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Show 1 'With a II this trouble in the world I hardly notice how irascible he is anymore1 DESERET NEWS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR eniiimtiiiiuiiuiiitiiuniiiiiiiuiiuiimiiiiiiiiiiiiumiiiiiiiiiintiuiiiinininiininiii SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH rettefl T - We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 18-- A EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY I dont know to whom to address my letter perhaps the unwed mother or Justice F.H. Henroid. T think the courts decision to return the baby to his natural mother after this much, time is terribly 7, 1967 SEPTEMBER wrong. I feel I am in a position to say that because we have adopted a baby ourselves. I agree completely with Justices Crocketts and Elletts reasons for opposing such an act and have this to add: think, of the psychological damage that child will suffer when he is taken from his parents (the only ones he knows) and is given to a complete stranger. No, the unwed mother is not the real mother she has not rodcea the baby, and worried, when he was ill or teething, she has not taken him for his DPT injections and cned too, she has not held him she is not ctese in fear and wonder and love the mother. I feel compassion for the natural mothand gratitude beyond words. 1 er of our baby feel compassion for this mother and wonder why she couldnt have had the baby back December 23rd when she requested it. But now I say: natural mother, here is the opportunity for you to show your child how much you really do love him by thinking of what will be best for him now. Name Withheld In A Lovely Valley ' For more than a year now, Heber City haa been officially warned that ita aewage treatment plant ia not doing a auffi-cicjob to prevent pollution of Spring Creek which drains Into Deer Creek Reservoir. The warning haa come from the Utah Water Pollution Control -- Board. Deer Creek Reservoir 'supplies water to the Metropolitan Water District much of Salt Lake County but the water Is treated after it comes out at the reservoir and before it 'enters culinary systems. Thus, Salt Lake residents are drinking safe water. . But Spring Creek and Deer Creek Reservoir are not adequately protected. The creek has been one of the more heavily fished streams of the state. In addition, water from the reservoir runs down the Provo River into Utah Lake. The river and the lake are heavily used for both recreation and agricultural purposes. Hebers plant was built 15 years ago to handle a daily capacity of 150,000 gallons. But in the spring when ground water is high and in summer when residents are irrigating and watering their gardens and yards, surplus water gets into the system and several million gallons of water a day go through the treatment plant Obviously, proper filtration and other treatment processes cannot be achieved with the plant ao overloaded. The Water Pollution Control Board has urged Heber officials to make a thorough engineering evaluation of their whole system. Some way must be found either to keep extra water from overloading the system or to enlarge the system to handle the load. Continued delay can only compound the problem. Ignoring it wont make it go away. . Heber Valley is too attractive a place, its citizens too solid and fine, to let this problem go unmet much longer. Elections Improve Viet Outlook - The outlook in Vietnam is improved by the successful elections. They add a strong foundation to the ROSCOE DRUMMOND nation- firing hood of South Viet- government will live up to all its promises; they do not guarantee that the Vietcong will not try to subvert and destroy the fruits of the election. Theres no doubt, I thihk, that the prospect for a negotiated settlement of the war is improved. nam. The new now government has the potential: 1 To carry through needed so- cial reforms and earn the loyalty and confidence of The elections have brought into being a government that can legitimately speak for the people of South Vietnam. The very fact that 83 per cent of the registered voters went to the polls, despite Vietcong terror and threats against their lives if they voted, shows that the South Vietnamese people are determined to rule themselves and are capable of ruling themselves. This gives the new Thieu government a sturdy political base either to step up the resistance to the Vietcong or to negotiate with the Vietcong and Hanoi anytime they are willing. It does more. It demonstrates to the Vietcong that the government which it has been trying for years to overthrowis here to stay and that the time has come for them to look for a way out of the war. The United States would support such and if President Thieu negotiations deems it timely soon to signal Hanoi with the Vietnamese Mr. Drummond people. 2 To conduct the defense against aggression more effectively. 3 To offer, now that its legitimacy and popular strength are demonstrated, with to negotiate a the Vietcong. There is good reason to believe that Die Thieu-Kgovernment will move In these directions. It is committed to major economic reforms and is in a better position to carry them out. The elected officials can now concentrate on running the government and the military can concentrate on fighting the war. Both should be improved thereby. Obviously the elections do not guarantee that all will go well In the future; they do not guarantee that the elected ty y Plug Up The Filth This newspaper has never felt that creating new government bureaus is the automatic and infallible way to solve society's problems. But with one proposal for government action we heartily-agreThis is the bill passed by the House of Representatives to create a Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. Its job is to explore thoroughly this sticky and sickening problem and to find a workable way to control the filth while preserving what has value. It would be charged with completing its work and issuing its report by 1970. The Commission, according to language of the bill, "shall include but not be limited to psychiatrists, sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, jurists, lawyers and others who have special competence with respect to obscenity laws and their application to juveniles. It would, in other words, not be composed of or witch hunters, but, hopefully, of men informed enough and concerned enough to get something done. If ever a nation needed to get something done, America needs it in relation to the problem of filth in print Good, people determined to solve the problem at the local level have bogged down in the legal morass created by Supreme Court decisions. It is insufferable that the entire nation should be dragged down to the lowest common denominator of a few major cities by court decisions insisting on a "national rather than a local standard of morality. In finding a proper middle ground between the free speech protection of the First Amendment and the need to preserve public morality, any commission would have a most difficult task. It is, however, a task that must be faced and achieved by representatives of the national sentiment on this matter, not left by default to the legalisms of the Supreme e. blue-nos- es Court Imagine , GUEST EDITORIAL "Why? I said, as I threw down the In disgust "Because to me newspaper In a paper presented at a conference Is a sacred institution and once marriage here, Mrs. Virginia Satir, a psychological youre married you shouldn't have to desocial worker from Big Sur, Calif., atcide every five years whether you want tacked the marriage vows people in the to continue it or not. Derisions like that Western Christian world are forced to could drive a man crazy.1' take. She said marriage is the only Then what youre saying, my wife human contract in our society that has said quietly, "is that youre not sure no time length, no opportunity for review be willing to renew the contact you'd and no socially acceptable means of tera five-yewhenever period was up. mination. not what Im "Thats saying at all. In To expect people to make an unerring our case it would probably be automatchoice of a life partner is to ask them to ic. be wiser than they can possibly be, she "Probably? added. "Youre trying to put me in a Mrs. Satiris solution is a simple one. comer," I protested. "Of course it would She advocates that marriage should be a be automatic, though If I am to be honest r renewable contract Id have to admit that as the five-yea-r If the marriage goes well for the first deadline came near I might give it more five years, the couple could renew the thought than I would under the present r contract for future periods. If It set of rules. fails, it would automatically be dissolved Why is that? she asked with a grim without undue stress, expense, litigation smile on her lips. or social stigma. "Its just natural. If people have beI options every five years they would think When I read the article naturally came very Indignant and said to my about them. Marriage is a very serious business and Im sure you would think wife, "Can you imagine? Some woman much less of me if I Just signed a con psychologist is advocating that marriage like. farmer, he paid, may sit in an office, tell will center." from It a t a print-oucomputer scanning how many acres to plant crop, what kinds of seeds to sow, what'fertilizer to use, what day to harvest All field work will be carried out by programs and supervised by television scanners. It may be truer But it surely doesnt sound like tlie farming many of us knew, done in the sogginess of the spring or the heat of the summer, behind an ornery mule determined jto move when and where he wanted to. 77 can berate , Will it work? Who can guess? Anyway, you even without tire its Jack a machine and maybe being kicked to-Wh- at tape-controll- ed . back Post, Chattanooga, lean. came LONDON The blunt words quietly, but quite firmly, from one of Britain's highest leaders as we sat in one of The House of Commons book-line- - VICTOR RIESEL d that Stokely Carmichael's associate here chauffeur-driveformer is a racketeer who admits to having run the poor, set brothels, strong-arme- d Alsatian dogs on them, and slept better after his first murder. More on this in a moment to show the kind of associate Stokely selects to speak for Britains one million colored people (which, of course, he doesnt). silk-shirte- "The Labor government believes that all men are equal but no one is more equal than others simply because he is boisterous black, to and inciting not. We wont 1L conversat- ion had centered around England's Stokely Carmichael a chap known variously as Michael X, Michael DeFreitas, Mr. Riesel and Michael Abdul Malik. He is the violence peddling, black bearded, self styled MusIimTeader," the power in the Ra- -' rial Adjustment Action Society. own bom In Michael X an Trinidad, speaking with relish and gore of having murdered a white man, stood in for Carmichael iiran upland dty when Laborite Home Secretary Roy Jenkins ordered the "American" out of Britain permanently for attempting- to whip up riots. It would stop you from signing it. "Suppose I wanted to add a few clauses of my own? she asked. "What? I said. "And wreck a perfect marriage? "It hardly seems worth discussing, she said, "particularly since Its doubtful that your psychologist friends ideas are going to be adopted in the near future. "I should hope not, I replied. "It would be a travesty in human relationships if, every five years, people had to decide whether they wanted to live together. Youd never be sure, after you signed, that you hadnt made a terrible mistake. I didnt see the lamp coming until it was too late. is, of course, consequential to note . does not surreptitiously dispatch detectives to stake out in secret meetings called by such as Michael X. The police simply stand there with 'their notebooks,' getting the quotes, making certain of witnesses. Then they dispatch their reports He has the authority to deport the incendiaries such as Carmichael and Mi-chael X. DeFreitas. It is not considered inconsistent with the Labor Partys democratic precepts to send "the chap packing. In the U.S., this would be almost Impossible. The courts would drag What is more Immediate and vital to the affair out for years while cities us Americans Is the British Labor govburned. ernment's attitude towards those who The Laborites, feeling no sense of psywould enflame the colored population of chological insecurity, do not listen idly to such ghetto cities as Manchester, Birtalk of the killing of white monkeys mingham, and Liverpool. Remember, spouted by the Muslims. They g this is a government of Socialists, are developing the record on such as Miand moderate, as well as of labor chael DeFreitas when he shouts outside a leaders. Every Laborite member of Parl- university like the London School of Ecoiament must be a member of a trade nomics that violence has been perpe-union. tratedagalnst us and 'wr shall have to use the same methods. So, ho one can call it fascist or exThe Labor government did not long tremist But this Labor government sees no tolerate Michael Xs advocacy of "kill: : ing white men. inconsistency in deporting aliens of into hoodwho send want now talk of Britons This sort of dicting Is a violation of lums rioting and burning into the so prevalent In theU-S.- , -- 7streets of their cities the Race Relations Act which cuts two ' The Home Secretary TRoy Jenkins, is ways. It will punish the colored as well a veteran Laborite. His ministry ov-- as white violators. Under this law all are erseefi Scotland Yard, Its Special Brandi 'equal , No Give-Awa- y In the August issue of Liberty Letter there was an article about the Panama Canal. I quote, "In a conspiritorial atmosphere of extreme stealth and secrecy, the administration has negotiated three treaties with the Panamanian government which would wipe out Americas sovereign rights in the Panama Canal Zone, and place severe handicap on our defense structure in that area. Although the administration has refused to disclose the exact wording of the treaties, their content has become known. "The first treaty would nullify the Treaty of guarantees American Sovereignty in the Canal Zone and turn over the Zone to Panama. "The second treaty would cripple the defense of the Canal, and make it a certain target for successful Communist sabotage. "A third treaty gives the United States the right to build a canal through Panama. Howevnew er, most authorities are agreed that such canal is not needed. What can we do about it? We can write our Congressmen and let them know that we know that someone is trying to sell us down the river. The Liberty Letter shows that the Communists know better than most of us know how important the Panama Canal is to our defense and to the defense of the entire Western Hemisphere. 1903, which Provo Discrimination? Just who are the bigots? Are they those who accuse others of bigotry? Following Senate confirmation of Thurgood Marshalls appointment to the Supreme Court, which so greatly strengthened the brand of liberalism, I noticed an editorial in thePhiladelphia Inquirer (Sept. 1) which not only praised the action of the Senates lopsided vote, but virtually pointed a finger at the 11 Southern senators calling them bigots simply because these gallant gentlemen wished to preserve our form of government. From a political standpoint, I can understand why President Johnson, deeply espoused to liberalism, may want to outdo former Pres. Eisenhower who appointed Earl Warren to the high court But It is hard to fathom why LBJ should ask Mr. Marshall to make no statements "to anybody about This request simply reveals a hidden anything. wish to discriminate against the other side. What is the present outlook for the conservative cause? Even a moderate will concede that this appointment has made the United Nations, the Kremlin and the very happy indeed. st ultra-libera- -P- AUL CHIERA Silver Spring, Md. Cannot Be Called Citizens Referring to your column of August 30, "Silence Radio? : If we as Americans let any actions contrary to the Constitution --and our endowed liberties occur no matter by what force instigated, we cannot be called citizens for we are blind to the problems and choose to not get involved in the issues of today. -R- AYAN THOMAS Provo GUEST CARTOON blood-lettin- , v ' A -- . H. MOFFETT ---- 4 . -- BEN left-win- v - is time the American people stopped commitsons to the political slaughter in them ting nam This is the most shameful, sinful, treasonable , act ever committed by a government against its people in the history of the world. No nation in history has ever committed such a huge army so far away from its home land without declaring an act of war. What has happened to people that they let such acts of treason continue to destroy our fine young 4 men? Where has the real American gone? How could he have vanished so quickly? -H- ARVEY L. TIBBS Ely, Nevada It to Mr. Jenkins. - . ' tract every five years without reading the small print Im not saying I wouldnt sign after I read it, but I might want to add a few clauses here and there that I hadnt thought of when we first got married. "Such as what? she said, as she straightened out the lamp shade next to our bed. "Well, I might put some ceilings on the spending of money, add a few paragraphs about your mother and maybe a freedom clause for myself. Things like that. But dont worry, there would be nothing in the contract that British Slap Down The Racists Our Secretary of Agriculture Freeman has made some pre- -' dictions, not necessarily his, of what the farm of 2000 will be Senator Robert Kennedy scoffed at the credibility of the observer team when it was named, and said that the American correspondents would be better judges. Their judgment as reported from Saigon by the New York Times was this: "A pod of 12 reporters for American newspapers, who had studied the voting throughout the country, concluded that the election had been conducted honestly. The skeptics were wrong again. Marriages! be based on a five-yecontract, which is renewable only If both parties agree. "Why do you bring It up? my wife asked. Since all our sacred WASHINGTON Institutions are under attack these days, it comes as no surprise to read that our concept of marriage has been challenged by a member of the American Psycho-logica- l Assn. have Farming In The Year 2000 a bombing pause, as a prelude to negotiation, my information is that President Johnson would acquiesce. For some time now the consensus within the administration has been that a limited bombing pause, to be expanded if Hanoi responded reciprocally, is a matter of timing. The successful election could make such a gesture timely in the visible future. In the judgment of nearly everybody but Ho Chi Minh and Senator Wayne Morse, it was a free and honest election. There may be some lingering allegations of fraud, but there is no present evidence to bear out such charges. The overwhelming majority of the U.S. team of 22 observers, who traveled freely and visited polling booths unannounced, said the elections were conducted fairly and none found any evidence of unfairness or corruption. By ART BUCHVVALD record-breakin- g ' .0 Five-Ye- ar five-yea- We are now well into the ninth month of a year in which the seasons have been mixed up, off schedule, and downright annoying. but one We began the year in a relatively mild winter conwet which end. The that just wouldnt long, long, spring tinued almost until the first day of summer set new records for wet, cold, and general misery. Then, almost without a breather began a spell of hot, dry weather. Imagine 50 consecutive days of heat with the mercury rising to 90 degrees or more. Well, at last its over. Wednesday the worst the mercury could do was 78. Man, what a relief! Therell be a few more hot days, but it cant last long. Normally, now would begin those wonderful days of early autumn sunny days, cool nights, a new spring in the step, a renewed zest for living. But this year? Forget it. Who can forecast what fall will bring in this mixed up year ? 1 i - Jr V' - r- - i -- Viet War Treasonable? sea-lev- five-yea- What Next? I. tit ... nt - A Mother's Response f; A Difficult Problem . The eninimnmminininnimimniiiiiimiinnitTnnnireiiTinmiiimiiiuiBTmniiiim "Mrs. Black reporting for duty, sirl" ' - ' , WttMneten Evtnlnf St I i |