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Show mm 0 Should be typed Letters . and with hill include address less than 400 words, signed and pbooe number (number won t be name, published). Direct questions to Flint Steph5S, editorial page editor, double-- s paced, Nov. S Opi Friday 17, 1989 B. Help the Boy Scouts with their food drive The poster asks "remember the first time mom took you to dinner?" It shows a young mother holding a small child and digging through a trash can, searching for food. Is this the kind of memory' anyone should have? Of course not. to local agencies. Those agencies will Unfortunately, more than 20 million' Americans go hungry at some time each then distribute it to help fill the stomachs of the hungry. month. Too often we give to our favorite This month, as the holidays approach, the Boy Scouts of America are trying to church and assume we have done enough. do something to help lessen that numWhile there is obviously just so much ber. of us can do, we need to recognize each Scouts around the country are particithat are not members of our church. all in for a called Scouting program pating not lessen their need or ow does That Food. Cub Scout dens, Boy Scout troops and Explorer posts sent their members opportunities for service away from our through neighborhoods in each commuPrograms such as Scouting for Food nity with plastic bags a week ago. are rooted in the foundations of the Boy those will return same boys Saturday to the neighborhoods to pick up the Scout movement. The Boy Scout mission bags. They hope those of us fortunate statement, Scout Oath and Law all enough to have homes, jobs and foods clearly reflect the spirit of such a will share some of our bounty. The community effort. And in the name of that spirit, don't Scouts ask that their neighbors fill the to fill the bags and set them aside with food. forget bags for Scouts Saturday. All food collected will be turned over Herald comment 'I'MfiEfflWWMS TO OMDERSEAND WW TUB BREED 15 BEAMING EXUNCT. Businesses hurting selves when freebies Gorbachev continues dry stance leave a bad aftertaste It's not that I expect something for nothing. I'm a grown-u- p cynical reporter-typ- e person who understands that everything costs. But I think real damage is done when a freebie is disappointing or less than it is advertised to be. I think it's time to point out a fact or two, as I see it. After all, I am the chief buyer and marketing consultant for a family of seven consumers. I know a little of what I speak about. And this is the second time in recent weeks I've leapt for free bait and been shortchanged something pretty hard to be when one didn't spend any money for the goods. I went to a g event where delicious chocolate samples were mine merely for flashing my Press pass. One minty sample nearly broke my tooth when I bit into it. It was bitter and very old. I suspected my son's sample was the same when I caught him trying to spit it out into his napkin. The company giving away the goody had apparently decided to unload aging merchandise on this event all the while appearing to be generous by donating the fund-raisin- Candy. ; The second time I got stung, I bought a taco for lunch for less than a dollar with just enough meat in it to count as a third ingredient under abundant lettuce and a little cheese. I ate my taco enthusiastically searching for fulfillment and came up empty at the end. ' And I noticed fellow customers around me apparently sharing the feeling, looking just a bit dismayed and hungry despite the purchase and consumption of several s. I . surmised that this company had decid- - Sharon Morrey STAFF WRITER Li ed to cut costs, sell double the tacos for half the price with half the meat. The problem with both situations is that it's a shame for the companies involved to miss their golden opportunities. I don't recall the names of the 101 companies who gave me a scrumptious r. sweet at the I probably couldn't tell you whose was the most delicious or freshest item. But I made a mental note of the one that nearly chipped my tooth. I won't forget how hard and bitter that particular sample was. What the candy company saved by dumping old product I'm sure they lost many times over because folks like me won't pay for a product they didn't like when it was free. The taco probably didn't cost the company any money, they probably covered their costs. But there were all those people who came in for the sale and went away unimpressed with the product. How much better would it have been to and walking have everyone well-fille- d away wondering "How can this company afford to sell this super taco for pennies?" Sometimes I think some businessmen think the consumer is stupid and won't remember when a bad taste's been left in the mouth. fund-raise- WASHINGTON Soviet populist Boris Yeltsin would do well to watch his alcohol intake. The Soviet premier he opposes, Mikhail Gorbachev, has twice knocked competitors out by exposing them as heavy drinkers while he stayed sober. Yeltsin was the target of a KGB smear campaign during his visit to the United States in September. The issue was dear to booze and the heart of every Soviet the story was that Yeltsin drank too much of it. A wild account of Yeltsin's escapades in the United States was planted by the KGB in an Italian newspaper and reprinted in the Soviet paper Pravda. Pravda later apologized, but the "party animal" image may linger around Yeltsin. Then recently, Yeltsin didn't help his cause when he turned up at a Soviet police station and confused, claiming he was accosted by thugs. He later retracted his statement and apologized in front of the Supreme Soviet. Central Intelligence Agency sources tell us that the alcoholic smear is an old standard for Gorbachev. Twice before when he was a student and when he rose to be Soviet premier Gorbachev cleverly stepped over his opponents by denigrating them for drunkenness. The college story comes from Fridrikh Neznansky, who went to Moscow State University Law School with Gorbachev in 1950. He emigrated to the United States in 1978 and told this story in a classified Pentagon debriefing. One night in 1950 at a bar, Gorbachev plied a friend named Nikitin with so much drunk. liquor that he became falling-dow- n Nikitin was the leader of the local Komsomol, or Communist Youth League. During the night, Gorbachev stayed sober. The next day, Gorbachev neatly dissected his friend at a Komsomol meeting for being an embarrassing drunk. Gorbachev was promptly hailed as the next leader of the Komsomol chapter. "That's when his path to the Kremlin began," Neznansky told U.S. officials. dish-eavel- He called drinking "the national tragedy," and said he had heard about the grumbling in the long lines at liquor stores when he cut back supplies. "All kinds of epithets reach us from the queues," he said. And he parrotted the song of the drinkers: "We'll keep drinking like before, we'll exhume Brezhnev once more." Gorbachev vowed that he would not give up his temperance campaign. "I know that letters reach us from the queues with threats, but we will not give in to these sentiments. We won't leave this path." Jack Anderson & itfi Dale Van Atta UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE As the young Komsomol leader, Gorbachev eliminated "unpatriotic cosmopolitans" Stalin's code word for Jews from the chapter with gusto, Neznansky remembered. The account paints a picture of a man on the way up. Another contemporary, Lev Yudovich, who graduated two years before Gorbachev, confirms Neznansky's impression. Yudovich has taught at the U.S. Army's "Russian Institute" in West Germany. He said, according to another secret Pentagon report, that Gorbachev was during the Stalin era, but it was less a heart-fe- lt belief than a proper stance for an upwardly mobile communist. He is somewhat kinder to Jews today, but has no more tolerance for drinkers than he did as a youth. In 1985, when Gorbachev was jockeying for the top spot as premier, he denounced his chief opponent, Grigory Romanov, as an alcoholic, according to secret CIA reports. Romanov was forced to resign from the Politburo, and the CIA g'ves part of the credit to Gorbachev's allegations. The CIA says Gorbachev is indeed the that he makes himself out to be. He has earned the nicknames "Gen. Juice" and "Mineral Secretary." The CIA got a transcript from a speech Gorbachev gave to a group of 30 prominent writers in 198G. It shows how serious he is about irradicating the problem of alcoholism in the Soviet Union. anti-Semit- ic near-teetotal- er - At least PRICE VICTORY? million was spent last year on presidential election campaigns, making it the most expensive showdown in American political history. The high costs can be WHAT $500 blamed on increasing television rates. George Bush and Michael Dukakis each got $46 million from the federal election fund fed by taxpayers who donate part of their return. Both men voluntarily limited themselves to $100,000 per donor. The Republicans accepted 267 such gifts from individuals and corporations. The Democrats collected from 130 individual donors. - In the twinkling of an eye, the United States has sunk from the world's lending giant to the world's greatest debtor. Yet the dizzying speed of that fall hasn't fazed most Americans. Politicians and voters alike still ignore or deny the reality of the national debt. If the debt were divided equally among all the people in the United States, each person would owe $9,000. Since the bill will never come in the mail in that form, Americans don't take it personally. They continue to demand expensive services from their govMINI-EDITORI- ernment and they tolerate staggering waste in government as though it were inevitable. At this pace, the only inevitability is financial ruin. Copyright, 1989, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Letters Thinks smoke issue being taken too far Editor: I just saw the commercial on television about the men kicking in the door to some peoples house because they had a fire in their fireplace, and putting it out. This reminds me of Nazi Germany, when they forced their way into peoples homes on various charges and arrested or killed the people inside for something they said they did which the authorities did not like. I really thought this was the United States of America and people were free, and what they did inside their homes was their business. I know people should be concerned about their environment and their neighbors, but I think this is going way too far. I don't need someone I have never seen or even know telling me what 1 can or can't do in my own home. If I am cold, I intend to get warm however I can. Come on, people, stand up for your rights as a citizen of the United States of America. Ut's not be another Nazi Germany. lleula J. Hodgson Spanish Fork Headline misleading Editor: The Daily Herald often exhibits a lack of sensitivity as it deals with religious news pertaining to churches other than the predominant one in Utah. I would not go as far as saving that this is deliberate. I do not think that saying so would be fair to the editorial staff who go to great lengths to publish news of forthcoming events in our local churches if we but will supply them with press releases and photographs. However, the picture is a different one when The Daily Herald chooses to publish national church news about the Episcopal Church. The religious news editor goes to considerable lengths to prefix a syndicated editorial with "scare headlines." In particular I am referring to an Associated Press article by David Briggs, which appeared in The Daily Herald on Sunday, Oct. 29, under the misleading caption of "Proposed liturgical texts take gender out of holy trinity." The news article in question is about inclusive liturgical language approved for very limited trial use in some parishes of the' Episcopal Church. The Standing Liturgical Commission, which presented its report as Prayer Book Studies 30 to the House of Bishops meeting in Philadelphia Sept. has no intention to revise, and rewrite Christian doctrine held by the church Catholic continuously from the 4th century until the present. As we speak of the divine mystery, God in his essence being ineffable, we all labor under great poverty of speech. Yet speak we must if God is not only to be worshipped and adored in silence but addressed and proclaimed. And that involves great risks, inasmuch as human language is always rooted in history and culture; whereas God always stands over against our history and culture, even though our experi 23-2- ence of God is communicated to us through our own history and culture. Inclusive language is a modern-da- y expression of the church's experience of God who, as Trinity, is not only beyond singular and plural, but also beyond gender. Your religious news article is wrong in suggesting that the inclusive language forms in Prayer Book Studies 30 are intended to replace the more traditional language found in the Book of Common Prayer. It was made very clear by the Rt. Rev. Vincent Pettit, chair of the Standing Liturgical Commission, that the suggested inclusive language texts will supplement, not replace the liturgies in the Book of Common Prayer. Also, the Rev. Canon Lloyd Casson, New York, when presenting the alternative texts, assured the bishops, "Our intention has never been and is not now to replace prayers that are currently in the Book of Common Prayer." Nor is it true, as Mr. Briggs seems to suggest in his article, that a new revision of the Book of Common Prayer is only 20 years away. I am all for factual reporting. However, I do become concerned when developments in the Episcopal Church are being deliberately nusrepresented. "Scare headlines," especially in your paper's religious news section, tend to cause anguish to our people who, for the most part, love the Episcopal Church but prefer evolutionary to revolutionary change in worship and in the church's expression of the faith. lYesenting misinformation is irre.sjxmsible journalism. The Rev. Gerhard Iaw, Hector St. Mary's Church Provo Many need help Editor: Next Thursday is Thanksgiving and many little children in the valley will not be sitting down to turkey dinner with their parent or parents because there won't be any dinner to sit down to. Each year, all year round, but especially at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, Together, Yes We Can, helps as many people as possible with the donations that are available. We are especially concerned that Christmas is so close and we have conservatively a thousand children who will not have Christmas if we don't help them. We are heavily involved with our own and "adopting out" families who need help to those who want to help. Many MIA groups are in the process of helpmg us with some of our cluldren and families, but the need is really great. The people that we help don't expect new items. Many tilings we no longer need or want in our homes could be a great joy to people of all ages and in all situations. If we all shared an item with someone else we would find all needy cared for. As the ad for Scouting For Food in a national magzine says, "The newest third world country Isn't in Africa or Asia. It's within our own borders." We find Uuit interesting as that is what we have saying to the public for some time. Right here within our own valley of plenty and extravagance many people go to bed, if they have a bed, each night cold Biid hungry. People of all ages shiver In the cold from lack of warm outerwear. We can do some ta Ix-c- thing about that. With as many people as there are that read this, we believe many will have the means to change that situation and help us to help those who cannot help themselves. We have seen so many miracles occur with this program that it constantly amazes us how our needs are known to someone before we know we have a particular need. Many times as we are standing on our carport speaking of a specific need, someone will come up to us and lay that item at our feet, turn, and be gone. It's a real testimony to us that someone up there is watching over the needy. For all the wonderful boys that do their Eagle project through us, all the beautiful MIA youth who perform services that benefit the needy, and for all the general public who have found that we are an answer to where they can do the most good, we say, thank you. You may or may not ever know, according to your wishes, the outcome of your gift, but be assured it is received with great joy and thanksgiving. If you are thinking of giving a Christmas gift, you need to know that giving it early will help us to know where we stand in our efforts to help. We are able to give your donations of fresh fruits, vegetables, milk, eggs, bread and other items, almost as quickly as they arrive. Those who receive these items want you to know how grateful they are and how much they appreciate the gift. Tlurd World country? For now, but not forever. Together we can make a difference. Call today, Jerry or Elissa Jerry Lou Nordmeyer Orem 224-06- 224-535- |
