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Show . DESERET NEWS SALT . LAKE OPINION CITY,. UTAH ROUNDUP A. B. GUTHRIE JR.:, We Stand For The Constitution States' Of The United From Sierra Club Bulletin "As Having Been Divinely Inspired day the wind roared, even between gusts that brought to its many throats the shrieks of sopranos. The All McNamaras Vietnam Wall the 12 A EDITORIAL PAGE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1967 J. cabin complained, its old logs moaning into new settlements like sleep disturbed. From the windows came the keening of weather-strippinI had just fitted, pghf. Snow' finer than dust blew under the kitchen door and ran out in grateful trickles that would have to be mopped r up. Seen distorted through the the thermometer above the sink, pane shimmered at twenty below. - Let's Apply Brake's To The Juggernaut v g all federal programs and agencies, and broadened to give Congress an over-al- l review, of JheJjudget, which has gotten out of hand at least partly because appropriations are made on a basis. al To accomplish this, Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin has introduced a bill that would set up a commission to determine the cost effectiveness of old and new federal programs, and set priorities for spending. older As Senator Proxmire notes, Unfortunately, build of will beneficiaries a who programs up group fight for the programs continued existence so as to assure continuation of the benefits that come their way ; . . Ironically, new programs, which may be much more deserving; are sometimes easier to attach because they have not built up a group of old retainers. As a result, big government keeps getting bigger, and an already bloated budget keeps taking on more and more fat. So bloated, in fact, has the budget become that since 1961 the ceiling on the national debt has been raised 13 times and the debt itself has jumped from $286.5 billion to $335.4 billion. debt the unfundIf there is added to the interest-bearin- g ed commitments of the government for pension and retirement benefits, veterans compensation, and Social Security, the total debt exceeds $1,000,000,000,000. This makes the federal budget probably the biggest financial plan in the world. Yet, when the budget gets to Congress, it is broken down into a number of individual appropriation bills, each considered independently of the others. If Congress is to do a better job of economizing, it needs to review the budget in a more cohesive way. Certainly more economizing is in order. Between fiscal 1965 and 1968, federal spending not attributable to the war in Vietnam increased $10 billion a year. This is two and a half times as large as the annual rate of increase in total federal spending during the , three preceding years. f WUntil the Bennett and Proxmire proposals or something like them are put into effect, the federal government will be automobile without good brakes. like a - high-powere- With a thumb I bored a hole through the ice on the small picture window by the tabl Outside, the snow ran and eddied and gathered in drifts tjiat broke and ran again. The trees thrashed, the aspens and jackpines in sight bowed, their worry, joining with the shrill whistles of eaves and corners and the long song of the wind. They tried to straighten, only v to flatten again, and surrendered dead limbs to the gusts. But here was endurance. They had known wind before, so long before and so often that the pines -- slanted eastward even on a calm day and the aspens grew clumped for common protection. A leaning and mustered country, this eastern apron of The Rockies, one of pitched if passive resistance. A srangled radio voice reported gusts of sixty miles an hour and more. I walked over and turned up by a notch the heater I used to warm the back flank of the cabin when too busy or lazy to lay a wood fire in the old Monarch range that I had rescued from a dump and restored. On the drain board there was thawing a trout caught and frozen last summer. It would be ready for the electric plate before long. I'd have tarter sauce with it and boiled potatoes and string beans seasoned with chopped bacon and a bit of canned milk. Cooking would not take long. It was remarkable how speedy electric stoves had become. Like an arm of the wind, dusk was invading the cabin, but before I flicked on a light I put my palm against the picture window and melted a larger peephole and looked out. There were the sweeping snow and the tortured trees and the gathering dark that alone told me the sun was going over the hill. The power lines that led to the cabin swung and bellied and circled to the wind like wobbling the poles to which thev were strung. d dull-witte- d How To Win Respect half-grow- n President Johnsons speech this week to the International Association of Police Chiefs raises a fundamental question which each generation has had to face but which is particularly pertinent in America these days: How does a country go about building respect for its laws? bish to some ended. Condemning instigators of the past summers riots as poisonous propagandists. President Johnson called for passage of his Safe Streets Act and proposed gun control law to prevent such violence. Regardless of the merit of these measures, respect for the law isnt built by passing new laws unless present laws are unjust or inadequate. That's hardly the case in a country where poverty is expected to be virtually wiped out by the turn of the century not because of new federal programs but because of the increased prosperity being generated by the free enterprise system. Certainly isnt the case in a country where grievances can be redressed in the courts and at the ballot box. Nor is respect for the law built by yielding to raw coercion, or by fostering the notion that men arent responsible for their own actions as individuals, or by making sudden and sweeping changes that disrupt society. Rather, respect for the law is built by enforcing it firmly and impartially. Moreover, it is built by emphasizing that no matter how affluent a nation becomes, there is no substitute for moral progress. As one observer has noted If men would cultivate individual virtues, many social problems would take care of themselves. shore where the wind I punched on a light and sat down at the table to read and It was then that the power went off. One waits when it does, waits expectant for the quick reillumination that nearly everywhere has come to he the illumination, the resumption, of life itself. But the dark thickened, passing from the cloak of twilight to nights starless hood; and the hour of no wind, that time of the suns setting, went by, annulled by preemption. As a person deprived of one sense sharpens another, so without sight, I heard more than ever the screech and hollow and boom of the wind. No doubt someone from up the canyon or along the frozen valley of the Teton River had notified the Rural Electric office. Someone always did unless the-- ' trouble was sequestered and unknown along the line, but I felt my way to the multi-parttelephone just in case. It was dead. So was mV radio. Progress had left me without a transistor, by which I might have known what to jt : expect. Another man, I thought, might drive Reverse Brain Drain? Although the centennial of the disaster on the Little Big Horn is still nine years away, the ghost of Gen. George A. Custer, for some reason, has been rattling its chains j -- to this summer. Perhaps if ail in started July when Charles Reno, a persistent 54 vear-ol- d New York City bartender. finally got the L.S. Army Board fur Correction of Military Records mortem, the 1880 court - martial of his great - granduncle. Maj. Marcus A. Reno, second in command of Custer s Seventh Cavalry. it There has long beet a widespread belief that Maj. Reno was cashiered for not Afterthoughts become coming to the aid of Custer and his five companies, surrounded on the knoll. Reno was, indeed,' tried for this derelic- -' He was exonerated. He should tion. have been. - The way we interpret more that way, for us the suspicious makes the world more suspicious, the greedy man makes tty; world more greedy, the belligerent man makes the world more belligerent : for every distortion of reality becomes, in the end a prophecy. the world makes it , v m m m r der to the South China sea. McNamara is noncommittal about whether it will be extended another 44 miles westward to rut the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, or all the way to the Mekong River in Thailand, a distance of 160 miles. These are paths of infiltration from the north. went out again, this time with two galvanized buckets, and scooped them full of clean snow in the drifted aspen grove . . ." It is not specified how many troops will serve, as wardens along the McNamara wall, but you can be sure that it will take plenty. There has not been very much editorial comment on the McNamara wall up to now because many details are not yet known. But, here are some interesting editorial comments that have been made: "I the 23 miles of country road into town, there to enjoy company and perhaps Montana Power Company lights. My car was just outside. In the way that matters well known slip from awareness only to dart back, it struck me that I couldnt go to town if I would. The road had drifted closed before today's blow. In hat! an hour the kitchen was cold, cold with that solid yet pervasive cold that closes in on bones and, like a turned damper, f'.ifles internal heat. There was nothing cKe for it their.' . From my chair I reached over and found in the corner two old barn lanterns. Thmr stiff wicks answered slow to the repeated touches of kitchen matches, but I got them going and adjusted and put one at the side of the sink and left the other on the table. The woodbox, half which should have been full.-w- as full. I laid a fire in the antique range, using for kindling the dead twigs of aspen trees that I had made it a habit of gathering when I walked through the groves. They saved axe work and saved money, loo, being almost as good for starters as the kerosene all of us called Boy Scout juice. If need be. I thought, maybe I could make a fire without matches. I had done so in younger days. . But I v.ould need more wood, a lot of it, if power werent restored. I doubted, hearing the wind. I put on a storm coat, a hood, mittens and overshoes, knowing the storm would freeze me. or parts of me. if I did not. I opened the kitchen door. The wind bullied me back, whistling its white breath into the kitchen. I braced myself and. crouching, pushed into it, going by memory more than by sight, turning to snatch for air when my lungs locked. The woodpile was ample though on the lee side drifted with snow that had to be kicked and pawed aside. I loaded up It took six trips or more to fill up the woodbox and pile a reserve on the porch adjoining the kitchen. to The range was perking up. It felt good the fingers rubbed over it. and heat. Then water of course. What little was left in the dead pipes of rrjy water system would not suffice. I went out again, this time with two galvanized buckets, and scooped them full of cleap snovv in the drifted aspen grove and emptied them into the reser Light ' JENKIN LLOYD JONES with, four years after the battle, was a general charge of habitual drunkenness, attacking a brother officer and courting another officers wife. In line with the current theory that nobody is really very voir of he range, knowing that this trip and the next were a beginning. Light, heat and water now, though not enough water to operate the flush toilet. Again no matter. There was the outside privy which some atavism in me had insisted on retaining when the water system went in. It was satisfying to know I had all the facilities. I was about to sit down when it occurred to me that candles would enhance my private festivity. I lighted a' couple out of the stock always carried and in the window on the off chance that some lost and freezing wayfarer would see it and struggle to haven. Ranchers used to do that when ranches were far apart, farther apart than the four miles that separated me from my nearest neighbor, the four miles that were close enough for both of us though we were friends. Warmed, I sat down then and took stock. The pantry shelves held food enough for a siege. Drawing from the days of my childhood in Montana, when even village people bought sugar by the hundred pounds and flour by the fifty, I always purchased my supplies in plenty. On pantry floor or shelves were potatoes, onions and rutabagas, those and rows of canned stuff. In the deepfreeze, which the weather would take care of if electricity wouldnt, were cuts of beef and a chunk of venison that a friendly hunter had given me. It was good to be It was almost good, I thought, to be cut off from all sources of supplies, from all communication, good not to be dependent on alien, impersonal and uncertain asset-on- DAILY the southward flow of men and from Red North Vietnam into South Vietnam. He freely admits that the best w e can hope for is a substantial slowing-dowof n that After supper I would read for a while. man alone with a good book no, a man alone with a book was never alone. Then I would go to bed and listen to the wind. I would sleep assured. No place in the world was so safe as my cabin, no place so assuring. Let the snow sweep and the gale rage and the old logs moan and the power stay off. Tonight I was where I wanted to be. I have just been reading The Night The Light Went Out, The New York Times stories of what is called the great blackout, or outage, on the eastern shore. It all seems far away, distant by the fifty years in which Ive not kept pace with progress. ed body was found. Later the stakes were replaced by iron crosses. Today, as you stand on thejiver bluffs, you reconstruct the battle with the crosses. Who were the men who followed Cust- er? There were heroes. Fifteen got the Medqj- - of Honor for piercing the Indian lines to bring water to the wounded of Reno and Benteen. There were men fleeing from a cloudy past. Henry. Cody never explained why he used the name of Someone ought to do a movie about 2nd Lj. Miles Moylon with a fine Civil Seventh Cavalry. Our moppets will now be subjected to another heavy dose of nonhistory. Millions of Americans are .convinced that the gieatest lawman in the Old West was Matt Dillon. A couple of weeks ago the Intertribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes, meeting in Muskogee, Okla., demanded equal television time to give the Indian side of the Custer fracas. Since no member of the Five Civilized Tribes was within 1,000 miles of the battle, the severity of the injury is debatable. flow. That is a reservation which we'd all better keep in mind. The French' placed loo much con- fidence in their colossaj Maginot Line, and this confidence had a lot to do with the defeat of France by Adolf Hitler in 1940. Overconfidence in McNamaras wall could hardly lead to our downfall; but it could move some of us to make foolish demands for excessive reductions in the war effort. That could be very dangerous. . e A This month a new television series has started, built around Custer and the De- ture will stop war materials sistances. Scollen. The NEWS, New York City fense Secretary does not pretend that this struc- easy-keeper- s, guilty of anything, the Corrections Board decided that, with his career in ruins because of uninformed criticism, Maj. Reno was driven to irrational acts. Ordered by Custer- to cross the river But no matter what bellvwash is and attack the S.oux' village from the over Custers Last Stand, nothing served were his thtee companies south, quickly surrounded by 2.000 rampaging Indians. can dim the authentic drama. After a brave dismounted fight his bat- - - When Gen. Terrys column arrived on tered troopers barely made it back to the the scene two days laterrafter the Sioux bluffs to join Capt. Frederick Benteens had withdrawn toward the Big .Horn besieged command. Mountains, a stake was driven into the . What Maj. Reno was finally tagged groutid where each scalped and mutilat - self-fulfilli- ' Our promiscuous use of antibiotics in the last decade is a singular example of our tendency to prefer short-tergains to long-terits end result has been to strengthsuccesses,-foen the germ .population and weaken the human population. McNamaras wall, described as a barrier of barbed wire, mines, and sophisticated electronic detection devices, is devised to keep out troops and supplies from Communist North Vietnam. It demiliis to be built just south of the tarized zone between North and South Vietnam and will stretch 4 miles from the Laotian The Noisy Ghost Of Gen. Custer How much are doctors, nurses, scientists, and engineers worth? Great Britain is willing to pay to find out. Between 2,000 and 4,000 skilled persons migrate from the British Islands to the United States each year. To halt this trend, and even re- verse it, Great Britain has opened an office in New York to entice expatriate Britons and bright young Americans to Britain. Management Selection Ltd., and employment agency, will do the job under a three-yea- r grant of $210,000 from the Ministry of Technology. The brain drain of British scientists to the U.S. has doubled in the past 10 years. But the number of new scientists. engineers and professionally trained medical personnel qualifying in Britain also has doubled. Although Britain' has maintained its relative strength, it is in effect running faster just to stay in the same place. Jobs paying about 3.000 pounds equal to $8,400, but will be offered to with 'purchasing power of about $15,000 lure scientists and technicians to Britain. If the brain dram forces Britain to modernize and compete, it could be one of the best things that ever happened Most walls were built for the military purpose of keeping invaders out. The Chin emperors of China had the idea first, a couple hundred years -before Christ. They wanted to keep the pesky Huns on their side of the fence. Hadrian sought to wall out the obnoxious Piets and Scots. The Berlin Wall is unique in the annals of history because this fortification line was constructed to keep people in. 220-vo- lt Wbat happened to my animals In weather like this? The cottontails would have taken to brush shelters, the blue grouse probably to beds In some covering snow. The porcupines perhaps swung in the giddy treetops. The tramp black bear of last summer long since would have holed up. The doe and fawn that often licked the the salt block on the knoll at least weren't fleeing hunters now that the season had ended. But what of the birds, of the and magpies and chickwoodpeckers adees surely too frail to hang to their perches? In imagination I could see them, big birds and little, swept like rub- see, now The Great Wall of China, the Roman wall built by the Emperor Hadrian from Tyne to Solway in Britain, the Maginot Line, the Germans Gothic Line of defense in northern Italy in World War II, the Iron Curtain, the Bamboo Curtain, the infamous Berlin Wall, Flower in the Crannied Wall (Tennyson), Robert Frosts Mending Wall' (good fences make good neighbors), and now McNamara's wall in Vietnam. You cant say the secretary of defense is a very original thinker. iced-ove- Four years ago Utah Senator Wallace F. Bennett called on Congress tto review federal grants to states and local governments periodically and eliminate programs that had outlived their usefulness. That idea still makes sense. Indeed, it should be applied to piece-me- Lets ' The barPa. INQUIRER, Philadelphia rier envisioned by the Defense Secretary will not be exactly in the image of the walls of medieval times but there is a marked similarity. It will not serve as a substitute for modern warfare. However, it may help to reduce both military and civilian casualties in South Vietnam and, to that exlent, can be justified as an exDeriment in a country where nothing that the Defense Department has tried to date has been very successful. TRIBUNE, Chicago the McNamara wall One difficulty with that there will be at least 200,000 Communist Viet Cong guerrillas on the wrong side of the wall, rampaging about in the rear of our lines. Another is that the North Vietnamese can always pull an end run, no matter how far the wall extends, coming by sea in small boats or outflanking the barrier at its western extremity. We regard the wall as another substitute for effective action. Instead of cutting off arms, oil, and supplies at the Communist port of Haiphong by sealing the channel or wiping out the docks or blockading entry, we build a wall. Instead of smashing the airfields, electrical power installations, industrial complexes, and the dams of the Red River which are vital to Communist agricultural production, we climb in a box and shut the is door. The Johnson administration has evidently resigned itself to a static strategy. It is settling back in a protracted waiting game, and we may yet find it is less than a joke that the conflict in .Vietnam is becoming known as the Thirty Years war. NEW YORK TIMES, New York City -Whether barbed wire and sophisticated electronic devices will actually prove an impenetrable barrier t Hanoi's elusive legions is a milimatter of some doubt among tary officers in Saigon and Washington. The Times military editor, Hanson W. Baldwin, reported last July that the project was viewed as 'a static defense tactic a kind of jungle Maginot Line' that poses immense engineering difficulties and, more importantrwould require the assignment of vast numbers of troops to monitor and guard. high-rankin- g GUEST CARTOON War record who was fired from the Army on Oct. 25, 1863, for romping around Washington, D.C.. without leave. A few Weeks later a Charles Thomas enlisted as a private with a Massachusetts outfit. By the time he confessed that he was Moylan he had bucked his way to lieutenant again. Serving through all the big Indian fights, he survived the Benteen battle and retired a major after 35 years with his own Medal of Honor from the Nez Perce campaign. There were restless adventurers. of Custer's command were born in foreign countries. One had served with Garibaldi in the fight for Italys freedom. There was a Negro; Isaiah who married a squaw and spoke the Sioux language. Mortally wourtOed. Sgt. George Lell of Reno's outfit said, Raise me up. I want to see the boys be- -' fore I go. Forty-thre- e Dor-ima- Bowled Over Njtwjdav ' c |