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Show t DESERET NEWS SAIT LAKE CITY, i SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1967 Congress Must Stop Corroding U.S. Morals If nothing else 'comes of the Adam Clayton Powell case, at least it seems to be prodding the U.S. House of Representatives into finally establishing a permanent ethics committee. With more than 100 resolutions proposing such a committee, plus a unanimous vote of approval this week by the Rules Committee, adoption by the full House seems inevitable. The drive to set up the ethics committee had been stalled until Powell's exploitation of public funds, defiance of New York courts, and general disregard of House rules brought' about his expulsion. But the Powell case isnt the only thing about Congress that disturbs the country. Public opinion polls show that most Americans believe that congressmen don't act conscientiously on behalf of the electorate, and that misuse of government funds by congressmen is fairly common. These criticism arent without some foundation. Among the more common congressional abuses are the expensive trips by lameduck congressmen at the taxpayers expense . . , the use of the franking privilege to send campaign prppaganda through the mails, also at public expense . . . the padding of public payrolls with relatives of congressmen who render little, or no service . the acceptance of gifts and favors that put lawmakers in the- untenable position of serving two masters. Because of such practices, the moral climate of the entire country deteriorates. The public gets the idea that it is to get things done in Washnecessary to have ington, with the result that political apathy sets in, and disrespect for the laws that Congress writes is encouraged. Moreover, when ordinary citizens see their elected representatives violating accepted moral standards, they become cynical and disillusioned. The anticipated House ethics committee and its countera better moral part in the Senate can do much to climate not only in Congress but also throughout the country. But only if they draw up an ethics code so members of Congress know whats expected of them, and only if they make those standards stick. What kind of an ethics code? Two years ago the President issued a code of conduct for officers and employes of the executive branch of government that bars the acceptance of gifts from persons doing business or seeking to do business with the government . . . prohibits outside employment which might result in a conflict of interest . . . bans the holding of any financial interests which might conflict with government duties and the use of inside government information for personal benefit . . . and requires complete disclosure of financial interests. Congress should practice what It preaches by applying to itself the same high standards of conduct it has demanded of the executive branch of the government. thinly-disguise- d - special-influenc- b Teens Can Be Trusted - d strengthens. 2. You must recognize that developing years ago most Orientals Twenty-si- x Why Send Guns To Singapore ? Many Americans, and. particularly those with sons and other relatives in Vietnam, will be outraged to learn that the U.S. has authorized sale of 23,000 to the, leftist government of Singapore. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has often predicted that Communist China, and not the U.S., will win out in Southeast Asia. Handing him guns may be some State Department genius idea of how to woo him to our side. It may hurt out to be an easy way to place weapons in the hands of oqr enemies in Asia. A Department of Defense spokesman has said that the department had cleared the Singapore s deal because the the military is now receiving are all that the U.S. and its Allies in Vietnam can effectively utilize." On the other hand, General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. Commander in Vietnam, has told Congress that he wants every .fighting man under him equipped with the The South Vietnamese, as well as two Allies with troops in Vietnam, South Korea and the Philippines, have complained bitterly about their inability to obtain the 'weapon. It has been reported, also, that the Army has been pressing for at least a dourifle production. bling of If these weapons are in short supply at tha fighting front, why should we be sending 23,000 of them to Singapore instead of to Vietnam? Why, in any event, would we be so eager to arm the troops of Lee Kuan Yew, who has shown himself no friend of ours? We want our men in Vietnam, and our Allies, to have the best weapons available, and in adequate supply ; that has to have the first priority. Congress should .insist on a searching inquiry Into this questionable arms deal. INQUIRER, Philadelphia, Pa. hard-to-ge- t, M-1- M-1- 6 The Missile Math and maintaining maximum physical fitness is an important requirement for both mental health and total financial success. Convince yourself that this kind of fitness is not you dont look well, you don't sound well and you don't do well. 3. Enjoy life anj let people know it. The dour, scowlmg and formidable executive in a business accomplishes little by this behavior except ulcers tor his staff and himself. 4. It is important to develop a broad and varied spectrum of interests and activities. There are people who feel that pouring all of their energy into one particular interest or hobby is the path to real happiness. This can be the path to a certain kind of satisfaction, but not the path to real total happiness. 5 You must either develop or move toward a personal faith. You must visualize religion as a personal thing,- a way of living, and he tolerant of others. Without faith, life becomes a meaningless senes of attempts to put more into your stomach, to surfeit yourself with the physical and material comforts of life. 6. You should never apologize for a thing before doing It; apologize only when you know you have not done your best. You will then find very little reason to apologize. 7. Take a stand and build into your every action, your every attitude and every reaction the belief that negativism is never justified. You must realize that, while there are pluses and minuses in every situation, the minuses can always become pluses if you have the dedication, the discipline and the commitment to positive living and thinking. 8. Always search out and ask for the and of any major undertaking "why make sure, in order to get the cooperation of those who work with you, that you vigorously and consistently supply the why" to them. Real motivation, real energy and commitment is pretty difficult unless they understand why they should give you this kind of commitment and cooperation. 9. Base your decisions on facts and, once you have the facts, set your goals and set a timetable, do not let the little JENKIN LLOYD JONES thought that the White Man was eight feet tall. Twenty-fiv- years e ago they thought the White Man was only four feet tall. Though he will be remembered mostly for his chairman- recom- f mended censure of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, perhaps his most significant achievement was in development of Upper Colorado River legislation. To him The Deseret News extends warm appreciation for the many years of loyal, dedicated service he has rendered, and wishes well in the coming years. Now most of them think he's about six feet tall. The eight foot Man was armed with and organization. Mr. Jones The conquest of the of the East Indies island peoples primitive had been easy. Only imaginative diplomacy plus an unnavigable river kept Tailand from falling Into the hands of European powers. The rest of Southeast Asia succumbed quickly. The Chinese watched wife helpless fury as Europeans carved out "treaty ports, and as Europeans, Americans and the Japanese demanded and gained rights and the privilege of sending their gunboats deep into the interior When frustration triggered the Boxer 'uprising tn 1900. the spastic Chinese dragon couldn't coordinate Its teeth, claws and tail, and was beaten to the . ground. Only tht Japanesa refused to believe White fire-pow- The Smoking Spiral In avoiding or breaking the smoking habit, there is no substitute for force of character buttressed with knowledge and understanding of the physical harms tobaoco does to the body. That understanding can be strengthened Sunday at 6:30 p.m. when KUED, Channel 7, will repeat the documentary, "The Smoking Spiral, which points up the hazards of cigarette smoking. Everyone should .see the program. ' Television as well as magazines are so saturated with extra-territori- . . -- I : ' man or the little person stand In your way. Lift him up and propel him onward. Wrench him around sharply if you have to. 10. Be your own man and recognize essential and that your own skill and confidence increases in direct proportion to this surrender, this in no wise carries that, yhile humility toward God is with other over into your relations people. 11. Stay completely and eternally unsatisfied with your abilities as a communicator. Strive in every way that you can think of. in addition to the ways that are outlined in here, for achieving greater eloquence in communicating your philosophy, your principles and your practices to all of those around you. Recognize that few, if any, of us have come close to our optimum abilities as communicators. Accept this as a challenge; work at it. Study books on vocabulary; set up "think sessions at home. 12. Be impatient with negative statements like "You cant teach old dogs new tricks. Modem research shows that if a person is healthy in body and has a norma! mind he can learn until the day he dies. 13. Recognize that life without work is a short cut to deterioration. When we do not have something that makes our hearts beat rapidly, that makes our senses quicken, we do not force the blood out to our extremities and we begin to dry up and wither from the outside in. 14. Be proud of your way of life. Make sure that you understand the Constitution: make sure that you recognize that this Constitution was created as a system of law for the practicing of the Ten Commandments in our United States. 15. Be sure to distinguish clearly between wit and intelligence, or between wit, intelligence and wisdom. Intelligence is something with which we are to some extent innately gifted when we are born. Knowledge is what we feed that intelligence with. 16. Just one example is: True happiness will always elude you until you learn to get completely out of yourself, build and give. Strive for a balanced existence, with the full knowledge that a personality can become lopsided. How We've Shrunk And Grown Not just Utah, but all of the nations Indians, and even the U.S. itself, will lose an influential voice for justice and ifttegriwhen Arthur Watkins retires as chief of the U.S. Indian Claims Commission. The former senator from Utah well deserves his retirement, set for next fall. He has spent more than 40 years in public life at the local, state, and national level. seductive commercials portraying smoking as sophisticated and enjoyable that it is easy to forget just how false that image ia.n More frequent reminders of the lung cancer, heart disease, and other ailments that menace smokers ars needed. EDITORIALS p tough-minde- Thanks, Mr. Watkins - GUEST 1 day-to-da- y Human nature being what- it is, teenagers seem to get more attention when they get into trouble than when they behave themselves. But for every school dropout, vandal, or juvenile delinquent there are countless young Americans who are working their way through school, serving honorably in the armed services, or serving their church or community in any number of capacities. As a case in point, take what has been happening in Lawrence, Mass., an industrial city of 75,000 about 40 miles north of Boston. Last summer a group of teenagers there organized themselves and, with a minimum of adult supervision, gave 900 hours of work to clearing two acres of park land, filling 50 city dump trucks with a variety of trash. When vandals broke benches and threw trash around the park grounds, the Lawrence teenagers patrolled the area and stopped the vandalism. They also established a Teen Betterment Committee that is jobs for young people and working to estabfinding part-tim- e lish a neighborhood teen center. Considering the room for improvement that exists in most towns, why dont Salt Lakers and other Utahns help organize Teen Betterment Committees in their own communities? With summer vacations not far off, our teenagers have reservoir of energy and ability just waiting to be tapped. ship of the special committee which investigated and following excerpts are from "Dare To Live Passionately, by Joe Batten and Leonard C. Hudson, management consultants. Mr. Batten is presi dent, and Mr. Hudson, vice president, of Batten, Batten, Hudson ft Swab. Inc. The hook has been copyrighted by Successful Living Inhtitute and published by Parker Publishing Co.. Inc.) We have a truly great and noble patted for living, but we cannot possibly experience total success as total people until we understand and practice these privileges with commitment and passion. The whole concept of successful living which we are building on can be reduced to one general premise: Study, become knowledgeable, set targets and goals and then systematically lay the building blocks for the (Teat ion and growth of vitality, ebullience, zest, and pleasure making sure that the particular building blocks are s)eci(ic techniques for getting out of ourselves and into the minds and hearts of others to provide them with inmental courage, sight, compassion, enrichment, emotional strength, toughin short, a total lift of ness of mind spirit. This is based upon a fundamental principle "It is impossible to get more than you give. It's impossible to give too much. The cynic can go right to this point and say, "Wait a minute, I earned the money that 1 have; Im not alxmt to give away eveI own, mv house, my car, rything-that and all my worldly goods. This is not what we're talking about at all. It's much easier to give this kind of tiling than it is to give of self. It takes a much bigger person, a stronger, more dedicated and disciplined person continuously to give to others that which is most precious, most rare, and most valuable himself. Time and again when we have issued the challenge to people of various occu-at ion a backgrounds, dispositions, heights, weights and ages to devote every waking mnm'mt to reaching out and building other people, these people have come hack months, weeks or years later and said: "I wonder why I didn't discover this myself. Its all so simple. I was looking somehow for a complex answer to happiness, some' kind of a devious system or set of mystical formulae, some magical button to press so happiness would turn on inside of me. "Instead I have found that all it takes is to get up each morning deciding that I will give a little bit of myself to every person that I come in contact with. This has made my life abundant and rich and financially, phiysicallv, mentally beyond my wildest imagination of some months ago. At the very core of the toughminded man is faith. Time after time in the business maelstrom, tired, dispirited, jaded executives have reviewed their accomplishments only to recognize that, while the sum total of their work has yielded material rewards and abundance. It has failed to provide deep down satisfaction. Most often the missing ingredient is the sort of abiding faith that supports a man a belief in in every facet of his life material God that transcends considerations. Is this theory? Is it pious posturing? No. To lead others effectively a man must first know himself, and to know himself he must have faith. He must know how to lose his in a deep, personal commitment to eternal truths and values to his God. Many of the beliefs of our pioneering ancestors have become old hat, sacrificed on the altar of fakery and sham. These include: Courage to work for what you want. Candor to call a spade a spade. Courage to label fakery and phoniness for what it is. Here is a list of some of the ptincipal qualities for the passionate, person who is not going to be satisfied to live anything less than a whole and successful life. 1. No matter how you may dream, no matter how you may plan, no matter how you may wish and yearn, no matter what your heredity may be, no matter what your circumstances, you have got to be able to turn the key in the ignition with Discipline is defined as "training which builds, molds and Ifehe? life (The Been Divinely Inspired 12 A EDITORIAL PAGE KclU UTAH We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having W Li A 'A. that the White Man was eight feet tall. The fall of the White Man in the winter months of Asia during Even the 1942 was Japanese were amazed. In one hour of the morning of December 7, 1941, Americas Pacific naval power was cut by On Christmas Day Hong Kong fell By January 30 the Japanese had a and the swept up the whole of Malayan Peninsula. On February 15 the world was staggered to learn that the impregnable fortress of Singapore was gone. the But much more was gone, too myth of White invincibility. In the month of April the brave defense of Bataan was over. On April 9 70.000 men began the Death March at Mariveles. By April 19 the last of the 54.000 survivors were herded Into Camp ODonnell. In the senseless brutalities a cloud passed across the Rfstng Sun. For there Is a parallel between the behavior of the Japanese soldiery In Asia and the behavior of Hitlers Wehr-tnacin Russia and the Red army in the reconquest of East Europe, In all three cases a golden opportunity to appear as; .liberators was idiotically wasted by sav spectacular. one-thir- Indo-Chin- agery. Japans slogan, Asia for the Asiatics," did stick. The White Mans rule walkthrough. But no one wanted the Japanese at any jfrice. And when the tide of war washed back the natives were willing collaborators with the White armies. In April 1942 we were four feet tall. We would not grow less. Already the Purple Code was broken. Already Yamamotos plan for the great ' strike against Midway was being pieced togeth er in the black chambers of Washington. Already Nim'itz was gathering battered forces for a climactic stand. And out of the' boot camps, the shipyards and the plane factories was coming the trickle that would soon turn Into an Amazon Yet we never grew eight feet tall again. When the Japanese folded, the old White overlords were no longer welcome. . America advanced the liberation date of the Philippines. Sukarno tossed the : Dutch out of Indonesia. Burma,1 Malaya" and Singapore fly their own flags. One of our chief problems is convincing- Vietnamese that, in spite of Red propaganda Americans are not the same as non , g French colonials A few months ago. at dinner in Tokyo, ? was swapping Okinawa yarns with two Japanese oil executives There Was no arrogance, no servility. Just, three prdud, polite guys talking an old war. U 1 like better that way. , . against aircraft. U.S. the SAMs cost an average of average worth of pertinent American warplanes is $2 million. Therefore, one deduces it costs our adversaries only $1,440,000 (48 times $30,000) to bring down a $2 million machine, not to mention the immeasurable human loss in pilots and crewmen. Mr. McNamaras point is well and gratefully taken, however: The SAMs have been relatively ' ineffective. But we think they are worth stealing. TIMES, Chattanooga, Tenn. Reportedly, $30,000 each while the The Little Red Book One of the most interesting news notes in recent days came from Paris, where it is re- that Quotations from Chairman Mao the manual of Chinas Red Guards, is heading the best seller list. And its also doing well in the United States. If nothing else, it provides a graphic illustration of the difference between a free society and communism, and especially communism a la Mao. Where the Western democracies are not afraid to let Mao's thoughts be widely read, the Communist nations still must insist upon a rigid tight control of everything their people can read. We doubt that many Western readers will consider much of Mao's thought profound. For We are advocates of the abolition of instance: war; we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war." Soria sounds like Doublespeak, doesnt it? At any rate, we hope that Mao ft Co., publish-erof Pricing, will take note that unlike their society, Western leaders do not purge persons who merely read a book. Even a little red book. CITIZEN, Laconia, New Hampshire ported Tse-tun- g, a, Wheels Of Justice Speakers at a recent convention of electronic In New York said that computers could be more efficient and objective than human judges. Prof. Irving Kayton of George Washington Universitys law school said electronic jurists would be especially useful to appellate courts, where "90 per cent of the cases are forethe outcome depending on compariordained, son of cases with precedents. We can think of numerous drawbacks to the computerized courtroom, but presumably the wheels of justice would no longer grind slowly. Green Bay, Wis. enginwrs PRESS-GAZETT- GUEST CARTOON .4pH JBWAYJtWy, - French-speakin- X f Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara told Congress that Soviet SAM missiles being used by the North Vietnamese are not worth stealing. But Mr. McNamara's own figures do not fully bear out his contention. The intelligence Mr. McNamara gave Congress was that American pilots manage to elude 47 out of every 48 SAMS fired at them. As of the North Vietnamese had launched 1,588 missiles but scored only 33 hits On The Beach |
