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Show rtarWri'i,'9aiir iiiiwifiaft wg n 'A L"i DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH SATURDAY, OCTOBER NOTE; Gereral Clark, on of Ame-ifa- 's great mihtary is president emeritus of the Citadel th Military College of South Carolina. "I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not. there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. This observation of the French historian Alexis de made more than a century ago, is brought to mind by President McKays call Friday for more reigion in American lite. Toc-quevill- e, On the surface at least, religion would appear to be gainin the United States. According to the National Council of ing Churches 1967 Yearbook of American Churches, the proportion of the U.S. population affiliated with religious bodies rose from 50 per cent at the end of World War II to 64.3 per cent in 1965. All three major branches of religious faith in the nation had gained adherents. Together they counted a total of 124.7 million church members. Moreover, there seems to be a boom in books on religion. Publishers Weekly, trade journal of the book industry, says denominational publishing houses reported sales increases of as much as 30 per cent in 1966, while commercial publishers were finding a new bonanza in books of religious thought. On closer examination, however, it turns out that these increases do not necessarily refect an increasing religious spirit throughout America. On one level at least, one observer has written, the notable increase in religious identification, affiliation, and membership is a refection of the social necessity of belonging, which takes the form of belonging to a denominational group. Another observes that a large part of the boom in theological publications can be attributed to the sensational nature God is of attacks on religion attacks such as the so-call- Not long ago, CHARLESTON, S.C. unexpectedly, I had a telegram Rom a very happy young man. I remembered this boy well, because during my last year as president of the Citadel, the military college of South Carolina, he had been found guilty of infraction of the honor system, and we had to dismiss him. , The honor system, as it functions at the Citadel, does not bend. If you intentionally violate it, you have to leave. But I have never felt that one mustep should condemn a young man permanently. And so in almost all cases I did my best to there weren't help such youngsters to gain admission to another many college, or get another chance, where they could make a fresh start. This policy was almost always vindicated, and certainly it was in this case, because the lad had just been commissioned in the U.S. Army. Wish you could be here, the telegram said, to help me celebrate my return to honor. A return to honor . . . how often that phrase has come back to me during this election year as I have watched the candidates come and go on my television screen. And how often I have wished that instead of trying to please me with what they thought I wanted to hear, instead of promising me special favors as a member of a special group, one of them would simply say: Ladies and gentlemen, I have only one promisi to offer, and it is this: if elected, regardless of pressures from you or any other source, I will do my best always to do the honorable thing. That is my pledge to my country, to you, and to myself . . . and I will nut deviate from it. In my opinion, such a candidate could be elected to any office, from the dency on down, that he chose to seek, because the people of this country are hungry, they are starving, they are yearning for a man to stand up somewhere and with eloquence, pride and passion call them back to thp path of honor. Th's is the path that led our nation to great ss, and the vast majority of our citizens know it. But a nations honor like an individuals des not stay bright by itself. It has to be kept bright by sacrifice, by selflessness, by devotion to duty, through faith, and above all by frequent reminders of just what honor means, what it requires, what it demands. In these troubled times the greatness of our nation is being dimmed, not just by rioters and looters, by but by and influence-peddlerthe failure of many of our leaders to call forth the latent nobility in eur people. An old African proverb says: When the lion is silent, the jackals bark. We have been listening to the jackals long enough. flag-burne- movement. s, Moreover, judging by standards of human behavior, religion in America clearly seems to be on the decline, not increasing. As President McKay observed, ciime and juvenile delinquency are increasing much faster than the nations population. For more than half a century, as soldier and educator, I have been deeply concerned with this shining thing called honor. I have seen what happens to men and to men who dont. I who have it have tried to instill an awareness of it into young people and at times I have had as many as a million men under my command because I truly believe that far more than just a word is involved here. What is involved is the ultimate quality of the individual. And this means, inevitably, the ultimate quality of the Mail order pornography, the U.S. Post Office Department business. Business reports, has become a $500 million-a-yes- " and industrial thefts committed not by professional criminals but by ordinary employees total more than $1 billion a year. In 22 years the number of i'legitimate births has increased from 89,500 to 245,000. America, it i3 painfully clear, is no longer aflame with righteousness. America is. indeed, in great need of more real not just the form. Other nations and other religion tions have crumbled from internal rot, and so can we. civiliza- nation. In a way, it is easier to say what honor is not than what it is. The honor code at the Citadel consists of just nine words: A Cadet does not lie, or cheat, or steal. That covers a good deal of territory, its true. But there is also a positive side to honor. To me, its the capacity to control the instinctive selfishness that lurks in all of us, the tough, ability to put morality ahead of expediency, duty ahead of deviousness, and to do this instinctively and every No man and no nation, however wise and wealthy, ever outgrows religion and the need to keep close to God at all times. To Tell The Truth d Of all Czechoslovakian innovations which brought on the Russian invasion, the most important was that Czech newspapers dared to report truthfully what was happening in their time. Honor also means pride in excellence of every sort, especially excellence of performance. Let me give you an ex- ration. ample. After Pearl Harbor, at the beginning of World War II, many Americans of Japanese descent were rounded up and placed in detention camps. It was not an episode of which this nation can be proud; it was based on expediency, dictated by fear. But the younger Nisei did not waste time on bitterness or recrimination. They knew they were good Americans, and they were determined to prove it. They formed their own combat unit, came to Italy under my command, and fought the Germans so bravely and fiercely that they brought great honor to and to the country that themselves No despotic government can allow the lamp ol' truth to burn for long. No dictator who takes over a democratic country, as in Greece, can permit free speech and a free press because where tyranny is involved, the truth hurts. Prompting these observations Week Oct. is National Our Dirty Little World - Religion In America-Grow- th Or Regression? dead GUEST EDITORIALS I leaden, 5, 1968 t T By GENERAL MARK VV. CLARK (U.S. A., Retired) We Stand For The Constitution Of The United Stales As Having Been Divinely Inspired 12A EDITORIAL PAGE turn S 1 Newspaper 2. The Deseret News has some special reasons for celebratthis ing year. In addition to traditional Newspaper Week, the News is extending its Open House to Conference visitors who wish to tour its new facilities at 34 East 1st South Street. A newspaper is a pulsating, vibrant thing, and dedication to the search for truth is a hallmark, from its lowliest cub reporter to its top management. had doubted them. As if there weren't enough troubles for the nations to fuss about, Professor Abel Wolman of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore reminds readers of the current Foreign Affairs quarterly that air and water pollution are international and that adequate safeguards do not exist. The problems of dealing with international rivers and shared lakes are not new. Now the ocean and the atmosphere are at stake. Swedes have complained of industrial pollution airborne from Britain and Central Europe. Nuclear testing Mexican-Americaaffects all. The drawn-ou- t dispute over salinity of the Colorado River may someday be repeated for the great African river n systems. The 1954 International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Seas by Oil, as amended in 1962, was inadequate to govern the handling; of the Torrey Canyon tanker disaster off the British coast in 1967. Chemicals used to fight that mess did more ecological damage than the oil. Ours is a shrinking world and a progressively dirty one. Professor Wolman shows the need for standards, observation and controls through international cooperation. EVENING SUN, Baltimore, Md. Sweden Should Keep 'Em Devotion to honor can also be a lonely and difficult thing. Not long after the end of the war, I was given a difficult and demanding task. A family named Bergstrom, who lived in Utah, had lost four sons in battle, one in the Pacific, three in Europe. Now the bodies of ail four were being brought home to rest in the family cemetery in the little town of Garland, Utah. As a former commander of one of these young soldiers, I was asked to attend the funeral services, and I did. I met the parents, calm anti uncomplaining. I discovered that they had two sons remaining, one still in service, the other a lad in his teens who lived at home. Never in my life have I seen such courage as these parents displayed when coffins in we faced the four the little Mormon church. Only once did the mothers heart falter. After the service, she turned to me and said in a low General, will they take my voice, youngest, too? I hesitated, knowing that with two sons surviving the youngest would be elig'ble for the draft. But then the father spoke. Dont misunderstand us, general, he said. We v ant no special treatment for our boy. When his country needs him, he will go. I stood there with my throat too tight to speak, overwhelmed by the calm dignity of a man who put honor ahead of his own grief, his wife's sorrow, everything. Another example comes to mind. During the war I found that men who won and survived the Medal of Honor were so conscious of the distinction that when they reiurned to combat they showed even greater courage, took greater risks, and were far more likely to be killed than their comrades. This tendency was so pronounced that I instituted a policy of sending such men back to the states to train and inspire our untried troops. Usually they would protest bitterly, but I never let myself be swayed. One such youngster, I remember, was a sergeant named Waybur. I decorated him with our highest award for valor, sent him home from Italy, and heard no more about him. Then one day after the war his parents called on me. They told me that their son had managed to get himself assigned to an outfit going overseas, had landed in Normandy shortly after and had been killed fighting so heroically that he was recommended for a second medal of honor. They were sad but proud proud of a boy whose sense of honor would not let him accept safety and inaction while his comrades were still lighting. Does such pride, such spirit still exist in our armed services? Yes, it does. I commanded our forces in Korea, I have visited the battlefields of Vietnam, and the same devotion and heroism prevail. But this cannot be said of the They face expulsion if convicted. Explusion to where? No., we hope, back to the U.S. they deserted! Rather, we should repel any such repatriation, in fairness to the millions of Americans who don't desert their military posts. The Swedes had mple warning they were welcoming more jail fugitives than political zealots. All the Communist propaganda spewed out since hasnt changed the character of these der word employed by the serters. The U.S. Army Judge Advocate in Europe fits these four-lette- deserters: ken. The trouble with our time is that in too many areas honor has ceased to be taught; the word itself is seldom heard. I do not think the situation is hopeless. Far from it. I know from personal experience that there is in our young people still as there has always been a vast reservoir of idealism, a tremendous capacity for even for They want to be led by competent people. What we have to do is make these young people more aware of the tremendous asset that a commitment to honor can be in their lives. We have to make them see what it can do for them in their careers, their marriages, their ambitions, their short-terhappiness and their long-terpeace of mind. The blunt, pragmatic truth is that in the long run there is no substitute for honor. American business knows this well. Year after year I have watched representatives of some of the greatest corporations in America compete amongst themselves for the services of our Citadel graduates. Why? Because they know that they are men who have been trained until making the honorable choice is instinctive with them. And they know, too, that wherever the man of honor goes, other men will accept his leadership, trust his judgment, heed his words, and give him their esteem. Almost 209 years ago some of the bravest and wisest men that this continent ever produced signed their names to a document so dangerous that it might easily have become their death warrant. In the last line, they pledged to one another our lives, our fortunes, and oitr sacred e, Bums! Sweden should keep them! TRIBUNE, Tampa, Florida Sixteen Are Overlooked has discovered that Rep. H. R. Gross, of the 134 independent nations in the world, only 15 have not received foreign aid from America, e. honor. The men who signed the Declaration of Independence understood the meaning of that word in their day. We must recapture the meaning of it for ours. (c) 1968 North American Newspaper Allienct They are: Andorra, Barbados, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Liechtenstein, Maidive Islands, Mauritius, Monaco, Muscat and Oman, Nauru, Romania, San Marino, Southern Yemen, Switzerland and Vatican City. Now, something is either radically wrong in these countries or somebody at the Stmt Department is going to be in serious trouble for overlooking them. Rep. Gtoss may think he has done the nation a favor by publishing the list of unaided nations. Instead, he has let the cat out of the bag. TRIBUNE, A Way To Stop Tulsa, Okla. Hijackers Plane passengers are so used to having their baggage searched by customs officers that few of them are inconvenienced. If plane attempts continue, then they may have to get used to having their persons searched for concealed weapons. There have been enough tales of terror in the fanatics forcing pilots to skies, of fly to Cuba, to make most passengers willing to be searched, if only to prevent a similar frightening experience happening to them. How else can these nuts be prevented from endangering the lives of passengers and crews? Most of them are as respectable looking as the man in the seat next to yours. SPECTATOR, Hamilton, Canada Vital Lessons From The Wallace Phenomenon Theres a mechanical side, too, that is highly important. And Newspaper Week also recalls the fact that the Salt Lake Typographical Union, many of whose craftsmen are responsible for the production of the Deseret News, is celebrating its centennial, a notable land mark. The Wallace thing doesnt seem to be blovirg over. It is getting too much help from confused "liberals who are poling up a dry w ash under the imoresion they are With the observation of National Newspaper Week, we take pride in the teamwork involved in our profession and pledge continued vigilance in safeguarding the public interest by reporting the truth. still in the "main- stream." Normally, these efforts th peak about the fiist of September. After voters that, most ird-part- y Fall Is Fading Fast tend to swing back to the two major-partcanci 'dates. Bui the Wallace disaffection seems to keep growing, He won't win, of course. But wo could come up with a three-wasplit of electoral votes and the biggest mess since Hayes-Tildey From whatever direction Conference visitors came this week, the breath of autumn was lying sweet upon Utahs mountains. San Juan Countys Blue Mountains were a riot of crimson oaks and me pies blended with stately green pines. For those flying in frem the East, the Wasatch Mountains were resplendent wiLh colorful globes marching up to the mountain-top- y The trouble is that too many "liberals, without it, tending to in the least, keep pouring gasoline on the Wallace fire. s. Around Momt TmwroT Mp;ne Loon, the aspen leaves were gone al tV h'gher ervct'ons, but their shinimciing yellows were at thrr dazzling best down near valley level. The autumnal hymn of beauty is fading fast and winter snows are rot far off. But theres still time for a drive or stroll through our magnificent mountains and canyons in A tMcir colorful serenity. flag-drape- d home front. In reoent years this magnificent intangible, the sense of honor that our ancestors knew so well, has been weakened and diminished to a frightening extent. What has happened? How can this be? The questions can best be answered, I think, by asking ourselves where our ancestors got their sense of honor. And the answer to that is plain. They got it from their parents. They got it from their churches. They got it from their teachers. They got it from their political leaders. They got it from the very air they breathed. They got it, in other words, because they were taught the fundamentals of it. They were taught that it is unworthy to cheat, dishonest to steal. They were taught that a man who breaks his pledged word i3' beneath contempt. They were taugh that laws are to be obeyed, or changed, or amended but not bro- Socialistic Sweden loves to give asylum to from the U.S. military forces. The Swedes open the Utopian joys of their society to these men who call themselves moral while, incidentally, avoiding onerous refugees military duties suclt as repairing jet engines or shooting at Viet Cong. But even Utopia reaches the end of tolerance sometimes. Two of the U.S. deserters are in Gotesborg Jail, awaiting trial on charges that they assaulted and robbed three women and stole five motorcycles. Their rantings have not served to soften Swedish law. Deserting the U.S. Army is one thing, but grabbing a Swede's purse is something else entirely. L Attorney Genera! Ramsey Clark, who is supposed to oe the nations chief watchdog over the Idler of the law, keeps bleating that peace in the streets may have to await the achievement of a much higher degree of social justice. In the past, weve had peace in the sticets and a lot worse social Many of them drove to their offices from their suburban homes after dropping their children at the private schools, eoiiiideul that they knew what was good for the com- JENKIN LLOYD JONES justice. Not many Americans are going to be willing to put up with a jungle society until a social condition satisfactory to Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown is arrived at. The fact that John Lindsay, the nominal Republican mayor of New York City, has failed to back his sniped-a- t police force has sent a large block ot overwhelmingly Democratic votes straight into the Wallace camp. The drive to destroy the neighborhood schools by busing children back and forth in order to achieve a representative racial mix seems to be gaining strength in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in spite of the fact that this is no more popular in Brooklyn than in Mississippi. The poverty program is in shambles, with agencies piled on agencies. The practice of luting gang leaders with long criminal ret ords at good government sa,'tries on the theory that "they understand the ghetto lias charmed few citizen. Nor have the i c suits been happy. such as the Attempts at reverse-racisorder by die Federal Communications Commission that radio and pV sU lions mirt go out and recruit Negroes even though they may have qualified white youngsters waithave ing hopefully in their anterooms, created a predictable backlash. The recent practice of loading post office payrolls with hitherto unempioyables has done nothing for the morale of men who have spent their lives in the postal service. AH these things have added strength to George Wallace And this is sad. Because the former Alabama governor represents a reaction, even though his public pronouncements have been careful on this point. He represents a reaction that could carry us away from tlte original ideal of the civil rights battle, namely, that a man should be judged not on the color of his skin, but on what he can do or what he is willing to prepare himself to do. The ultra-liberal- who have been attempting to remake American society by the broad exercise of executive and judicial Xiwer, should have foreseen this inaction. If they had been interviewing cab drieis, waitresses, coutir.v stoTkeepais and machinists, they would have had Ino word long ago. But they cpparently intet viewed each other. mon people, and that the common people would respond gratefully. They have displayed the snobbish arrogance of a cultured coterie that can successfully claim tlte best intentions. The astonished and outiaged "liberal press has been describing George Wallace as a demagog. So ho is. But what makes lum an cf.cet ve demagog is that, in spite of his glib oversimplifications, there is some truth in what lie says. At Orlando, Fla., on Sept. 21, Wallace said: "Mr. Foitas and them say you can send obscene literature through the mail and see obceue movies, hut you belter not bow your head in a public school and say a little piayer. Alts, thats the way it is. George Wallace will tun IhirJ in the popular vote. But unless hapless Hubert gets organized in a hurry Wallace could run second in the eiecior.il vote. We are in danger of a ounsMteiionni crisis at a time when tempers at home are high and our enemies abi cad a1 (!) the prow 1. The "liUia!1 establishment made George Wallace through a gtoss misuse of power, it should have looked down that load. I t |