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Show - V r 4-- K ' 1 I i I I - "' II 14 v To CMlization' Well-Ba- ck mnmmnnimmimiranniintmmnmnmnjnmiinmiinmtmimminiininm DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, i'- -- 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR UTAH ' ! ,A ftiiiiiiiiiiitimiiitiiiiititiiitimnmiiiiRiiiiiiiiuminmniimiiiiitiiiiiiimimiiiiiiito r - - Defends LaBs We Stanij For The Consfitutiort Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired i 12-- EDITORIAL PAGE This letter is in regard to a recent editorial appearing in the Deseret News, entitled Should U.S. TUESDAY, OCTOBER'S, 1967- - Europe's Sick Man Can DieBy Inches As the British Labor Party mcpts in annual conference this week, theres little doubt that Britain is currently the -- sick man of. Europe. The question confronting conference delegates is what treatments are needed to bring the invalid around. The symptoms of Britains plight include unemployment exceeding.i6Q,QQQtthe highest level in 27 years and still rising; a shaky situation, with the United g States standing by for another operation; and mounting talk of devaluating the pound. On the foreign policy front, disillusionment is setting in after problems in Hong Kong, Aden and Rhodesia, and a series of slights from the U.S. on matters important to Britain, More than any other Western European "nation, Britain has supported U.S. polipy in Vietnam. Some Britons feel their faithfuiness was poorly rewarded when'' Congress cut Britain off from- - bidding on the construction of seven wooden-hummesweepers by forbidding the U.S. Navy to buy foreign-bui- lt vessels during fiscal 1968. Moreover, British officials complain they were not in advance on the U.S. decision to build a new missile defense system. .To bolster Its trading position with other Western European nations, Britain is seeking membership in the European Common Market. But thats only the beginning of what Britain must do to rehabilitate itself, particularly since its Common Market bid has been vetoed twice. $ or ono thing, the fixing of wages and prices ought to be abandoned as recommended by the Trades Union Congress, since such controls treat only the symptoms instead of the causes of what ails Britain. For another, Britain needs to export more and import less in order to improve its position. The latest official figures that show that for the first eight months of 1967British imports averaged 3 per cent .higher than in the corresponding period of 1966. : Britain also is hurt by inadequate education. A 1959 report showed only 12 per cent of the age group involved were e still in education at the age of 17, and only 6 per cent at age 20. The need Is to upgrade education for the many, not just for the few. British industry has been slow to respond to technological change and slow to develop its inventions. Britons themselves blame archiac apprenticeship practices, rigid union job distinctions, and featherbedding for contributing to the relative, costliness an dinefficiency of British labor. None of this is surprising in a country where much industry is nationalized. Then theres Britains social welfare program, which has become so lax that critics maintain that those who do not need aid are getting it. Stricter controls are in order. As French historian Albert Sorel has observed: The English only make up their minds to fight when their interests seem absolutely threatened. Their history is full of alternations between indifference, which makes people think tliem decadent, and a rage which baffles their foes. But nations perish more from slow decay than .from sudden crisis. While it would be premature to write an' obituary for Britain, it certainly needs to guard against creeping paral' balance-of-paymen- n, ts pound-proppin- By Cities Counter-Revolutio- n ll con-suite- d' anti-ballist- ic It rests on the Increasingly visible truth that you cant run the nation well from Washington. Time was when most people thought that the nation could be run only from - ts fantastic Story Of Service The history of mankind is made up of many pendulums swinging wildly from one extreme to the other. Each generation seems to give the pendulum a push in the opposite direction. Nowhere is tills more evident than in I think it is the theories of about time for a little push back toward heredity. neurotic tendencies among children more than heredity does. But perhaps we have gone as far as we can in this direction. Environment is but it can only work with important the material it gets. The child is not a piece of putty at birth, but already has a deep, inner structure of personality traits. Fifty years ago, and more, heredity was blamed for many childrens woes. Its in his blood, parents would nod sagely. Uncle Henry was the same way. Then, as psychiatric research moved forward on many fronts, we began to appreciate the tremendous importance of environment. This was a healthy correcbecause we now know tion of attitude for a fact that environment Influences These traits can be encouraged or thwarted, but parents are not God. Only God can create" ; all parents can do is work" to make the best use of the materials they have been given. Most modem young couples, especially the educated ones, are too conscious of environment influences, and too unaware of hereditary dispositions. This often gives them a false sense of guilt when their children do not turn out according child-rearin- This is a story of service above and beyond the call of duty. It is a story of compassionate concern for ones fellow g of man and of going the extra mile to assure the in . trouble. people It is a story we call special attention to because it helps to show Utahs service station, operators in the light in which the g great majority of them deserve to be shown as men who perform a vital public service. . It is the story of Ken Day, who recently saved the life of a California family which drove into his service station in Fillmore. It seems the family had been sick for several days because of a leaky muffler. The parents thinking their problem was only heat exhaustion were groggy, and a child was in convulsions. Mr. Day called a doctor, bundled them into Tiis pickup truck, and drove the ailing family to the hospital. Then he to the station and found a hole in the muffler. After he installed a new muffler, Mr. Day returned to the hospital to visit the California family and gave a box of candy to their little girl. ' Remember this story the next time you hear about a motorist being sold needless services or parts. For each of the very few dishonest service station operators, there are hundreds like Ken Day who take extra pains in their work and make a sincere effort to be helpful. Gentlemen and Mr. Day In particular take a bow. well-bein- hard-workin- - g. -- d to the redpe in the psychologists Hansen! cook- -- REX book. I suspect that many parents assume too much blame when the children fail to react in the right way, and also take too much credit when the children become worthy human beings. There are forces, operating in both directions that that Gen. De Gaulle and have very little in Johnson President common. They are wholly different in . temperament and in the personal style of heir lives. They have quite different outideologies, and in background and in look they belong to different cultural and historical epochs. Yet while I was in Europe this summer I came to recognize a highly signif-ican- t' similarity in their current expe- WALTER LIPPMANN We all know Mrs. Annie Farr v Both - have staked their hopes and their ambitions on playing a In that humble pioneer home of David and Jennett McKay In Huntsville was a radiant spirit of faith and devotion to Service that touched the lives of all the children. v - The most noted, of course, is President David 0. McKay, Who, as President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y role in affairs, world and, whether they meant to, they have had to do this at the expense of the domestic needs of their Saints, has repeatedly paid high tribute to the ennobling. Influences of his homelife. But other children from that same cottage also exempli-- . fled those same traits of greatness in lives that are devoted to service. Such a person was Annie Powell McKay Farr, a homemaker, mother, community leader, and church worker. jMrs. Farr died this week at 86. But her life is a record of "worthwhile contributions to young and old alike. It is a record to be followed by all, and included legislative work, educational efforts, civic support, religious devotion in short, humble 0Cfvice..To those who knew her, she. was an understanding . . and warm friend. - The state has lost a charming, delightful lady, one who put the attribute service! at the top of her list of important things to do not Just occasionally, but every day. To her family and friends, the Deseret News ' extends sympathy at her ' , passing. own people. Both are now beginning to suffer the consequences of engaging themselves in attempts to set the world in order while they neglected the disorders at home. For this neglect they are paying with a loss of popular confidence. Neither has' a' majority of his people behind him any longer. that world probThe essential fact lems have been given priority over can be seen even domestic problems more vividly in France than in this country. For at least until the summer of this year, De Gaulles foreign policy, unlike Mr. Johnsons, was popular among .the . French. The great majority from the right to the left approved of his attitude toward the Vietnamese war, and with - -- - 1 - only some criticism of means and measures the great majority liked his resistance against American political and economic domination and superiority. The Asian preoccupation of Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the remainders of the European policy of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles have had almost no influential French supporters. Nevertheless, although Gaullist foreign policy has been generally approved, ever since the French elections last year De Gaulle has ceased to have the support of a majority of the nation. The reason for De Gaulles decline lies in the fact that modern Frenchmen are finding it harder and harder to live successfully and agreeably with the modern technological revolution: with the automobile which is choking the French cities and .with the mechanical,' the engineering, the medical and the agricultural innovations that are changing the customary French life. - SUNNIE THOMPSON Richfield Worthwhile Program So much has been said about the high price of teaching youth a vocation through the Job Corps program that rdTik? to explain it to your readers. It costs about $6,000 to train one young man in a vocation at the Clearfield Center. In order to qualify for Job Corps training, a young man must be be- tween 16 and 22 years of age, out of school and unable to obtain a job. Without work, the youth could depend on government welfare for his entire life. At the conservative figure of $3,000 a year for at least 30 years, the government must pay $120,000 to support him, and probably more if he has a family. The purpose of the Job Corps is to make tax payers out of tax eaters. Although the Clearfield Job Corps percentage is not so high as the national percentage, 60 per cent of the national average trf Job Corps graduates ard placed in jobs, the armed forces, or return to school. The worker would easily pay back the $6,000 through taxes from his job rather than receiving welfare from other workers taxes. The Job Corps program is obviously a worthwhile progam and is saving the government much money each year. God-give- mortal man. --DAN 1919 HINMON Imperial St. GUEST CARTOON , s. "S - i . that the urgent problems would be dealt with. In this sense the French turn to De Gaulle was not unlike Mr. Johnson landslide in 1964. The American voters believed then, as they were told by the President, that with a big bipartisan majority operated by a master of the legislative process the urgent and neglected problems of the United States could be ' dealt with. But, as we know, De Gaulle, who had had little experience with and little interest in the grubby material problems of his people, made it his first task to reorder things in Europe and even to attempt to tamper with the balance of power In the world. While he was doing this, De Gaulles constituents went into spasms of irritation because it was so difficult to park their cars and because there were such blockades of traffic and because it was so difficult to have a telephone installed in their houses. ' The French people did not turn to De everywhere. Gaulle because they wanted grandeur. , But fof both President Johnson and They turned to him because the elected .Gen. De Gaulle, this putting of foreign French politicians, like the elected politi- 'policy ahead of domestic' needs has recians of the 90th Congress in Washington sulted In the fact that neither any longeir today, offered them no prospect or hope commands a majority of his people. . In response to Lavor Chaffins article defending report cards and competition in our schools . . . Clap, dap, clap, clap, clap! go deeper than environment Respect for personality is perhaps the most important attitude for a parent to that is, not trying to make cultivate the child into something he is not and never can be, but working patiently and lovingly within the limitations of the n constitution childs We cant make silk purses out of sows ears, but we can make good sows ears out of bad ones. This modest achievement is admirable enough for Similarly, President Johnson, for reasons which he has never explained and which I do not understand, felt himself seized with a world mission in Southeast Asia. He used the great bipartisan ma- The great impulse behind the Gaullist, jority with which he was invested in 196C restoration in 1958 sprang from a wide to reconcile the people to an unpopular war. He did this by persuading some of general conviction that the French parthe people that if he could defeat Ho Chi of was Incapable liamentary system would have agreeing on the measures which would Minh in South Vietnam he of world revolution heart at the .struck to modern the France age. adapt G. PLOWMAN Lewiston All In Favor. . - rience. " Good News Welcomed De Gaulle And Johnson Parallels' ' ed 4 tional board meeting of Americans for Democratic Action, by a member of the board, Daniel P. Moynihan, who served T ysis. f , in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and who now heads the Harvard-MIWashington. Joint Center for Urban Studies. Mr. This view is Moynihan says it all in these three prop. fading rapidly. ositions: I Support is growing That the states and cities have historito d e centralize radically the vast cally been the most innovative arm of and inefficient American government. federal programs That most states and cities have been and to give to states and cities nearly immobilized by inadequate funds deficienthe resources and and that to repair this crippling state and local government must cy, if to see authority to receive a share of federal revethey cant do well begin on nue a permanent, continuing basis. what the federal well. not so That the main opposition to this progovernment has been doing has come from liberals, not conserposal For a long time the Idea that there in Washington and we (lihpr-als- ) vatives, was any possibility of reversing the flow should be ashamed of ourselves. of political power to' Washington seemed Mr. Moynihan is not alone. Earlier naive and unreal. this year Richard N. Goodwin, another It is no longer so. It is beginning to former Kennedy Johnson aide, cited the come about because unconventional politof welfare labyrinth ical liberals are joining with conventional the monstrous incapacities programs, political conservatives in recognizing of the Department of Health, Education that the cities of the nation cannot be run and Welfare despite superior managefrom agencies in Washington. ment, and the foreseeable futilities of This view was vigorously advocated the new Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Transportation by the principal speaker before the na- full-tim- - ROSCOE DRUMMOND An American counter revolution is at hand and it looks like it will succeed. . balance-of-paymen- r License Medical Labs. r 4t is apparent that the author of this article is ;not aware of Utah Medical Technology Societies actions that have attempted to regu- late and upgrade the profession of medical technology in Utah. Duly elected officials in the Society would welcome the opportunity to police the profession in Utah and thereby bring diagnostic laboratories under a more stringent control and raise the quality of result?, working conditions, salaries, etc. Contrary to the information volunteered by the t Utah State Department of Health spokesman, those who-ar- e conscientious technologists have found many reasons to be dissatisfied with some of the present labs operating in Utah that do not measure .up to the standards needed for present day medical a diagnosis. To bring out only one attempt that was made by the Utah Medical Technology Society for regula-tioI refer you to House Bill No. 153, the Medical Technology Act This bill was presented to the Utah Legislature last session with the hope that it would bring about some of the needed reforms. The bill was tabled in the sifting committee with the help of some influential lobbying against it. The present status of the- - technologists and Ipck of funds prevents establishing an effective lobby to push such a bill through the legislature. Much adverse publicity has been published recently in leading magazines condemning medical labs to the point of unfairness to those doing a reto show how much has been wrong with spectable job. Little or nothing is said about the the old approach. seminars, workshops, and meetings that are conMr. Moynihan put It succinctly when tinually being presented by knowledgeable people and companies producing medical supplies. All this he said that the federal government is is designed fo keep .the technologists abreast of at rather bad at good collecting taxes, recent developments and maintain the quality of , disbursing services. lab results. Significantly, it is the younger Demo-P- AT HAYCOCK cratic liberals, not so cemented into past -WILLIAM T. WOLFE who are now prejudices, leaning most 2305 Lynwood Dr. strongly in favor of federal decentralization and putting both more responsibility, and more federal into the hands of the cities. Representative Henry Reuss, D. of If a finely honed personal abrasiveness and m Wisconsin, and Senator Joseph Tydings, genuine penchant for public pouting are the chief D. of Maryland, have supported this goal requisitesjor a state's attorney general, Phil Hanfor the past year. And there are -- other sen must certainly lead his profession. One Democratic liberals in both Senate and wearies, However, of witnessing his junior high House who feel they made a mistake not school level tantrums when his personal legal of Republican leader taking up the offer are judged to be inconsistent with interpretations Melvin Laird at the opening of Congress the law. this year. He said the Republicans would Mr Hansen seems to derive special pleasure favor massive federal aid to city govfrom quarreling with established and respected ernments if the Democrats would substimores, and the desirps of soeipty have always tute bloc grants without strings fur the seemed to be less important to him than the attractgrant-in-aiprograms proliferating ion of the public spotlight. Constructive suggeswhich many are finding so cumbersome tions and concerned legal guidance on behalf of the and inefficient. people of the state of Utah seem not to be in Mr. It will take a little more time for the Hansen's professional repertory. On the contrary, politicians to act upon this growing conMr. Hansens talents appear to be closely related is consensus. servative liberal But it to legal obstructionism which permits and encourclearly in the making and it rests on the ages social deterioration. premise that state and local Initiative Finally, it is a startling spectacle to see the plus federal revenue sharing are the states attorney general ridicule local police offifirst ingredients for solving the crisis in cers for conscientiously enforcing laws which hapthe cities. pen not to conform to his personal taste. Sometime ago it was reported that Mr. Hansen does not intent to seek another term of office as : V r , , V , . LI j KimiyiII JevmtJ Kixwylll Jogrnri J. , |