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Show ...I DESERET NEWS . UKE SAIT , fed CITY, UTAH We Stand For The Constitution! Of The United States As Haying Been Divinely Inspired EDITORIAL PAGE 12-- ' ' By VICTOR LASKY North SATURDAY, OCTOBER (Fake American In 1937, a college student read a book called. Under present - - conditions, taxes. j 1 reducing federal spending better for America than increasing Fortunately Congress seems to agree. House Jeaders made It clear this week that President Johnsons proposed 10 per cent income tax surcharge is likely to get nowhere for at least this session, certainly not without meaningful spending cuts. How much should federal spending be cut, and where should the cuts Jje made ? That question isnt nearly as hard to answer aS proponents of the tax increase would lead the country to believe. House Republicans maintain that spending can be cut by $frbillion, a figure that also has been mentioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. But with a $29 billion deficit in pros- is in order. pect, even more vigorous ? - If domestic were out by, say, $21.7 billion, the spending remaining $37.8 billion in this category would still be higher than in the 1964 budget and about the same as in the 1965 budgeClf such a reduction still seems too big, consider this: v -- federal Sinee spending has gone from $47.6 billion to $75.5 billion for national defense, from $22.7 billidn to $44.5 billion in trust funds, and from $29.2 billion to $59.5 billion for general government. While federal spending has doubted since 1961, who can seriously argue that our population has doubled or that we are twiceas prosperoui as we were only six years ago ? This means that the war in Vietnam cannot reasonably be our inblamed for Americas fiscal crisis, particularlvk-sincvolvement in a really big way goes back only a couple of years. More lo the point, it means that America has been living beyond its means and there is plenty of room for cutting any number pf federal programs. Indeed, Tax Foundation Inc. reports that more than 100 new federal programs have been enacted since 1955. There have been an average of more than 12 new , programs a year beginning in 1962, compared to only a year in the preceding six years. Moreover, the cost of four f: ' these programs is now four times their first-yea- r outlays. . Clearly, America needs to get back to the philosophy that the federal government should perform only those essential public services which cannot otherwise be provided. power from the Romanoff dynasty but rather from a democratic prov-- i isionai government set up eight months earlier. As- -. iignment m Utopia, by Eugene Lyons. It was an autobiographical account of the years Lyons was a U.S. correspondent in the Soviet Union. For the student, who happened to be me, the book was a 'shocker, It told the story of a young idealistic newsman wholiv-- ' ing with the horrors that were the realities of Soviet existence, finally decided to warn the outside world of what communism - in - action really meant. Plenty Of Federal Fat That Needs Trimming would be , considerably ' Alliance Newspaper 14, 1967 tober. For, as Lyons quickly points out, the handful of Bolsheviks led by Lenin and Trotsky did not seize This is a book that picks up where Svetlana Alliluyeva leaves off. Stalins daughter has written interestingly and informatively of the almost byzantine duality of life in her fathers court. But she knew little of what was happening on the outside among the many millions of Soviet citizens who bore the brunt jf Stalins mad dreams of instant industrialization via totalitarianism. Whittaker Chambers later wrote in Utopia, had a profound influence in causing him to break with the Communist underground! that Assignment Exactly . - 30 years after counter-revolutio- -- ' N . Assign- ment, Gene Lyons has written a powerful new book on file Soviet Union titled. Workers. Paradise Lost. Funk & Wagnalls has brought it out just in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the n Bolshevik In Oc-- . There are Jthose who claim that things have changed enormously and for the better since Stalins death. But Lyons, who has been watching Soviet behavior for many I decades, - is not convinced. - He noted that even in Stalins time, at the height of his power in the midthirties, there had been a thaw. Stalm was frightened of Hitler, and of the West. Israel Offering Reasonable At that time the Initiatives for what is today called 'bridgebuilding , between the two worlds came from Moscow, not Washing- ton, writes Lyons. Many reputable experts excitedly announced that Russia, for all its faults, was evolving in the right direction . . . the whole fantasy was soon enough washed out in the blood purges and the pact of friendship with Hitler. In the tense Middle East,' it is easy for both Arab and Israeli forces to find weak excuses to open fire on the other. The surface conflict makes it difficult to see the powerful reasons to foster cooperation through peace. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eben emphasized the irony of the situation when he offered four steps to mutual growth. He said his nation might be willing to form an economic community with Lebanon and Jordan; to share the ports 13f Tfaira7 Aqaband 'EIiaf w,ifh Jordan ; to de- militarize the Sinai; and to surrender sovereignty over holy places in Jerusalem. In return, Israel would have to have recognition of its right to ex.st as a nation. The foreign minister has shown again that his nation is willing to do this peacefully just as it is capable of doing it now in open conflict. Israel is bargaining its current advantage against the potential strength o( Arab nations and it is a reasonable bargain for all. By telling how Arabs and Israelis can grow together in. stead of each advancing only at the expense of the other, Mr. Eban has taken a tack which deserves the support df all nations genuinely seek- - - ing stability for the area. KY. LOUISVILLE, TIMES, Nevertheless, Lyons does concede there have been changes. The most significant change lies in the new courage andself-respec-t manifest in the population, especially among youth and the intelligentsia. for the numerous miracles achievement currently being trumpeted by Soviet propagandists. Lyons observes trenchantly, never have so many paid so much for so little - As of If you know anyone bemused by Soviet achievements," send him a copy of Workers Paradise Lost. It may do much to change the course of his life, as Assignment in Utopia did for so many thirty years ago. belt-tighteni- serialization of Mr. Lyon's widely acclaimed book "Workers' Paradise Lost," begins Monday in the How To Stay Alive A Deseret News. -- What does a conservative, economy-mindecongressman do when he comes across a totaHy one whose memuseless government agency bers pull down hefty salaries for doing nothing at all? The answer is obvious: It all depends. If the agency is one that has some vaguely function, our man can be trusted to demand that it be abolished. On the other hand, if the useless agency happens to have a title like Subversive Activities Control Board well, as -- we observed, it all depends. The S.A.C.B. is about as useless as a government body can get, having been deprived of whatever powers lt had by a Supreme Court decision two years ago. Its remaining function seems to be providing green pastures for the politically deserving such as the husband of a former White House secretary. d - . e Soviet Anniversary Brings Flood Of yet the board has just been, granted the Senate Appropriations Committee, jand cougiessional Republicans including that champion of thrift, Illinois Sen. Everett Dirksen are busily thinking up new make-worassignments that could give it a reason to go on existAnd $295,000 by Drivel Pro-Rus- s k ing. There may bi a valuable hint here for Washington agencies who fear for their budgets , Just adopt a title that sounds fellows, and relax. Work or no work, whos going to deprive the government of patriots like you? THE AMERICAN, CHICAGO lr By EUGENE LYONS I undertook the labors of a balance sheet of the Soviet in confident expectation that the anniversary would touch off an avalanche of Communist propaganda, open and diluted, in the d portions of the world press. Unfortunately I was not mistaken. y Berlin Without 'Heat' b'rain-washe- The heat is off in West Berlin, and as a result the city, long a bastion of freedom inside the Communist core, has lost some of its sense of purpose. So much 8(5 that its Mayor, Heinrich Albertz, undercut by bitter Socialist Party feuds, resigned in disgust. To shore up the aging city, former Mayor Willie Brandt, now West German foreign minister, will meet with party officials Sunday. The high morale that once marked citizens of West Ber-- lin is flagging. It is an axiom in war, hot or cold, that morale t increases with pressure, sags without it. Then,, too, the city " attracts few new workers; it cant expand. Living 150 miles inside the Iron Curtain offers few challenges any more; the average West Berliner no longer fears for his life, t East Germany, to be sure, is still as recalcitrant as it between the two g was. The outlook for bleak. The remains Germanys, let alone for reunification, relationship is cold. Herr Brandt himself has said he welcomes the relaxa-,- , tion between East and West, limited as it is. He has called for a better reality than the one which exists of two armed camps facing each other. With such an approach, Brandt will not bolster morale by to commu-- ; strengthening the cause of freedom as opposed he meets as will an have he uphill struggle niam, As a result, , party leaders Sunday. . ys bridge-buildin- Read The Good News K Great men have praised the Bible because of the influence on their lives. Goethe cited it as the instrument of had It cation. Lincoln said, But for it we could not know right from wrong. the Bible, Among those inspired, to high achievement by were poet John Ruskin and President John Quincy Adams. Said Ruskin: v "Everything that I have written, every greatness that has &en in any thought of mine, whatever I have done in my when I was a child life, has been simply due to the fact that Bible and daily of the me a part my mother daily read with of heart. it by made me learn a part Said AdamkvI have made it a practice for several years. to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usual hour after I rise every ly devote to this reading the first at 4:30 a.m. dawn before arose He long usually morning. ""This coming week we note the observance of National Man. The Bible Week. The theme is Good News For Modern read the Bible aim of Bible Week is to encourage everyone to to be aim seem3 Such an daily between now and Thanksgiving. Bible read the regularly all modest indeed. All of us ought to news for those the found good the time for therein can be times. critical in these and guidance who seek wise leadership for many pur' The Bible can be read for many reasons, more be none will important than poses, for many intents. But news gives, the good for the inspiration every week, read the Bible. -- . i i ' i It Vi' . . . Refusing to let a child Afterthoughts he wont understand all of it is a foolish a book read and J1U In short-sight- becausj a playground the top. s refusing to --Ruse hes-to- o c- . 0? let him climb the monkey bars little to get all the way to, . ; V The most shocking exhibit thus far has been the October 3 issue Of Look.. Outside of the frankly press, I can recall nothing as mendacious as this pro-Sovi- performance. The editorial precede asserts that the Soviet people are content, feel free, have a childs faith in their dictators and if allowed to vote democratically would vote to keep their Communist police-stat- e! This egregious nonsense is presented not as speculation but as fact, based on observation and interviews by five Look editors and five photographers, each of whom spent an average of five weeks in Soviet Russia. On this basis they have the effrontery to conclude just what 235 million people in of the earths surface think,' feel, and how they would vote. This surely is the most extraordinary opinion poll on record. one-sixt- h One decent piece in the issue, by Wardeals with the notorious KGB, which he calls the most extensive authoritarian police force in the world. Its primary mission, he explains, is to protect the party from the people. Yet these are the very people who supposedly love their dictators and would vote to retain them! . ren Rogers, Look forgets to tell us that an attempt to leave the country illegally is still a capital crime; that political prisoners must still be counted by the hundreds of thousands; that more pseudocrimes have been made subject to the death penalty than in the Stalin era; that only in the last 10 years have living standards begun to move marginally ahead of tsarist times, etc., etc. A N.Y. Times series, judging by the first two instalments, under the byline of Harrison Salisbury, the hero of Ibnoi, is not so crude. It lives up to the traditions of Walter Duranty and Herbert L, Matthews, Times men famous for pressagenting communism. The technique is familiar: admit some faults, but disperse them, fuzz them over, so as not to spoil the overall image of glorious success. Salisbury leads off with an interview with Mikoyan, filled with flamboyant claims and boasts. True, he disputes some of them; yet it is Mikoyan who is allowed to set the tone for the senes. Salisbury concedes many of my own findings: the persistence of Stalins harsh methods, the survival of his police apparatus, etc. But he does it casually, as escape hatches; one must hunt for them in the interstices of the main themes of "achievement, "improvement, etc. The chief thing for a correspondent intent on keeping the doors to the USSR open and getting kudos from certain s in Washington as a bonus is never to spell out the extent and nature of the martyrdom of the Russia peoples. He can hint at sacrifices in general, but must avoid a plain accounting of the costs in tens of millions e famine, torture murdered, policy-maker- man-mad- chambers, historys largest and most brutal slave system, the pliony trade unions, relentless persecution of religion and thought. In the announcement of its series, the Times said its team was allowed to go wherever it pleased. There is no indica- - Alaska, Our Next-Be- st tion that it pleased to visit any of the dozens of forced-labo- r colonies for enemies of the state, though some of them are close to Moscow. Microstates, Arise! The Times emphasis In the economy gross figures, without making clear that they reflect overwhelmingly military production, space spectaculars, etc., to enhance the might of the state, while the wretchedness of the concealing Ever since the Maidive Islands in the Indian Ocean gained membership in the United Nations weve been wondering where the world body would draw the line. The Maidive Islands gained membership last year with an area approximating Denvers and a population of more masses. The Soviet GNP, about 45 per cent of the American, makes it number two among Industrial nations. But when the figures are broken down in terms of production and consumption per inhabitant, it ranks twentieth. Average Soviet living levels reached the tsarist levels of 1914 only in the late 1950s and are still among the lowest among industrialized countries. Secretary-Genera- l U Thant now appears to have set a limit on U.N. membership. He frowns, he said, on "microstates such as Pitcairn Island in the Pacific. Pitcairn has a teni-tor- y of less than two square miles and a population of 88. In general, we think Thants recommendation is wise policy. On the other hand, what about ones rights if he lives in a microstate? Isn't he entitled to a voice in world affairs as expressed through the United Nations? Probably, the small states will just have to organize their own United Nations. Such an organization, emphasizing quality instead of quantity, might furnish some worthy comixftt'011 to the reigning United Nations. And on the matter of maintaining world peace the new group could scarcely do any worse. Anything it did would look like progress. ' DENVER POST, DENVER, COLO. I have no space here to examine the articles in detail. I can only assure you that the picture is far more squalid, the continuing oppressions more evil, than the Times dares convey clearly and candidly. And this is only the beginning. Between now and November 7 the avas lanche of and full lies will grow. half-truth- My conscience is clear. I have dared call a spade a spade, without straining for alibis for the Kremlin murder-bun- d and its foreign admirers. HemisFair 1968 Latin flavor will be much in evidence next year as the world's fair local shifts from Montreal, Canada, to San Antonio, Tex. Opening on April 6, 19G8, and running through Oct. 6, will be a giant exposition called HemisFair 68. It will be situated on a tract in downtown San Antonio. Emphasis will be put on the contributions made by the various civilizations to the development and progress of the Western Hemisphere specifically North, Central and South America. The fairs theme, Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas, is an intriguing one and will undoubtedly influence many persons to include San Antonio in their 1968 vacation plans. CITIZEN, CAIRO, ILLINOIS A distinct The handling of the anniversary story by a portion of our magazines and" newspapers, I am sorry to attest, is a disgrace for American journalism. Their compulsion to put the best face possible on flie disaster of communism, which has kept the world in turmoil of violence and fears, surpasses Buy GUEST CARTOON Considering ajl the Idiotic expenditures of our national wealth recently ($330 million to the Congo, half a billion to Laos, a billion to Egypt), it might cheer us up to consider a couple of deals in which we came out wen with f o reign powers, even though they occurred long ago. The best buy we ever made, of course, was the Lou isiana Purchase. We got 828,000 square miles from Napoleon for just under 3 cents an acre. Napoleon thought it was a smart move because his fleet in 1803 was inferior to 'Englands and .he was afraid the British w5uld take Louisiana for nothing. But any day now Charles de Gaulle may want to repossess 13 states. . The neswSegt buy was Alaska, and next Wednesday narks the 100th anni- th Sitka when the versary.of . down the white banner s pulled : with the double-headeeagle and the Stars and Stripes went up. - x. czar-S-boy- d ' r X JENKIN LLOYD JONES Alaska cost about $12.50 a square mile. But Secy, of State William Seward caught a lot of dead cats because most Americans didnt think it was worth anything. They kept thinking that, until someone took a close look at the black sand beach at Nome. The sand" proved to be almost pure gold, some pans running over $200, and optimistic Yankees swarmed into the territory, convinced that Alaska was All Baba's cave. But the easy 'placer gold played out quickly, and Americans were disenchanted again. They called it Uncle Sams Icebox and wrote it off as a source of sealskin and salmon. Slowly,1 the great land slipped into sleep again. r what would happen 11 peace ever broke out and the military went home. A new bonanza dispelled the doubt. Down on the Kenai Peninsula, not far from Anchorage, big drillers began to hit oil about 10 years ago. Now the offshore rigs stand high above the racing tidal waters of Cook Inlet. This summer the government had a lease sale and took in $19.2 million. - That was almost three times Alaskas purchase price. And theres a green bonanza, too. No one thought much about Alaskan timber. It costs too muth to haul it to Seattle. But there are the forests, right along the coast line, capable of producing perhaps a billion board-fee- t a year. -- The Japanese saw it Eight years ago Japanese investors built a $65 million pulp mill at Sitka. From that single company Japan now buys pulp and timber at Y the rate of $40 million annually. Alaska awoke with a start on the The door on Unde Sams icebox is morning of Pearl Harbor. The Japanese quickly seized Kiska and Attu. We creatopening. It will never close again. After ed huge military installations at Dutch 100 years we are beginning to see what Harbort Anchorage and Fairbanks. Afterj webought.,And at a little lessthan 2 war we were worried about the Rus the, cents an acre Seward's Folly turned out sians, and Alaska boomed with continen- - fine, even including glaciers. grizzlies'' tal defense. Still, the worriers wondered and earthquakes. ' -- Jr.1 " 'Mt7 - "Do nofbedeceived. SheVreaily q time bomb m disquise!" - ' -- r MHwtvkM Journal - f . |