Show JL aim 4A S’tattftarh-lExamttt- rr OGDEN UTAH SATURDAY EVENING HENRY J AUGUST 19 1972 TAYLOR EDITORIALS Works of Balzac Vibrate With Power of Observation Legislative Council Okays Antelope Bonds The goal of residents of the Golden Spike Empire to have a modern visitor facility on our unique Great Salt Lake has been pushed a step closer long-soug- ht toward reality The Utah Legislative Council voted this week to forward to the 1973 Utah Legislature a request for a $20 million bond issue for capital improvements in the state’s overtaxed park system Included is a $55 million item for work at the Creat Salt Lake on the northern tip of AnteState Park lope Island and for basic water sewage and parking lot improvements on the lake's south shore If approved by the ’73 Legislature the bonds will finance final reconstruction of the causeway from Syracuse in Davis County to the stale park The roadway will be raised three to five feet its base widened three to four times applied to its side and the surface paved This should so far as any hydrologists and engineers can tell prevent a repetition of washouts that have plagued the causeway since it was started eight years ago Lnpredicted raises in the lake’s surface coupled with winds and the heaviness of the salt water have repeatedly torn holes in the present struclong-delaye- d rip-rac- k ture The $55 million would also permit completion of electricity lines to the island buried beneath the pavement on the causeway This in turn would allow installation of adequate water and sewage lines — and a visitor center — to handle thousands of recreationists a year The Legislative Council in accepting a motion by Weber County Sen E LaMar Buckner to include Great Salt Lake bonds in the program voted to delay a proposal for financing from the same issue of the start of construction of the Jordan Parkway in Utah Salt Lake and Davis counties This was a wise decision S L Firemen Feud Members of the Salt Lake local of the International Association of Firefighters are carrying their feud with Mayor E J "Jake” Garn to ridiculous — and — lengths Two Salt Lake City firemen attending a Los Angeles convention while on time off with pay have asked their colleagues not to attend the union's 1974 meeting scheduled for the Utah capital short-sighte- d city They're also urging other firemen not to isit Salt Lake City at any time — until the mayor patches up his dispute with the local's president Jim Fisher who is no longer a city employe The Salt Lake City firemen want more pay and shorter hours They apparently are forgetting that tourist revenue including expenses of convention delegates is an important factor in their municipality's income firemen to By urging avoid Utah they arc pushing even fur out-of-stat- e is not opposed The Standard-Examine- r to the Jordan Parkway We recognize its value to residents of the Wasatch Front But we feel that its potential overall cost has not yet been fully charted Rather than start on Jordan Parkway now the state should concentrate on completion of parks a Lake Meantime Salt Great including Jordan Parkway Authority of state local and federal agencies could prepare a master plan for implimentation when particulars are known Parkways like that proposed along the Jordan are common throughout our nation and have more appeal for local visitors residents than for Great Salt Lake by contrast is unique Utahns may not like to swim in its brinev waters But there’s not one tourist who comes to Utah who doesn’t want his picture taken — at least once — floating like a cork in the lake Each extra day a visitor spends in Utah means income for our state treasury and to private services of $15 to $20 a day Utah’s tourist development program has been hampered because facilities at Great Salt Lake have been so poor Despite the primitive accommodations 124152 persons visited Antelope Island in 1969 193366 in 1970 and 155248 in 1971 when the road was washed out part of the year Around half of these are from outside Utah With proper advertising the visitations should increase to around 500000 a year when facilities are ade ouate This would mean a revenue of around $5 million a year Direct tax return to the state would be $1 million annually — repaying the investment in little more than five years This would not only get the Great Salt Lake job done right for a change but would generate “new money” income to pay for the Jordan Parkway already-starte- out-of-sta- d f — - — — THE POWER OF FAITH THE BIBLE The Rod and the Serpent Moses was still unconvinced that the children of Israel would believe that God had spoken to him and had chosen him to lead them out of Egypt The Lord gave Moses three miracles that would convince the Israelites First he told Moses to throw his rod on the ground When he did it became a serpent and he drew back from it The Lord told him to pick the snake up by the tail and when he did that it turned into a rod Second the Lord told Moses to put his hand into his bosom and when he pulled it out it “was as leprous as snow” Moses was told to put his hand back into his bosom and when he pulled it out that time it was whole and clean flesh again God told Moses that if the children of Israel did not believe that he was sent by their God by those two signs then he should take water from the river and pour it on dry land and it would turn to blood Then Moses told God that slow of speech and of a slow tongue” he was not eloquent He said This angered the Lord and he told Moses that he would be taught to speak and that Aaron his brother was eloquent and would work with him The Lord then commanded Moses to return to Egypt 44 “lam New Liaht Shed on ' 68 North Vietnam 'Offer' By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON — We have had access to classified documents which shed new light on the controversy over whether President Nixon “missed” an opportunity to end the Vietnam War in 1969 The North Vietnamese sent out several signals after tne 1968 election that they were willing to make peace with the new Nixon administration ranged from guarded messages to military pullbacks These The some messages more LETTERS d Jackson destroyed chance he had of the Democratic becoming nominee by embracing racism in the g campaign Senator McGovern saiu” (Chris Lvdon NY Times March 19 ) whatever WILLIAM F BUCKLEY JH anti-busin- 1972) RELIEF ON HOOVER And after J Edgar Hoover died McGovern gave an interview (Life magazine July 7 1972) “Hoover had lived beyond the normal years so I couldn’t feel the pathos I would for a repeatedly to the tneme that he young man I could feel notbmg had tried to calm rather than but relief that he no longer incite the public to anger T a sevant” public have up On the Indochinese war it is sought to whip but to appeal to hard to think of Senator emotions humanity and reason” he said McGovern as stable “I think “There’s plenty of anger and the reelection of Richard Nixon tension without our leaders in 1972 would be an open hunadding to it I think a con ting right for this man to grie ciliatory approach is needed’” in to all his impulses for a A conciliatory approach is not war against the people of to be tempered on major going Indochina” (Speech Catholic McGovern rhetoric and the University April 20 1972) And gentleman’s habits of harsh and I’ve ?aid many times that the uncharitable overstatement are Nixon policy on Innot purely the accretions cf a dochina bombing is the most barbaric presidential campaign Back in action that any country has 1964 (Sept 8 Ceng Record p committed since Hitler’s effort 21690) he was saying about to exterminate Jews in Geranother decent man in the in the 1930’s” (Interview Senate of the United States: “I many AP with Gregg Herrington regard Mr Goldwater as the June 29 1972) To liken Richard most unstable radical a d Nixon (and Lyndon Johnson) extremist ever to run for the not to Hitler but to the only Presidency in either political worst that Hitler ever did is party” well among other things perAnd about yet another decent verse colleague — from tne same VIETNAM QUOTES state — Karl Mundt of South Dakota “I don’t know how ne But that is characteristic bu: I when touching on the subject of Mundt) felt about me know i hated his guts I Vietnam President Nixon “has hated him so much I lost my descended to a new level of sense of balance” (Robert Sam barbarism and foolhardiness for Anson McGovern: A no other reason than to save his own face and to prop up the Biography p 93) And one more time on a corrupt regime of Trieu” (AP colleague “But (Senator April 161972) McGovern Shows Harshness Lacks Charity in Rhetoric w-a- -- s 1850 aspects of the same reality” He saw everything as creation Storytelling is the creation of myths But the myth must impose its own reality on the reader All really good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened A good myth also needs will conflict will against therefore conflict therefore interest and finally it must have characterization In all literature are there more memorable characters than Balzac’s Girot the devoted father Eugenie Grandet the miser’s daughter Vautrin the master thief Rastignac the opportunist and social climber translated 74 years ago or Bianchon the great doctor Balzac invented who was so GRAFTING FATHER real to him that when Balzac The son of a cold mother and he whispered that a grafting father Balzac died at lay dying Bianchon could save him? only 51 As a young boy in a stern BEAR OF MAN school he was the only one who envisioned a large future for Although only five feet two d middle-ageAs man a inches tall he was an immense himself he was the only one who bear of a man and his shoulders thought himself a failure His were as formidable as the great like the barrel in a stone lions of Babylon Women life Perrault fable was a barrel were Balzac’s forte and also his lined with knives largest audience Within his life is a great And when he finally achieved his heart’s desire in a new turbulent drama of the heart Paris house where this author with Ukranian Countess Evalina of “LaComedie Humaine” and a Hanska who had married her other books had main chance in life instead of hundred planned to finish the great earning it The drama lasted 16 volumes that remained in his years in a pursuit all over the only memorable Europe and ended in his mind words he wrote were “I am no marriage to this superficial woman when she became a longer able to write” Balzac finally described widow hardest the thing Admittedly to write is straight prose on her as the only woman he ever human beings First you have to loved and persisted in seating know the subject and then you Evaline Hanska on a cloud of have to know how to write good intentions At the end having moved Balzac did this said “A writer” through the years in a swirl of good women and howling Somerset Maugham “must be work serious and playful at the same creditors and nowr mortally ill time” Balzac epitomizes that Balzac describes himself “deaf like blind hard combination And with it like Beethoven — like soldierless he had compassion probably Raphael out of at Bersina a most for the Napoleon important thing out of life out which to of action the novelist place sympathy all human beings have a right out of plans” He no longer by the mere fact of existing A possessed the power to enjoy story that is going to live must when he had so handsomely the usually be a compassionate one right to happiness On Aug 18 1850 looking at a Balzac added a cubit to the human race by respecting its marble bust of Balzac proud dignity its strengths as well as and faintly glowing while the its weaknesses its bearing of novelist lay dying upstairs sorrows and joys its need of Victor Hugo compared death with immortality creation They were of their two writers “Jacob’s the Balzac greatest Said and both knew it But the ladder time mysterious zoological and the social ladder even difficult acrimonious Hugo the classes the upward bowed to the only man who was movement of creation are but his peer redeployment rather than a political signal The minutes of a secret White House meeting on Oct 28 1969 summarize the Nixon attitude Speaking for the President Henry Kissinger declared: “We have mentioned ‘cease reached fire’ (to Hanoi) in various vague than others Washington through a variety of connotations If they want a channels But more impressive reasonable compromise we will was the withdrawal of 22 of 25 meet them half way If they insist on American humiliation regiments from the two nor- we will resist” thernmost provinces of South He held out hope the North PAUL HARVEY Vietnam Vietnamese louder despite The key to the controversy growlings from Hanoi would lies in the interpretation of come to terms “The Hanoi these moves The new President tactics are the use of unbridled chose not to regard the ferocity” Kissinger said “until as serious peace just before they are ready to messages overtures He also interpreted settle” you and I conRecently the withdrawal He of the 22 k outlined a the cases for and strategy for peace “The rapid sidered regiments as a military road would be negotiation” he against capital punishment Even our Supreme Court’s said “the slow road T O T H E last word on the subject inEDITOR cluded equivocation SLOW ROAD I mentioned that the Bible RULES FOR LETTERS ” r President Nixon has traveled says “Thou shalt not kill The welcomes letters 'rom Its readers on topics cf current irv the slow road His intelligence But ereit Letters should be addressed: Editor Box 951 warned a Then cited examples where that Ogden Utah estimates 84402 Letters should not exceed 300 words Communist in takeover South and all letters are subject to condensation capital punishment is a fact No more than one letter per month will Vietnam was inevitable His condoned by Scripture Letters he printed from any individual policy volatino rules of good tasre and laws of Vietnamization HOST OF SCHOLARS libel will be reiected All must be signed therefore aimed w?as at tnd include for verification writer's adA host of Biblical scholars delaying it not avoiding it ores! and teleohone number The President was determined have been prompt to explain to hold off Com- that there is no contradiction in ly Virginia Payette’s Sunday munists tookthe day the that in translation in power Saigon Scripture column “Disgusted Minority we must conclude for his own the Sixth Commandment is Protests Silently” The “disgust- political reasons He simply misquoted Those opposed to capital ed minority” is identified as the didn’t wrant the Communists in of control the South while he punishment frequently cite the people who want none of what is was for in Sixth Commandment given to being offered for President and 1972 running Moses: “Thou shalt not kill” wish there were some way to He had reason to regard But when the Bible was first vote “No” for the presidency Communist control more as a translated to the English had this year translators many options political problem for himself I find myself growing very than a serious menace to the There are seven Greek words disgusted with columnists who United States For at the time and eleven Hebrew words for by subtle suggestion and in- of his inauguration the National kill But the specific Greek nuendo make our President Intelligence was word and the specific Hebrew and anyone aspiring to the of- cautiously optimistic about the word in the original documents fice look like a simpleton Our of a Communist is their word for the English well-pai- d word “murder” and highly privileg- takeover ed columnists should know betHad the King James Version There would be damage ter and should be ashamed of according to the estimate to U been translated literally the themselves If Virginia Payette S have should prestige and credibility Commandment is so intelligent why doesn’t among other Southeast Asian read “Thou shalt not commit she run for preseident? nations But the document murder” The thing our president des- stressed: If your instinctive reaction to g needs whoever he may “While some Soutneast Asian perately theology is one of be is our support and encour- leaders would probably en- impatience and resentment so’s agement and especially our tertain doubts about the will of mine but the absolutes of prayers None of us can appre- the U S to play a security role Scripture must not be misused ciate the tremendous burden of in the area we do not believe to our misguidance the presidency and the contin- that they would be panicked In the Old Testament God let ual pressure under which he into precipitate changes in Cain get away with murder and must work He needs the help policy or posture” he spared Lamech from capital of each one of us and most of the document punishment — for murder — all he needs the wisdom and predicted these leaders would but things got wrorse So after purging everything stance courage that only God can give take a him Furthermore for a man with the Flood God told Noah NO DOMINOES even to be considered for such to crack down on murderers: The estimate also offered a “Whose sheddeth man’s blood a high office he has already rebuttal of by man shall his blood be distinguished himself as stand- virtual the “domino head and shoulders above theory” shed” ing Adthe Johnson most of us including the “dis- which Indeed in the very next so had ministration often used gusted minority” chapter following thef requently And as for them— if nothing as its rationalization for conCommandment we misquoted is being offered to suit them tinuing the war have this instruction: “He that The document declared for smiteth a man so what do they have to offer? that he die Robert Vance example that Hanoi no doubt shall be put to death” surely hopes to extend its control over Washington Heights BASE ON SCRIPTURE Laos and Cambodia but would Baptist Church probably bide its time Washington Terrace Campus Opinion Poll finds WASHINGTON MERRY - GO - ROUND Start on Metric The Senate has moved the United States about one milimeter down the path toward conversion to the metric system The senators on Friday passed a bill asking the Secretary of Commerce to develop a plan within 18 months to abandoning pounds and yards and substituting kilos and meters The complete conversion to the metric system of weights and measures now used by every other major nation in the world would probably take at least 10 years and cost millions of dollars But it would be worth it to get us in step with commerce all over the globe The Senate’s step is probably only a silly milimeter because a companion bill hasn't even come up in the House in this election-curtailesession Still it could set the stage for affirmative action by the next Congress 18 40-volu- te ther awav the day when they can get that additional salary Hen ry It has been frequently quoted about George McGcnern that he is “the only decent man in the Senate” Now that quote is the late Robert Kennedy's and it does I truly believe an Injustice to the Senate I am sure that there are other decent men there not even counting the sainted junior Senator from New York successor to Robot t Kennedy in the affections of New York’s constituents And it is not the purpose of this essay to suggest that Senator McGovern is other than a decent man It is rather the purpose to suggest that that which is decent about him is expressed other than In his political rhetoric ’ But I fear that he has another image of himself than that which collectors of his remarks come up with and before the campaign heats up he should be reminded of it Particularly before he sets his course to the the rhetorical of deploring of excesses Spiro Agnew APPEALS TO REASON' Here is Nick Kotz of tKe Washington Post (May 17 1972' on Senator commenting had just he McGovern whom in talked interviewed “As he returned his office McGovern immortal de Balzac died Providence in an act of mercy broke the spring This genius was a fundamental element like nature itself His field was the whole world and his wrork vibrates with a power of observation and philosophic penetration nearly as awresome as Shakespeare and a great deal more vivid Yet Balzac certainly the French of his novelist greatest and of all century probably time is strangely neglected in our country — the victim of a void He is usually presenied in an set badly impossible On Aug Honore Protecting Unborn Editor In Standard-Examine- r: support of Elmer S Lattin’s stand on abortion I offer these excerpts from information sent by Robert J Pearson head of the Pearson Foundation Inc of Hawaii “Is it the duty of society through law to protect life in the womb as it protects life which has been born? That is the question which has to be answered by legislators There are some who personally abhor the act of abortion but who feel that in a pluralistic society the whole question should be left to individual decision or to make it sound more plausible to individual conscience “In a legislator especially it is I submit a serious shirking of responsibility There is no more reason for leaving this decision to individual conscience than there is for leaving homiconcide to ” sciences He further states “one purpose of any state is to protect those who cannot protect themselves and that by permitting these atrocities (legalized abortion) to continue— supported by our public hospitals our tax dollars and our government — we as a once civilized society have become as depraved a whole-hearte- d individual group of awards as ever walked the face of the earth” As Mr Lattin said abortion is often a means of escaping the consequences of promiscuity And to clothe legalized murder in less repulsive terms — “therapeutic abortion” “termination of pregnancy” etc— in no way lessens the crime And abortion as a means of birth control is a crime Yvonne Pagano Ogden Defends President Editor I Standard-Examine- r: should like to protest open Debate Will Continue On Capital Punishment two-trac- Stendard-fcxamine- Mancard-Examine- r on Estimate effects that 67 wait-and-s- point-by-poi- so-call- ed ee nt college-ager- s would abolish the death penalty And the percentage is much greater in church schools This suggests that many base their judgment on Scripture — so what Scripture says must be kept in proper focus or it becomes an elastic yardstick Others opposed to the death penalty cite the pyramiding increase of crime in recent years saying “See it’s not a deterrent anyway” When the fact is that nobody in the United States has been executed for any crime in the past five years Thus its effectiveness as a deterrent has been obscured official by reluctance to carry out the sentence I remention this subject today only because — whatever the validity of the arguments pro and con — the Sixth Commandment does not provide escape for murderers And our confusion is nowhere more strated most dramatically demonthan in the fact that the crusaders prominent against “taking a human life” are in favor of abortion QUICK QUIZ hair-splittin- Instead per cent of all Q— Which is the only bony par of the face that moves? A— The lower jaw Q — What was the first w sunk by a submarine? A— The Union steam slo war Housatonic was torp in Charleston harbor in 18 the Confederate subir Hunley which then sank Q— Why can an swim even though its ai makes it heavier then watei A — They gain buoyancy swallowing air to blow up intestines Q— How many member: the US House of Repn tatives have been expelled? A— Three all expelled in for serving in the Confed: Army 1- - V I |