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Show iiyir up iHjj ntjl tjifl ftijtfflijriuf' ijj'Hjjinnigirugn iLj Against The Middle Mil DESERET NEWS The 'Don SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We Stand For the Constitution Ot The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 10 A EDITORIAL PAGE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Washington i ; The Civil Defense information could help avoid panic and needless loss of life in time of disaster if Utahns would only use it as it is intended to be used. The information includes maps showing nearest public shelters and routes to them, instructions on how to build temporary home shelters for those who do not have a public shelter available, and lists of needed supplies. Along with the information to be mailed out, beginning immediately in Salt Lake County, Civil Defense officers recommend that each family plan what to do in case of nuclear attack, including where members of the family should seek shelter if they happen to be at different locations. , Family preparedness for such an emergency makes sense. Wise families prepare for fire in the home, or other emergencies, with drills and special planning; in the interest of family safety, they should not neglect the possibility of nuclear disaster. t they t Knows think you should be taken away to the funny farm. , dont knows Applebaum said the could be broken down ethnically between unsure undecided, those who are and have no opinion. are those in The undecided income bracket-.--Theare mostly white, though a few are.,., Inca Indians. I see. The unsure are mostly composed of workers and Avqfi hard hats, ladies. While theyre working, this group seems to know exactly whom they are for. Its when they get laid off because of.'.-recession that they get confused, And the no opinion? . The people who express no opinion are those who dont want to be identified' or undecided with those who are tb;, the leading in the United States, could easily swing this country one way or the other. Do you mean to say the dont know vote is bigger than the Middle America blue-coll- elections-expe- rt a ." vote? Its even bigger than the Silent MaWe estireplied. jority mate that for every person in this country who knows for whom he is going to persons vot4, there are two and one-hrwho dont know. How do you explain such a large dont know, vote? . The dont know voters are made up of people who are sick and tired of being told whom they should vote for. Theyre the true Americans who are being pushed around by everybody. They pay their taxes, send their kids to school, watch television, salute the flag, and yet when it comes to elections they have no idea what the candidate is talking about. Wasnt there always a large dont I know segment in the population? asked. Nothing comparable to what we have at the present time. In the past no one wanted to admit he didnt know what w'as going on in the country. Now if you refuse to admit you dont know, people Applebauni if . unsure. In the past, the undecided and and those with no opinion at--- . their votes. But this year besplit ways of the low quality of the cam- cause lack of issues, all three and paigns groups might vote together, and this could have a tremendous effect on the a-' m - nation. . Why doesn't Agnew appeal to' th4 dont knows? .;, ,rvri his whole campaign has been aimed at the know nothings. Its ,y easy for someone like Agnew to get the two mixed up. :'y Why dont the dont knows put up their own candidate if theyre that Because ' strong? If they proposed their own candidate, they could no longer be identified undecided,.who were those with unsure and had no opinion. The best the dont knows can hope for is that the election will be called off in November because of inclement weather. - ' -- ' sntii!!iiiiiitiutuiiiiiiiiiimiiiii!ttiiii!iii:3iiiuiiit:iiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimim- Politics New Southern Style LETTERS TO THE EDITOR iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiflfi1 THE DRUMMONDS By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND LITTLE ROCK - Vivid evidence of changing Southern politics is emerging here in Arkansas. A nearly total transformation of political thinking is in the making. For the first time since President Eisenhower sent troops to desegregate the Little Rock Central High School, both the Democratic and Republican parties are d presenting Arkansas voters with candidates for governor. Both look to the future, not to the past. They are not wrangling over integration and are not trying to stimulate racial prejudice. ' Thats something. Thats a very great deal. That is the shape of political things to come elsewhere in the South. The consequence is that GOP Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller is in some trouble in his bid for a third term. He no longer has the easy target of an Orval Faubus or another in his image. The reasons for his trouble reveal the remarkable change in Arkansas which only two years ago gave its presidential vote to George Wallace. is Winthrop Rockefellers not in doubt today because he has failed but because he has succeeded. He has succeeded in winning such substantial and sustained approval from Arkansas voters for his kind of progressive, modern-mindegovernment that the Democratic Party finally decided it had no present and no future unless it did new-bree- If nuclear bombs were to fall on strategic areas in Utah within the next 15 minutes, what would you and your family do to protect yourselves ? Residents of the states 11 most populous counties will be able to answer that question shortly when they receive maps and shelter information from the Utah Office of Civil Defense and Emergency Preparedness. know for are whom they going to vote. T he do nt said know vote, Apple-bauHemrich dont Lesson Of Cambodia: A T riumph For Nixon Idea's A Lifesaver this confusing elc-.io- polls ters come out exceedingly well. - in n year, the only people who seem to know their own minds are these who ' the keep telling 21, 1970 Last spring, when President Nixon gave the order for the invasion of the Cambodian sanctuaries, he listed among his reasons tha it would speed the Vietnamization program and thp withdrawal of American troops. ' The fact that the Cambodia isrus is hardly mentioned any more helps confirm the realization of those objectives. But there is now added evidence of the role the sanctuaries were playing in the Vietnam war. Enemy documents captured during the operation and only now comoletely analyzed show that more than 21,000 tons of war supplies a year were being moved through the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville. The U.S. civilian estimate was a maximum of 8,000 tons, while the U.S. military estimate made in Saigon was 15,000 tons a year. The South Vietnamese - U.S. invasion immediately cut this source of supply. As a result, North Vietnamese units operating in South Viet am no longer could obtain the guns, ammunition and food needed to sustain their offensive operations. r Intelligence reports estimate that of five North Vietnamese regiments sent into the rich South Vietnamese delta provinces of IV Corps to bolster loca! Viet Cong forces, only remnants of two regiments remain. And they are no match for the South Vietnamese forces in the area. Not only has morale increased among South Vietnamese forces, but U.S. withdrawals have been accelerated as a result of the Cambodia operation. President Nixons latest order to return 40,000 more American GIs by Christmas will put U.S. strength down to 344,000 troops by that date. ' Presidential decisions in such cases are made on the basis of the best intelligence reports available information which is not generally available to the public for obvious security reasons. Hence foreign policy should not be set according to a consensus of campus opinion, for example, but must be made at the highest levels where every scrap of information bearing on the problem can be analyzed. Presidents, of course, have erred before, even given such inside information. But on Cambodia President Nixon has DU SI 117 A LD G. Drummond R. Drummond ocratic governor pretty much like Winthrop Rockefeller has been for the past four years. , It remains to be seen whether Bump-er- s can make it against Rockefeller as he did against Faubus. It will be harder. He was riding the tide of widespread revulsion against what the Democratic Party had been offering Arkansas for nearly two decades. Against Rockefeller he must counter the impressive appeal of an incumbent governor who has been giving the state the kind of modern Republicanism the voters have twice shown they want. Bumpers is a calm, rational, deeply eare nest politician who thus far is to challenge Rockemore little offering feller than to say Me, too. from different is He radically anything the Democratic Party has offered for a long time. But he is not radically different from Rockefeller, except that he hasnt the experience in public life or the record of achieving any of the reforms he new-styl- candiyears of Faubus and Faubus-typ- e dates, Democratic voters in this state demanded a complete break with the past and got it. in They forced Faubus into a run-of- f the Democratic primary, then turned decisively against him and everything he stood for by giving the nomination to a small-towlawyer whose only elective offices had been on the local board and city attorney of school Charleston, Ark. (population 1,353). Ever heard of Dale Bumpers? The fact is that few Arkansans ever had. He was one of the six candidates to challenge Faubus, and one of the higher estimates was that he might get 1 per cent of the vote. He ran second to Faubus, who got the reonly 36 per cent, but in the run-of- f volt of Arkansas Democrats produced likewise. nearly 60 per cent of the vote for BumpIt did likewise by tire uprising of ers. He was, in effect, telling the DemoArkansas Democratic voters. After 16 cratic voters that they could have a Dem- - asjvo-cate- s. n d Where he has a record, it has been good. He played a part in encouraging the desegregation of the first Southern school district (his home town) after the Supreme Court decision in 1954 and three years before Faubus put racial prejudice ahead of the Constitution in 1957. Rockefeller has never faced the kind of challenge he faces today. In the past he was always running against a Democrat of the past. Today hes running against a Democrat of the present, and this is the kind of political revolution which is a boon to the South and a boon to the nation. Stop 'Pink' Education The United States of America is still the number one country of all, and, believe it or not,it , can stay number one. v.-Oh, yes, it has never fallen so close to moral -and righteous surrender. Such a moral decline' t"1 has never been known before in America. Slowly corruption and degrading influences" are entering our everyday life. Politicians, judges, educators, and many other elected officials are falling to those who would like to see our country fall to the hands of communism. Through school educators, many of our youth from early school years to college are being taught the hate tactics and violent ways of those who would bring our country into submission. Yes, we could lose our wonderful republic. Our educational establishments can work to change our youth. The doctrines of Freud, Marx, Darwin and others are being taught in our schools. - Know your educators and review those things with your children that they are being taught. Then weed out those who preach and teach anti-Go- d beliefs. Election day is just around the corner; know your politicians and school board can- didates. Retire all those officials who pamper. subversives and subversion. --LES E. JOHNSON 165 . sri m Publicize POW Plight : K - I am writing with deep concern about the deS-- 1 perate plight of the American prisoners of war'm North Vietnam. Will you print repeated editorials condemning the North Vietnam gevemment for failure to grant the prisoners the protection of the Geneva Convert-- :, tion? M.- Cardenas And History c. The death of former Mexican president General Lazaro Cardenas this week will be greeted with mixed reactions around the world. Not only was he vain and pompous, but an a,rdent Castro supporter, sympathizer to most leftist causes, the man who supervised the expropriation of American-owne- d qil companies in Mexico during the depression years, and even entertained notions of taking over the Mexican government by force after his constitutional term as president had ended. Yet with all that, Cardenas gave Mexico, an important . boost toward its present industrial and economic growth which has raised the Mexican standard of living to its highest level in history. He, more than any other single leader, made Mexico a modern nation. Cardenas major contributions during his years in the presidency from 1934 to 1940 were in land reform and in construction of schools. His support of cooperation during World War II enhanced Mexicos position inter-America- n internationally. " ' Democracy never functions well where there is a tiny minority owning practically all of a countrys land and economic Resources and a vast majority which owns almost nothing. Development of a strong middle class is almost axiomatic to progressive government. It was this problem which Cardenas tackled. Whether his end results justified his methods can be judged only in the ebb and flow of history. Afterthoughts the harder it is for him to answer a The more a man knows, simple question; for the greatest complexity often resides in the most obvious subject that everyone thinks he can explain to a child. One can always tell a truly famous person by the fact that at least 80,000 persons went to school with him in the small town where he grew up. It is still true, as Daniel Webster said, that there is always room at the top; what he could not anticipate was that there would be such frightful congestion at the bottom. The telescopc quality of time is possibly the most frightening aspect of growing older; from childhood to 25, we say, How long it took to get here!, but 25 to 50, we say, for time is relative not How fast it took to get here! to age as well. but as Einstein showed,, only to space,, The public needs to become more aware of this tragic moment in the history of the U.S. Those meiv need help, and theres no one to give it, apparently, until the American people take a stand. -P- ATSY E. HOLDEtf Vernon COL. R. D. HEINL, JR. Carry Argument Only So Far Russ Use 'Non-Base- s By SIDNEY J. HARRIS There is something in the nature of people, in the nature of conversation, and in the nature of opinion, that makes each of us carry an argument further than he ought to. It is apparently hard for us to be selective or discriminating, to take a controversial subject and analyze its components, picking what we agree with, and rejecting what we dont. I was listening to two men discussing the youth problem the other day. One was attacking youth, and the other defending it. As the argument proceeded, each adversary dug deeper into his own position and refused to give an inch. Evidently we feel that if we make concessions to the opposition, we have weakened our own position; but I think the exact opposite is true. As Lord Acton wisely suggested, we should accede in everything we possibly can, and this really strengthens our case for the part we retain. The attitudes and actions of modern youth are a wonder! !l illustration of this for or tc be blindly necessity against what they are saying or doing Is stupid and unperceptive, for their motives are as mixed as their conduct. I like their humanism and their sense that the person must take precedence over the impersonal mechanisms in socibut I dislike their arrogant ety assumption that institutions and mechanisms are always wrong. I sympathize with their resentment against educational systems that fail to educate, and must be basically reformed hut I resent their assumption that they should decide what and how they should be taught. Such a list could be extended by a dozen items, and each of us has an obligation to seek what is good and useful and decent and necessary in the youth movement, and to reject tlv other If the Russians are WASHINGTON lying to us about not building a submarine base in Cuba, it wont be the first time. While Russian technicians were in the act of installing nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962, the USSR solemnly assured us it just wasnt so. As Russian missile battalions were sneaking and cheating S..M 2 and SAM 3 sites forward in the Suez, the Russian ambassador in Washington was any such misbehavior. In the case of the Cienfuegos Base or however, the issue is not the Russian veracity but, call it of elasticity a base or not, what use the Soviet navy intends to get out of Cienfuegos. While blasting at U.S. overseas bases Russia has withas out fanfare developed a network of what in at least might be called 10 overseas placed strategically countries, not counting Cuba. The USSR nevertheless obtains just as much military value in strategic locations from the use of facilities provided as if the hammer-and-sickl- e were flying over them. flatly-denyin- non-base- non-bas- Egypt: Naval base facilities at Alexandria and Port Said; military airdrome at Cairo West for the Russian composite air group long stationed in Egypt, plus availability of all Egyptian fields for the USSR MIG squadrons.. Syria: Naval base facilities at Lata-ki- a in the northeast elbow of the Mediterranean. Algeria: Naval base services at the former French base that commands the Straits of Gilbraltar. Mers-El-Kebi- r, Somalia: Naval base facilities at modern port Bargera, the Russian-buil- t on the horn of Africa across the entrance to the Red Sea from Aden (where the Russians are also using the former Brit- ish naval base). base Mauritius: Russian fishery at Port Louis, frequently visited by units of the Soviet fndiar Ocean fleet. Andaman Island: Repeated reports of Russian submarine facilities at Port Blair (denied by the Indian government, which nonetheless refuses access to the Andaman Islands by foreign visitors). Pakistan: Reports of Russian construction of submarine base facilities at Gwadar, West Pakistan, flanking the entrance to the Persian Gulf. naval India: Large, Russian-buil- t base at Visakhapatnam (east coast of India between Calcutta and Madras), and reports that India has offeree1 base facilities to the Russian navy at Bombay, Goa and CocK as well. To the foregu .ig, until 1961, could have been added the Russian submarine base at Vlone in Albania, on the Adriatic. But Vlone is no longer a Soviet base. Instead, it has been made available to the Chinese. In every single one of the above locations, Moscow can, technically speaking, deny she has a base. But no one need doubt that Russias powerful new navy can get all the services it needs, any time it needs them, at just those places. That is why Russias Cienfuegos denial. even if not mendacious, is meaningless. Any port frequented by Soviet naval cond vessels, with struction visibly afoot ashore, can be counted as a base, even if the PX and bowling alleys, the chaplains office and the married quarters, and the officers club and golf course, dont yet show up in the U-- 2 photographs. blue-wat- Russian-supervise- Libya : Secret negotiations underway with tiie Libyan revolutionary government for naval base services and fleet air base for the Russian Mediterranean fleet. Yemen: Base facilities at Hodeida on the Red Sea. .i . Vets Liked S.L. We have just returned from the World WarnI Convention ai Salt Lake City and I want to express my thanks to the many kind, courteous, neighborly people who did many helpful things to make our y..: stay more pleasant. The memorial service in the Tabernacle was an always to be remembered event. The banquet' in the Salt Palace was well run and excellently organized. Some of the meeting rooms were a little too small for the number of people that attended, but we had more people at this convention than at any one that I can remember. The courtesy and neighborly kindness extended to us was a truly Yir experience. example, my wife and I were walking back from the Oregon dinner and she became ill. I tried 'to call a taxi but couldnt get one. I asked a young man if he would furnish us with transportation the Hotel Utah if I paid him, and he said certainly. He took us to the hotel and was almost insulted when I offered to pay him, he said it was his pleas" ' ure to help us. heart-warmin- g ' i There was an honest error in our hotel bill when I called attention to it the management was so concerned and apologetic about it that I was almost sorry that I had mentioned it. ) The waitresses, housekeeping employees, and bellmen were very helpful. The nice lady who took such good care of our room shook hands with ust thanked us for being her guests and wished us a safe trip home. Our inconveniences were far outnumbered hf the many nice things that happened to us and the many courtesies extended to us in such genuine n and happy friendship. Any deficiencies were more than compensated for by the fine people that we met during our stay and I know I speak for a great many buddies ana sisters when I say we truly appreciate the fine friends and neighbors we came in contact with in Salt Lake. --DON REED National Chief of Staff Veterans of World Wat1 1 of the U.S.A., Inc. Alexandria, V. |