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Show .a A. Bruce Biossat Cuba Output Lag Tarnishes Castro Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah Pzgt 22-- THE WASHINGTON Thursday, March 16, 1972 HERALD, Provo, Utah 53rd Birthday for Legion programs an Fifty-thre- e war-wear- y years ago, a group of servicemen of the various outfits of World War Is American Expeditionary Force met in Paris to build a civilian organization of war veterans dedicated to continued service to God and Country. That caucus brought forth the action outfit we know today as the American Legion, open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean Conflict, and Vietnam hostilities. from Provo Across the country to Philadelphia and from Tacoma to American Legion Tallahassee are commemorating the 53rd posts anniversary. Provo Legionnaires are holding their anniversary banquet Friday. Other posts of District 4, stretching from Lehi to Nephi, are holding one kind of observance or another. The Legion's theme this year is It's Action Time." "Reach Out "Action" is no stranger to the American Legion. From its inception the Legion has sponsored flop. His country's total indebtedness to the Soviet Union is in the range of $3 billion, with upwards of $300 million owed to other Communist nations. The red ink grows array of beneficial child welfare, Boys State, boys baseball, aid to needy veterans, Americanism-buildin- g activities in the schools, patriotic programs, military burial rites for war veterans, etc. Even the general public benefits. every year. however, it is necessary when deciding for or against proposed safety standards, notes the Insurance Institute for cold-blooded- ly Highway Safety. The most commonly cited dollar-valu- e of a human life is that of the National Safety Council. Its figure of is based on wage loss, $45,000 medical expense, insurance administrative costs and property damage. In attempting to determine the cost-benef- it ratio of proposed underrides for large trucks (special guards to prevent automobiles from running under in the rear), the Traffic National Highway Administration reached a "more realistic" estimate of $200,000 per life. It decided that the cost of the underrides still would not be worth ann'ially sponsors an outdoor Flag a Day program an eight-yea- r For event. patriotic period in the thirties the Legion sponsored the annaul Provo Fourth of July celebrations and old newspaper accounts say these were exceedingly successful. Nationally the American Legion has spearheaded such important legislation as the GI Bill of Rights. Mayor Verl G. Dixon issued a proclamation declaring this as American Legion Birthday Week. On this 53rd anniversary of the organization, we extend our own congratulations to Legionnaires everywhere, and especially to those in the Central Utah area. two-yea- well-attend- that "this is the highest estimate known to be used in conventional analysis und may be challenged by some as being too high." A 1960 report on aviation safety by Gary Fromm, published by duke University, made a "conservative" estimate of the value of a life in an air crash as $275,000, based on "lost productive services and resources expended." Ths Fromm study cautioned that the setting of specific values for cost-benef- it human life "is difficult, and controversial necessarily arbitrary." Certainly there will be no argument there. A, i to issue sweeping busing edicts solely to "achieve a racial balance." To curb that dictatorial power, Sen. Harry would, in effect, put a limit on Byrd, Ind.-Va- ., the terms of Federal judges by requiring them to be reconfirmed by the U.S. Senate every eight years. If denied such approval, they would be retired with full pay. Citing the fact that every state in the union, except Massachusetts, requires the periodic reconfirmation of state judges, Byrd explains his Constitutional amendment and its urgent need as follows: "In recent years the Federal courts have assumed more and more power, power which under the Constitution was reserved to the executive, the legislature, the states and the people themselves. This mioise of power was not envisioned by the founders of this republic. "It is time that we restored the balance in the government by making Federal judges more responsible to the people. It is time the judiciary be made, once more, a branch of the government, rather than the supervisor of every aspect of our country's existence. "The present system of lifetime appointment, whereby a judge is removable only by impeachment, is not in the best interest of the country. The process of removal does not answer the by impeachment problems presented by a judiciary which has established itself as a super legislature. Under my amendment, judges could serve for a term of eight years, at the end of which they would be automatically nominated for reconfirmation by the Senate. If reconfirmed by the Senate, they would continue to serve for another eight years. "To maintain the financial independence of the judiciary, if a judge is not confirmed he would be retired at full pay." Judicial Dictators While the immediate impact of Sen. Byrd's proposal centers on the stormy forwd-busin- g controversy, it actually applies to the Federal judiciary's vastly encompassing role in the whole gamut of the nation's affairs. This immeasurably increases the importance of and justification for the measure. The Virginia lawmaker intends to seek early consideration of his amendment which he deems critically essential for the following reasons: The Federal judiciary has perpetrated a iftL-- "revolution" by casting aside restraint and branches of the regard for the other government. al Federal judges are substituting their own ideas of justice for rules of law, and "too often the hallmark of the modern court has been the voice of power, not the voice of reason." In many instances, Federal judges have arrogantly assumed the "prerogatives of lords of the Middle Ages; nothing in our system exists to control these judges; their passions of the moment are totally unrestrained, even by the collective wisdom of fellow judges." willfulness is eroding Such respect for the law. Where once Federal courts acted with careful restraint and moderation, that era appears over. As a consequence, we now have a judiciary, which accountable to r.j one, has run amok in asserting its authority over the daily lives of all Americans. high-hande- 1 Paul Harvey study on passive restraints in vehicles placed the dollar cost of a human fatality at $300,000, but noted Byrd Amendment to Limit Term of Federal Judges being projected into the intensifying nationwide fight against forced school busing. The new proposal strikes directly at the crux of this complex and inflamed issue the virtually unlimited power of Federal judges InFrll LlmRiE Are Network News Writers value the Another Safety Administration Inside Washington By ROBERTS. ALLEN A wholly new concept is WASHINGTON Firm reports from the island say malingering and job absenteeism are worse than in any Iron Curtain country. Castro is searching rath.r desperately for incentives to spur more and better work There is no sign these are broadly effective, and Cuba now applies a r jail term io those convicted of "vagrancy." which includes what the regime deems to be avoidable unemployment. The goverment's control over the Cuban work force is both rigid and sweeping. Identification cards are required of workers. Chronic slackers may find themselves in Castro's "corrective rehabilitation" camps. Nothing so pointedly revealed Cuba's economic short1970 effort to reach the comings as Fidel's all-ogoal of 10 million tons of sugar cane output per year. His hard lunge for the goal came after years of failure. In the attempt, he pulled thousands of Cubans away from other jobs into the cane fields, thereby seriously disrupting the entire company. And even then he didn't make it. Production in 1970 was just 8.5 million tons. Thereafter, output slid back toward the five million ton level, and the newest harvest mav well fall below that. To get just that much, Castro has to rely on manpower from the strong Cuban armed forces to cut 15 per cent of the year's harvest. His moves to industrialize quickly have drawn people from the cane fields. Still, they lack the training and skills for the new work not to mention incentives. He is also short of management talent, net least because of the exodus of 250,000 Cubans from the island to the United States in recent years. What all this adds up to is an economy essentially stagnant since Castro took power in 1959. Cuba's annual population growth has been averaging around two per cent, despite the outflow. Economic development has not offset this growth. Measured in real terms (corrected for inflation), the country's gross national product on a per capita basis declined nine per cent from 1958 through 1970. lands For contrast, a study of 18 major shows that their r?al per capita GNP shot up by 24 per cent from 1960 to 1970. Maybe all this will change one day. Cuba has poured sums into capital investment. Roads, electric " elements of power facilities, and other the economy have been markedly improved. But, again. American specialists looking at this effort do not find it being translated into significantly higher output. There are countless Soviet advisers and technicians on the island, but they do not appear to compensate for the of qualified Cubans. The whole thing lacks zip. In the words of one U.S. official, the country is suffering a "gentle decline in For example, the Provo post on Traffic Death Setting Price of lives saved. to dollar dollar It is impossible place a value on a human life. Sometimes, tNEAi Cuba's Fidel Castro may Jog some priceless tube time when he plays basketball' in Chile, but it doesn't do all that much to refurbish his tarnished image. His bis negative in most Latin lands is Cuba's terrible economic d That late famed Supreme Court Justices Holmes, Brandeis, Stone, Cordoza, Hughes and Frankfurter are cited by Byrd as foremost advocates of the policy of judicial Under their wise and opinions and principles the Supreme Court enunciates several basic operating rules, as follows: The court refused to pass on political questions; it deferred to state common law principles; it refused to enunciate Constitutional rulings, unless absolutely necessary; it refused to rule upon most questions; it deferred to a state's of its own constitution and statutes; and it strictly interpreted the rules concerning "standing ' to bring a law suit. "But in recent years," says Byrd, "the ed Federal courts have ignored or discarded each of these wise doctrines. Now the courts, acting under the premise that the Constitution is whatever judges say it is, have plunged into what admirers like to call a 'revolution.' But as Justice Cordoza so wisely held, 'Justices are not commissioned to make and unmake rules at pleasure, in accordance with changing views of expendiency or wisdom."' Judicial Busybodies Indignantly, Sen. Byrd cites a number of glaring instances of autocratic meddling by Federal judges in local affairs. "They have interferreu with the operation of schools and universities," he asserts. "They have set forth detailed regulations for the administration of state penal facilities; they have dictated to local school boards, and in some areas have gone so far as to suggest that local government bodies make appropriations of money for orojects which the judges feel are necessary." to 'Get Nixon'? Union-Ordere- d LAI. Latin-America- Are the news writers or the big expected by their unions to "defeat Nixon"? If the union to which many belong has its way. Well, as a member of one of those unions, may I clarify that we are not all meanies. The arrogant effrontery of Big big O Letters to Editor - - marKetpiace.asacorouary.nis dishonesty results in an injustice Thic m'jimt Frfh?r when a man 1 Ms values such political and economic freedom, his reasoning and independent mind, and his right to earned property, ne ceases io oe regarded as moral. If integrity moral Today In History By United to morality is a man's goal, then compromise must be rejected: compromise is not a "virtue." m the To trade free market is not a compromise as no moral principle is violated, ComDromise has meanine onlv when applied to moral principles and it means giving up the good tor sometning less gcoa or evu. Compromise requires the sacrifice of one's moral value-for-val- erf vbw;, on4 ot"r1c tn mnrol (Trotmaoc ..it was born on March 16,1751. On this day in history: In 1802 Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In 1830 only 31 shares were traded on the New York Exchange. A record 31,730,000 changed hands on August 16, 1971. In 1966 American astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott docked their Gemini-space vehicle with an Agena craft, the first in orbital history. In 1971 Tom Dewey, twice unsuccessful Republican pres- idential nominee, died at the age of 68. 8 morale." Virtually all things are rationed. There are shortages, especially, of clothing and protein foods. Even Castro sees no real upturn until 1975. Against this gray backdrop, he's no hero in most Latin lands. Says the same official in summary: "The Latins are not impressed. And Cuba is certainly no model in their eyes." atka appropriate respect for the obligations of a free press. Yet even these, as member must unions of the AFL-CIcontribute their share to the political action of the parent federation. I don't like them taking money from my paycheck to "get anybody." But I pay my share of my union s sometimes mmed dues if only because it would make too many of the wrong DeoDle haDDV if I refused. So Mr. Meany and Mr. Barkan can promise some politicians inai i nugni noi use some oi my money for their campaigns, but they can't promise anybody my trnto -. Dr. Lamh fo NoseScrav Can ' Cause Stuffv Noser Dear Dr. Lamb Over year ago my nose was stuttea up while I was pregnant so i.,. I have been using it ever since. I thought it i just iMmieuuwiigaiiaMi JIVVKVU UOlllk. MiV UK J J st SSJiSiA SSSSjeiiSSrf MrtiS gSj BlX ffiShSfftol ntpfmfaShteh pet T iveSs J11? "eoaiaw 425 W. 800 N. Provo, Utah 84601 i li if a 1' 'Operation Reach' Lauded Editor Herald: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Again, the Boy Scouts of America are out ahead of the crowd in their approach to the drug problem, with "Operation Reach." We have seen and heard so much about drugs in the last few years that many have become tired of the whole situation. The real problem is not drugs, but people. Almost everyone who becomes involved in drugs and alcohol has problems or finds something lacking in his life. Operation Reach 's a approach Scout, Explorer or Scouter wearing a Reach button, ask him about it and find out foi yourself, Richard G. Jensen 73E.10thS.,Orem Dear Reader I am afraid you win have to do wimout it if you are going to get over JKJUI yi uuicill. xuu aic uc scribing a common complication of the use of some types of nasal spray. The spray causes the lining inside the nose to shrink. The lining initially swells with blood and fluid which we call engorgement. This gives you the stuffy feeling. The sprays normally contain medicine that causes the blood vessels to constrict. The fluid is then absorbed out of the boggy tissues and of course your nose no longer feels stuffy. You feel more comfortable, but the hooker is that once the medicine in the spray has worn off the blood flow to the lining in the nose is actually increased and the engorgement is worse than before. The patient then uses more nasal spray and he keeps getting relief and rebound, relief and rebound, and finally he develops a chemical sinusitis in which there is considerable damage to the usual normal functions of the linings in the nose. This is why doctors aren't very enthusiastic about the persistent use of very many nasal sprays. I think that if you have had this trouble for over a j ar now you probably already have enough chemical irritation that it would be wise for you to see an ear, nose and throat specialist and see if he can do something about the lining in your nose that is now causing you this persistent trouble. It is not going to get better the way you are doing things now. The small hairs in the nasal passages are nature's strainer and help to clean the air. They can be paralyzed by the spray. In gen- eral to When see a Boy you prevention. refreshing 5 'That reminds me 1972 i, KtA, ic. v'"""" r do you think Spiro will be ticket again?" on 1 3L. 1 f KarlJ.Bray President James Madison or "infra-structure- , , hpTrould ret over it bv mv-a- ll destroys a man's capacity to And there are an increasing iust so miser-mu13.6 fuhVdlf eo back honestly condemn others for number of the AFLCIO's the million members writing ;to me c their irrationality, n r a v asain I have tried end of every free or everything, but nothing else works. I have never had a bee nation has free interest WD0 's day of sin,JS or nose trouble m my life before There is ? no sinus trouble history m moral law against it. But pohtical my family except for one i Persecution of any one person sister What could cause my an reflects unworthy, nose to act up like this and one man to consume demeanine isn't there a cure or ,Veip for P61"13111: anther man's earned nronertv 0f newsmen me? piease don't me to .g,, which permit w(!lfare given the word from on high stop using nasal spray. I ; buangssmen to profit from the to teke on me oimnous know too much isn't good for hv of of a mob vendetta, me but I just can't do with- d0maS L(?"i renewal neighborhood And against that, out it. development programs), and me forced busing of wnjcn children, to schools not of their parents choosing, indicate the decadent level to which contemporary social morality has fallen. Morality is not a subjective luxury, it is an objective necessity of man's survival. Press International Today is Thursday, March 16, the 76th day of 1972. The moon is between its new phase and first quarter. The morning star is Jupiter. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this day are under the sign of Pisces. large writers) is increasingly partisan in its newsletters to members, Understand, management is restrained by law from taxing employees to support or defeat any candidate, while unions enjoy unfettered license to tract political-actio- n money from members to dispense as Big Labor's leaders choose, Let the record show that not all unions in the communications and news business are overt in ana tneir poiiucKing. Guild have the Writers demonstrated Feels Trends, Programs Are Evidence of Decadence Editor Herald: Compromise is a highly praised "virtue" in what I consider the national socialist administration of Richard Nixon: as such, it merits nraminatinn Compromise generally means mat conflicting moral premises or claims can be adjusted on the principle that some sort of "legitimate eain" will result: if : . :J ) U compromise is a virtue, uitai that Mows from its practice be good: What are the effects of compromising one's moral values? . When a man compromises his honesty, he loses his self-respect the trust of those who if he is deal with him and his .economically fraudulent freedom to exchange in the includes a substantial number of network news The man in charge of Big now Labor's for money politicking is Alexander Barkan, and he says those funds will be dispensed for the defeat of Richard Nixon. even Always heretofore George Meany has waited to evaluate alternatives, so this low more blow has to be more personal was never flagrantly flaunted than when than political. More specifically, one of the the leadership of the AFL-CIannounced that it's out to get big three AFLIO unions in the Nixon, no matter who runs broadcasting industry, NABET against him. (formerly mostly technicians, it TV networks n the patients with nasal stuffiness or colds who do need some relief do better with medicines taken by mouth. These medicines have a general effect and are less likely to harm the nasal lining. There are exceptions but you would be wise not to take drops except under a doctor's advice. |