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Show Thanksgiving, Vietnam Style DESERET NEWS mitimmmmmimiimifmnwnfmBBimmiwwwnniHiinfiiinniiiiKim'-iKii- i LETTERS TO THE EDITgR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH iiii)iiit!iiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiitiiiiiiiMmHmiitiiiiiii!iiii)iimiiiiiiiiHi!imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iH We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States Can't Miss Pollution As Having Been Divinely Inspired L 10 A EDITORIAL PAGE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER pollution. effec-itvel- y Working as individuals, this nation can combat the pollution stigma. However, your suggestions along with those of the Humble Oil Co. theorize beautifully in black and white but, in reality, would suffer the inevitable breakdown simply because, in dealing with millions of individuals, you are dealir with as many concerning anti-polluti- To Release POWs? Last week's U.S. commando raid on a North Vietnamese r camp has prompted a spirited American debate about whether it actually may have increased the danger to prisoners lives. If the raia had been successful, if many of the American POWs had been found and snatched to safety, criticism of the venture would be muffled indeed. The fact that it failed has brought loud condemnation from U.S. doves who see it as a useless foray that only endangers POW lives, damages the peace talks, and accomplishes nothing. That is the price of failure. Military commanders seldom . can guarantee success, and in an operation as tricky and fall of pitfalls as the prison camp raid, the fact it was carried off without losing any U.S- - servicemen was a tribute to planning and execution. y Opponents question, of course, whether the raid was worth the increased danger to the prisoners and worth the risk of an expanded war in Vietnam. For example, Senator Edward Kennedy declared the Communists wouldnt have hesitated at shooting them (the POWs) , and the best way to help the prisoners is by getting out of Vietnam lock, stock and barrel. The raid also raises the question of how far the U.S. should go in attempting to free its POWs. If an airborne strike is approved, how about an armored task force strike? Where do you draw the line at what might be termed by the Reds as an armed invasion? So far, the military has failed to answer many more questions about the operation than it has disclosed. Could it have airlifted out all the prisoners it hoped to find there? Were there other POW camps known to them? What is the probable reaction of the North Vietnamese to the POWs now? Certainly diplomacy thus far has failed almost completely releasing the prisoners. In fact, the lack of action has looked at times like outright abandonment to many people not the least of these the prisoners families here at home. Should we condemn efforts to rescue them from an implacable enemy which has stripped them of all I OW rights recognized under the Geneva Convention? Of course not. But any future attempts should certainly be predicated on better information and better odds than appear so far that they will neither enlarge the war nor endanger prisoners lives. prisoner-of-wa- 'Thanks' Not Enough Why The Campuses Are Quiet THE DRUMMONDS The campuses aie WASHINGTON unusually quiet. Student violence is definitely on the wane. President Nixon has done much to bring it about. He has done it by acting to end the war in Vietnam, visibly, steadHe isnt going to stop there. He plans majer steps to implement the balanced and valuable report of the Scranton Com- mission on Student Unrest. They will be forthcoming soon. They will show that Vice President Agnew did not persuade President Nixon that the report was R. Drummond G. Drummond n. closing out the U.S. role in the war in Vietnam. The President removed the cutting edge of the issue which, more than all others, provoked student dissent and put into the hands of the militant the means pf turning dissent into disruption. To many students, Vietnam was an emotional and violent issue, and it produced an emotional and violent reaction. The President defused it. Surveys of campus opinion show that most students do not favor Get out now and support the present pace of U.S. withdrawal. most college administrators, faculty, Senate chairmen and student representatives believed incidents of disruption and violence were not likely to occur on their campuses during the new school year. showed They The blacbs and other minorities speedily fulfilled. They want their government more committed to reducing poverty and removing the blight of ghetto living. They want their own edujation to be more havent. news media seized almost exclusively on one of the many recomthat mendations of the Scranton report the President exercise his reconciling moral leadership to prevent violence and create understanding. Many have been wondering when Mr. Nixon was going to start. But he started to do one of the main things the commission said he should do long before the report was written Ending the war in Vietnam will not end campus unrest Students are deeply and rightly dissatisfied with many shortcomings of our society. They want th promise of full justice and dignity for It can be said with knowledge that there will be an early and favorable Nixon response to the Scranton report. It will show a President intent upon carrying out many of its recommendations. It has already been explored with former Gov. William Scranton who is delighted at what now appears in the making. President Nixon is quite sympathetic to the main thrust of the report. He wants it clear that the colleges get their charters and most of their funds from the states and that primary responsibility is with the states, not with the federal government. But he accepts the idea that a President can and should exercise moral responsibility to help the vast majority of who want no part of violence students to see that their views are esteemed and heeded by a government which respects and wants to make them a national asset. The pilgrims, traditionally honored at this season, knew the economic pinch of England in the early 1600s, beset by some of the same problems plaguing the United States today. They knew intolerance, and left England for Holland because of it. They thought they saw a declining moral climate around them in Holland, and so came to America. They did not become particularly prosperous or prominent in the New World; we honor them today chiefly for their and that should be enough reason to faith and courage honor any man in a world that so badly needs those two quali. Our Great Ignorance Of Geography By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Relief, Not Ritual ,, The scene could have been out of a movie about despotic Rome. Tfiere were the starving peasants, who were supposed to file by one by one, receive a packet of food, and shake the hand of the man who brought it to them. But the hungry Pakistanis rewrote the script. The U.S. ambassador, whom they were to thank, was forced to withdraw in his helicopter when the starving peasants refused to wait and rioted over the food. Surely they would have been grateful for the food; no doubt it was as welcoro. to them as a doctors care to an Injured motorist. But the delay in receiving it must have seemed nothing more than cruelty. Many of the small, weak or elderly who most needed the food were probably deprived of it because the distribution ended m in an Lug. When wall Americans learn that the way to help less fortunate peoples is to keep the interests of the receivers uppermost, not to wave the flag or glorify the givers? . . . Wealth depends upor artificial scarcity: if the other side of the moon should turn up vast deposits of gold, enough to make every person in the woild rich, then the earth would immediately go off the gold standard and find some other rare medium of fiscal worth. Layton Arab Rich Created War The Arab-Israeconflict. li war is an artificially generated Zionist intei Sons, and up land from the wealthy their progress in buying effedi class, Palestines aristocracy prior to the partition, was no threat to the Arabs homeland retention. Partition merely gave the Jews governmental control land-ownin- g over what they already ownea by purchase (at outrageous prices, three to five times what the owners could have gotten from other Arabs), and over the minor holdings of Arabs left isolated in mainly Israeli areas. The common Arab was quite happy wuh Zionist pi ogress, which gave him employment opportunities, better highways and communication, and a promise of sure liberation from Ins ages of bondage in serfdom beneath the heels of the effer.di. These effendi, seeing their feudal system heading for ruin, determined to enlist the igArab public in a modern holy war norant, sheep-lik- e te save Palestine from the Jewish invaders. This tiny minority held all Arab wealth, ewer and influence, all g media, and all religious offices, as they had for centuries, and so convincing the iJerate fellahin and bedouin classes that they must fight Zionism to save Palestine was a simple task. The whole thing is a false, trumped-u- p conflict designed to save those fat-chogs their throne as oppressors of the Arab people. And those effendi are the only enemies the Arabs have, this side of the Kremlin. much-improve- d -C- purported to be a tru story about a salesman, with headquarters in Chicago, who was travelling the Texas territory for his company. He happened to be in El Paso, and the sales manager wired him: Since youre in Texas, hop over to Texarkana to see a customer there. The Send another salesman wired back: man out from Chicago; its shorter that way. (When I made a memo cf this story, my own secretary refused to believe it; she called the Chicago Motor Club and learned that, indeed, the Jiileage from Chicago to Texarkana is 795; from Texarkana to El Paso is 808.) When Hawaii and Alaska were added as states, there sprang up a riddle that kids were asking: "Name the northernmost, southernmost, easternmost, and westernmost states of the U.S. I didnt hear a single adult (myself included) answer all four parts correctly the first is strange and saddening how little most people know about our own world, even on the simplest geographical basis. We are so thrilled about landing on the moon, but we hardly know the sizes, distances, or relative positions of places on our own planet. Tt Not only on our own planet, but our own country as well. I recall how surprised many readers were when I once devoted part of a column to pointing out some obvious geographical facts about the U.S. that contradict most popular impressions. Such as the fact that Reno, Nevada, is west of Los Angeles; that the southern tip of Illinois is farther south than Richmond, Virginia; that Jacksonville, Florida. on the Atlantic, is actually west of Pittsburgh ; and a few others of a similar nature. I remember hearing, years ago, what time. Look it up on your world map, and youll be surprised at the answers. The massive size of our nation is still hardly comprehended. England, for instance, is smaller than the state of Alad the size of Calibama, and only fornia. Indeed, all the British Isles (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern the size of Ireland) are only California. And Alaska alone is far larger than all France, Germany (both East and West), and Italy put together. We think of Indonesia, when we do at all, as a little string of islands tucked somewhere along the Equator between Asia and Australia. Yet, when Indonesia was put together as a nation some 20 years ago, it became the fifth largest country in the world, almost half again the size of Alaska. As facts, none of these is particularly important; bat as an index to our ignorance, they should induce a little one-thir- two-thir- moon-modest- ties Will history treat us as kindly? Will the 20th Century American be honored because he had the faith and courage to overcome moral, civil and economic difficulties and literally preserve a physical and cultural heritage for the future? When Americans bow their heads in gratitude this Thanksgiving, they must remember that blessings requirt something of each of us. They require that we nurture them, develop them, presvrve them. And pass them on. LaBONNE, opinion-moldin- yet there is much to he thankful for on Thanksgiving Day, our ancestors. --MIKE poses. more pablum for the permissivists. The campus quiet fulfills the forecast of a special survey by the TV Urban Institute released by the Scranton comm's-sio- It d, meaningful. There will continue to be campus unrest and dissent. There should be. Its a needed stimulus. But this is just the start of what the President is prepared o do to help channel student dissent to constructive pur- ily and irreversibly. 1970 Above all, there is life, given by a loving God, and the opportunities it brings to use our gifts to help others. There are policemen, soldiers, firemen, courageous, selfless people dedicated to preserving and improving doctors, statesmen that life, despitp attacks on them and their jobs. There is a sound system of government that makes it possible for the governed to act directly on their mutual problems. Put it all together, and Thanks barely covers the interest on the tangible and intangible blessings that Americans have. In a world scarred by turmoil, Thanksgiving should be a quiet little island on which we can count the. things that have gone right during the past twelve months and consider the fact that none of it would have been but for the courage of diverse natures. You can tell your readers (an audience of individuals; that to find a major polluter he neednt go looking for, belching induririal smokestacks. This causes me to wonder if the author is a travelcommando. Around ing man or is a Salt Lake City you dont have to look for pollution ; the problem is how to avoid it. When driving into Salt Lake City from Ogden, Its impossible to miss the belching smokestacks to paralleling the highway. From tall, pencil-thi- n abort, fat chimneys, they belch forth the filthiest, thickest, foulest, most nauseous clouds of pollutants ever to be seen. With collapsing lungs, burning eyes, and a sulphur taste in my mouth, I ooze through that disease with these thoughts in mind: How many pollution-spewin- g cars would be required to match the density of waste emanating from these smokestacks; and how many cans and boxes of insecticides and detergents would be needed te equal the damaging effects caused by this waste? Telli.ig individuals to practice pollution control is certainly a step in the right direction. But when giants of industry obviously manage to escape adherence to enacted air pollution measures, individuals must tend to reel that their pollution infractions are very minor in comparison, so why practice control? desk-boun- d Ihere is fighting in more than one world hot spot, civil disorder and crime at home, economic difficulty. And yet . . , A , As a newcomer to the state of Utah, I nevertheless take issue with you on your Nov. 17 editorial 25, 1970 Was Risk Worth T ry Afterthoucht , Turkey: Tasty , But Oh, So Stupid ! is the only thing that keeps the species going. At least turkeys look better now than they used to. The dull brown birds the By JACQUIN SANDERS (Newsweek Feature Service) except Everybody loves the turkey the housewives who have to wedge the ungainly, oversized birds into their ovens and the farmers who have to put up with them until they are old enough to market. "Turkey is a drag, says a California mother. All the stuffing and basting and just when you think youre finally finished, theres that horrid gravy to be made. Founding Fathers ate are mostly pure white now Co better withstand the summer sun), infinitely more tender and up to ten times heavier. Indeed, monsters up to 70 pounds in weight are now being bred (for the restaurant trade) and their temper., are as formidable as their size. A can flop you right over with his wings, if he wants to, says a grower. Trouble is, if he misses, hes so awkward hell fall down and break a Mar, and boy, I've been growing turkey for upwards of 50 years, says an Ohio farmer, and I never saw one I had any use for. leg. Evei suite Benjamin Franklin waged an unsuccessful campaign to maxe the turkey the national bird, feelings have been mixed. To know the fowl is assuredly not to love him. Time has not lessened the ranks of his detractors. The turkeys transition from wild bird to domestication has increased his succulence but done nothing at all for his personality. In brainpower, ne catmc. Lulu a candle to his cousin the goose. Cows have more common sense and moths are less Tuihejs will panic at a moonbeam, stampede at the sight of a crumpled cigarette pats. They have been known to llap one alter another, into a barrel, v .1h the last one able to cram himself inside suffocating to death just as the first ones have. And those who can't fit m will duck angrily aiound the edges, waiting hopefully for the first opening A tuikqj has to be taught to eat. i The Foolish Turkey Farmers put marbles into the feed; the bird pecks a marble, his bill slides off into the corn and. after a dozen or so repetitions, he learns. On the other hand, a turkey has to be taught huw lu skip thinking. Lett uu his own, he will quite happily drink and drink and drink until he drowns. Of course, its not all the contempohe rary turkeys fault. Obviously wouldnt have survived in the wild with his present intellect. It is selective breeding that has done him m. Not just mentally either. The turkey these davs. His breast has is to suth an exbeen hugely enlarged tent that males cant even breed anymore. The urge is mostly gone, the chest is in the way, and artificial insemination front-heav- y The turkey is, of course, as American as . . . well, as Thanksgiving dinner. A native of the Western hemisphere, he was noted by Cortes in Mexico in 1519. The Spanish explorer called turkey the cheapest meat in Mexico . . . allowed for the feeding of vultures and eagles kept in the royal aviaries. Th bird was imported into Europe around that time and for the next century was considered a dish for only the exalted Tt was served at the wedding of Charies IX or UTance m 1570. Thai same year a cook to Pope Pius V recorded several recipes for cooking the fowl. Turkey is less esteemed as a dish now m Europe than in the U.S. And oddly enough, most of the American turkeys now grown derive from the domesticated European stock. Nutritionally, turkey has a lot going for it. The bird is high in protein, low in calories and low in cholesterol. Turkeys. says one grower, are beautiful to look at, fragile as an orchid and stupid beyond belief. i URTIS . L. GIBSON New York City Worthy Project This letter is to express my sincere appreciation for the coverage your paper recently gave So tho Salt Lake Vista program which I am presently directing. It pleases me tremendously that tho media has offered such a favorable view ot Vista and what we are trying to accomplish on the particSi ular project. the of factor most Perhaps significance pertaining to your article is the number of favorable responses that we have received as a result of it, from more poverty level people in our centers to more support from other social service agencies and businesses. -S- USAN DAVIDSON Project Manager Heating Efficiency It was interesting that my letter to the editor created a reaction and a response. I hope it is through concerted and active interest in the maximum utilization of our energy rources that we art able to optimize our total standard of living. ' This letter is not to prolong the discussion; but, rather, to correct some grossly inaccurate efficiency figures. I cannot accept the 90 per cent efficiency of Utah Power and Light. Some idea can be deduced from the general literature on efficiency. In Utah Power and Lights booklet, Power for; the steam temperature figure for the People, Gadsby Plant is given as 10(6 deg. F. and the pres sure 0 1525 Carnot established the maximum theoretical efficiency possible operating between two temperature limits. Using a condenser temperature of, say, 7G degrees, maximum efficiency of 63 per cent could be obtained if everything went perfectly. A more typical cycle would be the Rankine Cycle. With two stages of feed water heating, w can get a maximum theoretical efficiency of 53 per cent. The turbine efficiency, piping losses, combustion efficiency, etc., would all lower this to a figure near what I previously quoted. In order to operate ;en a Carnot Cycle with 90 per cent efficiency, the inlet steam temperature would ha,Te to be in excess of 5.000 degs., a totally unreasonable figure. ,arhaps the efficiency you are talking about is the combustion efficiency where it is reasonable to get 90 per cent of the coal energy into steam, but this is entirely different than the amount of energy that could be obtained in the turbine itself and associated equipment. The efficiency of d home heating units must be at least 75 per cent or the heating unit cannot carry the AGA approval IrLcI. Of course, there ero many rrnre considerations on the energy source best to be used such as costs, availability of fuel, pollution, etc. I still repeat my previous stand that there should be planning and control in order to protect the environment. Heating with electricity does not necessarily decrease pollution but merely transfers the pollution to another location. And, again, advertising money spent to encourage indiscriminate operation of any energy source should not be an allowed expense for establishing the base for ratesetting by the Public Service Commission. -J- OHN M. S1MONSEN Provo gas-fire- |