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Show DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1973 A5 stand for the Constitution of the United States as having been divinely inspired Skylab's trouble: lesson in the uses of adversity What began as a test of mans ability to endure physically in outer space has turned into a test of determination and in- is, the worlds first have a chance to erect a sunshade to shadow the space station and cool down Skylab, which has been limping As genuity. If the astronauts who vaulted into orbit Friday on an unprecedented mission succeed in repairing the crippled Skylab, their work could help shift the emphasis from space exploration to space exploitation intended to benefit mankind in many ways. If they fail, it will provide ammunition to those who see the $2.6 billion project as a wasteful boondoggle and would like the U.S. to curtail sharply its space efforts. But even failure will prove something more positive and constructive than that. It will prove that the proper choice for the U.S. should not be between a manned vs. an unmanned space effort. Instead, the right choice is to decide on what constitutes the proper mixture of the two. If the Skylab flight had been an unmanned undertaking, as Dr. Wernher Yon Braun observed the other day, this would have been the end of it. in it earth-orbi- astro-repairm- for t 12 days with overheating and power troubles. It will be a test of mans ability to work efficiently in space and recover from setbacks. If Skylab is successfully cooled, its nine astronauts over the next eight months should be able to carry out most of the 87 medical, scientific, engineering, and earth resources survey experiments planned. Only three relatively minor experiments would definitely be lost. "Say, can we borrow some baling wire?' Patching Up Skylab Among the experiments that can be completed, besides the major one to see how well man adapts to lack of gravity for long periods, are tests designed to pin- "If Skylab can be made to work, it will be a testament to man's ingenuity." Unidentified NASA spokeman point mineral deposits and agricultural areas infested by plant diseases. With sufficient improvisation and determination on the part of all those involved, Skylabs troubles could become a blessing in disguise. Such, in space as on earth, are the uses of adversity. the class of 73 A word to Almost 20,000 youths will be graduated from Utah high schools within the next week in an annual rite which calls for looking back and looking forward. These fine young Americans bring a much needed breath of fresh air in the form of their idealism and zest for change. While such an input is always welcome, todays young people should also be aware of the accomplishments of past generations. Their ancestors subscribed to the work ethic and labored to gain financial security. Still others tamed the frontier or pushed back such barriers as distance, time and disease. But the greatest frontiers have been left for the current generation to conquer. Theirs are the challenges which have confronted every generation conquering for once A Memorial Day Memorial Day, 1973, should be a time of commitment to the ideals of those thousands who made the supreme sacrifice in the flower of their youth for this nation. How useless their deaths will be if we, as a nation, cease to struggle for the kind of world they died to sustain. That should be the message each carries within him to the cemeteries this Memorial Day. It will help us to honor that commitment if we understand what prompts a soldier to give his life. A reading of the citations for the Medal of Honor gives great insight: They died because they loved honor and others more than their own lives. Like the soldier who fell on a grenade with his body to protect his comrades, or the pilot who stayed with his disabled and for all such problems as poverty, war, injustice, prejudice and ignorance. Their task is to sort out that which is good and change everything else. Its a task which cannot be completed in a day, a month or a year after graduation. Will Durant, had philosopher-historia- some advice for young people which is particularly appropriate in view of current disillusionment in the American system due to the Watergate scandal: Expect to reform the government only after you have reformed human nature and your own. Thats good advice not only for the young people graduating from Utahs high schools in the next few days, but also for their parents. it plane in a vain attempt to crash-lanand save the life of his navigator. Somehow a number of Americans have allowed our respect for heroism to become blurred, to think of patriotism as something to be uneasy about. Yet if we lose our national resolve, what will keep this nation free? President Eisenhower thoughtfully Dont think for a moment there are enough armaments in the world to make the United States safe just with armaments alone. d d: The greatness of a nation is not meas ured by its wealth or its armed forces or its industries. It is measured by the strength of character of its people and how much they will sacrifice to remain free. If you resent historians sticking pins in your heroes, so do I. Some chap has been selling books recently with what purports to be an expose of what s really happened on Paul ride. The suggestion is that he was drunk and late. It seems a cowardly device when none of those guys is around to defend himself. Rev-ere- But where inventions have been attributed to the wrong parents they are illegitimate and researchers may be misled. Robert Fulton did not, in fact, invent the steamboat) It was not Christopher Columbus who proved the earth to be round. It was not Ben Franklin who discovered electricity and Henry Ford was not the first to practice mass production. chap named John Fitch completed several passengercarrying steamboat runs on the Delaware River 19 years before Fulton. I and correct these fictions only to justify my own conclusion that the windmill A Kne mvf vrif Krtpn M The ancestry of the windmill which pumped the water that nourished the American' West can be traced backward from the Holland Dutch to of the seventh millwrights century, perhaps beyond. . Yet I insist it hasnt really been "discovered yet. First the steam engine came along to outproduce the Then windmill. electricity, particularly rural electrification, in the 1930s. But now that engines pollute and electricity is becoming one costly, prohibitively American company, Heller-Alle- r, sold 650 windmills last year. But again, the windmill has not yet been discovered. An imaginative engineer named Peter Harper of Brighton, England, recently received a grant from the United Nations for development of an alternative power source. He envisions giant versions of windmill-h- uge the old but graceful capabe of using the wind when it's blowing to charge huge storage batteries for use when its not d blowing; thus to power whole industries, whole communities with nn rmltiOinn Will Peter Harper be remembered by historians as the man who invented the wind- Or will Canadians Raj Rangi and Peter South get the credit? Members of Canadas National Research Council, Rangi and South have access to research facilities and they have there developed a windmill without a turbine big fan a machine which rotates on a Mechanical axis. vertical energy thus produced may be used for irrigation or other water pumping. Or it may be into converted electrical power. wind-tunn- high-spee- d whichever wind blows this thing without turning And the blade tip the wind speed by six vertical, By Norman Cousins L.A. Times Syndicate pedestrian By Robert Brault Phoenix Nest In city driving, half the battle is to know your pedestrian. The other half, is not to let what you know get to you. Lets look at the average pedestrian at a crossing When the signal says WALK, the pedestrian crosses. When the signal says WAIT or DONT WALK, the pedestrian crosses. When the signal says WA T or D NT ALK, the pedestrian becomes so confused that he imediately crosses. At a regular traffic light, the pedestrian crosses on the green. He also crosses on the yellow. When the light is red, the pedestrian crosses. At an intersection where there is po light, the pedestrian crosses if he arrives first. If the motorist arrives first, the pedestrian If a pedestrian takes one step into the street and the light changes against him, he continues to cross only more slowly. To be honest, not all pedestrians cross against the light at intersections. Some pedestrians cross between intersections. You can tell a jaywalker by the bump he makes as your front wheels go over him. Years ago, pedestrians used to jaywalk indiscriminately. Today, thanks destrian education to pe- programs and NO JAYWALKING laws, pedestrians only jaywalk when they want to cross the street diamtimes, thus their There are two ways to eter turbine prototype can avoid htting jaywalkers. One convert a wind to 1.2 way is to drive only at interhorsepower or .9 kilowatt. sections. The other way is to Out of the world's present drive on the sidewalk. As long as pedestrians are allowed to need for cleaner, less expensive power will come ideas for walk in the street, there is no reason why motorists cannot harnessing tides, for harnessing drive on the sidewalk. 1 told the sun and the wind. Each is an ancient idea that to the judge, too. I lost the battle, but I think which awaits the somebody with the vision to discover it. I won the war. Some people look, at the mood of America today, especially in the light of the Watergate scandals, and see a wave of cynicism, disillusion, disdain. This is not what I see. I see a nation reassured, reawakened, renewed. Reassured about the inner balances of their society. Reawakened to the essential values of a government in which the ultimate power belongs not to Presidents but to the people. Renewed by the proof that justice need not be subordinated to power. The Watergate exposures may reveal that the highest offices in the land can be occupied by men who are pu'iy for all their power and who are deeply corrupt for all their public moralizing. But the same exposures also reveal that the structure of this country is sound, capable of sustaining unimagined pres- sures. The young men who came together at Philadelphia in 1787 to design a government for their new society would not be dismayed by what is happening today. For their basic purpose was to create a government that could deal with its own failures. They were students of history. They knew that even the best of men are flawed and that the natural tendency of men is not to leave available power lying around. They knew that the power of government can become a personal convenience for men who want to use it to hide their mistakes on to punish or de- -' stroy their political opponents or to make government sub-- : servient to the exercise of their personal power. That was why the young men at Philadelphia fought so hard about creating a government that would not be shaken to the ground by men who regarded high office as a sanctuary for concealing their moral failures or their abuse of the public trust. The American government is now vindicated as never before. It has been able to withstand contempt of law at high levels. The men involved are not supernumeraries. They were given authority by the President to act in his name. They are charged with hired having professional thugs to victimize American citizens or with having tried to influence judges or with having used Gestapo tactics to serve their personal ends. But a great change is now in the making. I envy the peo- ple in this years graduating class. They are coming into a nation that has shown it is capable of being renewed, revitalized, resensitized. Those of you who have enNo; the Founding Fathers tertained the idea that you of this country might be dismight go into public sendee gusted by what is happening should be strengthened, not but not would be today ihey weakened, by what has hapdisillusioned. pened in recent months. For They would be encouraged you are living witnesses to one of the great purifying exby the vindication of their essential purpose to create a periences in our history. government not of men but of There is no warrant today laws, a government in which for cynicism or disillusion. ultimate security resided in its You live in an open society. institutions and values. The essential challenge to The Watergates in America that society is not just to betgo far beyond government. ter itself but to help make this The fascination with violence planet safe and fit for the human species.The people on and the exploitation of violence are not confined to high this earth are in jeopardy station. Whether in our public whether because of today or private affairs, we have war, environmental poisoning taken life too lightly. We have or the exhaustion of their natural resources. become desensitized to the incredible fragility of lives. It An open society cannot is not just in Vietnam that we remain open if it is disconhave become casual about the nected from the rest of the preciousness of bfe. In the world. I envy you because kinds of entertainment we your place in that open socie-- y seek or the kinds of art we encan have important meanwe have Handled courage, ing for everyone on earth roughly the delicate fabric quite literally, for everyone on that must sustain life. earth. Busings a political issue again By Richard In Strout The Christian Science Monitor News Service WASHINGTON. -FD.C. of the U.S. Supreme Court to give a clear answer on school desegregation in the Richmond case throws the emotional issue of school busing back into legal channels again, and into politics. ailure Because of its tie vote, the Court did not give a definitive answer to constitutional questions many cities are asking on racial busing. (When the court splits evenly, it does not announce hew members voted, or deliver an opinion.) default, however, the court let stand a federal circuit court ruling in the particular city of Richmond, Va. which means that white sub- rin not have to tat twmite By i ! 'Things don't look so bad from this distance!" America: A lesson of hope crosses. mill? Being way the revolves about. exceeds Never cross a commitment Windmill undiscovered By Paul Harvey L.A. Times Syndicate "It's from a White House aide volunteering for Skylab says it can't be any hotter than Washington." be bused into the 90 percent black schools there. The result is a disappointment to civil rights groups but is not a decisive precedent in pending cases in ether cities. Failure to rule definitively on school busing could heighten tension in this city already jittery over Watergate. Decisions on future cases will presumbly turn on whether evidence exists of, willful efforts by local political subdivisions to prevent school dese- gregation. Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., of Virginia did not partici-- ' pate in the case. If Justice Powell joins the Court in later cases, the ruling might well be against busing in the interest of racial bal court-impose- d A On the other hand, if clear evidence exists that local authorities are thwarting the 1954 school desegregation ruling, the court presumbly would find against them. U.S. District Court Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. ordered a sweeping desegregation plan Jan. 11, 1972, in a opinion ruling that Virginia must merge predominantly black Richmond public school with 90 percent white schools in suburban counties. e The U.S. Circuit Court set the Merhige order aside, 5 to 1, last June. the Now U.S. Supreme decision Court lets the stand and it reserves judgement on other pending cases. Judge Merhige ruled that the Richmond plan was the omy remedy promising immetn rrr linr diatf i segregation schools. the in public The consolidation of the respective school sysem is a first, reasonable and feasible step, Judge Merhige ruled, toward the eradication of the effects of the past unlawful discrimination. Step two in the Richmond case came last June, after the Merhige ruling was appealed to the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, which reversed it, 5 to 1. This reduced some of the political pressure. The reversal was, in turn, to the Supreme appealed Court by civil-right- s advo- cates. The evenly divided Supreme Court, in sustaining the circuit court, used nine words in announcing the montous The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided |