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Show ' - ? ' 1 M I H. . . And When They Get As - Loaded As Their Guns Begin To Shoot' Eaeh Other " DESERET NEWS - They- -r ii...M:!U,ii.uiiimmu):unmiiniiiimmmiimiiiiuininmminiiiiRini!iiiiiiiiiii i LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SDiHiHiiimuiinmnumtiminimititiiiiiiiiunminimunniiiimiiumiminiimim SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We Stand For The Constitution L 22-- Of As Having Been Divinely EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY, i The" United Layton youth with a 12 Killing pf a gauge shotgun fired at 10 feet should remind everyone of the importance of hunter safety in the home as well as in hunting. If hunters would carry their guns with the safety on, and barrels pointed away from others, they wouldassure many of living a lot longer. Keep these safety points in mind:. Never point a gun at anyone on a hunt or at anything you do not want to shoot. Avoid all horseplay. Avoid alcoholic beverages before and after 19, 1967 City Cleaning Up-H- ow About County? shooting. Watch that muzzle. Carry your gun safely; keep safety on until ready to shoot Treat every gun with respect due a loaded gun.' Unload guns when ribt in use intake down or have actions open; guns should be carried in cases to and from the shooting areas- Be siire the barrel Is clear of obstructions, and that you have ammunition only of the proper size for the gun you carry. Be sure of the target before you pull the trigger; know identifying features of the game you Quietly, and despite official bluster and legal snarls, Salt Lake City has gone about building a first line of defense against liquor law violations in private clubs. That line is the licensing of private clubs by the city. With the licensing power also goes the power of effective inspection and the threat of effective action revoking a license in event of violations. - Utahs attorney general and others have attempted to throw a legal cloud over the licensing law. Seven clubs have obtained injunctions against its enforcement, and a court hearing is expected soon to determine whether the city does indeed have licensing power over a club that is chartered by the state. But it is interesting that except Tor the seven clubs seeking legal action, compliance with the law has been virtually complete. Eighteen clubs either have obtained licenses or will by tonights deadline. That leaves only one other private charter club in the city, and it claims it serves no liquor. Meanwhile, Police Chief Dewey Fillis reports .that charter clubs have greatly stepped up their vigilance against law violations. Anumher have sent formal notices to members warning that the law will be strictly enforced. Compliance is better all along the line. Thats in Salt Lake City. No such report can be made in Salt Lake County or some other communities that also have the power to license clubs. The widespread law violations disclosed by the Deseret News in its investigations some months ago have not noticeably changed. The county is making no either for the revenue ($251 apiece) move to license clubs or to enforce the law more effectively. Why? Legal questions will not be fully settled until the challenge brought by the Beven dubs has been heard, probably up through the Supreme Court That may take months. Why not, in the meantime, equip county law enforcement with a tool that has shown itself to be entirely reasonable and workable? ,, iif Make The Hunt Sober The brush fire that swept over 650 acres near Kamas and knocked out electric power to six communities should be fair warning to Utahns this weekend. The mountains are dry. Much of the lush foliage left by the long, wet spring has now become like tinder. Any careless match or unattended campfire can touch off a serious blaze. That is one challenge to the estimated 180,000 hunters who will take to the hills for deer this weekend. But there are others. One Is to avoid the slaughter of elk that has become such a tragic waste eaeh yean This year, in addition, a fewmoun-tai- n sheep have been planted in some areas; killing them would be especially sad. Another is to respect property. Every year more Utah acreage is posted no hunting" because of the careless few who leave gates open and scatter or kill livestock. , And another is to leave a clean camp. The litter left by some hunters is a shocking testimonial to bad manners apd an Insult to other citizens. But the biggest challenge remains: Come home safe after a safe hunt Dont be responsible for your own death or the death of a companion or some innocent stranger. The safety rules are simple but tremendously important: Guns fully unloaded in vehicles or around camp; no bullet in the chamber until ready to shoot; be dead sure of the target; bolts removed and ammunition locked up immediately on returning home. And above all . . . avoid liquor like the plague. If liquor is dangerous on the highways, it is sheer poison on the hunt. The hunter who values his life will absolutely insist on no drinking among his companions, and will either disarm or report any drunks he sees or get but of the area himself. The life or companion you may lose is no pun intended too dear to take chances. t hunt. Never climb a tree or fence or jump a ditch with a loaded gun; never pull a gun toward you by Open Letter To Svetlana Stalin Mrs. Svetlana Alliluyeva Long Island, N.Y. Dear Mrs. Alliluyeva, ROSCOE DRUMMOND You must know, I think, that most Americans are pleased and gratified that you chose the United States as the place where you thought you could best live and move and have your free- for this unfair and unfeeling smear. I am writing to express the hope that from if not from expeinstinct and intuition rience you have already come to realize that freedom is not the easy, comfortable way of life; it is the hard, often harsh and uncomfortable way of life. All that can be said for it is that for those who cherish freedom for themselves and for others it is the best way of life. dom. I Ameri--c M o st a n s welcome your presence, admire your courage, share your to think ideals Vl independently, Mrs. Alliluyeva esteem one another. speak, and Winston Churchill said it when he remarked once that democracy is just about the -- worst form of government ever invented except every other form of to to government. Far from apologizing for what Esquire has done, I defend its right to do it bad taste and all. The freedom of the majority to think independently and to publish and speak without censorship can only be preserved by securing the rights of the minority with equal faith. the unpopular with the popuAll sides lar, the tasteful with the tasteless, the unkind with the kind, the unworthy with must have equal access to the worthy the market place of ideas. Let the competition be open and fierce and, if we havent faith that in Ihe end the best will prevail, then we havent faith in free men. I may be telling you something you already know: that it is not always easy or pleasant or painless to do this in any free society. It cant be easy for you to look at the hideous, revolting, vulgar caricature of yourself looking out from a magazine cover on every newstand in the United States this month with a Stalinesque upon mustache cruelly superimposed your photograph. I want you to know there is no doubt in my mind that most Americans dont like this at all; we are pained by its appearance and wish it hadnt happened. But I am not writing you to Most Americans have that faith and, from having read nearly everything you apologize Hie muzzle. have published and said since you left Moscow, I feel sure you have that faith, that you came to American to exercise that faith and that you will not be misled nor hurt by the slurs and slanders which most men and women in public life, either literary or political, must in some part endure. on the In capital letters the magazine cover, reads: How Svetlana Fled Communism for America and Found God, Happiness and Two Million By SYDNEY Dollars. Sarcastic, cynical, patronizing, and mostly untrue. Most Americans will know its false either through knowledge or through their intuitive sense of the kind of person you are. You did flee the repressions and the regimentations of Communist society. Thats true enough. And it took physical, moral, and spiritual courage for the mature daughter of Josef Stalin to do it Your American friends and admirers know that. They know you didnt flee to America to find happiness, whatever happiness you have today and may have tomorrow, you brought with you. And anyone who has read your book knows that in the atmosphere it was started five years ago the last thing that would have moved you was $2 million or even 30 rubles. thanks for coming; we Svetlana cherish the privilege of having you among us. J. HARRIS die most remote concern, and hear them, discuss with affected animation matters that I knew bored them to pain. But, alas, Professor Edman discovered, as we grow older we become a part of the conspiracy. We flirt with insincerity as the price of living in civilized society, and we train ourselves not to say what is on our minds when we know it will do no good or will merely be mis. interpreted. I am not defending Professor Edmans or our compromise with utter honesty. I am simply bringing to this young mans attention the fact that only a few great figures can be both agreeable and sincere at toe same time. It is a high and rare art, and the most difficult of social tightropes to walk. And, in later life, die people who pride themselves on their conversational A college boy who visits us from time to time has often expressed impatience with what he calls the hypocrisy of adults. He thinks we are not sincere, and despises oyr efforts to be agreeable toward people with whom we disagree. His attitude recalled to mind an essay written some years back by the witty and urbane Prof. Irwin Edman, who said ruefully: T remember often during my adolescence listening to older people making conversation. I vowed I would never willingly be a conspirator at such transparent hypocrisies. When I went out to dinner, I found myself saying, I should speak only when I felt like it, and I should say only what was on my mind." I used to listen while my elders pretended to have a fascinated interest in visitors with whom I knew they had only are often not so acuta ted by principle as they think they are. They recognize that the truth hurts, and are more interested in inflicting the hurt than in attaining the truth. There Is a time for Contradiction and a time for compliance, and only a great deal of experience can help us distincountguish the time to stand up and be ed and the time to sit quietly and murmur polite nothings. Understanding ones own motives is disperhaps the only way to make this tinction. Hypocrisy for personal gain is detestable, but so is candor for the sake of personal pleasure. The truly cultivated man is the one who can reasonably mark off that area where Ms principles end and his passions . "candor! begin. Ike Shoots 'Em Down Again! CLAYTON FRITCHEY Where former Presis concerned, hope springs eternal among the moderates of WASHINGTON ident Eisenhower Republican Party. They love Ike, but there is little evidence that Ike loves them. It is one of the sadTwo sets of figures released recently by the government dest unrequited of our confused passions the and contradictory point up time. dinner-tabl- e picture. Yet It goes on, ' t The first set, from the Bureau of Labor and everything inStatistics, disdicates that, Just as closes that the cost of living index is up led by a rise in food die 1964 presi in Ur. Fritebfj costs. The July increase was .04 per cent over the previous dential campaign, the moderates and libmonth and the largest increase in nine months. erals of the GOP are once more romantfr cally hoping that the general at die The second set, from the Department of Agriculture, reappropriate moment will give one of them down. The parity ratio for the ports that farm prices are his blessing, thus theoretically assuring 73 80 to was a middle of September only compared year ago. his nomination as the Republican stan4 dard bearer next year. own while are distressed their that i Farmers, naturally, Costs rise, their own products and labor are decreasing in There was some justification for these illusions In 1964. Eisenhower never seri, value. ously bucked - the GOP conservatives OuL-osimple justice, they feel that they should be f while he occupied the White House for - entitled to better prices for their produce. But that would mean eight years, but after he retired the word that food costs would go up even higher for everyone else. got around that he regretted not having liberalized the party. It seemed logical. 'r Why the contradiction? The increases in costs of food are v Moreover, Eisenhower (consciously or added to the food after it leaves the farmers fields and barns. not) did tease the moderate candidates We call this middleman costs. But there is more than, one fat 1961 Several draught they had Ms sup- middleman. There is transportation, processing, distribution,1 port, and that in due .course he would retailing. Labor costs are involved in every instance. And, with unify the party behind them. They also " these' is load there of the one oftaxea. thought they could count on Mm to stop a operations every Goldwater blitz. They were wrong on ' t Is there a way to stop the constant increase? No satis- ' both counts. factory answer has been found yet Some people call for less Now, four years later, the general b level while v t once more making statements and giving government control let the taarket find its own ' ' interviews on the approaching preslden- -' -- ethers call for Increased supervision. tial race, but if the moderates again pin , So while the officials pick their way through the puzzling '..their hopes on Mm they will have only themselves to blame- - a disappointment ze, the rest of us pay more, be it for bread and butter or . xteshs and strawberries, and the fanners mortgage looms t ensues.. ; .. 1 This time there b ho excuse far mis- all the time. understanding" Eisenhower, for he has made it abundantly clear that be does not stand with the GOP moderates on the vital issues of the day. On the record he has spoken politely about all of the possible nominees (as would be expected at this stage of die game) but less guarded comments show the real drift of his thinking. On the supreme issue of Vietnam be b at one with Gov. Ronald Reagan, and opposed to die stand of die less hawkish candidates. On the most urgent domestic issue (the race riots) he is with Richard Nixon and Ms law and order reme- dy, and cold to the Republican leaders who think social reform b die better answer. Why Food Costs More o- LJ&i r -- , Store guns and ammunition separately, beyond the reach of children. Never shoot a bullet at a flat, hard surface or water. At target practice be sure your backdrop is adequate. R. L. PICKETT - 'Td take any- - action to win b Vietnam,, Eisenhower says, adding that be would not preclude the use of nuclear weapons. Reagan says he, too, would go all out to win, and would make sure the Vietcong go to bed every night 'being afraid we might use nuclear bombs. Its easy to see why Elsenhower said a few days ago, "I like Gov. Reagan He has shown good very much Judgment" Eisenhower thinks die cure for urban violence b beefing up police forces, and not "some of the programs they are so concerned with. Nixons prescription b identical: chiefly bigger and better cops. So now the general tells die world, '1 admire and respect Dick Nixon. - Tb moderate wing of the GOP be- -. lieves it has not only a right but a duty to debate Vietnam in the coming campaign, but if it does it will antagonize Eisen- -' bower, who says: 'T would hope that the conduct of the war does not become a political issue.? This lofty attitude b not the one that Elsenhower adopted in 1952 when he himself was campaigning against Stevenson. He not only bore down on the Korean War (as he had a right to do) but he said a number of things wMch today he would surely denounce as demagoguery If uttered by Vietnam critics. If there must be a war there (in Korea), let It be Asians against Asians . ". Eisenhower said on Oct 2, 1952. On Oct 18, he said, We should be keeping our boys at home and not preparing them to serve in uniforms across the ocean." On Oct 8, he said, We must take our boys away from the front lines.. . 7 Totiie Elsenhower of vtoday that would b scuttle and run, but be didnt hesitate to propose it in the middle of a war, which unlike, Vietnam, war fought under the banner of the United Nations. ... 468 3rd Ave, 'Cause To Weep' fly-le- A Very Shaky Social Tightrope the farmer-to-market-t- ' .. - -- t 4 Hunt With Care .States Inspired OCTOBER i Millions would applaud Edwin A. Read's letter about competing for school grades to the Deseret News, Oct. 13, 1967, if given an opportunity. My sincere congratulations to him from the depths of a young heart." Ive abhorred being compared with others bv numbers and letters since my first day in school 68 that vast proyears ago. Normal human beings ductive majority dont like to compete. They the greatest incensimply enjoy honest success tive known to mankind. To that exceptional minority who love competition, society owes muoh. There are those who are the great or near great; who provide that extra unstinted urge to pioneer beyond new horizons. There is yet a minor group that costs society far too much. They are the and pseudointellectuals who, at worst, are unproductive, and at best, nothing more than rabble-rouserFor them we have cause to weep- never-do-wel- s. HAROLD E. BERGESON Cornish Newsboy's Thanks Many good tilings have been Said about our paperboys. Now, as a mother of one such boy, I would like to say thank you" to his many wonderful customers who understand that he has problems from time to time like dogs that bite, kids that throw rocks and rail names. These good people understand that if their paper is late that there just might be a good reason for it They are ready on first of the month .with their paper money so Se he doesnt have to make several trips back for it. My son has a good route and wants me to say thanks again for him, - -MRS. G. H. PARRY. ' 3106 W. 3725 South? Favor Romney It is truly unfortunate that some men try to make another man an offender because of a single word such as the word "brainwash used recently by Michigans Governor George Romney. It appears that some men, particularly the press, are just looking for cause to mock, jeer, sneer, or criticize some of our nations finest American citizens. Take the case of Governor Romney. Look at the outstanding record of tfcis man. He is an honorable man, one we of the state of Michigan have overwhelmingly supported. We trust him. His policies are sound and he is highly respected in state government. He is truly a statesman and not a slick politician. If someone wants to make a man an offender because of a single word they should possibly look within themselves beforehand. Do we always choose well our words and properly express them? No. Words have different meaning to different people. Why condemn a man because of the way .he uses a particular word. We of the state of Michigan have long benefited from Governor George Romney's leadership. We should now be letting others across our nation know how we. fed about him. We certalntly want men leading our federal government who will stand up for fair and honest principles and who will lead out with sound policies, aim towards a balanced budget, be honest and forthright,and not lead merely with words alone. --DR. AND MRS. ROBERT C. STONES Hancock, Mien. GUEST CARTOON J M , iffy m .. -- r Ik Smile's At 77 . . but not for moderates 6 . Pr 1 f Eifrii W swtotfmniwrt'rit -- "Here. I am, waiting to Vide and v . give the alarm!" v -- - ChrlitiM Sctonc 1 ' j Monitor V 1 |