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Show y y frx'rr'y ? T.y.T.f jf-- T gTfy t'TfQnronnr wrT' We Stand For The Constitution Of A-1- 8 EDITORIAL Th r ra j j jr rrr y j .r United States Ai Having Boon Divinely Intplred. : PAGE srrrr Since TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1964 Grow Up, Gool Off,America frustrations furious release of pent-uby those who are angry at the world in p general. , ' ' Mississippi iL , want to thank those at home who contributed money and gave me encouragement to enable me to v do so.' Their faith in the movement and in me is a demanding obligation. I hope I can fulfill their trust, and I wish Steve Holbrook good fortune in his work. .Its too late for any more people to apply to wor- kin the Mississippi project, but other things can be done, and I hope more Utahns are going to be wanting to do them, now that they are aware of the possi-bilitMy parents will be happy to supply the rele-vainformation, as will COFO, 1017 Lynch St, Jack-- son, Mississippi. -- Peter Kaise- rTrenton, N.J. ' JOHNSON last weekend PRESIDENT struck out at secret extremist groups, . particularly the Ku Klux Klan, and prom-- . ised.that if local law enforcement proves incapable of halting their violence, fed-epused.-Bu- t forces ieay,have to-b- e at least as dngerdus as these forces is the . irresponsible, explosive, . hoodlum-oriente- d on In name of the is that going rioting al -- nt 1: it Remedying Capitalism's Faults Letters readers will he interested and pleased to learn that Richard S. Morrison of Delta will be on io Thursday at 9:05 p.m. on the Public Pulse program to talk on the subjectof money reform and discUss a book he has written, The Paradox of Capitalism. He lists seven ways in which qur free enterprise system behaves in an incongruous manner, making things that are good seem bad, and things' that are bad seem good. He states, No wonder there are. times when it seems as if virtually all the people-hola vested interest in instability, war, debt, government spending, inefficiency, foreign aid, and He says further thaLwhileJthe, system Js t growth." faulty In some respects, these faults may be remedied very easily without doing violenceto the princi- . pies of individual freedom and initiative. ' Since we all have a stake in this capitalistic sys- tem whichbe claims, is still far and away the best in the world, it should prove very interesting to heard Mr. Morrison and phone in a question for him, to answer. James Uglas St. - . KSL-Rad- . . -- get-Jin- . Is Timp nine-year-o- ld -- , But the matter should be kept, In pbr- -' spective. Inthe 53 years the hike has been "heldrwith up to 5,000 persons, on the trail at a time, this was only the second t Far more youngsters have fallen to their deaths at Storm Mountain, where hiking goes on without benefit of supervision or organization. Drowning every year claims many times as many recreatlonists as have died in the 53 years of Timpanogos hiking. ' Horseback riding, skiing, bike riding what activity doesnt have an element of danger? Who would abolish them? Actually, the Timpanogos hike has, beep, all things considered, remarkably free from mishap. Except for the narrow - For Well-Roundd- Sen. Barry Goldwaters foreign . policy that they., commitments are so need to be examined with the greatest care. His concept of pressing the cold war every- - where at the same time is neither conserva. tive nor traditionally Republican. The reason Goldwaters foreign policy is not traditionally Republican is because he" takes every military commitment - which every Democratic and Republican president has made since the end of the war and doubles it. . which the nation can accept only .. Unlike the late Sen. Robert A. 'Taft, Barry Goldwater Ls one if the American people are will- to Republican coaservative who is ing to mobilize its resources out. it direcin the not taking his party carry - Therecanbe no bluffing. Just tion of isolationism; he is takas jthe senator fairly points out ing it in the direction of greater that vacillation risks war, so we intervention than any predeces. must be equally dear that bluffsor. n ing risks war. One blyff called, reason Goldwatersior-eigThe and the whole game is over. policy is not conservative cold Let me cite some of the unreis he that is ,advocating war initiatives which would, in stricted Goldwater my judgment, demand far great. In the er mobilization of federal power platforni be'avows that, , than Presidents Truman, EisenRepublicans win make clear to hower, Kennedy or Johnson ever any hostile nation that the ' ventured to seek. United States will increase the costs and risks of aggression to . I AM - NOT here discussing make them outweigh hopes for .- This whether Goldwaters foreign says that the U.S. 'gampolicy is wise or unwise. I,arrj. resist any Communist a that it is different and gression anywhere with superior that its sum-totdetermination retaliatory power. to resist Communist aggression neces-SUCH A commitment permits " evrywhere, by war' if involves commitment the enemy to decide where sary, It -- would-b- e BACK IN 1953 it" appeared that the U.S. mer, the number of high school seniors was soon to become flooded with who plan to become scientists is down to almost the same as it was in 1957, 38 young scientists. This was the year of ' and before Americans Sputnik Sputnik. patriotic young seemed to think it A personal duty to push d of these Moreover, about the country ahead in the race for rockets change to a career TiTThe humanities or and missiles. social sciences during their four years in The figures of the National Merit college. These figures may be evidence that Scholarship Corp. show that after Sputnik the percentage of talented high school the humanities, are not languishing in this, seniors planning a career in science scientific age, and yet, simply to draw a line between the humanities and tjie sci . jumped by At that time many educators and men ences obscures the real need ofbur . of letters warned that the U.S. should not -focus entirely on the scientific. The huIn a country that exaltsfree choice, manities should not be neglected; the U.S. ' the government can never set quotas for could not afford to become a d the number of engineers or college protechnocracy, they said. fessors,, as totalitarian countries can. , Well, it appears that the brief trend Each person is free to choose his own ochas been reversed. According to figures cupation. the corporation has published this sum BUT ALTHOUGH we can never depend . 1 ... d. I have no objection to the annual stunt of the Custom Tailors, Guild in selecting the ten best dressed men in the country, or in any country, but I think it is suggestive that no person of any enduring consequence is included on such lists. There is usually a sports fig- - . ure, a dancing r instructor, - a -band leader, .a song writer, a politician, and, for social It maya cachet, be denied or deplored by the Custom Tailors, but it is historically true that men of genuine distinction rarely care, or even know, what they are wearing - most of the time. Lincoln once walked into a - ona stock-broke- set number op scientists, engineers or teachers, we can and should in- stire that each citizen is as and knowledgeable as possible. We must see to it that we have humane tists, and scientifically literate men of letters. This is democracys great need. Other Words . well-round- Caricature is always flattery of a sort! for it is only the formless and the.mef which does not lend itself to caric- aturizing. , , scien-dioc- - . art the political OflN CHAMBERLAIN By ldwater is aboi intobig time and tlje big "question is hether he is ready for it The liberal Barry ' . of William F. Knowland,- - the Oakland publisher who directed the crucial campaign that put Gold-watover in the California primary. In earlier primaries Goldwater had been stumbling er i 1 , Inc. objectives, but I believe that political implications of this organization are-to- o great to be ignored; 1. At least fWe of its founders are on the committee thatMr. Melich appointed in his efforts to becomegbvernor of the state of Utah, Mi was the president of Inc., Gus PBackman, who furloughed D. James Cannon from his job as director of the Utah Tourist aijd Publicity Council, even though he was advised by the attorney general that Mr. Cannon could be permitted to stay er Pro-Uta- oa Ljolv , , A - -- j Logan, Utah, ' disarray, and anxiously quired, .Have you fallen down, Mr. Broun? . H. G. Wells had trouble fitting hats to his rather large and eccentrically shaped head. Once he put on a hat by mistake which . fitted him so nicely that he walked off with it, and then penned this note to its owner, E. S. Peck of Cambridge: I stole your hat, confessed WellsrI like your hat; I shall keep your hat. Whenever I look inside it, I shall think of you and of your excellent hospitality and of the town of Cambridge. I take off your hat to you! . e in ; comes to those who are Inwardly prepared for ls a symbol of a movement that has been gathering strength from social rivulets that began forming a long time ago, with the first reactions to the excesses of the New , . , Deal. , California Southern gave him his majority in the critical primary because of 15 years' of intellectual agitation; The conservative philosophy has taken some crude forms as it has percolated downward, but this is inevitable in anything that involves mass participation. The liberal philosophy as formulated by Franklin Roosevelts Columbia University brain trusters and by poqts such as Archibald MacLeish didnt sound so elegant when it came Well tax and tax, out as Harry Hopkins spend and spend, and elect and elect. AND AS FOR John Bircher Robert Welch being off his rocker for thinking Ike Eisem bower is a Communist, 'is it any crazier than the liberals conviction that Nildta Khrushchev is a nice tame tabby cat? Republican keynoter Mark Hatfield, who attacked the, Birch-er- s, should have considered that one. , - C19M .Teacher For Rampton a teacher in the public schools, I am As vitally concerned with not inly electing a governor who wants to do for education, but who will - be in a positionsomething to do it I feel that Cal Rampton best meets this test. If Mr. Dean, being. a teacher himself, were governor, he would have a more difficult time persuading the Legislature and the people of Utah to support legislation providing adequate financial support for education. It Would be felt that he was trying only to get more money for teachers rather than to improve the educational system, and the state generally. We need for governor, in order to really do something for our schools, a friend of education from out-side the educational ranks, who can convert the gen--, eral public to our cause. Dow H. Young Jr. Perry Ave. 1430 ;; GUEST EDITORIALS ,JROM'THE ST. JOSEPH, MO., NEWS-PRES- S No one is trying to take anything away from the ballplayers who played in that record seven-hougame between the Mets and Giants. Its'a long, long time for a ball game to last But when some writers begin lauding the players as if supermen for their endurance during such a contest we are inclined to point out there are millions of men and even frail girls who work eight hours a day five days a week -- -and think nothing of It Thats 37 minutes Ipnger than that ball game In "New York lasted. r, - 4 te cc pi n Z1m lii D te c as xr Pro-Uta- h, ty Education Beg jns in his relations with reporter; he was letting by November. We may be behind now, but -- newsmen put to him the same old dreary lit- - watch us catch up. The trrck is easiIy'mas-ItJGoIdwatany of questions about repudiating the Johrf tered; all It, consists of ls putting that second i Birch Society, or letting field commanders sentence first use atomic weapons, dr scrapping the comAnother thing about moving Into the big pulsory social security system; The effort to time relates to the sixth, sense that Jells a explain what he had already explained a Kun- -' 'politician about Audiences. Barry Goldwater dred times pver kept Goldwater from ever has always been wonderful when talking to . his own supporters. But he needs some traingoing on the offensive. Bill Knowland fixed that by telling him to ing in the art of mollifying or confusing hos--, make his own news by raising new issues be-- tile critics or crowds. Fortunately, he Is learn- fore the stereotyped litany began. By the time ing here, too. His action in printing up 4,000 the California campaign was over, the lesson copies of Scrantons Insulting invitation to de- bad begun to sink in. ' ; bate, and flinging them broadcast about San Someone, of course, will have to teach Francisco as evidence that other people can be both impulsive and immature, made much Barry the oldest trick of campaign rhetoric, which is never do lead with the angry' about negative if you more sense than simply getting ' ' . are about to be quoted In a headline. Once some mean language. , , "be has, learned this, such mistakes as the OF COURSE, one can overdo this business of interview wont happen. H Spiegel . Barry " Goldwater had simply inverted his answer to giving advice to Goldwater. He has been . doing all right without much counseling by the leading question about the Republican chances for victory, he would have been in outsiders. The way his campaign peaked at the right moment both- - in the California the clear. - primary and at the( convention could be attribWARY GOLDWATER would have put it uted to luck. But as the Harvard philosopher this way: Sure, well make it a horse race Alfred North Whitehead once put it, fortune - course, confidently expects him to"put his foot in his. mouth pome time between now and November. Mr. Chamberlain And even 'some of his own most fervent supporters are uneasy ' ! . about him. The worriewor hopes, If you happen to a liberal on this score can be exaggerated. For the fact is that Barry Goldwater has been learning as he goes along. And it must not be forgotten that he has some good tutors. ONE OF THEM Is . ' er to move opposition, re r. shop," asking for socks. The- - clerk said, What color? Lincoln didnt know. Finally, he ' stooped down' and pulled up the cuffs of his trousers, saying, I guess this color is good enough for me." The clerk looked for the sock and saw bare skin. Heywood Broun was notorious for his disreputable attire, and was fondly known as the one- -' man slum. George Kaufman once' remarked that Broun looks like an umnade bed. During the first World War, Broun and some other war correspondents were presented to Gen. Pershing in Paris. Pershing took one look at the corpulent fr si "the in- Washington Q' would not wish to delegate from the merit of o By Sydney J. Harris one-side- In I the Who Cares About Fashion? - ti G R - one-thir- one-thir- a m Cannon Treated Urtfairly? man deprived of his job is also deprived of the income necessary to seek higher office. There .could scarcely be a more efficient way of crippling than by cutting off his income. 3. Mr. Melich has said, time and again, that if he becomes governor, he' will visit corporations in the East and encourage them to come to Utah. Mr. Melich and Gov. Clyde both would do well to study the responsibilities of the office of governor, and they would soon learn that visiting corporations . . is not one of them. It is my opinion that these men have controlled Utah too long, and that is why intend to. vote for BUT TO ASSURE every free na--D. James Cannon. tion which may be aggressed --L. F. Bell by a Communist power that we American Fork ' . will carry the war to the Conimunist aggressor 4s a massive A GOP 'Magna Charta' and monumental commitmentT Now the people took back the Republican Party .trust that Sen. Goldwater will from the modem me-toRepublican" spell out to the country what to to be have trill he Lodge ,et al who appropri-- take including kingmakers, steps ated it to head off Bob Taft in 1954. able to honor , that commitment . The steadfast action of the delegates in San so that the, decision can be Francisco on the platform, their deserved rebuke . taken with eyes open. to the vast brainwashing sector of commentators, ( 1W4) television, and press, and the action they took hr" nominating Barry Goldwater constitute a Magna ,s Charta for Republicans and Democrats alikr'Who want a choice and common sense " again in the conduct of their affairs Frederick P. Champ ' Citizi 3ns cl Gold--wat- .. ps BUT ABANDON the hike? ; jk great loss. the U.S.'will deploy its power. This is the kind of commitment Which Eisenhower deemed imprudent He puts troops in South Vietnam but deemed it imprudent to send U.S. troops to defend Tibet against Red China In the platform' Sen. avows that Republicans will make" clear to all Communists now supporting or planning to support guerrilla and subser-siv- e activities, that henceforth" therewinjbenoprivilegedian&L tuaries to protect those, who disrupt the peace of tito world. I am one who- - believes that' President Johnson was rightin recently serving notice on the Asian Communists that if they didnt cease their -- aggressions agfdnst South Viet Nam,' they "'Would be courting war with the" U.S. I am glad Sen. Goldwater has now made it even more -- , , explicit By ROSCOE DRUMMOND in America. No doubt additional safety precautions are possible. More education about possible danger spots and about the danger of dislodging rocks is always appropriate. Additional trail work could be done, possibly including guard chains along some of the risky spots near the summit. Per-hamore care is needed in advance plan- -ning of various rescue procedures to meet ' . possible emergencies. , ' Barry's Cold War Unique conditioning, this mass hike is one of the great and unique experiences - 'I NOT, CONSERVATIVE one-da- -- death. 1 summit ridge and the danger of falling rocks iiftjWglacier area, the trail itself is entirely safe. Supervision has been good, and the people on the hike have usually been responsible and careful. y Few hikes Jn America can ; compare with this one for , beauty and satisfaction. The trail winds through -fields of wildflowers7past filmy waterfalls, past icy, beautiful Emerald Lake, up one of the few permanent snowfields in this part of the country, and to th summit ridge where the vision stretches; from the snowy peaks of the Uintas on the east far out into the West Utah desert. For exhilaration and spiritual uplift, for -- conditions. tVgTsuM Still There IF SERIOUS THOUGHT is really being'. given to the possibility lof discontin- - ' uing the annual Timpanogos hike, one hopes the long view will be taken. , Orem boy . .. The death of a whd tumbled off a ledge near the summit is1, of course, tragic. 0ur hearts go out to his family in sympathy, as they do to par- - ' ents of so many youngsters whose love for adventure leads them to tragedy. Our thanks and congratulations, too, to all those who joined in a heroic rescue effort, particularly helicopter pilot Bill Keller, . who pulled the boy out under perilous tn ! g' . i1 y. brink of, anarchy. Just for the "sake 6f argument, sup-- racial conflict pose that the shooting of the dead youth Not so long ago it was that vague,, was not justified. Even that cannot excollective thing called society" thatwas' plain away the outburst that has left an-other Negro dead and scores of persons of .often held to blame for an individuals seems that racial tenmisdeeds. Now both races injured. sions are becoming a convenient scapeTHE TIPOFF that something besides ragoat for misbehaviorr cial hatred is at work here is the way If so, its a pretty sorry reflection onf newsmen covering these outbursts have state of our development. Psycholothe . been berated and beaten. gists. tell us that when a, child is very Not that reporters deserve special conhe invariably blames someone else, young sideration; they dont Bui anyone whdr for breaking his" toys. Later he says It honestly believes he has a genuine grievgot broken. Only when he becomes maance, and is engaging in civil disobedience ture is he able to admit I broke it. to make a point, doesnt mistreat the very WHEN ARE WE GOINGjto grow up persons who have the best chance of 1 enough in take individual responsi his cast before the public.. Its difficult to escape the conclusion, bility for 'our actions without trying to 'blame someone or something else" sup-- " therefore, that racial tensions, are merely posedly beyond ourjQntTQlLlIJntilwe-- . being used to cover up the depredations learn to hold ourselves( individually ac- 'of hoodlumsTThe "rash actsr of the emofrustration and .misery tionally immature, the misdeeds of those 1 countable,-more who have personal grudges to settle, the are in store for us. . project' Im rather jmhappy that more students and much young people arent doing this, but I ty ' The Mississippi Project Im working in a depressed neighborhood in Trenton, N.J., until I go down to Mississippi, I ; only found out recently about the publicity given in - Utah to the Council of Federated Organizations end its activities in voter registration in a letter from my parents. I also discovered that Steve Holbrook and I are the only two Utah students- - involved in the I EVEN WHEN VIEWED In the best possi- ble - lights theres no excuse- - for the. rioting thats going on in New York, It ail started when an off-dupoliceman shot and killed a Negro youth who, according to the officer, came at him with a knife, cutting his hand. Friends of the dead youth manitain that he was unarmed or reason. and was shot without-warnin- g been ah outbreak of The result-ha- s violence thafhas brought Harlem to the w u 'Off Ve Go, Info The Wild Blue Yonder BlESmiEt ItMJS ' - 7 y T , FROM MEMPHIS COMERC1AL APPEAL If the word from London is prophetic, fickle fashion is ready to drop the curtain of obscurity around miladys legs. The last time that skirts dipped to the ankles, as we recall, was in the late 1940s and of course a new crop of young women has come along with no memory of those dark ages. r Maybe Its merely a passing fancy among" the British lassies. But even if it sweeps on to Paris and thence across the Atlantic, one thing is certain: It wont last long. Older men have grown accustomed to the ups and downs of female fashion In the Western world, and they can bet that ankle ' ; skirts are good for two or three years at the most Then therell be all the fun of watching the next, act, fa) which the designers bring out their scissors again. A t - GUI Soi i pu Trl S a w C |