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Show litimiiiiiiiiiiiiiHimiiiimmimiiiiiimimiiiiiiiniiiHiiHtniiiiHiiimiiuiiiimmiiu DESERET NEWS LETTERS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH iiiiiiiuiniiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimmimHiimiimimimmimiimuiiiuiiiiiiiii We Stond For The Constitution Of The United Stctes As Having Been Divinely Inspired 16 A EDITORIAL PAGE MONDAY, JULY , Liberty Park seemed moip lovely than ever The grounds reflected meticulous care and orderliness. The flower beds were beautiful and without weeds. The trees and shrubs rivaled those m any park weve se'T. for beauty and varieiy. We dion t see a single beer can and practically no other litter. We tried to see how much paper litter we could find to pick up and our gathering was negli- Can a retired person live on $1,680 a year? Maybe, but net very easily or very well particularly when inflation is eating away the value of the dollar at the l ate of 6 per cent a year. gible. The swings and playground equipment were in good repair had generous amounts of beautiful sand to soften any childs fall. The gay way 'sparkled under the colored lights and melodious tunes issued from the Thats why Congressman Bill Chappell Jr. of Florida has introduced a bill to permit a senior citizen to earn up to $2,400 a year before losing any of his or her Social Security benefits. That's why 72 per cent of Americas small business operators polled by the National Federation of Independent Business, Inc. believe that retirees should be permitted unlimited earnings without sacrificing any Social Security benefits. "As matters now stand, anyone 72 years of age or more can draw full Social Security benefits no matter how much money he may earn by working. Of course, not many people tan embark on a lucrative new careei at that age. But until one reaches 72 he can earn only up to $1,680 a yea? before his Social Security benefits are affected. At that point, $1 in benefits is withheld for each $2 of earnings up to 82,880. Above $2,880, $1 in benefits is withheld for each $1 of eaftiings. Since benefits are tax free while earnings are taxable, someone who tries to get by on Social Security alone may have more spendable income than one who keeps on working. The result is to discourage retired people from working even though a study by the Human Development Research Program shows that retirees who work for pay have higher better relations with people, and complain less. Moreover, theres nothing unusual about the report from the National Federation of Independent Business that it knows of many members who are still operating their4 businesses at an,dyanced age because their Social Security benefits alone arq, insufficient. The experience is not Uncommon. Social Security Commissioner Robert Ball is right when self-estee- , It is wrong that people who do additional work or take a job' at a higher pay are disadvantaged. The Social Security law should be revised so that people would have an incentive to earn more and so that the more they earn the more income they will have. End This Hypocrisy Congress probably will have to go back to work after the elections this year, something it hasnt done since 1954. 4 ' TWhen it does so, Congress will be violating one of its owi laws a law it has broken every year except 1952 and 19fc6. ''Thats i merry-go-roun- Adding To The List Of Hoaxes In recent week. a number of readers have sent me copies of what are known as the Dusseldorf Rules for Revolu- w ith a t i o n, request that I meld these supposed Com munist pro- nouncements into a column full of pat riotism,the piz--, and old, Well, brrrumph. the rules are a hoax, a fraud, and a fake, but per-- , haps we gain instruction thereby. As the story goes, certain Communist Rules for Revolution were captured in Dusseldorf, May 1919, by the Allied Forces. The specific city and the specific month provided a nice note of verisimilitude. And what are these Communist ruies? The first is to corrupt the young; get them away from religion; get them interested in sex; make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness. The second is to get control of all means of publicity, and thus accomplish certain ends: Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance. Destroy the peoples faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to ridicule and obloquy. By contempt, encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general dis- zazz,- - i Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encouiage civil disorders, and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders . . . Finally, and this should have been the Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the population helpless. Back in January, Congressman Joe Skubitz of Kansas, acting in all sincerity, inserted the Dusseldorf Rules with a brief comment in the Congressional Record. He had obtained them from the Nalpa News, a publication of the Northwest Electric & Power Association. Tree months earlier, on October 30, Congressman John M. Slack of West Virginia had made the same insertion. Slack had recently been initiated into the Royal Order of Scotland, and its provincial grand master, Marvin E. Fowler, had referred to the Dusseldorf Rules in a banquet speech. Slack was so impressed that he put them in the Record. A few months before that, on Feb. 24, 1969, Congressman Louis C. Wyman of New Hampshire also had inserted the Rules in the Record. He got them from a letter to the editor of the Dover Daily Democrat. At about this same time, on March 3, the Dusseldorf Rules appeared as a reprint on the editorial page cf the Indianap content. tip-of- f, olis Star. They also appeared in The Fact Finder, published by We, the People, a national coalition of patriots to protect self government and save American freedom, headed by Harry T. of Phoenix. Reprints turned up in the house organs of the E. W. Blise Company of Canton, Ohio, and the Laminated Shim Company of Glenbrook, Conn.; in the Lexington, Ky., Leader, and as a paid advertisement in the Kentucky Kernel, student newspaper at the University of Kentucky. Most of these repripts and countless others apparently were from a Newsletter produced by Fulton Lewis, III, in a gullible moment in the spring of 1968. Lewis had obtained the Rules from an undated memorandum left by the late George A. Brautigam, Florida State Attorney. Brautigam, who died in 1957, had obtained them from a known member of the Communist Party, not otherwise identified. The only skeptic in the crowd was Congressman Frank Bow of Ohio, who received a eppy of the Rules in April, 1969. He smelled a fake, and asked J. Edgar Hoover about the paper. Hoovers conclusion: The document is spurious. Of course it is spurious as spurious as those famous Protocols of Zion. My guess is that the Communist Rules of Dusseldorf, found in May of 1919, were fabricated by some gifted elder of the Sopchoppy Gun and Fish Fry Cluh, or some such, in May of 1956. And such is the hardy1 anatomy of a hoax that they are likely to hang around forever. Ever-ingha- - . fc The 'Fascism ' Of The Left , r, u By SYDNEY J. HARRIS A minister in St. Paul has asked me to coment on what he calls the fascism of the left he sees rearing its ugly head today in our country. He feels that the pressures, coercions and bigotries of the left are becoming a mirror-imag- e of fascism on the right. There is no doubt in my mind that this is happening. It is almost inevitable. Ever since the bulk of what is known as the left embraced Marxism-Leninisa ago, the tendency has always been there. half-centu- The seeds of absolutism are deeply Marxist-Leninsoil. If Lenin had lived, I am convinced he would have pursued a policy little less diabolic than Stalin did; if Trotsky had won out, despite his cosmopolitanism, he would have been as ruthless and doctrinaire as the Georgia peasant who took power. planted in the Enforce Consumer Laws i Instead of campaigning for still more federal statutes to protect the consumer, perhaps consumer interests would be better served by adequate enforcement of the many already existing laws. v. The National Commission on Product Safety criticizes the government for failing to enforce many standards, including thbse concerned with fabric flammability and auto safety. Moreover, the commission notes, some regulatory agencies watchdog offices are woefully understaffed. Yet another consumer protection bill is working its way through Congress now, a bill to establish a new Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) to serve as a defender, or ombudsman, for the consumer. It would provide consumers with information about products, take over product testing, act on consumer complaints, and be answerable to Congress, not the president of , But making an agency responsible to Congress instead remore be would mean it the Piesident doesnt necessauly sponsive to the people. ' Moi cover, federal agencies aheady exist that could handle these services, given the funds and personnel. Money and employes proposed for the new CPA might be put to better-use, at less cost, working through established organizaand tions procedures. Paul Was First reports with some natural pride in the exploits ne lt3 ters, Yuri Dinokoy. It seems Yuri, on encouna thrown to the ground wrapped m a powerwas bear, tering ful embrace. He stuck his fist down the animals throat and held! it there until the creature choked to death. , The Reds are second again, for we had a man, Paul Bun-ya- n by name, who reached m and turned the bear inside out. It waif obviously neater and speedier. -- st The only hope for the New Left, in my opinion, is a total break with the formulations of the Old Left. While Marx critique of social injustices and inequities in the line has much to recommend it his of the Old Testament prophets programs and policies are not only economically irrelevant today, but his sorial and political therapies are more killing than curing. The young people I most admire today are those who have broken away fiom all obsolete ideologies, who see the human person and not the state or history as the fulcrum of society. They are existentialist in, the best and highest sense of the word: knowing that it profits man nothing to gain control of the state if he loses his own soul in the process. The radicalism of Marxism-Leninisis not really radical at all. It wants to transfer power, not to lessen or redistribute it; it imagines that a restructuring of society will somehow lead to a restructuring of personal relations' but using ugly and hateful means to achieve good ends can result only in a perversion of those ends. Without a deep infusion of the religious spirit (in its" most universal and least sectarian sense), leftism can be as perilous and pernicious as rightisni. Unless some absolute moral values take priority over tactics and expediency and the seizure of power, then revolution must into repression and inevitably degenerate m xeaction. , Everything must be placed at the service qf man; man must not be subordinated to some ideology that pushes him or the into the Gemian or the Russian , concentration-camAmerican ghetto. Wicked acts corrupt the most noble of intentions, and out of the crucible of hatp, no love can come. p Its hard for the ordiunderstand why a corporation such as the Penn Central Railroad could declare bankruptcy. But this isnt the first time its ART BUCHWALD WASHINGTON citizen to hap pened. The Larchmont, Saginaw and Tallahassee Railroad had a similar experience, and per-- ' Sysfjs the Penn Central situation if I stand explain what happened to the LS&T. As everyone knows, the Larchmont, Saginaw and Tallahassee Railroad was one of the most profitable in the country. It specialized in bringing coals to New Castle, Penn. In exchange for tins monopoly, the had agreed to haul commuters from the suburbs into the cities of Larchmont, Saginaw and Tallahassee. While this was not a lucrative business, it was the price LS&T had to pay for using government rights of way. Some time back, an executive of LS&T suggested that the railroad get into another business just in case the day might come when nobody wanted coals LS&T in New Castle. So LS&T took the profits from their railroad and, instead of investing in new equipment, bought a chocolate cake mix factory. This w'as followed by the purchase of a latex bra company, winch was Mowed by the takeover of a malpractice insurance company. Every dollar the LS&T made from its railroading was poiued into a new busi- - venture. Before long LS&T was making greeting cards, building skyscrapers, drilling for oil and making a bid to buy the Panama Canal. Meanw'hile, tne LS&Ts railroad was starting to suffer. Freight trains kept colliding with each other (the computers that used to keep them apart had been taken over by LS&Ts book and magazine division), and cutbacks were made in passenger service. When pressed by the passengers for better service, LS&T responded by raising oommunter rates and locking all the washrooms on their passenger trains. A citizens committee called on the LS&Ts offices which were now located in their 5,090-acr- e development known as ness dry up because so many customers were unhappy with LS&Ts service. Without cash LS&T was in serious trouble... So they hired President Nixons old law firm to get them a subsidy from the Defense Department. When the story broke, the Defense Department had to turn them down, and LS&T had no choice but to file for bankruptcy. The LS&T Railroad is now in the hands of the receivers, but thanks to wise investments in other fields the LS&T Holding Co. (which had spun off the railroad when it realized it couldnt be drained any more) is now worth $25 B. LYBBERT Sandy . Learn Deaf Language There was something else spoken of a recent Oral Deaf Association of Utah me mg that I w'ould like to mention. I am quite sure that the leaders of the said group have not been in Utah long enough to knoiv very much of our activities. It was mentioned that one young lady took pait in a road show in her ward. I do not begrudge her that pleasure. I would like to bring to the leaders attention that some years ago the Salt Lake Valley Branch for the Deaf put on a road show and they earned the right to represent Park Stake m the annual Drama Festival at the June MIA convention which was held m Kingsbury Hail at the U. This show was written by one of the members of the branch. They were also invited to perform it before the General Authorities of the Church at the Institute of Religion at the U. after the April conference and to many wards in Salt Lake City. A young couple from the branch took part with other members of Park Stake in one June MIA dance festival at the U. We, also, one year under the Utah Athletic Club of the Deaf, put on a three-ac- t play, The Black Derby, which was well received by all who saw it. hy Sign language is beautiful and expressive. doesr everyone try to learn it as other languaI ges? -G- H. WALKER Hawthorne Ave. EORGIA 721 Deaf Can Adjust 4 After reading various opinions on your editorial page over the use of sign language or oral methods to teach tile deaf, I would like to comment. Why must there be a dispute? Why must some people feel that oralism cannot be justifiably as good as the manual method of teaching the deaf9 It was stated by the author of a recent letter that 1 the bralists she meets show very little education. For that reason, I suggest visiting our Salt Lake - Extension Division classes to see just what education our deaf students are getting in the oral ' classroom situation. Has this author observed the the the enjoyment, accomplishments, and the language these deaf students are getting by being a part of a hearing class? Has she been able to see the normal family love and life these students have because they can go home at night and participate and communicate with their families'as hearing children do? Having taught deaf classes in three public schools in Salt Lake City, I have seen deaf children learn to cope and adjust to the situations any child is normally exposed to. Learning to get along in a hearing world is as big a part of education as acquiring other academic and vocational skills. Certainly deaf students can learn to relate to and interact with hearing children easier in a classroom contposed of hearing and deaf children than it would be in a situation where the deaf were completely segregated. -S- ANDRA THACKERAY 4698 Holly Lane Going into Cambodia widened and spread the war to all of Indochina against North Vietnam. Yet it is getting the U.S. out of the war. So what's wrong with that? When the U.S. is out of the war and Vietnam, the disadvantage will be to the Communists of North Vietnam, as South Vietnam, without our permission, .can then take real estate, which is called North Vietnam. Then Fulbright, Moss and the likes can go back to being hawks and send the troops back to prevent this. But the President might veto it this time. President Nixon played his aces just right and went from a jack to a king. Some senators played politics to the same tune and went from a hawk to a dove. -K- ENNETH L. ENGLISH Price billion. GUEST CARTOON Sky City. The vice president of LS&Ts Commuter Complaint Department (he was really working in the companys Training Department as an intern) said, We are sympathetic with you.' problems and would be happy to improve the service and install new equipment, but we need the money for a sulphur mining project weve just taken a lease on in Canada. VYou owe it to the commuters, someone protested. We owe more to our stockholders. But Ill tell you what Ill do. Ill recommend we put lights hark on the passenger trains during rush hour. It will be an expense, but it will show we have the The Victim Pays My wife and I went down to the airport to pick up some people out of state and as we were taking these people up to my wifes parents house, we had an accident. We were driving on Orchard Dr. in Bountiful heading North on 20th South by the Grand Central store, and these teenagers in a blue car, about a 67 or older, threw a water balloon and broke our windshield. public guud ill rabid. Unfortunately, the vice president was overruled by the finance committee, and the passerger trains remained dark. Meanwhile, the major cash flow from bifnging coals to New Castle started to -- REX Vietnam Tune How To Run A Railroad nary At no time did I see anyone in the park do anything or say anything that seemed improper. I thought to myself, this is certainly one of the outstanding attractions of this fair city and a great credit to those who care for it. When I have guests to impress, this is one place I intend as a wholesome place to visit with your family to show them. I heartily recommend Liberty Park m . by the end of July. t 'The idea behind the deadline was that it would make the lawmakers get down to business early in the session instead of dawdling, force them to concentrate on high priority legisand lation instead of getting distracted by contact in of time in the fall for keeping still provide plenty with constituents. , , qUThose are fine objectives and they still ought to be squght. But Congress seldom, if ever, will adjourn by the end ofJuly as long as it knows it doesnt have to in time of war or ..national emergency. ' Since Congress never has declared war in Vietnam and offty recently rescinded the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, the situation in Indochina is no excuse for not adjourning. More-oyewhile previous national emergency proclamations have never been rescinded, ,its only through oversight. For example, no one considers the situation in Korea a threat to U.S. security though the national emergency proclamation that President Truman signed when South Korea was invaded in 1950 is still technically in effect. y If Congress wont observe the deadline for adjourning, it should take this taw off the books and end the lawmakers hypocrisy. - JAMES J. KILPATRICK .r the law requiring Congss to adjourn each year Moscow Liberty Park Visit Recently we decided to visit Liberty Park as a family activity. It was with a bit of hesitation in view of the fact that there have been some unfavorable reports regarding our city parks in recent years. The experience, however, proved to be one of the highlights of the year for us. 6, 1970 Congress Should Kill This Disincentive Plan he'bbserves: TO THE EDITOR But it still rings true, son." Coply Newspiptrt These teenagers as well as their parents should be made aware that it is the innocent people that have to pay the first $50 deductable in an event of glass breakage. The thing that made us so upset is that this was the second windshield fjiat was broken In the week. The other windshield was broken by a flying rock from a white dumptruck, and we had to pay the first $50 on tnat, too. My thoughts are that these boys who threw this water balloon just wanted to have a little hit of fun by just having water splash over the window?, and I wouldnt have minded that, but our window did break. -S- TEPHEN J. LARSEM 488 J |