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Show Capital Scene By CHARLES E. FLINNER WASHINGTON (UPI) When - Dedicated to the Frogieti And Growth of Central Utah Page 1973 HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, November 15, 48-- THE an American secretary of state and a West German chancellor both Nobel Peace Prize winners come up with similar proposals, something must be In Mideast Progress The subject is food and a lot more is expected to be said about it as an international food conference sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations opens later this month. Chancellor Willy Brandt has said it is time to draw up a world food plan. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has proposed a world food conference to talk about it. FAO Director General H. Boerma is delighted. "The fact that one of the strongest proponents of the idea of a world food conference is the secretary of state of the United States gives me hope that such a purposeful design may become a told Boerma a reality," Washington gathering recently. Boerma's special concern is that "the world has never come anywhere close to a situation in which everyone has had enough food for an adequate standard of Credit to United States The Mideast States and Russia may wisdom but a not secure would cease-fir- e be good yet start has been made and the United States deserves a lot of credit for the progress made to date, in the Herald's view. There've been some breaches of the truce and there'll probably be more. News dispatches early this week indicated difficulties had arisen even since signing of the truce agreement by the Egyptians and Israelis Sunday. The agreement firmed up a U.N.-impos- ed of Oct. 22, achieved cease-fir- e through pressure from the United States and the Soviet Union. The intent now is that permanent peace negotiations are to be held at Geneva next month, with Israel and Egypt looking to a formal treaty that would solidify peace after intermittent wars of the past 25 years. In some quarters the Nixon administration is receiving much criticism and little credit these days. But the role of the administration notably Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Presistands out in the dent Nixon effort. peace Kissinger is personally credited with hammering out the peace draft by Egypt and Israel, approved and for wielding a strong influence in achieving the acceptance. President Nixon must receive credit too. Kissinger's six-poi- nt policy is Nixon's policy and vice versa and the President personally contributed significantly in phases of the peace effort. In spite of troubles at home growing out of the Watergate Case, Nixon was in touch with high Soviet leaders to jointly apply pressure that resulted in foe cease-fire. Again, through United States insistence, the U.N.'s resolution to send a peacekeeping force to the Mideast provided that the Big Five powers including the United of send no troops. The in this provision eliminating the possibility of Big Power confrontation is obvious. While everything hasn't been peaches and cream in the Mideast relations of the rival note (taking to Israel and Egypt, airlifts the Russian note threatening to send troops unilaterally and the American answer in the troops alert), there has been a measure of cooperation with the effect of halting the war. U.S.-Sovi- et It is quite possible that cooperation never could have happened had it not been for the progress made by Nixon in concert with Russian leaders in thawing the cold war. The d detente may not be as effective as hoped for, but it did provide a climate conducive to steps by the big powers in the Mideast much-heralde- crisis. The situation still is uncertain. Truce violations may still occur. Difficult negotiations lie ahead. The path of diplomacy in steering a course of peace is rocky. There are still threats and' counter-threat- s in the powder keg atmosphere. But the fact is that a devastating war has been legislation through Congress to recompute the pay of hundreds of thousands of military reUrees which was killed in the secrecy of the House-Senaconference committee despite the Senate's overwhelming 71 to 14 ap- te proval. Under plans being formulated, the revived recomputation effort will concentrate on boosting the retired pay of enlisted men who constitute 66.59 per cent of military retirees. Spearheading the new effort are leaders of the National Association for Uniformed Services. Foremost among them are Brig. Gsn. Hallett Edson, executive vice president, Maj. Gen. James Fry and Air Force Lt. Gen. Joseph Smith, members. Limiting recomputation to enlisted men, it is believed, would greatly aid in enacting such legislation. Certainly it would dramatically show up the falsity of the contention that the chief beneficiaries of recomputation would be offices particularly generals and "rd oft-hea- admirals. Sponsors of this new strategy are conferring with members of Congress who have supported recomputation on n introducing a new bill restricting reom-putatio- to enlisted men. There is no likelihood of such legislation getting anywhere in the remaining weeks of this session. But by starting the ball rolling this year, the aim is to expedite consideration next when all of the House and 34 year Senators (13 Democrats, 15 Republicans) are up for election. Sen. Vance Hartke, chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, who at age 60" sponsored the "one-sho- t recomputation measure decisively voted by the Senate last year and his year, and Reps. Bob Wilson, R.Calif., and diaries - Wanted: Good Examples Bv PAUL HARVEY God bows we need most "good examples." When the Agnew thin broke, the London Daily Mail said, "Mr. Agnew is probably no better and no worse than most leading American politicians as i'ar as moral standards go; it is the standards which are changing." If that's so, hallelujah! What does Birtian know about morality that we don't? After all, the British government has been scandalized also. The public scandals, theirs and ours, reflect strength more than weakness. of The public humiliation British lords and the unseating of an American Vice President are evidence that where the systems may breed some covetousness, they don't tolerate it. The American Republic is still BARBS conference table. In these events there is basis for hope. gets you nothing but solution headed for the laryngitis. works provides the front money for the aspiring politician. lm,l'ftx While local elections are pending is the best time to get that street light fixed, the road patched, the storm sewer unclogged.... It's Halloween next door Charles Colbert, former dean of the Columbia University School of Architecture, on the practice of kickbacks. Anyone who needs to look for trouble doesn't live lives like most of us. rT l members of the Bugser, Armed Services Committee who vigorously battled for recomputation in the secret House-Senat- e conference deliberations, have evinced interest in the new plan. On the basis of latest available official of June 30, 1972, there were statistics, of whom 880,664 military retirees 586,462 were enlisted men and 294,202 officers. Of the former, 52 per cent were sergeants and petty officers. Of the officers, less than of 1 per cent were retired general officers. More than one-haof all officer retirees are majors, lieutenant colonels, one-ha- lf lf commanders and commanders. Stressing these highly significant facts, Brig. Gen. Edson says: "AH too often, opponents of recomputation try to make a big issue of the wholly unfounded contention that generals and admirals would get 'big increases.' Actually, this group of of officers constitutes less than 1 per cent of all retirees. But by g emphasizing this tiny and prejudiced element, the becloud the issue and undercut the efforts in behalf of the great bulk of enlisted men and officers who are entitled to recomputation." Among enlisted retirees, the two Fr7 226,497 (25.74 largest groups are per cent) and E-- 156,485 T17.77 per cent). Next largest classifications are E-- 5 79,324 (9.01 per cent); E-58,622 (6.67 per cent); E-- 8 25,511 (2.86 per cent) and E-- 24,860 (2.82 per cent). Largest number of retired officers are lieutenant colonels and commanders 89,464 (10.15 per cent). Next largest group, majors and ieutenant commanders 64,434 (7.32 per cent); captains and lieutenants senior grade -29,425 (3.34 per cent); and first lieutenants 16,407 (1.85 per cent). one-ha- lf high-rankin- 6 8 - ev- ery evening. Our neighbor communes with the spirits constantly. People who snitch stuff from the plant are shoplifters. I the comparatively citizens of London are a good example. How do we emulate them? A delegation of New Yorkers has been in London seeking from Scotland Yard and others the formula for crime British prevention. Here it is: London's growing racial mixture includes West Indians, Indians and Pakistanis but, says a Lambeth official, "we act to cleai. up ghettos as soon as they develop." Where 80 per cent of New York York's. Last year, greater London had d of a million crimes; New York City had five tim:s that many! London had 87,000 fire alarms; New York City had 274,000. London had 1 million parking offenses; New York City had 6 million. Rapes: 135 in London; more than 3,000 in New York. They had one-thir- crime is drug related, less than 10 per cent of London's crime is. And perhaps most significant, the British court system is uncompromising. British justice functions with dignity, without discord, with speed, without favor. Anything a criminal says is held against him. are few appeals; There sentencing is likely the same day as the verdict; jailing is immediate. In magistrate courts, no more than 4 per cent of defendants are represented by lawyers. Most who apply for free legal aid are refused. Any barrister who uses tricks is "eased out." No judge is elected. And there has not been one known case of bribery involving a British judge ever. Dr. David Poling, D.D. Church, Campus, Watergate sciences,' and the liberal arts tradition." The opposite of Tertullian exists today. There are many within the secular academic who are saying, community "What does the Academy have to do with the Church, does Athens need to really visit Jerusalem?" Dr. Hesselink has a positive reply, pointing to the events of as a clinching Watergate argument. He is quoted in the Church Herald: "Certain men have already admitted that they were guilty of violating the law. Included in this group are John Dean and Jeb Magruder. I "One reaches a point where one says, even of Beethoven, even of Sheakespeare, Is this all?" a universal evil, a blinding scar on my profession. The architect and engineer dealing in public - 28,000. So Each has 1 million-plu-s primary and secondary schools. But the London crime rate is negligible compared to New Aldous Huxley It's 4 three a week ; New York had 10 a day! Murder: 113 in London; 1,691 in 14 times more. New York And London's lesser crime cannot be credited to more police. London has far fewer 18,000 as opposed to police In our town, calling a taxi So They Say lieutenant In 'the area of private wrongdoing, the British behave better than we do. Their good example is worth researching. Londtn and New York City for example are similar. Each has a population of between 7 million and 8 million people. bigger than anyone. by PHIL PASTORET This is one of those weeks that is going to be all Mondays. Officers Fight to Get Recomputation for GIs - Paul Harvey stopped, with the chief foes signing a truce agreement and the question of a permanent Inside Washington By ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON Forceful steps are underway to launch a new driv to put Ad-de- What makes some breakfast foods so crunchy are the little plastic premiums you're apt to bite into. The Church and the campus have been members of the samt family for centuries. Not always close, sometimes just distant relatives. And in a few instances, like when that feuding, Latin church father, Tertullian, put down the relation between Church and campus by saying: "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem, the Academy with the Church? What between heretics and Christians?...We have no need for curiosity since for nor Jesus Christ, investigation since the Gospel." Tertullian represented, fortunately, a minority view within the Church that liberal artrs and academic pursuit were unnecessary for true believers. This entire theme of professor the was the topic and preacher that Dr. I. John Hesselink, president of Western Theological Seminary presented to a convocation at Hope College in late August. He points out that "when were universities organized the in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, there was a close relation between theology, then the 'queen of the third-centur- y these two men in particular because they were so appealing and so impressive in their testimony before the Senate 'Committee. "Here we have two splendid of the American specimens ideal: young and handsome, and urbane cultured, disciplined and two of the brightest and loyal best we could produce. But they failed. Where did they go think the most wrong?...I found in be to is clue revealing Magruder's testimony. At one point he tried to rationalize his act by pointing out that his ethics professor at Williams College had been involved in civil disobedience in protesting the mention . hard-workin- war. Vietnam Magruder concluded, erroneously, that this provided a precedent for his own wrongdoing. This absurd and dishonest linkage is demolished by noting that while Prof. Coffin acted publicly in symbolically testing the law, Magruder acted in secret to violate the law. "Coffin was later quoted as saying, "Well, I guess Mr. Magruder failed my course in ethics.' And Magruder upon hearing this acknowledged that was his former professor correct. Here I feel is a poignant lesson for our time. One may learn all his lessons well and be a but if he fails his ethics all these accomplishments will go for naught. To rephrase this thought in the words of Jesus, "What does a man gain by winning the whole world at the cost of his true self (New Ask Jeb Version) English Magruder. Ask John Dean. Ask yourself." The great moral questions of any time are articulated in the classroom and pulpit, and then, finally lived out in the affairs of men. That is why'one of the great truths keeps returning: "all true religion begins in mysticism and ends in politics." The vision, the great hopes, the ideals must be treasured incorporated in the habits and workings of men. super-achieve- r, hY.i" And in fact, he worries that as a result of growing population, "there may well be more hungry people in the world than there were" 10 years ago. Boerma chaffs because "it is technically well within our grasp to increase agricultural production to an immense scale. But so far the nations of the world have not chosen to act in concert to do so in such a way that those who are victims of hunger and malnutrition can really benefit. "This is not only tragic but dangerous. For the availability of sufficient food for all the people of this world is a vital component of world economic securits. And, as such, it is increasingly a condition of world peace." Boerma says there has been a "dangerous degree of dependence" on the production of the plains of North America." According to Lester R. Brown, an agricultural economist with the Overseas Development Council, the seas are overfished and threaten to become battlefields for fishing nations. Water, too, is a scarce resource, and even fertilizer is growing costly, out of reach for many of the world s farmers. , Against this backdrop Kissinger and Brandt have called for talk and a grand scheme. Other researchers from Europe, Japan and North America, under the auspices of the Brookings Institution in Washington, have proposed a world food food bank, stockpiles financed by both producer and consumer nations. Boerma said he does not want to wait for agreement on that. He wants a building of national stockpiles now. For while China and the Soviet Union can afford to buy food, even at higher prices, when their crops fail, there are many places in the world where food cannot be purchased at competitive prices and if there are severe shortages, it cannot be obtained at any price. Florida Springs TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) Florida, the greatest number of state. These springs any discharge 100 cubic feet of water a second, immense when it is realized that the discharge of a single cubic foot a second would satisfy the water requirements of an American average community of 6.000. Letters to Editor On Preserving the Constitution Editor Herald: When our Founding Fathers assembled for the writing cf our Constitution, they searched the wisdom and examples of history. Then they produced a form of government which is unique in all recorded history. In most other societies, the ruling body had unlimited power. In those few cases where a government was restricted (The Charter of Henry I, Magna Charta, and others) the ruling body was restricted in a different way. It was assumed that the ruling body could do anything which was not specifically forbidden. Gn the other hand, the common man discovered that he could do nothing unless the law specifically allowed it. I believe the most important theme in our is the inspired Constitution reversal of thee roles. Our Federal government can do nothing unless it is specifically allowed, and the people can do anything unless it is specificiaily 10th forbidden and (9th amendments).. Placing such a restriction on the Federal government was surely an act of superior reason and the But, iaspriation. Constitution alone cannot restrict the government. It's just a piece of paper with some signatures. The solution to the problems of enforcement of these restrictions is the genius of our Our Constitution. Founding Fathers set up two different systems of checks and balances. The first was established by Articles I, II and III. Each branch the of Federal government is independent in its functions, and each has a check on the other two. The executive administers the law and he has the power to appoint the judiciary and veto the bills of Onngress. The judiciary sits in judgment both to the law (a check on Congress) and to the facts (a check on the executive). Congress writes the laws and has the power to impeach the president or override his veto. It also has the power to impeach judicial officials or restrict their jurisdiction. I believe it was originally intended that each branch of the Federal government would jealously guard ats own powers BOOTS WORLD and keep the other two within their bounds. The second system of checks and balances is between the National government and the state governments. Thomas Jefferson seemed to think this balance is more important than the former. The ninth and tenth amendments clearly state that unless a particular power is to the Federal given government, a resides with the states and their subdivisions. This means that the Federal government must find specific Constitutional authorization of every action it wishes to take. Sinister forces are at work today to destroy both systems of checks and balances. If these trends are not reversed, we may lose our Constitution and return to the relationships between government and men. Ken Larsen Candidate for U.S. Senate American Party 707 N. 500 W., Provo Editor's note: The concluding half of Mr. Larsen 's letter will be published in a subsequent issue of the Herald. -- Of 75 "first magnitude" springs in the United States, 17 are in y opto err if 1973 by NtA, Ik. I think of this before? new been the could have special prosecutor!" jou "Julie, Julie, Julie! Why didn't , |