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Show iiimmiimnTiniiiiMmiiimmi'iiiiitiiinmniiiimniiiminiuirmTnmrrTTnimiiiiin If You Say Onward And Upwaird, Men, Onward And Upward It Is' DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE We Stand For The LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CITY, UTAH Welfare Morale Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired TUESDAY, MARCH 12 A EDITORIAL PAGE After reading the Feb. 26 article entitled Offwe as emplo. s icials disagree on Merit System, of tne State Welfare Department were appalled at 12, 1963 the misinformed or misdirected statement made in li e by Mr. Howell that the morale is up Welfare Division," and that the four per cent had actually helped rnwe morale among social wotkers. ... tui-bac- k How U.S. Can Start A Peace Offensive al What with congressional criticism of the Tonkin Gulf episode and increasing sentiment for withdrawing from Vietnam, the U.S. badly needs to resume the diplomatic offensive. One way to do this would be to demand that the United Nations take on the task of bringing peace to Vietnam, as suggested Monday by Senator Wayne Morse during Secretary of State Dean Rusks appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Granted that such a demand would be vetoed by Russia in the U.N. Security Council. But since the Korean War, it ha3 been possible to take such matters to the General Assembly under the Uniting For Peace Resolution. Of course, the General Assembly should have taken up the Vietnam war on its own initaitive long ago, since the overriding purpose of the U.N. is to deal with threats to world peace. Thats all the more reason for prodding the U.N. into doing its duty. To do otherwise is to encourage the U.N. to atrophy as a means of heading off World War HL Moreover, since the U.N. is an unequalled forum for influencing world should use it to get our case on Vietnam opinion, Washington ' before the world. Another way for the U.S. to take the offensive diplomatically is to suspend the bombing of North Vietnam as a means of getting peace negotiations underway. In saying this, we fully realize that many of the reasons against a bombing pause still prevail. Namely, there is no assurance that the Communists wouldnt use such a breathing spell to rebuild their forces, or that peace talks would actually result. the U.S. But one important circumstance has changed has lost the initiative, and the administration is on the defensive politically as seldom before. Since even many of Americas friends and allies oppose the bombing of North Vietnam, a pause should help improve our standing in world opinion and just might provide an opa war that keeps growing ominously portunity to bigger. Moreover, if we initiated a bombing pause for a period clearly specified in advance and Hanoi still failed to respond the war or entering into meaningful negotiaby resume the air attacks. But this time our good tions, we could faith would have been more clearly established, and public opinion Bhould be more firmly behind us. In short, we are calling for a policy of firmness tempered We believe the U.S. is strong enough that an act flexibility. by of good will should not be mistaken for weakness. Lets go the extra mile and initiate a pause in the bombing of North Suppose Indonesia Had Gone Red? n. als outraged Indonesians. That was how close it came on the 1, 1965, when the night of Sept. Communists thought the time was ripe to seize the government. The best way to realize what a transcendent contribution Indonesia made to itself and to the free world and how it has reshaped the fate and future of much cf Asia is to look at what it would have meant if the Communists had not t. g bungled. It would have meant this: The army would have been leaderless and the Communist coup would have succeeded. Even before tine attempted coup, Sukarno had banned every newspaper. After the coup The Supreme Court has become so absorbed in protecting the rights of the accused under the Sixth Amendment that perhaps it has lost sight of the Tenth Amendment, which says: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Since the right of the people to be secure in their peris important against sons, houses, papers, and effects unreasonable searches and seizures, surely the same should and apply for their safety from confessed murderers, rapists, have their because free scot who criminals rights other go been violated. porThe Supreme Court should look at the tion of society for a change and try to safeguard some of its rights that are being infringed. In a smashing lead article on The Urban Crisis in its January issue, Fortune Magazine asked a pointed and pertinent question that most citizens never bother to think about. Why, inquired the article, expect effective riot control from the same apparatus that for 50 years has failed to break up organized crime, failed to contain the narcotics traffic, failed to protect citizens on the street, failed even in traffic control and highway safety? Once asked, it seems an obvious question, and the answer seems equally obvious: We cannot expect effective riot control from the same apparatus that has failed in so many other areas. In our concern with rising crime and violence and unrest at all levels of American life, we rarely consider the role of the police force. We take the police for but does not the increase in granted By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK Independence? Theres something symbolic about the fact that Mauritius, an island lying 500 miles east of Madagascar off the East African coast, becomes independent of Britain Tuesday at the height of its tropical cyclone season. Only 39 miles long and 29 miles wide, Mauritius appears to be too small, too economically dependent, and too isolated to remain a viable country for long. Without the unif ying influence of its drive for independp economy (sugar), overpopulation, ence, Mauritius rate (15 percent of the labor force), and high unemployment bitter ethnic rivalries seem likely to produce serious instability. Twice in the past three years Britain has been forced to send troops to Mauritius to quell rioting between Muslims and one-cro- Creoles. Moreover, Mauritius strategic position in the Indian Ocean virtually guarantees that it will become a focal point in the rivalry between East and West. Remote as it is, Mauritius seems about to learn that indefor whatever ails a country, pendence is no automatic cure-arnd that infant nations should learn to crawl before they try to walk. ll v Afterthoughts. .. Knowledge is power only when it is based on otherwise it becomes either ineffectual destructive 1' e; or I self- WASHINGTON the other day to Saigon, President his finger on the faces which may the In a candid remark a high U.S. official in Nguyen Van Thieu put agonizing decisions he determine the fate of war. He knew, he said, that he must start moving his maneuver battalions out from the towns and cities to resume offensive action against he Communists, but did he dare move them into the countryside and risk another enemy assault on urban centers? which is the U.S. Thieu's dilemma dilemma stems from what happened ofin the first wave of the winter-sprinfensive starting in late January. Since then huge areas in the southern delta and north of Saigon have been simply ceded to the Viet Cong. Reports reaching here indicate that within three months the Viet Cong could recruit from this newly gained territory most of the 40,000 men they lost in that initial phase of the new offensive. in fact, neither the U.S. nor Thieus own government knows fully what is going on in these vacated disrricts. But rethere have I icon two ports of the enemy's moving into villages, scooping up every available male, and marching them off in forced recruitment to jungle training camps. The reason for the enemy's ability to move with impunity is that President Thieu's battalions have shown an unwar-lik- e reluctance to leave relatively sale bases in town, where they live with their g L - was at the point of being submerged by Communism. Today it is radiantly free of Communism. It was about to become an open ally of Peking. Today Pekings influence is every vestige of every voice in the army, in the government, in the universities would have been silenced. And what next? The army would have become a pliant tool in the hands of the Communist party and, if Sukarno had not by then gone all the way to the Communist side where he was clearly headed he could no longer have used the army to hold the balance of internal would have power. The Communists ruled totally and Sukarno would have been a figurehead. The next steps would have been easy. Sukarno was already waging a war of liberation against Malaysia and abetting the Malaysian Communists. How natural for the Communists to produce volunteers to join the Communist insurgents in Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, and elsewhere in Southeast pro-Peki- Asia. If the Jakarta coup had come off, the new Communist regime would have had an Indonesian army cf 400,000 to 500,000 trained soldiers equipped with Chinese and Soviet arms. There is no doubt, I think, that a pooling of resources for Communist by all the Asian Communist nations China, North Korea, North would have Vietnam, and Indonesia followed If the coup had succeeded. This would have put all of Southeast Asia in a Communist nutcracker. It didnt happen. What happened is crime Indicate a decrease in effectiveness, just as a significant increase in sickness would indicate a decline in medical care and And, as the article goes cm to say, can any urban program effectively reduce Negro hostility to police while the police are preoccupied with arming for urban warfare? As I have written before with monotonous regularity, the police in American society must be brought up to a strictly professional level. The force must consist of more intelligent and educated men, given far better training both in the law and in enforcement, and must be absolutely divorced from all political and social pressures. Negroes know, and have always known, that the cops represent the Establishment They know there are two laws in any city, North as well as SOCIAL WORKERS fVnmrte W i tLLvM ynuiiiuo ii luim u Indonesia nil. Indonesia was completely under the thumb of Sukarno, who was pushing his nation into economic ruin. Today Sukarno lives in virtual isolation, living on a dole and allowing his picture to be taken by tourists. Evil men held power In Sukarno's retinue. Men of worth and dedication surround General Suharto. Under Sukarno, Indonesia was fighting a guerrilla war to crush Malaysia. Under Suharto, Indonesia has made peace with Malaysia, has rejoined the United Nations, and is taking a lead to promote stronger regional ties. Its eyes and hopes are on the West. This is what Indonesia has done for itself and for the whole free world. There could hardly be a greater setback for Communism in all Asia. There could hardly be a greater boon to the free world if the U.S. and other nations help Indonesia as she deserves to be helped. The outlook would be bleak indeed if the 112 million Indonesians were joined with the 700 million Red Chinese in a common compact to seal all Asia under Communist rme. But the outlook isn't bleak. It is promif the U.S. holds to its course in ising Vietnam whatever the temporary Russian Arms I have noticed the rising number cf pictures of handsome young men in the Deseret News with the explanation of how they have died in the Vietnam war. I wonder how many of your readers know it was Soviet i ykets that smashed the American Embassy in Saigon during recent Viet Cong attacks. Are they aware it is Russian tanks and Russian heavy 155mm howitzers and missiles that are smashing American perimeters in Vietnam? Do they know that Soviet ground crews have fired over 5,000 SAM missiles at U.S. planes and pilots in North Vietnam where SOI planes have been shot down? ground-to-groun- d And, of course, It was Communist Russian motor torpedo boats the North Koreans used to capture the USS Pueblo with its sophisticated electronic devices which the Russians did not have, and its crew of 83 who were submitted to mental torture. These bitter facts have been deliberately played down by an element of our news media and by the official censorship. Four-fifth- s of the 16,880 Americans killed in Vietnam and four-fiftof the 105,118 wounded have been hit by Russian bullets or explosives. But even more shocking is the fact that, on executive order, over 400 items of strategic U.S. products, machines and instruments have been cleared for shipment to the Soviet Communist bloc; many of these have arrived at the war front in Vietnam in every form of death dealing weapon. IRVIN C. McCLAY Logan Press Defense The American Bar Associations attempt to restrain the press makes a bad matter worse. Already American jurisprudence is oriented far more to protecting the rights of criminals than to its true purpose and function of protecting the l innocent. South. They know that the poor, the ignorant, the unconnected and unrepresented are considered fair game by the police for insults, injuries, kickbacks and gross violations of all due processes of law. As long as they know this and as the cops will long as it remains true be considered their natural enemies, law and order" will remain a meaningless phrase to them, and their increasing bitterness and rage will escalate small-scal- e riots into urban insurrection. This will call for more force by the Establishment, and the utter breakdown of civil government in all large urban areas. A sound, sensible, impartial and politically untainted police force is the No. 1 necessity in American cities today. To this end, every city budget should be cut and reshaped so that policemen can earn twice as much as the pittance they get today, and so that the profession will attract the keenest men, not the misfits and the maulers. r Thieu Dilemma: Viet Countryside law-abidi- Is --3 WELFARE totally By SYDNEY J. HARRIS self-confess- ed This ROSCOE DRUMMOND Can Police Control Riots Effectively ? law-abidi- ng We regret that Mr. Howell, who should know the facts, is so fallacious in his remarks. i JAKARTA Suppose Indonesia had gone the other way? Suppose, instead of turning back at the brink of Com- munist takeover, it had joined Peking and Hanoi to sene Communist wars of liberation in ail Asia? It could have It alhappened. most did. It very likely would have if the happened leadCommunist ers of the aborted coup had not made three mistakes. They bungled the shooting of the armys senior general, Nasu-tioThey failed to include in the first assassination list the name of General Suharto, who later crushed the coup. And the brutal mutilation of the six top gener- Victims Have Rights Its high time the U.S. Supreme Court began paying at least as much attention to the rights of the average crimicitizen as it does to the rights of nals. In the District of Columbia the other day a judge turned killer merely because the suspect was loose a not arraigned until four hours after he had confessed. The Suno matter how preme Court has ruled that a confession was not arif valid the not is suspect voluntarily given in this So district the arrest. after judge raigned immediately case had no alternative but to release the man. The fact is that we in the Welfare Division feel not only that our salaries are sorely under that of other social workers in other state agencies, but also that we have lost most of our professional social workers because of the serious morale problem that presently exists. To further compound the problem, we are not in a competitive position to recruit professional social workers to replace those who have quit for higher paying jobs. The main group of social workers we are able to retain are recent social work graduates who have commitments to remain with the division to repay their obligation for stipend scholarships. Granted, we do retain a small handful of dedicated and loyal social workers in the division, but only because of their commitment to social work and the contribution they feel can and must be made where professional services are so badly needed. If the press is barred from pre-trihearings and denied information on evidence? of guilt, what assurance is there that the full truth will ever be brought out? The censor of the Middle Ages and his modern who classifies public information, follow the same rule hide more and show less. Between abuse of secrecy and abuse of information, this free people has always wisely chosen the latter. Freedom would not long survive the other. There is no denying that the press occasionally errs on the side cf sensationalism, but for every such incident the-- e are a dozen miscarriages of justice due to strained legalisms and pettifoggery of lawyers, with the consequent erosion of the rights of the innocent. A better task for the ABA would be to try to get American justice off its fixation on permissiveness and back on the track, or to tear into the jungle of pettifoggery that riddles their own profession. OMER East -G- CASEMAN Mill Creek Riot Request President Johnson called on Congress to pump American cities ard save them from violence and despair. However, where was President Johnson the last few years of rioting m some of our major cities? The American public must be either the most forgiving group hi the world, or the most gullible. The President talks about free spending to help the needy and less fortunate. The President puts on a big front for pov- rtv bill projects. Th President does not care for the weltare of the people. --NICK PETRIE $6.3 billion into INSIDE REPORT countryside and carry out the Saigon pledge to protect villagers who resist the Viet Cong, these villagers will be lost forever to the Saigon government. families, for unknown dangers of the countryside. Only in the past week have some army units been oiJeied out of their bases and sent on offensive operations against the Viet Cong, even though the Communists wore severely weakened In the February fighting and should be ripe for attack. The statistics, based on reports from the field, are revealing.. Of some 51 South Vietnamese battalions assigned to pacification work in the countryside that is, to provide security for the pacification teams to do their work in the at least 20 rushed back to hamlets protect the towns when the enemy struck in late January. In the delta alone, long the strongest Viet Cong enclave, an estimated eight to 10 battalions out of 15 assigned to pacification moved back to district and provincial capitals. Most are still there. But beyond that, many of the South Vietnamese armys 70 maneuver battalions, whose basic task is not pacification but to locate and fight the enemy, also are still holed up in the towns. What has happened, in short, is that the South Vietnamese army is overreacting to the enemy's attack on the cities and is unwilling to move out for fear that a second wave against district and provincial capitals is imminent. This fear may be quite plausible, but U.S. experts are warning Thieu that, if pat of his army does not return to the Moreover, the love of these South Vietnamese army units for the safe dug-ouof their urban headquarters is producing another grave problem. Instead of moving into the surrounding countryside, locating and destroying Communist mortars firing on the towns, they have been responding with heavy artillery fire. This means that the Communist mortar positions, often forcibly placed in the middle of hamlets whose loyalty has been to Saigon, attract brutally heavy fire, killing scores of inhabitants. The result: whole hamlets and villages are turned against Saigon. The effect of all this is now becoming clear in a subtle switch in Hanois propaganda line, which first claimed the Communists had triggered a general uprising in the cities. Now that boast, so obviously false, is heard much less. Instead, Hanoi is now claiming great gains in the countryside almost as an afterthought following the failure of the offensives real objective. To prevent the Communists from consolidating gains in the countryside where pacification was just beginning to eke out real gains, Thieu must resolve his dilemma by resuming major operations outside the towns, and hang the risk. Otherwise, no matter what happens in the dangerous military situation in the north, both Thieu and President Johnson will find that all their gains of the past three years have been wiped out. ts 4840 Atwood Blvd. (Murray) GUEST CARTOON Atomic Shelter t. |