. eral is right about the bombing, and the worst thing Americans could do would be to fret over the fact that we will never know. One thing we do know, and that is that in the nearly three years between early 1965 and late 1968, the United States dropped more bombs on North and Soth Vietnam than were dropped durinj four years of World War II in all theaters. This alone raises doubts about what would have been accomplished by another year of bombing of North Vietnm. or Italians or Filipinos or any other conquered people. In South Vietnam, while American military power achieved its limited purpose of preventing a taks-ovby the native Viet Cong, aided by the North Vietnamese, something more than armed strength alone will be required before peace with freedom reigns in that tragic land. That something else has to come from the government and people Report Calls ',T" JOHN A. GOLDSMITH multi-billio- n The WASHINGTON Anti-Pover- ty Scherle-Land-greb- y long-pendi- d, anti-pover- ty anti-pover- ty -especially not in the name of helping the poor." Independent auditing of e ernditures. Says the is that legi"It imperative report, timate auditing from outside OEO be instituted. An individual on OEO payroll cannot be expected to find fault or be critical of any of its programs. The detemptation to cover up corruption, n this in fects and scandals dollar program is enormous." ana-pover- dollar program is bluntly branded as "corrupt and scandal-ridden- " in a minority report by members of the House Education and Labor Committee that is in charge of this legislation. The report, made public as the House finally begins consideration of a bill to continue the controversial program another two years, declares "has done little to alleviate the woes of the poor and the disadvantaged," and vigorously urges sweeping changes in both its concept and administration. Signed by Reps. William Scherle, the and Earl Landgrebe, from of several ore is minority report the committee. The others, while also highly critical, are less caustic. But, significantly, all stress the need for sweeping change in the Office of Economic Opportunity and the manner In which It administers the on which some $7.5 billion program has been spent to date. Under the pending bill, another $2.3 billion would be authorized for the first year, and an unspecified amount, in effect a bank check, for the second year. Foremost among the reforms demanded by the minority reports are: Strengthening the participation and control of slate and local authorities over the various programs "particularlv in community programs where such participation is most needed and most essential to success. Greater enforcement of the provisions "prohibiting political activity." One of the critical reports, by Reps. William Ayres, Ohio, and Albert Quie, Minn., ranking Republican members of the committee, charges that a "pervasive aura of political activity and social turmoil has surrendered too many activities of the "war on poverty.' Ws do sot feel that the fight against the ravages of poverty should be asked to pay for the political advancement of any individual or action ia any party or c?UH ' t .1 vn f 05$ 5 v.,v. Ea multi-billio- A powerful MANY AMENDMENTS biDartisan fight will be waged to extensively rewrite the bill vpending before the House. The measure was reported out by the Education and Laboi Committee on a 20 Democrats, 12 straight vote some Democratic However, Republicans. committeemen macfe no bones they strongly favor drastic changes. Foremost among them is Rep. Edith Democrat, Green, Ore., second-rankin- g who flatly told her colleagues, "Major changes are needed. They ere long overdue. We must enact legislation that will put an end to the endless stream of complaints and protests about wrongdoing and abuses." The minority reports charge the legislation was deliberately stalled in committee for four months by Rep. Carl Perchairman in an effort to kins, "extract assurances that no amendments would be offered on the floor." "Of course, no such assurances were report. "We given," says the Ayres-Qui- e believe that the programs authorized act should be deby the then attack the and to signed identify causes of poverty effectively and that they should be structured so as to insure the active participation of state and local government In our judgment, If these fundamental objectives are not soon achieved the 'war on poverty' will lose public support to such an extent that these programs will be impossible to sustain." AD the minority reports place much emphasis on the urgent need for better management of the Jlj.f A .,W Mail Urges Stronger Effort To Capitalize on Utah Scenery Editor Herald: I agree this is a fine column; most people read it, some nodding their heads in approval others wagging their tongues In dissent I read the whole paper like that and with ?bout the same emotions, for I have my pet ideas too. May I illus- I have watched the big push to attract industry here; I think It grand but unrealistic and here is why. I think we are too far from important markets and the cost of transportation is too great But I am not discouraged because we have some real commodities that are salable. Let us take a look and see what these commodities are that I speak of: Exports-n- o! That is our youth. Scenic attractions and recreation? Yes and yes! Let's keep the industries we already have and get more if we can but let us quit kidding ourselves that we can ever become a great industrial state in the forseeable future. Why do we teat the brush for things we do not have and then fail to market the things that are here. But our product is not a finished product as you know; so BERRY'S WORLD the challenge is to get it finished as rapidly as possible. We built access roads 30 to 50 years ago that still do not have ample observation points. Our autumn scenery is plush if only we could see itbut no! We drive along bumper to bumper with our eyes glued to the road while Autumn passes by. Our great shame is in the fact that the new roads are no better. Last month's Reader's Digest gave us a million bucks worth of advertising gratis. National Geographic is a'jout to do the same thing gratis. This is sure to bring a flood of people, come next summer. Are we ready? You know all too well that we are not Our product is just too precious to be wasted, but it can never be carried away in the hearts and minds of people if we do not make it available to them. You know that there is profit in tourism, so let us be friends to the world; offer them a place in our midst; make them happy to visit and parttake of our hospitality. Let us not fleece them, but give them a fair return for their money. M. E. Gottfredson 83 N. 200 E. Provo BY JAMES O. BERRY ! M Christmas Dialogue '69 By JERRY M. YOUNG Christmas Present: Come with me, Ebenezer Scrooge. Let me show you our Utah Valley towns and the people in them. Scrooge: It's to crowded and the shopping centers are so jammed you have to wait for a parking Humbug! downtown, place. Christmas Present: But I have nothing to park. Scrooge: You know what I mean. Christmas Present: See! See all the lovely lights. Just look at those angels. Scrooge: All I see are children with running noses and grabbing hands. Look at mat poor sales lady. She looks like she's ready to burst into tears. Now mat's what all this Christmas Humbug does to people. I'll have none of it Christmas Present: But look how happy the children are. Scrooge: And look at the broken toys. Who's going to pay for the toys those destructive whelps demolish before anyone can buy mem? It's t loss, a major loss, and all because of Christmas. Cristmas Present: Can't you see anything nice about Christmas? Look around you. Come outside and smell of the evergreen treea Scrooge: (He breathes deeply of the Utah Valley air. Then he breaks Into a coughing spasm.) FORUM RULES no thu ruM: Ungttl NaWt, 259 ward. Signature and addrcx required. Howtvar, contributor request arty iVttal wHh onele need be published Includine. Mtert political exception, In nature or ki nidi accueattom ar lej era sued caeee made charges hill name and addrsae must be used. No unsigned letters (anonymous) til be toneldired. Pretercice tellt be given letters wKfh are anorr and typmrrtTsn. TV- - Herald rswrves tie right a edit ar raect letters wtiidi art ten long, net in gasd testa, potentially libelous, or wntdi contain statements derogatory te Kt taos, fWlgioD ar croon. rwaen. PImk I anti-pover- ty anti-pover- 'AiV U m and statements expressed by Herald celsmsists are their owa and do aot necessarily reflect the views of this news paper. The opinions IWlTrWVlni WJio was JpJro scheiuJei to go T efier to3ay LONDON UPD-W- all Street is built on the solid bedrock of New York. Lonujn's financial district "The City," has a more romantic underpinning put there by Julius Caesar and other Romans 2,000 years ago. Archedogists have unearthed part of the foundations of a stone fort built by the Romans 1,850 years ago. City authorises are preparing it for display to give visitors anoLher glimpse of oldest London between its most modern office blocks. Taxis and trucks now trundle along the roar's wtere Roman legions marched. The Roman fort might have lain lost for all e blitz time but for the which destroyed the layer of buildings on top. In 1950 Prof. William F. Grimes, as director of the Roman and Medieval London Excavttion Committee, was digging in that area in search of the old wall that Romans built around the fledgling city about 200 A.D. Odd Feature Discovered "He noticed an odd feature," said Norman Cook, director of Guildhall Museum. "A certain stretch of the city wall showed its construction was of a double nature, one wall built inside the other. He excavated where the line of the wall goes diving off at an extreme angle and found the evidence which explained the double nature. "In this corner he found the of remains a rectangular turrent. This structure always means a military, not civil, use. Immediately he realized he had found a fort which was built before the city was enclosed by a wall. Its north and west walls were later incorporated in the city wall." The south and east walls are lost or buried beneath existing buildings, but the fort has been measured as 760 feet by 710 feet. It was built around 120 or 130 A.D., nearly 200 years after Julius Caeser landed in England. "Here you have an extraordinary thing," Cook said "The war-tim- V - the AFL-CI- O. People ask me, "How much is it going to cost me, Brooks? Your signature is I sav no-- no! a commitment to brotherhood. -- When people sign they actually give of themselves. 'This is more than a salute to the Apollo 11 astronauts it's a salute to all the pioneers in space, including the cosmonauts and the boys of Apollo 12. Has 'Romantic' Underpinning X mi III as he is emotionally gentle. He is also an amiable whirlwind who, if he wasn't dedicated to good deeds, would have made an excellent conman. "Look here," he said during an interview, "I've got letters from Germany. There's some signature, from India. Here's Mayor Stokes of Cleveland and Buzz Aldrin's father. There'i Senator Maskie and Lane of Kirkland, secretary-treasur- e London's Financial District That Stuff's Unreliable, Too!" trate my point? Program Big 'Hoax' on Poor By ROBERT S. ALLEN and million signatures is well on its way to achieving its goaL Working through the United Nations where he seems to be on a first name basis with just about everybody, Mendeli has seen his scroll unwinding like the proverbial red carpet New York's Yale Gub, where he is a resident member, is becoming swamped with letters from around the world. Mendeli is as physically tough 'The Administration Says that: Inside Washington i eommiiment to universal broth erhood Mendeli is a physical cuhurist who not only writes books about and teaches self defense, but has a standing challenge to Mohammed Ali (nee Cassius City) for a barehanded match, his half of the proceeds to go for cancer research. Years ago, Joe Louis turned down the same offer. His project to collect a might-have.bee- ns "One more year of bombing would have done the trick." Or, "If thera had been fewer longhaired youths on the campuses and 100,000 more GIs in Vietnam the enemy would have been beaten." Or, "If the news media had supported the President the North The essential point, however, Vietnamese would have been has nothing to do with the differ- forced to negotiate." Or, "Comence in bomb tonnages between munists in high places betrayed World War II and the Vietnam us." Or, "We should have blockwar. It is the difference between aded Haiphong." Or simply, "If the wars themselves. And in this we had tried harder we would have regard, perhaps the best counter won." to the general's expert military But America did try, and it opinion is a statement made by one Nguyen Bat, a former security achieved the only goal it could achieved stopguard at By Lai 4 and a witness realistically have armed takeover the incipient to the claimed massacre of the ping 1964. late in Communists by inhabitants hamlet's by American, not the objective was Whether or soldiers: the it was no little worth cost, "After the shooting, all the vilaccomplishment. lagers became Communists." All But military power has its limthe surviving villagers, that is. in the kind of situation that In World Wrar LT, the United its obtains in a backward country like States and its allies waged a total Vietnam, and in too many cases: military effort to smash the pow"After the shooting, all the vilerful war machines of Germany Communists.' and Japan and to roll back their lagers became is EuThat and Asia in why Vietnam turned Invading armies that it did, and morass this into of no was There problem rope. distinguishing between friend and that is why, whenever and how enemy and no need to "win the ever we find its end, we must draw hearts and minds" of the French lessons from it, not recriminations. ! helping to bring medical relief to countries in need Now he wants one million people to sign their names to a salute to space pioneers that is also a er of South Vietnam themselves, with or without the presence of an American military shield. America faces serious danger if in coming years it tears itself apart over the and searches for reasons why the war in Vietnam did not end in clear-cu- t victory like World War II and other wars in the history books. There will be those who will claim, and perhaps bid for political power on the strength of it, Salute to Space Pioneers re fort was built in the Second Century when it could have bad little or no defensive purpose because there was nothing to defend. The Roman legions had pushed outwrrds to the north, practically to Scotland, and there was no reason to have a fort in the southwest. "So it may well have housed ceremonial troops. Sorre hint of this is given in the fragmentary remains of a building which was almost certainly the officers' quarters. They are of a standard in size and quality better thtn those rather normally found for fighting troops. "I think one can say the existence of the fort reflected the growing importance of London, or Londinium as they called it. in the economy and administration of the Roman province." Hard to Find Cook wanted to disillusion the public abrit seeing a splendidly preserved Roman remain. "If they think they are going to see a fort, nicely walled with crossroads, they are not going to. This ground has been in continuous occupation for 1,800 years and of course the wall has suffered greatly." Any visitors who go there right now will have difficulty findng the ruins because half of them are unsignposted and unheralded in the middle of a building site. In between some of the most advanced architectural designs in London, workmen also are building a lake to landscape a stretch of the Roman wall, which is topped by a medieval wall and a big round medieval bastion. This used to be the northwest corner of the fort is One of its gateways preserved down below in an underground parking lot From there, the west wall heads down what is now Noble Street It; foundations and the all important discovery, the rectangular turret, lie at the bottom of a hole, which city authorities plan to landscape. Paul Horvey Taking a New Look At South Africa Let's look at South Africa. As the eyes of the news charthe worst acteristically do first In South Africa, the black man is not allowed to vote. His position and condition are very similar to that of the American Indians whom we annihilated or pushed back onto reservations, except in South Africa there were no massacres. But because the apartheid (segregation) policy of South Africa contradicts our recently righteous respect for human rights, the United States has tried to stomp the life out of We have white South Africa. condemned the government in the United Nations, we have applied economic and political boycotts, we have placed a total embargo on arms sales to the Republic of South Africa. It is obvious that the United States is entirely willing to feed South Africa to the Communist wolves now at her door, howling for blood Before we throw this white government to the Reds, let's weigh what they'd win and what we'd lose. Golfer Gary Player, a genuine Christian gentleman, caused many Americans to take a second look at his homeland. Then, when the human heart transplant technique was pioneered by a Souta African doctor, Christiaan Barntrd, such progress appearet incongruous with South Africa's "backward image." It was not incongruous. South Africa is a modern, veloped country with de- harbors, rrfields, roads and railroads. In natura! resources, South Africa, per square foot, is the richest country in the world. every mineral of value. st ?, A- - i except oH, if there in abundance. South Africa's defense force Is small, but it is disciplined, efficient and potentially more effective than toe armed forces of all other African nations combined. Some of the most brilliant and resourceful scientists, physicists an engineers in the world are South African. South Africa could produce atomic weapons in quantity cny time its government desires. There is no stronger economy In the modern world than that of South Africa. Its money is backed by 83 per cent gold Unemployment is less than one-haof one per cent And South Africans, staunchly despite our official rejection, represent the only country in Africa which we could really depend upon in an international conflict. Former Prime Minister Dr. H. F. Verwoerd was vigorously lf He believed n that Communists wished to destroy white civilization in Africa, grab the natural riches and enslave the blacks. He believed Western nations do not understand his nation only because they do not try to understand So South Africt continues to be the only country in the world that gives the United States more in friendship, goods, services and support than we return. We do not have to agree with South Africa on all issues. We do not agree with Red Yugoslavia or segregated India or dictatorial Ethiopia or fascist Spain on all issues yet we cooperate with them where it il to our best interests to do so. Afro-Asia- The Republic of South Africa deserves at least as much. |