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Show r-v- r ryr 'T" ? m''' y af "lyir,-- jf ifMpi - yrrvin ""' lryyrr diptsma Salt Lak Argentina: A Challenge To U.S. City. Utah, Wadnaaday, May 31, 1961 (Philip A. the importance of electric of power on the development Colorado River. But is it good business on the part of government to provide lines at public expense at transmission , the same time providing yet another op-portunity for tax loss to the benefit of a few people when private industry would provide these transmission line at no cost to the federal government? Many of the good but misguided citizens who advocate construction of a government transmission system Colorado River electric power the last to want entanglements cialistic philosophies or socialistic programs Yet in this case they seem willing to sacrifice principle for questionable ff'fA. ' zL - CASTRO'S as-pa-ssed ? ? TRACTORS-FOR-ME- .' SWAP N If the American people submit to this cynical Castroite blackmail then we shall deserve the scorn and contempt with which rihe world will view our supine t surrender to a Hitler. We are not dealing with the fate of 1.200 men who took up arms voluntarily in an attempt to overthrow Castro. We are wheeling and dealing ip the Inez power, prestige and Robb dignity of a nation once so great it would have disdained to notice such a vulgar demand. Is the United States of America still that great or has it shrunk to the dimensions of such a deal as Castro offers? Where is the power and the glory? What has become of the nationaT pride and dignity? IF THE PRESIDENT of the United States and thus the American government had remained aloof from this attempt to swap machinery for mpn' " ,"ould s,ll havp ecn a co,n arrangement but it would have been a private and, therefore, an entirely different matter. But when President Kennedy as sumes sponsorship of the fund drive and urges all Americans to contribute, the deal becomes official. It is wrapped then in the dignity of the flag and the sanctity of government. The President has sanctioned the exchange. But instead of asking Congress for the money, he has levied a voluntary tribute on the American people. A year ago I was bitter that a president of the United States had, contrary to all international usage. tin-po- Disabled ability, Disability must hr defined. Is it physical disability? Or is it a dis- ability that impairs the judgment and other mental faculties? 2. Who determines when that disability exists? Is it the president himself, w'ho may be in such a condition that he may not be able to make that judgment? Is it the vice president, who has an obvious in such a decision? Or is this decision to be made by some other person or group such as the Cabinet, Congress, or a panel of physicians? 3. In the event of disability, does the vice president assume only the powers and duties of the presidency or the office itself? That is, does he become only the acting president or the actual president ? The difficulty of the problem, however, is no excuse for not dealing with it. It certainly is better for Congress to come to grips with it under fairly serene conditions than under emergency conditions brought on by another presidential illness which is alwavs a possibility even m the youngest of presidents. 1. only self-intere- st assumed blame for an intelligence fiasco, the disaster. That admission led to Khrushchevs shameful behavior toward the United States and President Eisenhower at the Pans summit conference. President Kennedys sponsorship of a fund drive to satisfy the blackmailing schemes of Castro falls into the same disastrous category as the U-fiasco in the last administration. U-- IF THE PRESIDENT had been con tent to let the fund raising scheme remain in private hands and thus assume the aspect of a private endeavor, it would at least have saved the presidency and the United States government the humiliation not only of knuckling under to blackmail, but of blessing and .sponsoring it. The Cuban invasion fiasco is still a mortification that we Americans do not understand. All the millions of words of explanation since the disaster have not really told the story of who, what, why and how. Never, even during two world wars, have I known persons to be so depressed by fumbling and ineptitude in Washington Now, as a crown of thorns, collies the Castro demand which is blackmail pure and simple. And the American public, out of goodness of heart and softness of head, are about to pony up the tribute. Well, the American public had better get set for this new national policy ad infinitum, for one of the oldest truisms of life and history is that blackmail, once begun, never ends. We can expect the hat to be passed every time some petty tyrant needs cash and offers men in return for money. IN THE PAST, through this column, I have raised large sums of money for a number of worthy causes from Hungarian refugees to Di. Seagrave, the Burma surgeon. But I will not submit to blackmail nor will I ask any reader to do so no matter what the cause TRIVIAL AND GREAT TRUTHS Life Is Filled With By SYDNEY J. HARRIS 1WO weeks ago I quoted Niels the noted Danish scien- t'st. who said, There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite Keep Us Well While numerous simple duties once performed by the doctors hre now handled by professional nurses, technicians and other trained personnel, new medical research and methods have placed new demands upon the physician, notes George Bugbee, president of the Health Information Service. He emphasizes the need of many more medical schools, if the current physician-populatioratio is to be maintained Pieseiu and future demands upon health agencies mean greatly increased expendituies, and the percentages show this to be a estment. One of the most fundamental changes to affect our country in this century is an increase of 17B in av erage life expectancy. Not only has av ct age life been extended, but equally important, the span of the workers life has been lengthened, and family life thereby has been strengthened. of a great truth is also true Several readers have asked me to explain what Bohr meant by this enigmatic remark I will do the best I ran in a brief space In his pioneer work on atomic physics, Bohr has developed what he calls the rule of complemenThis means, simply, that tarity. opposing theories often turn out to complement one another; that conflmeet and merge. icting-truths ONE fiTHE MOST fascinating examples lies in the realm of light ravs There are two opposing theories; one, that light is made up of waves; two. that light is made up of corpuscles These theories but both contradict each pther happen to be true, depending upon which operation you are trying to perform. Paradox be both a monarchy and a republic at the same time. But, when we consider a great and important truth such as .Man was made for liberty, we fall into dangerous error unless we recognize the opposite truth that man is also bound. He is bound to his nature, as an acorn is bound to become an oak tree and nothing else. He is bound to responsibilities, duties and acts that are distinctively human; he is bound to rationality, for when he is no longer rational, he is no longer a "man. ALL THE CONSEQUENTIAL ideas of humanity are filled with the tension of paradox. Mans liberty and mans servitude are opposite ends of the same rope. To grasp the rope by only one end is to become an apostle of anarchy or an advocate of dead fatalism. Man is made for liberty and dependence Senator Caucus Modem science of the basic sort is filled with paradoxes of this kind. Indeed, the closer we approach the basic stuff of the universe, the more we find that opposites blend into an essential unity. The profoundity of Bohrs observation lies, for me, in its application to a great deal more than the world of physics. I believe that the world of ideas has much the same sort at It gore. of "complementarity For Love And Money Journal) THE INDIAN PARLIAMi.NI a bill outlawing the old Hindu custom of giving and accepting dowries Frjom now on it will be illegal for an Indian lass to try to entice her friend into a long-teralliance with anything but her own swWt self. The government apparently feels that if the parties are attracted to each other by - - nations heart but not to its head. ohe-thir- the IRbII Rlreel - HE American effort to raise mil- A lions to ransom the Cuban Freedom Fighters does credit to the full-tim- From .. Bv INEZ ROBB n d - Don't Sanction Blackmail The number of persons employed in health pursuit this vear readied 2 5 million, or one out of every 30 prisons employed. This figure, set bv the Health Information Foundation, discloses thaf within the past decade health omplovment has risen fim seventh to third place among mnior L S industries, in lenns of persons reremuneiation ceiving Approvin') iiely three-fifthof these vvoikers are employed by hospitals. About h2U of the healh workers in the United Sta'es aie trained or professionally certified, as doctors and dentists The shortage of doctors notwithstanding, the number of practicing ph; sicians has doubled since la00. a rate of gain about equal to that of the population, the Foundation reports. It is also emphasized that the proportion of physi-ciah- s ALL OF WHICH is a convincing testiin private practice has declined, but monial as to the high quality of the e thqse in hospital training and training of the physicians and all the service. Federal or service, or other health workers who now make up in teaching and administration, has d of all the employed in the United States. s - Hoorayl Another One Made Itl any lack of concern but from the fact that it is a very difficult problem. This difficulty becomes apparent when one considers the"essential elements of any law or constitutional amendment that might be formulated on presidential dis- To e ' " TIIOUGHTKUL WESTERNERS do not favor public ownership of any industry, including thp power industry: Cnn-gio- full-tim- r - - Is the years. THETKOUBLEs tHat these firms have been run at a loss and they are not easy to Mazzaferri. tall, dynamic Jose sell, bygov-eminen- t, uitutt). ternational it.y- f This nation was not built to its present by people using federal assistance." Nor was the Mountain, West. Our pioneer forefathers pulled their carts across the prairies, and. through enterprise, indebuilt a sound pendence, and economy. This area has a promising industrial fumre- ,Our resources, including electric power, have been developed through private enterprise with money supplied by our people with little or no help from taxpayers in other states. We are better off for this, and believe that this is the way we will continue to grow and develop. Government transmission lines in our region would be a serious mistake. Government duplication would do nothing to promote the economic or moral welfare of our people. It would merely shift the burden of taxes from one set of citizens to another, and in the process eventually bring about the inherent waste that comes with bureaucratic control. WHEN PRESIDENT KENNEDY observed his birthday Monday, very probably few' persons had their minds on the persistent and thorny problem of presidential disability. After all, here was the youngest man ever elected president, a vigorous and hearty 44, full of zest for life and enthusiasm for his job despite its staggering responsibilities. Yet such thoughts could well have crossed our minds, for even in this apparently healthy young man observers have noted possible signs of the physical price exacted by the presidency the added Weight in the face, the increasing number of lines around the eyes that are especially noticeable in the early moi ning hours. These signs likely weie not lost on at least one observer, foimer presidential aide Sherman Adams, who tills in this weeks issue of Life magazine of the governmental problems that arose from former President Eisenhower's illnesses. Those illnesses led to the historic letter that Mr. Eisenhower vviote to Vice Presiinformal document that dent Nixon-a- n represents the closest anyone in this country has come to wrestling with the problem of presidential disabihtv When it comes to presidential disability, the Constitution is vague and has been reluctant to deal with the matter. This reluctance stems not from IF MANPOWER ENGYf.ED in the effort is any critenon, this country is destined to become healthier with the years. y stature When A President firms-acquire- part to private interests, he added, we put them in charge, hoping that when they get the business back on its feet we can make a public sale of the rest of the stock. - New foreign investments are now being offered attractive incentives, generally consisting of income tax freedom for a period of years and immunity from import tax levies on the importation of the original plant and equipment. As a result of these policies the amount of new U.S. and other private foreign investment in Argentina is shooting upward, $316 million in approved projects (exclusive of oil) from September of 1958 to the end of 1960, as compared to only $20 million in 1957. And much more is This is big money, projected. dwarfing any foreseeable U.S. government aid funds. mutual interests and basic amiability, it isnt necessary to throw in cash or goods to seal the bargam. YYE SI PPOSE this is a progressive step. Maybe it will make Uncle Sam think about his own foreign-aidowry especially-hen the wooed one, after taking the money, asks for more, winks at the rival, and wont-evehold hands. IT IS EASY to see that the opposite of a trivial truth, is plainly false: a white can cannot be black, water cannot be dry. Trance cannot .1 - brother would make he can sit in a great astronaut . My wife's ... the same position all day and do nothing but turn knobs on the TV! commu- nism everywhere. Perhaps the best chance at the present time is Argentina. Her 20 million people are trious and homoMr. y geneous. Chiefly European in origin, nearly HKi of the inhabitants are literate, and schooling is mandatory. The land is rich, especially for the raising of cattle and sheep, and the country in Is approaching petroleum production. In fact, Argentina can only be classed as an underdeveloped country because of the regression that has marked her recent decades. Early in this century she was a model of progress for the time, illustrated by such things as an effirail network, a cient nation-widrapid urban subway system, a highlv and a developed sparkling cultural life. THESE INVESTMENTS are large and dramatic, covering significant areas of modern development oil, chemicals, synthetic rubber, carbon black, autos, exotic fibers, and dozens of others. They are creating economic growth, private jobs and national wealth for Argentina. However, they are also creating enemies and problems. These prominent private inveslments will continue to be the primary target of the Communists, the socialists, the nationalists and, indeed, of those government officials who have come to look upon development as a state and who therefore prerogative prefer philosophies of growth that edge closer to the socialist road. U.S, PRIVATE INDUSTRY has a challenge, in Argentina, a great opportunity and a sobering responsibility. It must find a way to get a substantial part of its local equity stock into the hands of its employes and the public in the host country. Only in this way will modern capitalism have a personal message for the indivdual. Only in this way can capitalism win over state socialism and communism. stock-exchang- NOW THE ARGENTINE may be emerging from her long intervening sleep of decline, most recently evidenced by the fascism of Peron and the enervating financial policies which, to cite only one consequence, diave multiplied her cost of living eight times since 1951. Government budget deficits are being reduced to more manageable proportions, and the cost of living stood still in January of this year for the first time in a decade. Then, too, Argentina is somewhat unique in ttiat, whereas most Latin American governments are muscling more and more into the private business sector, the Fron- A 'WILDLY EMOTIONAL' ISSUE Are 'Freedom Riders' Justified? A Tell the a False Story, most effectively is one of restrained treatments I have seen of an issue that Is wildly emotional. Inasmuch as I am qualified to judge, it is honest and fair. As a Mississippi college student immediately after the Supreme Court rqhng in 1954, I knew only one student who did not favor integration. We were not inconsequential as repiesentatives of a 'J group qualified just by being born southerners to promote. individually, the acceptance of legal integration. But organizers have incited Negroes until many have confused the boundaries of human decency with those of racial prciudice. A Negro woman, for example. was paid by an organization to "jostle white people jn crowds. She is a minor example, but how can one distinguish rudeness from assertion of rights? .'Mims' NOTHING CAN EXCI SE the lence vio- welcom- Of ing committees for freedom riders, but the mob reactions are predictable. Common sense as well as experience shows that freedom riders accomplish no kind of good. Mob fury, intensified by suppression, originates in a hazy resentment of intrusion but quickly shifts to hatred for thp Negro As you show in your editorial, the Negro has made progress, which, being gradual as most progress is, made no banner headlines. His progress was not just material, the white man was choosing to acknowledge the Negro's innate rights. Now the progress has been noticeably retarded. Revolution is a beautiful thought to the young idealist, but it seems likely that more than college liberals are rpaster-mujdinintegration strategy. The far sighted person would know two things: ill groups likp tiie freedom riders are substituting hatred for progress and, n many individual cases, love; (2 they are keeping an American problem, jn its ugliest form, befoie the international eye. Is there any end attainable bv such muddled pursuit If the federal government must hasten desegregation, let it work by impersonal legal means and end, instead of beginning, with Little Rocks. it intervene where riots begin, instead of permitting riots to foiee governors into extreme positions which force president to assert federal authority. I know of no way to make a mob behave lationallv short of force. Would it not be wnse to cope with organization rather than with frenzy? THE FORESEEABLE consequences interracial tension increased, international prestige undermined, federal and state government conflict precipitated are too far reaching to justify groups' flouncing around under constitutional rights. William Schaefer It 234 1st Ave. Blasts Pearson Tactics T IS interesting to see how proud Rep. David King is of two recent comments made about him by news columnist Drew Pearson and by his associate Jack Anderson. This was reflected in the letter of Pat Nyse-wande- Was To 'Invade' Entertainment Soon TV r of May 16. For Rep. King to brag about mention by a columnist such as Pearson makes me wonder whether or not he will ever become a good is Pearson princongressman. cipally a Washington gossip columnist, who has recently smeared such people as Sen. Frank Barrett of Wyoming and congressman Hamer Budge of Idaho. Barrett won a full retraction, but Pearson's smear cost him the election. It cost Budge his election, too. These are just two examples of Mr. Pearsons activities. Mention by Pearsons assistant. Jack Anderson, scarcely lends honor to King either. Who can forget the disgraceful incident when Anderson and one of his friends bugged a hotel room in the famous Goldfine case? This is the type of tactics which has made Pearson and Anderson famous. ' That King would point with pride to mention in such a column makes me seriously question his judgment and to greatly discount the Accuracy of the statements made about him. Karen Ballantyne w Ogden (From the Deseret News FMes) 25 Years Ago A research committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Aits and Sciences reported that it was convinced that telpvisiqn uould soon invade the entertainnfent field, probably by next year. 50 Years Ago The Salt Lake May 31. 1911 high school listed this v ears graduates, 132 students, the largest graduating class in the history of the May SI, 1936 - school. 75 Years Ago May 31, 1886 After more than six months' search, workers had found the aerolite" which fell in Pennsylvania in September of last year. It was declared the largest such bofiv on record, and was composed of chromium, magnesium, .aluminium, copper, iron and tm. It, was estimated to weigh fully 200 ! tons. 100 Years Ago May 31, 1861 The Deseret Dramatic Association1 terminated its performances for this season wit!) Poole's favdhte comedy Paul Pry . d ,. - - - - - -- F - m m m. of the Dime, executive the government holding company, said to me. Whenever We can sell a e t. self-relian- sd MODERN, NO ONE QUESTIONS In these times of world crisis, we face new frontiers each day. But what has happened to the old frontier? Certainly people need the character and courage to condeveloped through quer the difficult problems ahead. The electric power industry is an area Into which the federal government has There already seriously encroached. seems to be no valid explanation as to why .the federal government should penetrate deeper into the field of providing electric power at great loss in tax revenue to state and local taxing districts and Imp- - democratic, widely capitalism of the kind enjoyed in the United States needs a dramatic success story somewhere In Latin America itself. Then our neighbors to the south would be able to make their own comparisons, within their own environment, between our kind of free enterprise society and the Marxist slave-statnow being exhibited in Cuba and relentlessly pushed by in- top-hea- states. More Workers " to the federal government, as well as an national increase in the already debt. Now .the government is planning to build transmission lines to market electric power from the, Colorado River Storage Project, although the private utilities in the region have offered to transmit th government power over their own transmission lines. NOW WE FIND gradual and unnecessary encroachment of government into responsibilities previously assumed by individual citizens or by cities, counties, and frttuiica -- x-Q Preserve Our Free Enterprise e, RJ, humtums Ssm formtr Undtr f Cemtrc. it mskmt m f. tarvtj of husHusi conditions tn L Cm or tin Stanford Rtntrth ie Amtric Jr, . g dizi government is actually trying to get rid of the array of privata d or developed over By PHILIP A. SAY We. Stand for the Constitution of the United States as having been divinely inspired. . THE GROWING TENDENCY of Americas citizens to seek from, the federal government services and functions which they could and should provide for themselves is alarming and dangerous to the concepts upon which America was built. Too many citizens are seeking federal aid for hospitals, roads, schools even help to pay teachers salaries and for housing. It seems that all segments of our economy now look toward Washington for aid of some kind. Instead of bring independent and using initiative, people are forsaking good American pride in and are no longer ashamed to consider Washington as the first place to go for financial help. This dependency on the federal government will not stand our nation in good stead in the years to come. Since income taxes have been hidden in payroll deductions, citizens seem to have forgotten that it is their taxes which pay for these initiative-destroyinand freedom-decayin- g federal services. The precepts upon which this nation was founded recognize and attempt to safeguard the dignity of the individual and his freedom to worship in accordance with his , conscience, freedom to engage in lawful business endeavors, and freedom to acquire and possess private property. These freedoms engender initiative, enterprise, independence, and all of which enabled this nation to maftg. tremendous advancements in social and economic fields. yTp AN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY 'BassnaT Mms 18 A "TTr AT e |