Show 4 - r- V J v' ‘Bear’ Market Shr Salt t’akf Scitmnr Page 22 A Friday Morning September 20 1963 This week commemorating the 176th anniversary of the drafting of the Consti- tution marks a high-watpoint of interest in and scrutiny of the great fundamental law of the United States Several recent events have turned the world spotlight on the Constitution notably the cruel bombing and riots in Alabama making a mockery of the Bijl of Rights and other amendments the general failure of Congress to come to grips with challenges of the 1960s creating grave doubts of its ability to function properly and the advancement of proposals which would turn the clock back to the US confederation setup of 1787 er THE RADICAL states’ rights amendments proposed and quietly pushed through several legislatures by a relatively few obscure organizations with interlocking directorates may be blocked now that the public has been aroused Their nature and the way they were quietly approved by state lawmakers “while the people slept” should serve "as a warning that our system of government is never quite safe even from those who claim to love it most - - One suggested amendment would let the states amend the federal Constitution without congressional assent Another would keep the courts from ruling on legislative apportionment And a third would establish a Court of the Union of state chief justices who could review certain US Supreme Court opinions Disenchantment with the Constitution was expressed in another quarter for different reasons recently by Senators of Arkansas and Clark of Pennsylvania In a pamphlet entitled "The Elite and the Electorate” they declared the Constitution is hopelessly outmoded and nerds drastic reform They called for giv - Ful-brig- ht Tarnished Image The government of Indonesia certainly did nothing to build its stature in the eyes of the world by its toleration— if not the outright instigation — of a violent attack on British property and people in the cap-itof Jakarta Reports indicate there was no effort to protect property and little effort to protect the lives of British residents threatened by the mob It is no excuse to say that the attack was in retaliation for the assault of Malays on the Indonesian embassy in Kuala Lumpur the day previously That Malayan violence wrong as it was was itself touched off by pri6r Indonesian attacks Mobs can all too easily get out of hand We’ve had some experience on that score in this country although not in the nature of such an attack on the property and people of another - nation It is a mark of governmental responsibility that prompt and strong efforts are made to control mob violence — and the failure to do so with all the resources at a nation’s command must be universally condemned Mob violence is no more the answer to settlement of international disputes than is the dropping of atomic bombs If a meaningful civilized society is to be maintained both massive destruction and ' mob action must be foresworn It is well that the government of President Sukarno of Indonesia has apologized for’ the incident and that order has been restored But the vicious unchecked destruction has tarnished:: the image of folPresident Sukarno as a lower of Lincoln and other advocates of democratic and resp6nsible government al Thoge Traffic Lights Editor This is not to say that the Constiis so sacred it should not be amended It should — to keep it viable in changing times But the changes should be made openly after public debate and in strict accordance with provisions and spirit of the Constitution In addition to establishing equal justice under law the Constitution undertook to create a sovereignty out of the consent of individual free men It thus defined the relation of the government to the individual Practically all changes in the fundamental law since its original framing have been in this area — the Bill of Rights' the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments— in particular It is therefore the bulwark of individual liberty carefully balanced against public authority The Public Health Service is advising all persons in the "high risk” category to be vaccinated now against influenza Flu is dangerous to persons over 45 par’ ticularly those over 65 to all suffering from chronic ailmepts such as cardiovascular pulmonary renal and metabolic disorders and to pregnant women These individuals especially are being urged to k be immfunized this fall ‘There is a antiin the of development delay bodies so the time element is important Flu vaccine for this coming winter has been modified to give greater protection against the changing strains of both A2 (Asian) and D types Even for persons not in the “high risk” category the cost and time taken for a “flu shot” are an excellent investment two-wee- Visiting Cartoonist Joseph AIsop NAM — As an indicator of the atmosphere now prevailing here nothing will serve better than the bizarre ex-1 a n a tion of Seeing for Himself several occasions The Salt Lake Tribune hasnirged Agriculture Secretary Freeman to visit Utah Watersheds and receive an briefing on the delicate- mountain-dese- rt relationships ia the Intermountain West Secretary Freeman whose background and experience have been largely concentrated in the humid Middle West was given a bird’s eye view of Some critical "Utah watersheds this" week under the ausThe pices of the US Forest Service cabinet member here for a conference - was flown over the Davis and Provo Peak watersheds where terracing and related stabilization techniques were pioneered in the 1930s He saw1 from the air the eroding land in Morgan County which will be ceded to the Cache National Forest for rehabilitation And he viewed the progress being made on the American Fork watershed project under Public Law 566 - Mr Freeman also was shown the damaged Hdbble Creek and Diamond Fork watersheds which have been in dispute but where rehabilitation work is now scheduled and he saw Strawberry Reservoir and nearby phases of the planned Central Utah Reclamation project Before returning to Salt Lake City the secretary’s party toured on the ground the Park City area where restoration work and recreational development are under way undbr the Area Redevelopment Pro- By Fletcher Knebel WASHINGTON DC — Davjd Rocke-fellurges a" peace corps of business ex-- " ecutives Rocky’s brother figures it’s about time to send overseas all those fellows wearing Goldwater buttons Russia buys $500 million of Canadian wheat in history's biggest grain deal Khrushchev says the Yanks can Wirt the pennant but they can’t get into the world cereal er Perpetual motion still eludes mankind but at least Latin America seems to have discovered the secret" of endless revolution Gen De Gaulle's lofty mysterious recent statement about the quisitions which would make some of our founding fathers' whirl in their graves Potomac Fever First Step in Face Dropping SAIGON SOUTH VIET — Amendment" The wartime (1917) Sedition Act remains on the books and the Justice Department f is sponsoring and the House has passed an amendment extending its provisions Modern citizens hardly as “rebellious” Jefferson and Patrick Henry are forcedjto submit to congressional in- Mr Freeman's record in the conservation of natural resources has been sound for the most part His tour of the representative' Wasatch mountain watersheds should give him a better understanding of the unique problems of the semi-ari- d West Times French Intrigue in Viet Nam Revealed The Smith and McCarran acts of recent vintage supported somewhat indecisively by the Supreme Court erode some liberties 'guaranteed by the First gram the Los Angele looGedAfr - during -- Time for ‘Flu Sliol’ ple If you are coming up or down 5th East and arrive at South Temple be sure you pack a lunch while you wait for a light to let you across and then go like the dickens so at least two cars can make it with you -- IN A 1959 OPINION Justice Black of the Supreme Court remarked that we as a people more than 170 years after the Bill of Rights was written have not yet decided "whether In accordance with our traditions and our Constitution we will have the confidence and the courage to be free” Would our present Constitution survive constitutional convention? A Purdue University survey in 1960 indicated that a cross section of senior high school students favored censorship third degree methods and withholding of basic freedoms from foreigners in this country This is a time to ponder the real meaning of the Constitution and whether under it we are willing to grant to others the freedoms that we value so highly for ourselves fhi- - East For a pleasant diversion try the lights on North Tem- IT SHOULD BE KEPT in mind that the Constitution was not drafted in a spirit of unanimity Only 55 of the 74 delegates chosen by 12 states took part in the proceedings at Philadelphia and of these only 39 signed the document By"l879 the first ten amendments— the Bill of Rights — had been adopted Within seven years however the Alien and Sedition Acts had scrapped the First "Amendment during a period of fear occasioned by the French Revolution Of the many editors prosecuted for criticizing the government ten were jailed Viet-names- e civil war -- De Gaulle's statement was in fact the visible part of a most peculiar iceberg Here is the much larger hitherto invisible part— which is also the really ugly part it must be added In the last year the French ambassador to Saigon Roger L’Alouette has been pne of Ngo Dinh Nhu’s most frequent visitors Judging by the account of these visits given by Nhu himself to this reporter they have usually followed a rather standard pattern Hints that the US policy of support for "South Viet Nam really conceals a plan to destroy Ngo Dinh Nhu and his brother have been combined with liberal doses of flattery of a type that might have made Louis XIV blush This preparatory process — for so it must be considered — continued until the beginning of the severe Buddhist crisis here This was the time the Communist boss of North "Viet Nam Ho Chi M i n h chose to give an interview to the stooge Communist journalist Wilfred Burchet Ho Chi Minh declared that "foreign (meaning American) intervention must cease” But in this event he added a “cease fire could presumably be arranged” and relations between North and South Viet Nam could be placed on a new footing Hard on the heels of the IIo Chi Minh inteiview there was another most curious event As President Diem himself described it to me the French delegate-genera- l in Hanoi Jacques Debuzon “wanted a little change of air” "HE ASKED If he might come down here which the Communists used to object to” President Diem contin- - Sena tor F rom Sandpit By Ham Park The Lord prefers commonlooking people That is the reason he makes so many of them — Abraham Lincoln ' The Common Man Those who make the headlines oftenest are the crusaders the reformers and the -- ’ s Probably aggressive people serve a useful crusade in the scheme of things but I think a little a p p 1 a u e is due the multitude of quiet amiable peaceful folk who seem content to remain in comparative obscurity The crusader is by nature a fighter — noisy quarrelsome and full of zeal He loves a fight for its own sake and is never so happy as when he is on the warpath The refoimer is often intolerant in direct ratio to the intensity of his zeal With fire in 'his eye and -- a club in his hand he is determined to alter the couise of things to suit his ideas though the heavens fall and chaos yawns The is often a bully With his eyes fixed grimly on his objective he tramples roughshod ovet everybody and everything in his path Results are all that matter to him These three come in for a lot of- - support from the cheering section but I’d like to raise my voice in behalf’ of the quiet unassuming chap who rarely gets his name in the paper except in Jhe obituary column He seldom accumulates money never gets anywhere socially and has no political ambitions He speaks softly and thinks people are quite all right as they are or will be- come so if let' alone In short although he’ll never set the wbrld afire he makes a good neighbor— the” kind r you find easy to “love as self” thy- Notes On Cuff Department Every now and then you meet a politician who shakes your hand before election and your confidence after A 'person should not be considered polished just because everything he or she says easts a reflection on someone --— A news item states that a man who has saved $50000 is planning to go to college Well $50000 ought to be enough if he doesn’t join a fraternity In insurance could say lingo that the you adminis- tration’s foreign policy had lapsed If you hear a man say that talk is cheap ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs the American taxpayers A scientist says that life on this planet began in hot water I like that “began” pai t City Rain Behind the rrtp-- t of whisper- - mg soft laef This silver silk so silently let fall I think tlie city wears a dreaming face And wishes not to stir or wake at all Theie is no earth tonight — no heavens — nothing But thin blown rain and rows of lamps gold-furre- And quiet people and down d going up In shining coats with faces sweetly blurred — Lola Mallatt Soaper Says World’s fairs are fun of course but we can’t think of one that gave the world anything important except for the St Louis exposition of 1904 where iced tea was ued “But this time they let him come And you know that was not the oddest thing about it either ' “ W hen M L’Alouette brought him to see me he did not have much to say except that Ho Chi Minh had quite changed his way of talking about me It used to be ‘Diem the feudist Diem the betrayer Diem the American puppet’ but now the Frenchman told me it is ‘Diem the good Vietnamese Diem who is after all a patriot’ I was surprised I must say” - - - — LIKE A diapason following a tender chord the De Gaulle statement chimed admirably with these public and private messages from Ho Chi Minh De Gaulle said that France was ready to do everything possible “to organize cordial cooperation” in Viet Nam so that all the people of Viet Nam might live “in independence” (of the Americans no doubt) and in “peace and amity” with one another— What De Gaulle proposed In fact was not very far from what Ho Chi Minh had proposed The follow-uof the De Gaulle statements was even stranger than the preceding concatenation of events the After the statement French ambassador paid a “short purely formal call” on President Diem whose own description of this meeting is here cited But he paid a very much longer call on Councillor Nhu to urge that the opportunity offered by De Gaulle should not be neglected Nor did the French ambassador’s efforts stop there “At L’Alouette’s request and urging” (again the words are Nhu’s own) the acting Polish member of the International Control Commission Dr Mieczyslaw Maneli then came to see the Councillor Besides urging upon Nhu all the arguments already urged by L’Alouette Maneli carried a personal message from the prime minister of North Viet Nam Pham Van Dong THEN DRIVE to Parleys Canyon and Foothill Boulevard where they now have a telephone so that tourists can advise their loved ones that they have arrived at the “obstacle course” into Salt Lake City There is more courtesy and less confusion at the stop on 9th South and Uth East than at all the lights in town - And why can’t the pedestrian have an equal chance Tor— survival at the crosswalks on 1st and 2ndl3outh at Regent as the ones protected by two huge overhead signs on North Temple between Main and West Temple? THE LITTLE “No Left” hanging on the Main Street traffic lights look pretty silly when a half dozen cars make left turns Why not hang a steel ribbon sign across the intersection that the poor tourist can find with his normal visiofi? If those motor officers that appear from nowhere at 5 o’clock would park their machines right smack under the lights they’d have traffic moving twice as fast and they would stop this solid line sneaking through to mess when make a four-wathe lights change Sure we’re growing and have more autos - trucks motorcycles and scooters But let’s not bottle ’em up with lights Let’s move ’em out and keep ’em moving and at reasonable distances of say eight or 10 blocks provide an ingress to a highway with a light EMERSON S SMITH Why Not Integrated? Editor Tribune: I see where the White House school bells will ring On Sept 2? for Caroline Kennedy and her first grade classmates And that the first graders mostly are the children of New Frontier friends of President and Mrs Kennedy What I am mostly concerned about is why they are not sending their children to schools with Negroes since they seem so bent on integration What’s good for the goose is also good for the gander MARIE STILES Dubious Example Editor Tribune: I have read in The Tribune that a in school superintendent New Jersey read the Bible' to over 1000 high school students at the opening of school Now this is a fine example for a school superintendent to set for This open defiance of the law will certainly create a great disrespect for law and and order in the minds of these young people Then I read of a school teen-ager- l n obey the law which is being flagrantly violated by a school board With these examples I am sure we can expect many teenage’rs to have anything but sincere respect for law and for officials which set such examples MRS M S SMART Such is the story Editor Tribune: I want to express my appreciation for the support expressed in The Tribune editorial of Sept 8 in connection with our proposals to expand the role of teacher certification to include issuing certificates of rank to teachers This ex- - Forum Rules Letters are welcome but they must bear the writer’s correct name and address to be pub- -' lished Names will be withheld on request but preference ! riven letters submitted for publication over the writer’s true name Letters are subject to condensation when space limitations require lt pressiorTcame at a crucial time and has helped solidify opinion in circles where it is badly needed I 'read with interest th expression concerning the need to take a longer look at the part of bur prop’osal that deals with requiring teachers in the lower elementary grades to attain ad-- ' vanced graduate requirement on this particular part' a period Your comment in this particular part of our proposal reinforces other responses that I have had from other sources that I respect highly I am sure we will want to give this further consideration in the formulation of any workings proposal in its final stages I believe' that recognition and encouragement of distinguished teaching are among the most important responsibilities of the State Department of Public Instruction -T H BELL State Superintendent-oPublic Instruction five-yea- r Statement Clarified Editor Tribune: The Tribune for Sept 17 reports me as saying that some Utah legislators do not know the difference between a school and a fish hatchery I would like it to be known that my remark was that “some peo- pie do not know the differ” and that it was ence not directed against legislators It was made in commenting on a statement made ! a few years ago by an official highly placed in the executive branch of the Utah state government who took the position in a discussion on the financing of education that if the appropriation for the schools were increased a corresponding increase would be necessary for the fish hatcheries I have no desire to be critical of the present Utah Legislature On the contrary in my opinion the Legislature did very well by the public schools in its 1963 session and deserves much commendation My address reported in The Tribune Sept 17 was not intended as a criticism of the Legislature but of the general public in Utah and across the nation which fails' to fully grasp the crucial meaning of education in the lives of individuals and the life of society and therefore fails to adequately commit to the purposes of education the material resources necessary to attract and keep the genuinely high level human talent and ability that we now need in large quantity' and need desperately if our schools are to adequately ful- fill their responsiblities STERLING M McMURRIN University of Utah RALLY that Councillor Nhu also remarked that he had not told his brother the President about this approach from Hanoi sponsored by the French ambassador and transmitted by the Pole He explained that it would have been passed on by President Diem to the cabinet “which would have caused a stir” This somewhat astounding detail revealing so much abouthe real relatiorUbe-tweethe two brothers was confirmed the next day durwith1 the ing President n THE FACTS all too clearly point to a French intrigue —the word is noMoo strong —rather cleverly aimed to defeat American policy here by playing upon the exacerbated vanity and manic Suspicion of US purposes which now prevail in the Gia Long palace "Don’t make It too conservative or too liberal Just middle- stuff — knock ’em dead!” A - — 1— — — — -- f POLITICAL except -- For Better Teaching e C New York liprald Tribune —— — teacher’haa the courage to By Intcrlandi w ll-- s “Pham Van Dong’s message begged me to open negotiations on the basis of Ho Chi Tfl nil’s cease-firproposal” Nhu said to me K i teacher in Idaho who quit because she refused to read the Bible to her students In tic Did ybu know that there are 21 traffic lights between 21st South and State and American Fork? Did you know that two of them protect dead-enstreets? Have you tried the lights on 7th East? When you are at 8th South and the green goes on at both 8th and 9th you’d better "hit the gas” so at least two cars can make it through 9th South Or try the light at 1st South and State going east Again if your crate will do 40 in 10 seconds you might make the green light at 2nd tution Freedom has been-shelv-ed other times of stress- - This is Tribune: tire stuiy uf ing the President increased power and weakening congressional authority to block his programs On - By Our Readers HowJVIueli (Toiislitutional Freedom l r- The Public Forum t — Russrll In r j i - |