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Show 1 T--r Comrade, I'm Taking A Political Poll, But First, Word Of Warning FromrMy Sponsor . , DESERET NEWS A. , (iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiminiiiiniinmiiiiiiiiiiiiiyiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiimiiiiHiiiiiii 4 SALT LAKE' CITY, UTAH 'Can't Do That' We Stand For The Constiftrtion Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 6 A EDITORIAL PAGE WEDNESDAY, APRIL Somewhat unaware of wh.fl wa Satin day I found myself shoutjig voice You cannot say that ni Demon at tc coi.vcn-tio- n I had lost my temper at the time A speaker. 1 assume, proposed to nominate someone to inn against Wally Sandatk for state chairman of the Democratic Party; Instead of telling the convention what his candidate could do for the party, he began by throwing mud at Sandaek because of his Jewish religion. Perhaps if I had had my wits a tout me I would have said you cannot say that in the state of Utah. Time was in Utah, when the Mormons nominated political candidates on toe People's Party ticket and the non Mormons on the Litoral Party tuk-et- ; and much bitterness among the people resulted from political activities Those days, I'liopp, are gone fmever in I tab. Many of us who .are Republicans or Democrats fight each other with everything we have for a week or so- before the election Rut on the Wednesday mornings after tlie' political battles are over we congratulate the winners and the losers start making plana to win the next round. One of America's greatest and most unique contributions to political thought is the separation of tlie church and state. Tins is not toleration of another mans religious views. It is complete freedom of conscience in religious matters. If is the right of every citizen of the United States to to a devoted member of any church he wishes and, every citizen should in no way be handicapped in his economic, social or political activities b cause of the way he chooses to worship his Creator, --CHARLES W. ROMNEY 1471 E 33rd South X' ay 5, 1967 The Alternatives T o The Religious Life , There are some in our society today who woulddestroy established and accepted standards of moral behavior, by which men progress and enjoy the full life. Some who challenge these standards are so absurd they influence only those of their own ilk. They are like Edmund llurkes handful of crickets in a bioad field: they make a lot of noise, but the field remains unchanged. Of greater concern, however, should be those who are indifferent to the retaining and; furthering of the basic principles of spirituality. It is true that nothing prospers evil anfl wickedness as much as good men who sit and do nothing. Robert Maynard Hutchins, In an address to the graduating class at the University of Chicago in 1945, said: The most distressing aspect of the world Into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues which now, as always, are moral issues. The alternatives to a religious life a life of spiritualare sorrow, frustration, anger, bigotry, fear, usually ity and shame. They can mean an empty life, and, at worst, a n one. Either is an unhappy one. inlul, s and the indifferent, By contrast to the consider the thousands of local Church leaders who have gathered in Salt Lake City for the next four days to attend the annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints. They represent more than 2'o million in free world who have chosen to put religious, the peoples tpiritual precepts of morality into their lives. They are not indifferent to the forces which would destroy righteous living. Many are converts to the Church. They hayeWklked both Bides of the street, the dark and the light. Tirey now chose to walk in the light The will meet to ratify the official business of the Church; they will meet to be instructed in their duties and strengthened in the practices of living spiritual values. The times ara challenging; someone has observed that the Lord seems to be fishing with a single hook while the devil uses a net But men and women of faith always stand firm against the challenge of sin. Such individuals will be reassured and have their faith revitalized by mingling together during the General Conference. - States Are Committing Suicide cut WASHINGTON of business? trouble-maker- t f- h ' j ' Politicians, Keep Out When it Postmaster General as deeply involved in politics as Lawrence F. OBrien recommends that his department be taken out of politics, the idea deserves a respectful hearing. Indeed, a case can be made that much of the Post Office Departments chronic ailments a deficit that goes back to 3916 and keeps getting bigger, and its progressively worsening service can be traced at least partly to the fact that it i3 perhaps the most political of all federal departments. Take the example of OBrien himself. As the head of an agency that is among the three largest U.S. enterprises the other two being American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and e to running his he ought to devote General Motors more become efficient. to is ever if it department Yet OBrien is required to double in brass as a top political lieutenant of the President. When a crucially close vote is foreseen on major issues in the House or Senate, he is distrouble-shootepatched to Capitol Hill as a legislative-liaiso- n in involved the be is He also reported to preliminaries heavily to the 1968 national election wars. Postmaster generals traditionally are appointed for their political skills rather than ' for administrative or managerial know-hoInstead of being limited to the upper echelon, the emphasis on politics trickles down through too much of the rest of the Post Office Department According to Congressional Quarterly half of the potential patronage jobs that are available in the federal government when a new administration takes office are in the Post Office Department Against this background, OBrien plan makes sense. As he sees it, the postinaster general job should be abolished . . . the department should cease to be part of the it federal cabinet . . . and it should be operated as a Presi-drncorporation, with a board of directors appointed by the and confirmed by the Senate. The board would select & management expert to run the postal system. The need for more businesslike methods is obvious. A one example, U.S. telephone companies spend more for research in a year than the post office has in th entire existence. It takes no little honesty and courage for a public servant to admit publicly that his job ought to be abolished and his agency taken out of politics. Thanks to Mr. OBrien, a breath of fresh air has just blown through Washington. full-tim- r. 1 2 The willingness and the ability of the federal government to act as it is doing today In these fields. of the nations 8 The tendency mayors to keep turning to Washington where they get help instead of turning to their state capitols where they get neglect. ad s J gen-creat- ed through-simplificati- on who-'char- ge result Is that, what the sought but failed to accomplish by force of theory, the Federalists of 1967 are accomplishing by force of events. It was Alexander Hamilton who argued that the states ought to be abolished entirely or at the very least the governors should be appointed by the The end 1787 President. DRUMMOND While the states are not being formally abolished, their functions are being increasingly discharged by the federal government. The tide of federal power has risen so high that, in the Judgment of a federal-sta- t commission, advisory state governments are on the verge of losing control over the mounting problems of the nation's vast metropolitan areas. Tiiis means, the rejxirt concludes, that they lose the major responsibility for domestic government In the United States and in turn surrender a vital role in the American federal ivstent if they lose this control, The ominous judgment does not come from officials eager to see the decline of the states but from a commission whose chairman is former Governor Farris Bryant and whose members include governors and state legislators. The beginning of any real efforts to arrest and reverse tins trend must come from a clear recognition that it has been state neglect of city problems, not federal eagerness to take over, which has thrust the national government so deeply into local affairs. Aj the federal government and the cities are growing more closely together, the states are finding themselves more isolated. In very large part this is due to the states' cant do attitude toward the cities. For example, the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, winch I quoted above, says that only II states have even gone so far as to establish an office of urban affairs, while only eight states assist cities in the crucial problems of pollution. Are the states at the point of signing over to tlie national government the for financing major urban services in the US?- If the answer is to be no, it must come soon. John Gardner, the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, believes in a more even distribution of power between federal, state and local government and he is anxious to increase state and local responsibility for programs now fmanced in large part by Washington. Former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford is pressing a' heroic crusade to modernize and strengthen state governments He has galvanized the negie Foundation to help him create an Institute on State Programming for the 70s andfs working with the Governors Conference and Council of State Govern-- , ments and others to lay out what needs to be done to enable the states to save themselves. If the states fail to do their part, their demise will be suicide, not murder. How To Tell A Winner (Cont.) By SYDNEY J. HARRIS A winner knows what to forget and what to remember; a loser forgets what he should remember, and remembers what he should forget A winner seeks far the goodness in bad man, and works with that part of him; a loser looks only for the badness in a good man, and therefore finds it hard to work with anyone. A winner admits his prejudices and tries to correct for them in making judgments; a loser denies his prejudices, and thus becomes their lifelong captive. fate, and the fact that merit is not always rewarded, without becoming cynical; a loser is cynical without appreciating the irony of fate. A winner possesses ideas; a loser is possessed by them, and so, even when successful, remains their slave. A winner knows how to be serious without being solemn; a loser Is often solemn as a substitute for his lack of capacity to be serious. A winner looks it over; a loser looks It P- A winner is not afraid to contradict himself when faced with a contradictory situation; a loser is more concerned with being consistent than with being right feels challenged when the odds are against hint; a loser Is always looking for the edge. A winner appreciate the irony of A winner - A winner rebukes and forgives; loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. A winner recognizes that the only true loser, authority Is moral authority; having little of this, tries to assume more external authority than his character can handle. A winner tries to judge his own acts by their consequences, and other peoples acts by toeir intentions; a loser gives himself all the best of it by judging his own acts by his intentions, and toe acts of others by their consequences. A winner feels that his past failures have contributed to his success; a loser feels that his past failures blocked hi success. A winner does what is necessary with good grace, saving his energy for situations where he has a choice; a loser does what is necessary under protest, and has no energy left for moral decisions. A winner accepts the fact that, finally, no mortal can know who the real winners or losers are; a loser thinks that status and power and applause confer a and kind of immortality upon him never wonders what' the lesson of the crucifixion might be. Terrorists Rampant In Uruguay t- With the nations increasing prosperity putting more and more leisure time at our disposal, Americans are being pulled in two directions. the pursuit of pleasOne wTay He a life of indolence ure for pleasures sake, the rebellion against authority not to correct injustices but to call attention to oneself. dediThe other way, however, lies a life of discipline cation based on the principle that a people who Lave devel-- , and seem, about to conquer oped their space should also develop their Inner resources and conquei1 themselves. Its no secret that many adult think the younger by students of junior and senior high schools and a misconception. A an antidote, a visit in to is order the Granite High School arf gallery, where th is open to the pubannual Utah High School lic through Saturday. .There one will find on exhibit some 1,600 pieces Jot ait. created by students of junior and sesnior high schools throughout Utah: In these works will be seen an outstanding degree of sensitivity, and of skill growing out of discipline pud ' impressive" answertothose. that Americans are concerned solely with th easy life a&d material things. unwilling- lution. non-prof- Which Way America? The ness or the inability of the states to meet the mounting problems of urban living education, transportation, poverty, pol- Federalists of ROSCOE being washed away by a new political alliance -- p the. - federal government and th big cities? It is, but cant It be stopped? Three forces are bringing it about: y ( Are the states going Isnt state government crime-ridde- physical-resource- TOTHEEDITOR LETTERS - From my WASHINGTON, D.C. VICTOR RIESEL friend, Commander Alejandro Otero Cam-panChief of Intelligence of the central police of Montevideo j the Uruguayan capital to which President Johnson soon other level, there, are names, addresses, and study material on labor unions will fly comes word of a Castro-Maoitheir internal politics and personalities. network of terrorisms' trained In rifle marksmanship, grenade throwing and Since the Castroites have infiltrated urban guerrilla" warfare. many of the unions can be used as sabotage vehicles. So skilled and ready for street action of Communist is this alliance leftist cells, The intelligence chief also reported says Senor Otero, that it has even that the pseudo revolutionaries . . . have been the authors of various crimes, mapped the city .all perpetrated in the name of their sewer system so revolution: armed robberies of they can dart up banks, raiding thefts on two armories, suddenly tnside dynamiting of UJS. companies, against the guards In alii the First National City Bank, Coca Cola, section of the a. k City. President , spend-- . John-- son will be ing virtually all his time during the April 12 to 14 Latin summit conference at Punta del Este, miles east of Montevideo. - But the terrorists are fanatical and re determined to move against U.S. citizens, diplomats and property. Commander Otero, in long and detailed memorandum, tells me that the the U.S. foreign terrorists mapped service people as carefully as the sewer ' system and the Infrastructure of the city. Material seized, say the Intelli- gence chief, revealed they had formed vigilante teams. Notes were found ceming the residences of UiS, diplomats, their care, their estates, the number of Bpors In their homes,' th modus dl of their residents. Senor Otero also reports that on n-- Steamship Line of- a large department store called Mansanares Inc., against the publicity offices of the government of Brazil and an attack on the home of the commander of the First Military District. Commander Otero reports that one of the first real breaks in the long ffensive of the police In this democratic land of 100 years of almost Utopian freedom came last Dec. 22. A citizen reported that he had seen the stolen truck of a friend go hurtling down the street The radio cars closed in. Suddenly the occupants began heaving homemade bombs r-- 11 of them. Finally the vehicle hit a tree. One of the truck's occupants, Carlos Alberto Flores Alvarez, was killed. The others disap- could have been into the sewpeared ers. Commander Otero's squads searched the. dead mans home. There they discovered substantive, evidence, he reports," of the existence pi the terrorist organization la our country. fices, counter-o- , a club which taught marksmanship, manufacture of bombs, writes this Judo and personal defense, chief, as well as evidence of the exisy structured orgatence of a nization. The dead man was a member of a tiny cell The other three terrorists were jailed. Other leads were followed. Commander Oteros men found a machine shop with entrances on two streets. There stoSo len vehicles were disguised. were they for street action, says Senor Otero, they had even used parts, including toe roofs and hoods of stolen veliides, to build portable parapets for street battles with the police. We Airs. Murray One-Side- d I am a religious person At tlie same time I consider myself to be open minded I am willing to respect the views of a person that greatly oppose my views, if that person is equally open and fair in the expression of his views I accuse Madalyn Murray of being extremely unfair and narrowminded m her recent comments so much so that I consider the hour and a half I spent listening to her as a waste of time. My specific reference is to her criticism of the Book of Mormon. She is quoted as saying that it is the funniest book she has ever read, that it was like a Gilbert and Sullivan comedy, and that Joseph Smith should be classed as one of the great comedians of all history for writing the book. In the alumni lounge after her talk, she was psked about her criticism of tlie Book of Mormon. She avoided the subject like toe plague! She to go into it. She could not give a humorous experience within the Book; she did not know who the Prophet Alma was, and later referred to him as she. I agree that question asked of her had been specific, it would have been unfair, but this was the most general question I can imagine. To read the Book and not know a thing about Alma (not even his sex) would be like reading toe New Testament and not knowing who Jesus Chnst was. Alma wrote 164 pages and above each, In big bold letters, is his name. Though I am certain that it would not make any difference, I believe that Madalyn Murray has not read the Book of Mormon. Her unjust and outlandish criticism of the Book is typical of her onesidedness and of all of her comments. I think that a person such as her, invited to Challenge Week, should be able to substantiate her comments, but especially her criticisms. one-side- narrow-mindedne- -B- RUCE 2484 Amazed At Slums Passing thru your city by train lately, I walked out of the railroad depot and was amazed at the number of slums around the depot. Its funny citizens dont help in beautifying the city, especially where it can be seen around the depot. -J- OSEPH N. PAVLIK Omaha, Neb. Likes 'News' Recently we had occasion to visit in a neighboring state during the Easter season. We had a wonderful visit, and while I was there I took titoe to study toeir newspapers. I assure you I was very glad to return to Salt Lake City and read the News again. I felt I should write and compliment you on a wonderful newspaper. Keep up the good work. N. WORTHINGTON 7553 Casa Blanca Drive -- KEITH found para-militar- Then Commander Oteros Dept, of Intelligence and Liaison began rounding up other cells. Some documents led them to a ranch on which members of the organization idpnified as Los Tupmaros trained. One of Senor Oteros colleagues, Antonio Silvers Regalado, commander of toe police' radio patrol, was shot down. The cells, made up of five or six persons, are Identified, by a letter, and in that unit each pseudonym of each of its terrorists started with that letter. Cell C, for example, was made up of Claudia, Carmella, and Carlo (toe late Flores AJvarez). Our country is not accustomed to tills kind of fight, says Senor Otero, our people categorically reject these practices '. ; The war for democracy will never be successful if we democrats do not help each other penetrate the veQ of secrecy. , Senor Otero and Li companiohsar to be saluted. Th people of the U.S. owe them milch. and the President Families Unite I have read your editorial in toe Deseret News and I quite agree with you that American families should unite. Americans have proved at other times that they can unite and fight evil and we certainly need to unite and fight this evil within us and which will surely consume us If we do not rise Up against it Thank you for speaking out on this subject, and adding the weight of your position to your words. I hope you will continue to do so. --MRS. THELMA PATTON Minneapolis, Minn. iiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiniiiHiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii CONFERENCE NOTICE The 137th Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ. Of Latter-daSaints, to which all y Church invited, will Convene in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, April 6, 8 and 9, 1967, with general sessions each day at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The General Priesthood meeting will be held In the Tabernacle on Saturday, April 8, at 7 p.m. Only those who bold the priesthood are Invited to attend. members-ar- e j X It ft understood that ward sacrament meeting will be held Sunday evening after the close of th Sunday afternoon general session of the conference, where practicable . V - " THE FIRST PRESIDENCY David O. McKay HughB.Brown . N. Eldott Tanner Joseph Fielding Smith Thorp B. Isaacson . , r iiiuiiiiiiiinniiiiiiiiiiimiiHiiiiiiiMiiiiniiiuiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiHimiiiiiimiiHiiiiiiiii ; , ,1 CALDWELL St. Marys Dr. . J |
