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Show r; DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 3, 1 973 We stand for the Constitution of the United States with its three departments of each field. government, fully independent in is own Chile after Allende: Back from the brink Despite the death and suffering it nflicted, this weeks military coup which resulted in the suicide of President Salvador Allende should pull Chile back from the brink of economic disaster. To say this is not to minimize the tragedy for the families of the hundreds of Chileans who are unofficially reported to have been killed in tne bloody takeover. Though complished ly, change government it would have been better acdemocratically and peacefulwas certainly in order for the of Chile. Ever since Allende brought the first Marxist government in the ; freely-electe- d Western Hemisphere into power in 1970, Americans have been nervous about the possibility of Chiles being turned into another Cuba a base for he export of revolution. - Those apprehensions were aggravated when Allende gave asylum to an estimatg ed 2,000 terrorists and subversives from Uruguay and Brazil. left-win- Nor did he win friends and influence Washington when he expropriated Kenne-co-tt Copper Corp. and other American firms, then accused them of conspiring against him even after Kennecott and other U.S. interests had extended generous loans to Chile. Many Chileans did not particuar-l- y mind his expropriations of foreign firms. W'hat they did mind was a 300 percent rate of inflation, a crumbling economy, a decrease in jobs as investment capital fled Chile because of Aliende, and food shortages. unstable was the Allende government as a result of all this that it was reorganized 2D times in 36 months. Even though these reshufflings repeatedly brought military men into the cabinet, Allende refused to let them modify his socialist policies. - What Chile needs now is to start healing the wounds left by the military coup. The healing process can start with lifting the censorship that has been imposed on the press and the martial law that has been imposed on the public at large. After that, whats needed is a strict austerity program that includes increased industrial efficiency and incentives to help get the private sector of the economy back on its feet. Chile already has the good will of a North America that is anxious to see its friends become stable and prosperous. Park land still needed Its too bad that adverse publicity on a land transaction at 4100 South and 9th East has caused Henry W. Richards lo withdraw his offer of sale. The reason it is unfortunate is that Salt Lake County still needs the 18.6 acres of land in question for a regional park. It is one of the pieces of land identified on the countys master plan needed for future recreational needs, and to let the matter drop now would be a disservice to county citizens. The property was one of three in which county acquisition procedures were criticized by County Auditor Gerald Han-- ; sen. This page also has called for stricter guidelines in county property acquisitions to put a stop to negotiating for land without proper appraisals and to involve more county expertise in phases of the acquisition process. None of these needs has been re- . h i i scinded in the recent failure of the land acquisition. In fact, a more orderly approach needs to be taken to restart negotiations in the hopes of concluding the parkland acquisition deal. While county purchase procedures left much to be desired, there is no evidence of any kind of wrong-doinAuditor Hansen has shown nothing to back up his charge of a deal between the seller and a county commissioner, and should be reprimanded for sucn loose talk. Haste was one factor which precipitated some of the mistakes in acquiring the property. The county was faced with an Aug. 31 deadline in order to qualify for federal participation funds. That deadline has now been extended for 90 days, which should give sufficient time to tie up all the loose ends in better fashion. Some sobering statistics The Utah Legislature did the right legal drinking age to 18 in 1970. a Since drinking at 18 became legal, thing earlier this year when it rejected ! to bill to lower the legal age for drinking there has been a 60 percent increase in 18. teenage drunken driving mishaps in New and a 150 percent increase in The wisdom of the Legislature became Jersey Michigan. this week after the even more ! i apparent These figures should strengthen Utah's National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis-- : tration reported that teenage traffic acci-- ! resolve to resist any future efforts to dent rates seem to be rising throughout lower the legal age for drinking. i the country. As it is now, drunken ists are involved in fatal teenage motoraccidents at the driv-i Its no coincidence that drunken of two one rate is hours. a soThat ! every mg accidents involving teenagers have and reone statistic can be that bering Louiscreased since 24 states have joined duced sober drivers. only by teenage lowered the which iana and New York, ! in-- He who hesitates Those impulsive British are at it again. After only 170 years of discussion going back to the days of Napoleon, the government decided this week to plunge ahead with a tunnel under the English Channel linking London and Paris. Sure, the tunnel should increase cooperation between the two countries by increasing travel and trade. But whats the rush? ! ! tunnel will But world. the in be one of the longest if its ever built, the 3 So what's that kind of an achievement compared to the record the tunnel must already hold for the time involved? Some monetary high water marks are at stake, too. As recently as 1965 the tunnel could have been built for $480 million. Now it will cost $1.17 billion. "We Have turned the corner on drug addiction." (Pres. Nixon Watergate probe reflects prurient interest in sin By Nick Thimmeseh L.A. Times Syndiate - We begin WASHINGTON with the argument that Adam and Eve did not tryst at the Watergate. Sin, alas, began in Paradise, not in the salons of the Democratic National Committee headquarters. And sin has been committed and crusaded against for centuries by all manner of ecclesiastics, evangelists, reformers, inquisitors, law authorities and, of course, congressional committees. Sam Ervins select committee will resume its battle with the Sins of Watergate. The forms of perfidy to be pursued are dirty tricks and funny finance in the 1972 campaign. One curious aspect of the American character is a prurient interest in evil, and this fact has fueled many a congressional inquiry. At once, it is a trait with Janus faces toward good and bad. We stamp on evil, yes, but sometimes we stamp on it in the most evil way, and the process itself becomes evil. Civil liberties and fairness suffer considerably when we are in such national moods. A few wuks ago in Paris, an official in the foreign ministry told me that investigations like Watergate were peculiarly American because they On Sept. The 24 Sen. We French were puritanical. are Catholic and know of man's frailties, he said with a smile that somehow signified centuries of trafficking We do not become with sin. obsessed with Watergates. the way you do. Indeed, there is something terribly humiliating in appearing before an inquisitor, a prosecuting attorney, a boss, a congressional committee, when the subject is sin. People tend to look bad and even come apart in such settings. anybody-in-authorit- y The Watergate committee has caused President Nixon to confess, to utter an act of contrition and promise he would go and sin no more. I think this committee has got about as much as we puritanical Americans should expect, but, of course, there's more to wring out in the weeks ahead. But sin did exist in Washington before. And had there been a permanent Watergate committee one, say, that orbited around the Capitol, only in moments of high sin what could it have swooped down on? This mythical Watergate m the sky could have grilled the Truman Administration to no end, what with Gen. Harry Vaughn and others. The Eisenhower crowd suffered plenty with Sherman Adams, but the Watergate questioners would have made it worse. And what would have happened if the Justice Department of Robert Kennedy-habeen probed and probed and probed, especially on how a the squad played James Bond in pursuing Jimmy Hoffa? Televised hearings Would Democratic Life is notoriously full of ironies, and political life has far more than its share; but I doubt that many of us who havfe devoted our lives to resisting the growing power of government, and above all of the Presidency, ever dreamed that the latter would get its comeuppance at the hands of an enraged Democratic Congress. In the perspective of the nearly two centuries since our nation was founded the two parties, of course, have been, at one time or another, on almost every side of the question of federal (and hence The power. Presidential) Federalists under Hrmilton, and later the Republicans, tended to favor the central government over the states. Conversely the Democrats, from Jefferson straight through the Civil War and on into the Twentieth Century, supposedly supported the sovereign states against the encroaching power of the federal government. But in modern American political history the roles of the two parties have been spectacularly Under Franklin Roosevelt the Democratic Party, succumbing to the liberal illusion that governments can best solve the problems of mankind, committed itself to a truly historic expansion of federal power at the expense of the states, and turned the Presidency into the vast and DOUG SflEYD Each day the channel tunnel goes unbuilt, the greater a monument the project becomes to the price of human folly and vacillation. That object lesson ought to be worth plenty. Carry on, chaps. Bobby-Baker- . More people seem complicated" to themselves because theyre confused than because theyre complex. One of the oddest words in the lan since we have no guage is raff. riff and no fund-raise- I haven't even mentioned the lobbyists here, the corporation labor unions, groups, representatives of forgovernments and even uplift crusaders themselves. Who among them can throw the first stone? eign the moral riff-raff- ," ; 'to A natural tendency Every system has a ends: the busi- into means convert its -- t a great future, Ma. He's an apprentice butcher!" "Alvin's go! ( it x They were dressed shabbily, drove an old car, and Gys was shouting obscenities into the clowns mouth about the high cost of a hamburger. . n. Did ylu What happened, Gus? asked my husband lose your business? ; , No, said Gus, I'm still president of the company.; Did you have a run of sickness in the family? No, he sighed. Were all fine. , i i We just sent our son to college, he saio. licking his ! finger and picking up the crumbs with it. We nodded sympathetically. Have you considered dressing up as a ballpoint pen and appearing on Lets Make A Deal? I suggested.;?! have a friend who won a years supply of mayonnaise. , t said Gus. Its just the initial bill the first month was $84. his Like J phone expenses. ! He called home $84 worth? I asked. Well be all right, i r. tat No, his dorm has the new phones with the buttons chime. Someone dared him to play The Star Spangled Ba&- - J 1 ner one night. Came to $84. Be fair, urged Marj. The boy has had other expeuj- R ;cord albums alone came to $73. A bicycle to get around, $89, Stuff for his room like wastebaskets, posteefc. bedspread and towel racks cost $53. Gus smiled weakly, towel rack was. I didnt know he knew I , whatjii ! And his books cost $5.96, said Marj defensively Dont forget that. And he did spend eight cents in iie week to wnte us. Requesting a check for another hundred dollars 5i I shampoo, laundry, and the yearbook. How do you like that0 J The kid isnt even unpacked and hes buying a yearbook. I have lo send him another box of food this weekf' J said Marj. The one I sent with him he ate at the airppri before the plane took off. They just never seem to gie them enough food in colleges. May I have your french J fries, Gus? he said, looking at He nodded, what are you two doing here? We have three said my husband, jiul the car insurance came due this week. May I have yojr apple turnover. Gus W, has ' I i i t of became the defender states rights against centra- SYDflEY lism, and of Congress against principled are enUtled to note appropriate scorn of that jowly old mountebank, Sam Ervin, who peddled the nostmms of Presidential centralism through all his early years in Democratic and now, in the politics of his senility, springtime arches those incomparable eyebrows of his at the sort of behavior he and his Demo-crati- c colleagues, labored so long and so successfully to make possible. X S. n. n. 'i, HARRIS the Presidents. For 30 years that was the basic shape of American domestic policy. Richard Nixon, after all, did not invent this bloated and overweening Presidency: he inherited it, and his greatest crime, in the eyes of his Democratic foes, is that he has used it (and abused it) as they themselves had earlier learned to use (and abuse) it. Maximizing the power of the in every conincumbency ceivable way although (crucial difference!) without the cooperation of a friendly press to cover up his blunders and sing his imperial praises. Now, at last, the Democrats (and liberals generally) have launched a drive to cut the Presidency down to size. In this situation it is only human for conservatives to be tempted to follow the liberal example and change sides: to defend this monstrous institution that the Presidency has become, and resist blindly the current Congressional efforts to curb itspower. K ! The almost kissed me when I walked into the store and asked him to recommend a book for who is not terribly bright. book-cler- k Youre the first customer in my eight years here, he who has not wanted a book for a child mgh t brighter than average. Dont the dull children ever presents of books? I guess they dont. And I think this is a big mistake! ft V is the precocious, the intelligent, the literary-minde- d child who receives books as gifts. And he needs them least of ag. When I was a boy, nobody had to give me books. !l haunted the public library, and sometimes went there twaqe a day, carting home armfuls of treasures on the research card I had wangled from an older friend, ! It is the child who does not care to read, whose hojiie is devoid of books, whose interests are limited to the phvj- -t cal and the technical, who should be tempted to enter Ihe realm of literature. There are many doors opening into $hs I realm, but the child does not know which one to unlock. i. I would not give books to a precocious and intellectual child I would give him sports equipment, to try to dev$- op his latent powers in another field. What he does welLthe can do by himself, without assistance; what he does poorly. I; or not at all, should be encouraged by the adults arca4d ! ! v h'm. Most of us, however, cater to the child's overpowenitg J interests. We make the physical child even more physical- - v minded, and the intellectual child even more literary-- ; minded. This is easy and comfortable, but it is not sensible! if we want human beings rather than monsters! j I am not suggesting, of course, that the athletic ctad be bombarded with Homer or Shakespeare; or thatlhe', constant reader be tossed off the pier in a pair of water-!- ; burbled, . one-side- d but coercion. wings. This is not The literary boy will never play football, but he can be ! made interested in tennis cr track or other sports requiring less brute strength. The will never read Keats or translate Virgil, but there is a vast literature designed to !; appeal to the extroverted type. Both can be made to see. ; by skillful guidance, that thought and action are incomplete ! halves of existence, each requiring the other. The world is !; already too full of shot-putt- half-peopl- V I s !! I i ! the Republicans Willy-nill- ! teen-ager- become. with ness system, for instance, is a means to enable man to devote more of himself to higher attainments, but it has become largely an end in itself; whereas, at the other end of the spectrum, scholarship is a means to achieve more relevant knowledge, but it has degenerated mostly into as an end in an academic itself. , k thing the other night and frankly we were quite shocked. . We saw our old friends, Gus and Marj, at a Sw-ei- threatening :sr: Then what is it with the instant poverty? like Clark Clifford, Abe For-tas- , Billie Sol Estes, Nathan Voloshin and George plus whatever White House friends they nad. been able to withstand the interrogation by the Watergate committee? Or how about some of the in the campaigns of President and Johnson Hubert Humphrey? Or how about those LBJ campaign strategists who unleashed dirty tricks and unfair television ads against the already beaten Barry Guldwater in 1964? A few sins would have gone flying out the committee door if that episode were given full ment. Certainly Afterthoughts BOm.BECK stalwarts presidential powers By William A. Rusher Universal Press Syndicate ERfllR |