Show 4A ijtett Jfattbarh-lExamtn- M: HOLMES ALEXANDER OGDEN UTAH TUESDAY EVENING JUNE 26 19Y3 EDITO RIALS Dean Insists Nixon Was 'Involved John W Dean III ousted White House counsel has given the Ervin Committee — as expected — the most damning testimony yet regarding President Nixon’s possible connection vith the Watergate bugging The young attorney told the Senate investigators that the President was “involved” in the affair but did not realize its implications He added he hopes Americans will forgive the chief executive “when all the facts are known” This last phrase is of paramount imThe nation is still a long ways from knowing all of the facts about the Watergate mess And testimony from witnesses in John Dean’s present legal predicament can hardly at this stage be considered too reliable The former White House counsel has been granted immunity from prosecution for what he tells the Ervin Committee But there still could be serious legal charges arising from his admission that he earlier gave perjured testimony obstructed justice and used Nixon campaign funds to pay for his last year’s honeymoon These are serious breaches of the law and should not be condoned We are not belittling the Dean charges as they affect President Nixon and particularly as they point an accusing finger at two other former White House aides H It Haldeman and John D Ehrlichman Despite Dean’s biased view there can be little doubt by now in anyone’s mind that both Haldeman and Ehrlichman were grossly in error in their handling of the 1972 presidential campaign and particularly the bugging of the Democratic office in the Watergate apartments The kindest thing that can be said about Haldeman and Ehrlichman at this point in the scandal is that they were s in “protecting” the President John Dean will probably keep on testifying before the Senate committee most of this week and under questioning from the committeemen may get more pointed in his accusations We urge that our readers as they consider the reports from Washington consider their source before “convicting” in their own minds the President as being the prime mover in the Watergate bugthat followed ging and the cover-uMr Nixon may have been more involved than he’ll admit but it will take more than the testimony of a discredited aide to convince us that the chief executive has not been truthful in his own Watergate statements Sanitation Board Hatch Act Upheld portance Proposed creation of a new Weber County Sanitation Board composed of county and municipal government representatives appears a logical way of conducting future affairs of the county’s expanding incinerator project The present board has served the community well in getting this sometimes controversial program under way including the present addition of a third unit to the West Ogden complex Most of the problems in the future it would appear will center around working out formulas for equitable financing of the installations and their operation If the newr board is created of officials who actually set the tax rates within the countv and who have authority to approve user fees it should be more effective in dealing with these problems than men who are primarily advisory It is too complex a matter to be added to duties of the present Weber Area Council of Governments pri-mari- lv New Agricultural Bill Shows Rise of Legislative Branch ‘ — In WASHINGTON of power from passage the the Executive to the Legislative branch take note of the policy and legislation in Agriculture Earl Butz became the hotshot new - style in December 1971 an “agribus” type who had served the big firms and sat on the faculty of Purdue University and m a food-processi- fellowship at Brookings Institution Butz came in with big ideas He was going to raise farmers’ incomes increase their foreign trade get rid of subsidies free more land for cultivation — in short to ride the tiger Early in 197? he was foremost in the President’s bold scheme to impound funds and cancel programs and there he came to grief He encountered a man as determined as himself Senate Agriculture Chairman Herman Talmadge but a man close to the Georgia soil and to the heart of what he calls the dirt larmer p BUTZ SAT DOWN I am not positioned to know whether "YOU LEONID! WITH NIXON! AND A LINCOLN CONTINENTAL! THERE GOES DER NEIGHBORHOOD" WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUN- Congressmen Complain On Airline Service By JACK ANDERSON away WASHINGTON — Congress SteamingO he wrote to all his men are so irate over the treat- - colleagues who fly the New ment they are getting from the York run airlines that they have called a asking about their experiences House hearing to vent their Almost to a man thev agreed City-Washingt- on feelings The final indignity which touched off the hearing oc- curred to Rep John Murphy D- NY Although he had reser- vations on an American Airlines flight the door was slammed in his face and he was turned LETTERS Editor Standard-Examine- the service wras deplorable Anything you can do to improve Eastern and American service which is horrible as we ” wrote Rep both know fcoch Edward “would make for a you eligible congressional medal of honor! D-N- O Y THE EDITOR one would destroy sacks of garbage can come from only one Sloppy Campers r: Rep John Wydler his experience with citing American Airlines said “their service is so bad that it has to be intentional” “It is rare” complained Rep “that Angelo Roncallo ave deParted rom New York on the announced time and rarer still to arrive in Washington on time” ank Brasco ep- rated the service between the twro to cities “subcaliber horrible” Shirley Chisholm the °utsIken congresswoman from Brooklyn called the service and urged “unsatisfactory” to “congressional the problem” investigate said Rep John Hunt the airlines had “priced me out of business as a commuter I go bv train now for less than half the price” 'NO LONGER FLY' from other Congressmen areas joined in the protest Airlines service and the between Syracuse South” wrote Rep William “has been Walsh months several for deteriorating and has now reached the point fly and Washington between ” Syracus? Indeed grumbling was heard from congressional commuters from Georgia to California Thus fortified Murphy called upon Rep Harley Staggers D- the powerful House y Va commerce chairman to hold hearings which are expected to he scheduled within the next few weeks R-N- Y D source w’ith Namely people For the past year or two the sick minds who need help in a NCHA (National Campers and w'orld of frantic fear at the R-N- Y D-N- Y hearings R-N- Y pull But I know what happened What happened was that in a matter of six months Senator Mr became — that passage of Agriculture — and power Secretary Butz sat down in a rear seat The story told in the is succinctly senator’s opening remarks in the upper chamber when introducing the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 on June 5 “I asked Secretary Butz to provide the committee with a copy of the administration’s The bill farm secretary declined saying that instead he would rather work with the committee in developing a bill anci WOuld submit some general proposals to the committee it was encumbent Therefore to us proceed in a upon to work out fashion responsible an effective bill” Such was the velocity with w'hizzed through which the Senate passing 78-- 9 on a when absenteeism usually is rife and such the the of complexity measure with its multitude of that few con- amendments summers and taxpayers could have known what hit them 88 Friday 51-pa- ge literal-mindedne- Academic Scandal Brewing On Cold Var Revisionism WASHINGTON — Besides the we have horror Watergate another scandal simmering nastily along in our national midst It is more obscure It involves no public men But it has importance for the national future In brief the history departments of most American universities have been gradually captured by the viewpoint known as “cold war far-reachi- revisionism’’ Cold war revisionism rests upon three basic propositions First the cold war was needless Second Josef Stalin was blameless And third the cold war was started by President Harry Truman for all sorts of evil American purposes war cold The principal revisionists are a group of American academics Most of them hae made a very good thing out of their chosen William Appleman specialty Williams D F Fleming David Horowitz Gar Alperowitz Gabriel Kolko Diane Shaver Clemens and Lloyd C Gardner are all names to conjure with in every American university with the smallest pretensions intellectual modishness WORLD ROLE Their respective works add up to the version of America's world role from the Yalta Conference onward that every parent must now expect to have peddled to sons and daughters rrt college age Worse still these works’ historical truthfulness has only been most timidly challenged — when challenged at all — by all the other American academics who ought to know better This has been the basic situation since the appearance of WA ‘‘Tragedyin 1959of Williams’ American Diplomacy” Now however Robert James Maddox of the University of Pennsylvania has broken the comfortable rule that no nice on other squeals professor professors In a short cool but shocking book “The New Left and Origins of the Cold War” Maddox has proved the cold war revisionists guilty of every crime against scholarship that historians can commit One of the seven revisionists David Horowitz is even shown to have indulged in what amounts to massive plagiarism in his ‘Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War” Overall Maddox “applied the simplest and most appropriate test How did these evidence the use writers available to them? ss ALWAYS FACTUAL The cold print of the book thIhderroaS ‘es r of the trailers on! of the camp- ac Q pro voh always factual always specific onto the ground without even always scrupulous in the use of a bucket to catch it there sources is even more were several children running than Prof all over the place fighting hoi Loewenheim’s summation etc apparently with no lering It may be inquired of course supervision and their dogs were why all this has the smallest allowed to run loose which cf political interest in the midst of course is against all regulations the Watergate horror and with of a camp area Leonid Brezhnev in the country If this is typical of NCHA we to talk with President Nixon want no part of it Why would The answer is that nothing an organization that is supposed could possibly have greater to be of political interest at any rate for camoWnoT screen" nrnTre?tive the long pull members closer rather than Every nation’s decisions about having such a bad example set the hard problems that history for non members? are continuously of Sign me a DEVASTATING always based upon that nation’s NCHA Forever” memories It is “The results (of the test) are historical R Anderson too he for reports possible perfectly devastating Layton with national memories to be perfilled books (their) the verted omissions successful by of insinuations propagation large missstatements of fact gross and falsehoods Thus decisionm i s c o n s t rue t i c n and making is also dangerously misrepresentation of perverted A root cause of out wrenched quotations World War II was just this kind mediate help and ability in stop- context” of a thing in Britain and France ping any further insane cruel This summation comes from cold war revisionists have slaughter of baby chicks as Our courageous review of Maddox’s been successfully propagating in Texas and which has had book in the New York Times by an enormous historical wide publicity both in news- still another eminent American Prof Francis falsehood in just the manner papers and on the national TV academic Loewenheim of Rice University described above The falsehood networks the past two days are shocked and sickened Williams Fleming Alperowitz has already percolated very far and the rest were further into the current American but not speechless Only co- in could the wards keep quiet under permitted to answer Maddox decisionmaking process and Loewenheim by The Times Senate and elsewhere It was these circumstances This incident o suffocating The charges against them were time for someone to blow the grimly factual in all cases whistle as Prof Maddox has living chickens in barrels by Their answers however were done feverishly dumping them as - devastating presents “Non-Memb- er ® Thil fire out Urwiretap chlarge was made by frfom spreading bv unthinking unrea- - Rep Morgan Murphy d-i- ii in and Jerome Waldie s°ninS hatchery °ers’ HelP us k?eP tWS frT hap- - defianCe °f the tradition that PemnS anywhere again Leota Craner members of Congress must not take one another’s name in Ogden Weber Humane Socitey vam scratching ONLY YESTERDAY 20 YEARS AGO 50 YEARS AGO Earl of Budge Cragun Engineer E W McGarry of Evanston was at the throttle of Pleasant View graduated this engine pulling President month from Utah State the train from Harding’s with a Green Riverspecial Agricultural College to Evanston with masters degree in education william Woods of Ogden taking and his daughter Molly Ann the run on to Ogden The was Charles conductor Pearson also graduated this Cragun a from systematic Weber Examiner sporting eebtor left historical Alaska-boun- d Field Service School Fort Sam Houston Tex and is assigned to duty at the US Army Hospital at Fort Dix N J n1ff pcnri Wilrwr ntuahtnf thA Vsiw annf tn rf of at thpir untcvuip ’ Brent Stone son of Mr and Mrs Glen Stone of Sunset broke his arm this week when he fell from a parked car near his home President Harding was greeted in Ogden by hundreds of Utahns who Union Depot and thronged Lester Park to pay their respects Departing from plans he made an eloquent talk thanking Ogden’s people for their welcome and touching on wife His matters foreign wearing “Harding blue” was with the President He drove on to Salt Lake City by auto ad- and fields fertile miring snowcapped mountains Christmas tree bill Economizers were pleased at of reduction the payment limitations from $55000 to Liberals $20000 per farmer were gratified with a per year increase in food stamp $l-billi- on programs “TARGET PRICE” h second and more was the floor factor potent of Senator management took time off who Talmadge from the Ervin Committee to steer his bill to Senate passage He mowed down opposition by presentation The vigorous controversial “target price” he said “discards payments mediately if a fair price is but” the farmer is received of a assured payment if the not is adequate Talmadge price sees no better way to keep farmers on the land and consumers supplied with food Whatever its merits this is a bill that has to be called inhouse The committee legislation heard from 300 witnesses mostly of the agricultural inThe bill’s founding dustry block farm fathers were senators Milton Young of North Dakota facing the roughest election challenge of his long and distinguished career was author of the target price provision Young said he got the idea from Bellmon of Oklahoma Both are farmers by Kansas Nebraska profession and Minnesota — in the persons of Senators Curtis Dole and Humphrey — led the way Somebody more expert than I am would have to find fault here Farmers at 5 per cent of are under- the population represented in Congress and deserve strong advocates which is what they had this time ge Male Legislators Scared by Libbers Libber but suggest that Equal Opportunity Amendment ratified is NOT to go around saying women are “only one man away from welfare” All that does is scare off any maje legislator who still clings to his romantic stereotype of females as helpless clinging creatures To be protected as he-g he sees it by man types who vote to keep women up on a pedestal (and state relief costs down) Its Pbably too late to do anything about senators like Arkansas’ “Mutt” Jones who amendment with shipped Wa 2lassic: “Women were put tbe earth to mMster Bible-quotin- - ‘f D-Ca- lif ba' were enough concessions and amendments to make this a VIRGINIA PAYETTE ‘‘Eastern Hikers Association) have been loss of a dollar so overpowerto time in remarkably short on facts and mentioned from time that they cannot stop to the newspapers advertised at ing on realize there are humane long Williams w’rote with an almost audible sniff: ' ped up in conversation etc “The mental quality we call Being avid campers my fam- e fertile and the ily and I have wanted to learn need t0 mcVbate the first in eggs only to about this organization plapy hacthed analytical technique we know as new the llve’ the chronological ordering of so recently over a holiday week- - y!- end when we had occasion to We aope s raw data have their place but Scn5?rely V1 camp next to two or three fam- thousands of let- that place is at the beginning — ilies at the Flaming Gorge area Is on one will receive — and by no means at the end — of that were members of this or- - ?rs’ou ould receive from every active historical understanding” ganization we had occasion to humane society m tne united One could paraphrase this as learn more about them and ob- follows: “To hell writh the facts first hand some of the unless I can make them mean BUGGING BATTLE what I wTant them to mean!” Two House Democrats have ' These were umcers 01 mexr fairly dramatic exTfon am have h?ped as alreacJy forma:lly a changes then led this reporter particular cnapter but I would J0U °f but In T?xas- - a s°- - SteIger' to read Prof Maddox’s book — hope not representative of the us your immediate same adversaries he has ac- please give which all should do who care association s about the American record emlrkTble conn- rinhuS-masss ALSOP Butz’s or Talmadge’s ideas are superior over the long R-N- Y JOSEPH of Agriculture over-zealou- The more than 30000 federal and state employes in the Golden Spike Empire may not like it But there is no question now about the legality of the Hatch Act that prohibits them from taking partisan roles in political campaigns The US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the act in a 6 to 3 decision announced Monday reversing a prior opinion by a lower federal court The key words that will govern the partisan activities — or lack of activities — by the nation’s 53 million federal and state employes are those of Justice Byron R White: “It is in the best interest of the country indeed essential that federal service should depend on meritorious performance rather than political service and that the political influence of federal employes on others and on the electoral process should be limited” As Justice White added the restrictions on the government workers “are not aimed at particular parties groups or points of view but apply equally to all ” partisan activities secretary At this writing it is up for must clear a House debate Senate-Hous- e conference and risk the veto which President Nixon has threatened But as another sign of Congressional supremacy and Executive decline Mr Nixon in a meeting with Capitol Hill Republicans has privately given consent to a new feature of tarm subsidy But “ NOT REWRITE we do need a con- - centrated attack on the issues: equal pay and job opportunity Not a gimmick rewrite of Snow White that has her hanging up her broom and climbing down in the mines to toil side by side with the seven dwarfs Lady Libs should drop out of that standing issue over pay toilets too Nobody argues that such things discriminate against women (male equipment is free) but the spectacle of a California assemblywoman smashing a commode on the steps of the state capitol falls class into the from of Instead leading would do ladies weakness the from to better negotiate Anf th eyve got plenty of ‘hit going for them To begin with they re m the classic beloved-- o f - a 1 1 Americans underdog position in the job market The average female college graduate earns only slightly more than a man who quit after the eighth grade ($7939 as compared to $7140) And just a little more than half of the average $13320 a male graduate earns Let them toss those statistics around a little Also they’ve got the Supreme Court on their side Just last month the judges ruled that women in military service must get the same benefits for their spouses that men do This opens bra-burni- spell the beginning of lawyers reforms in civilian hundreds life of legal for instance the NLRB eluding in-mo- re statutes union fringe benefits and private pension plans Last week ordered the longshoremen women give waterfront jobs on to the Another plus is those 30 states which have okayed the amend- ment That leaves only eight to go And maybe now it’s time to bear down on plain talk about what the amendment will — and do won't BIG HURDLE Because a big hurdle is the fact that most people don’t have it straight even yet (Although it’s been debated back and forth now for 49 years) As social it’s still a big legislation mystery to the public It will guarantee equal pay and equal job opportunity It won’t lead to unisex bathrooms will still Modesty permit (but equal) - separate arrangements It won’t “destroy the family” and support by changing alimony laws Payments would go to the spouse with greater need or smaller earning power That’s the way it already is in a third of the states In California a while back a wife earning $6913 a month divorced her husband whose monthly was $1157 She was Ordered t0 ?1602 every pay month It won’t take privileges from either sex But it wTould spread them around equally Social Security for instance W’ould be made uniform As of now men and women pay the same rates but women get smaller benefits This is what the Lady Libs should be hollering from the housetops Not that silly jazz about overthrowing the “en-W- e slaving institution of marriage” hating men as their “natural oppressors” and complaining that “mankind” is n a sexist like Talk that wasn’t wh2t got Snow White down in the mines put-dow- |