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Show Editorial Poge Feature By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah SUNDAY, MARCH9 1969 The Spanish Catholic Church is giving Generalissinio Francisco Franco some new and Potentially serious opposition. It could be serious because the church, along with the army Triumph in Rail Efficiency When a railroad can reducethe number of rail cars from 1050 to 625 on a freight operation and sull move the same ¥ lume © coal — that’s efficiency This is what Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad has achieved through an innovation known as the unit train system in hauling coal from three mines to Geneva Steel Werks. The new system, worked out by Rio Grande in cooperation with Geneva, was hailed at ceremonies during the week involving top officials of both the vad and US. Steel plus a lot of officials of the county, cities, Uvida, chambers of commerce, etc. Governor Kampton was here in Provo to help celebrate and he had some good things to say about the cooperation and ingenunity that went into the planning of the new system. Rio Grande and Geneva Works, the governor noted, are two of Utah’s “finest corporatecitizens” and once again have demonstrated their faith in the future and in steel-making here. Gov. Rampton reminisced a bit about the occasion four years ago Tell Them, Mr. President President Richard M. Nixondid morelistening than talking on his present tour of West Europe. But in Bonn he spoke up loud and clear for the benefit of the Soviet Union andits reaffirm :g¢ U.S. commitments to German reunification and West Berlin's freedom. The latter is especially crucial in the light of the menacing ges- when, with Geneva’s Both Rio Grande and U.S. Steel share in the savings. The civil Basque province of Guipuzcoa has been under emergency rule strikers demanding an end to The Vatican has made no It arises from repressive measures being taken by the Ss, reimposed censorship on the press and gave the police since August, the archbishop of the state of emergency and higher wages Six bishops of southern Spain secret of its displeasure with San Sebastian spoke out against It step in the campaign eva customer is now Ever get angry? Sure you do! Everybody does—at one time or another. But controlling it that's something else. As a matter of fact, that’s the biggest problem we have in losing tempers. Trying to control it To illustrate the point, I recall when I was a young lad (whi is getting harder to do with each passing year), rid'ng my bike a long way from home, Being rather late and wanting to get bome before dad broke-out the razor strap, I peddied like sixty per. As luck would have it, I hit a large rock that turned the front wheel sharply at a right angle. Needless to say, | went flying through the air with the greatest of ease. After the dust had settled, I soon discovered that the sensation in my arms was nothing morethan the absence of skin on myforearms. Wanting to cry, I quickly decided against it because mother wasn’t around to sympathize, so mytears turned to anger. Running full speed, I laid my foot inte the rock with a kick that would have put an ordinary football in orbit. Now if anyof you have ever kicked an immovable object with sneakers cn, you KNOW that a little canvas and a piece of rubber provide absolutely NO protection whatsoever, Man-oh-man,it hurts! Again the tears turned to anger and the next thing I knew, I was stomping on the front wheel of my bike until it looked like a pretzel. Then I made startling discovery. Bicycles don’ roll with front wheels bent out of shape. So what did I do? I carried the dang thing home—that’s what I did. One thing about carrying though—it gave mea lot of time to think about anger and how I could best prepare my bottom for what was waiting. challenge comes from a newlarge diameter pipe mill going in at In the Mailbag Orange, Tex. So, while Geneva’s production last year was high, the future outlook is not completely optin Back to the unit train This servive, with its remarkable effi- Brigham YoungU. Thriveson‘Bias’ Editor's Note: Mr, and as- Mrs. Larry Haines submit- sures Geneva Works of a constant, dependable, and more economical ted the following for reprint in the Herald. The column by Jenkin Lloyd Jones, edi tor of the Tulsa, Okt i bune and a nationally dicated columnist, appeared supply ofcoal. It’s a new milestone achieved; anotherstep in the search for the level of efficiency that can overcome barriers facing an intermountain steel operation whose principal market is 700 miles. away. Congratulations are due both Rio Grande Railroad and U.S. Steel. Europe. He was learning the hard way. but the violent means taken to enforce the demands are surely sinister. Whether the educational system will withstand the assaults is in doubl, but even more crucial is whether the students themselves will survive. Now that chickens are hatched in incubators 1 wonder if the hens have lost their maternalinstinct. Life is still a struggle for survival. I have been watching a mocking bird From my study window back in Maple- cais are also interested observers. If ton where a lot of them hatched in the they can bring it about no mockingbird picking up things to build her nest in the hedgerow along the fence. Our three used to take off from the will ever get far from that nest if it poreh,sail across the lawn, the roadway ever gets built. The young militant students want nothing to ao with the pan-fedlife. They assume that only they have wings to fly in the skies of thought and their In a day or so they were out in the big. wide world, flying over the tree- vice president of Valtek Inc. these days, and one such campus is that of Brigham Young University out in Provo Utah, The academic process is ing in high gear. The ‘y been born chickens their wings would have been useless, but they would have been fed in security until the day came for them to go into the pot. The birds had all the best of it. A clucking hen trying to cover her chicks from danger has long been a symbol of anxiety and worry. | recall a smal! boy « with skit writers and hopeful performers. There are incidentally. no pickets at the gate. The president’s office is occupied by the president, not an ad hoc committee. There are no unwashed characters presenting ultimata and irreducible demands, And this is not accidental. It is by design. Last summer BYUPresident Ernest L. Wilkinson sent a letter to the parents of all prospective students explaining that BYU is a very biased institution — biased in favor of good conduct, fair play and hard work. He pointed out rather bluntly that nobody had to go short period they would conduct is to abdicate our role as educators, and we intend to that things didn't have to change and Whether they survived or not wasn't theatricals are busy and the television laboratory is stuffed spend in its environment. “Wefeel.” he wrote, “that to The complavent are not going to be the leaders of tomorrow. The blind faith they enjoyed it. Had they College ‘They can’t Indulge irresponsible student tops; dipping. soaring, and quite often coming to grief. It was a miniatureof important. They were born free and to use in Antarctica. that the Negro race could be held in humiliating subjection was directly re sponsible tor the worst of the riots. The Establishment that was built to preserve special privilege is under fire all along tne line and the racial issue is only incidental. A lot of good breath is wasted preaching brotherhood to those who have no more in common than a cat and a mockingbird—but even these can cometotolerate each other if they are wary. asked be more exacting than ever to assure the maintenance of law and order and the development of Christian ladies and gentlemen on our campus.” Then last Sept. 26 President Wilkinson made a speech to the studentbody. “The refusal of past and present students of BYU to yield to mob psychology and your pride in the appearance of yourselves and this campus are qualities for which we sajute you. You are here to build, not destroy, this university,” sharp contrast to repeated demonstrations where it tries to impose its will on the majority by riot, sabotage and disruption. There’s nothi ing in my contract that says I have to be stupid. Permission refused.” I, personally, have some rather radical ideas about the right of students to be heard in university affairs. the same as the effort to canonize pot or free love, to batter down admission standards, to ods,” he told them, “stand in Things are jumping on a lot npl weeks that it favors democratic meth- By JENKIN LLOYD JONES of few The pretestations of the SDS going to be more life to whom the separation from guar dians must surely come. emerges Wilkinson’s office and for official recognition, turn the carpus into a jungle without having to survive by the law of the Jungle. know. never University Thrives on ‘Bias’, it was clipped by a friend and ma‘led to Mr. Haines, a Democrat!ic Society appeared at very flop they catalog, from his laboratory while the represented the Students for a miss the bush and hit the ground with b the But these frustrations are not to BYU and that people with other aims and standards wouldn’t be happy during the feliless than course he should be teaching notions to rise. later six students who said they efforts are laudible though many of them apparently are being deceived by chicken hawks. Like the fledglings who had_ contr: in a Houston, Tex. paper. Headlined “Brigham Young And the able curator of the All he could do wes sod out manfully, “T can whip any old hen in this coun- ger that arises when the eminent professor, advertised in presided over by a graduate assistant who is just two pages ahead of the class. paleontological museum has hired a felicopter to fly him to a nearby mountain peak so college without qualification are funny, He asked that all who agreed with these sentiments please stand. Apparently everybody did. Then ed for all who Nobody did. Nevertheless, one thousand young people hurry between classes. The field house is packed for basketball. probably a mixture of all three. Most of the “demands” such as admission to Morcillo and his close ties to Franco, Can Hurt A Fella its own plate mill. Still another —Denis Healey . Britain's minister of defense, i supporter of ble, authorized parish collections te help families of 18,000 Losing Temper Sure If We Just Shook Hands!” putting in We can withdraw our forces from the Far East but we cannot tow the British Isles away from hop Msgr. Casimiro as more political than charita- Bye Line by Jensen “Maybe We'd Impress ‘em More to and all he could see was a flurry of feathers, a beak and spursin his face. it to the bush were as cocky and impu- basic keep Geneva competitive in the battle for the West Coast markets. Mr. Sundquist’s remarks left no illusions about the tough row that still lies ahead. The tide of Japanese steel flowing into the Pacifie Coast continues to rise, represeatte a serious challenge, he said. A Northwest steel company which has been a good Gen- The most talked about thing in the country todayis the revolt of youth. To dent as birds could be, while the ones who had to land on the porch were crest-fallen and dejected until the next flight suspended unit train, you might say, is the more protest was not made public but it was believed aimedin part at ity and of anguish.” The archbishop of Bilbao, in a move regarded by the regime three months railroad! s contribution to the rors Zero” program. This cooperative move represents one some it is amusing; to others sinister: to most of us just perplexing, and it is just outside my window which had carried some reddish berries all winter it was a test of mettle. Those who made them regarded as one of the three that he maytest out a tent of his invention which he intends and ditch and land in a big cherry tree. After resting a bit for the return journey where the objective was a bush of the number will drop even further to about 390 — when the new system is fully implemented. who tried to pick up a newly hatched chick being beset by the mother hen. He was crowded up against the wall attic they many Geneve coal hauling from 1050 to 625 constitutes a big saving. And The Bird or the Cat Ina sense they arelike fledgling birds and spoke of the two companies’ “mutu of interest and of the satisfaction achieved in the unit train plan Railroad cars are expensive. To cut the number in the mines-to- The Chopping Block_ By FRANK C. ROBERTSON arrested also joined the protest against emergency rule. The text of the ment last Jan. 24 to last for teems with students. Twenty- “4 of power” and decried the “atmosphere of fear, of insecur- general superintendent at Geneva, cient equipment utilization, the word from an unimpeachable source that the West will not give in to its blustering. Another presidential PEOnoUne?: ment — this one made eariier London — deserves mention. fer restating America’s faith in the Atlantic Alliance, Mr. Nixon we ed that the European membe of that partnership better start shouldering more of the defense burden. As he pointed out, a growing number of Americans resent the heavy load thrown on the U.S. Unless ourallies want to feed this revival of isolationist sentinent, they would be wise to take the President's words to heart. (See Cartoon below.) errors and sins in the exercise arrest, Under it, more than 250 lawyers, workers, teachers, journalists and others have been delcared by the Franco govern- pillars of Spanish stability. jeopardized by freight costs, he called in the four railroads which haul the plant's raw materials and products, All quickly agreed to immediately work out the rate iction. “We didn't go before the ICC,” said the governor. “We didn’t need any rate hearings. The railroads saw the need and did what was necessary. G. B. (Gus) Aydelott, president of D&RGW, and Ray Sundquist, Sweeping powers of search and deported to remote areas of Spain. Emergency Rule In the orth, where the and Franco himself, has been markets regime under its “state of exception’'to curb unrest among students, workers and a grow. ing numberof professional men The state of exception is equivalent to a state of ‘gency or siege and was prance naked in student shows or to freeze on the payroll professors who counsel treason and race warfare. Faculties and administrations which struggle to seek ‘‘meaningful dialogs” and “areas of agreement” with outfits that have plainly spelled out their determination to rule or ruin will get A for effort, but F for sophistication. If a college is to survive the cynical assaults I believe of today it has to have the guts that every semester students should be allowed to grade the content of their courses and the effectiveness of their professors on confidential unsigned form sheets, one copy to go to the dean and the other direct to the president. I remember my own frustration at baloney courses fash- ioned out of long-dead doctoral theses and delivered by mummies. I can understand the an- to lay down some value judgments Old Brigham Young thought he knew a sinner when he saw one. That may be why his namesake university is still happily teaching school. An excavation in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1961 revealed a store of nearly seven tons of nails abandoned by the Romans between A.D. 87 and 90. “Push!” o So how do we conquer anger? Norman Vincent Peale says: “An outburst of anger leaves us feeling drained and ashamed. Even when we believe we have a right to get mad, we know Inside we are a lesser person every time we lose our temper. “A resolution not to do so again isn’t enough. We need to condition ourselves by taking certain practical and spiritual steps to control anger. Here are a few suggestions: © Rememberthat angeri: hot emotion, Coolit before it breaks loose. As emotion rises, send cooling thoughts through your mind. Focus on cool places you like to visit. © Uncontrolled anger requires a loud or intense veice. Keep your volume low. Nobody can get very mad in @ whisper. © If you feel rage coming on and think that counting to ten is silly, say the first ten words of the Lord’s Prayer, or continue through the entire prayer. Or just repeat the words, ‘With God's help, {°ll skip it. “Anger is usually the accumulated vehemenceresulting from a lot if minor irritations. To get at the root of anger, make list of all the little things that irritate you, no matter how inconsequentialor silly they may seem. Through applied faith and prayer, gain a victory over each of these irritations one at a time, The idea in doing so is to dry up the tiny rivulets that feed the great river of uncontrolled anger. Make this drying-up process a dayby-dayspiritual exercise, and in time you will have contro! over anger. . . That makes sense, doesn't it? Paul Harvey Garrison Overran Discreet Judgment Maybe Jim Garrison made an honest mistake. It was a pretty stupid mistake, but even a district attorney is entitled to at least one of those. But Garrison's effort to cover up his own blunder with sustained persecution and an abortive prosecution of innocent citizens constitutes an inexcusable abuse of his office. Perhaps. in the beginning the New Orleans district attorney sincerely believed there had been a “conspiracy to assassinate Presiden Kennedy.” It’s obvious now that he based that suspicion on hearsay accounts of reats,” That's where lie overran his headlights. In the weeks following the Bay of Pigs debacle—when U. S. airpower was withheld and Free Cuba invading forces were slaughtered and captured by Castro—tkere was much anger and resentment among Cuban refugees and their friends in the United States. Wherever they got together, in, Miami or New Orleans many, after a drink or two, expressed resentmentin words. I dare say manyvolatile Latins may have repeated the phrase, “Somebody'd ought te kill so- and-so!”’ Such an utterance does not constitute a ‘‘conspiracy,” and any man—certainly any attor- ney—should have known that. Yet such a remark was the principle basis for Dist. Atty. Garrison’s subsequent attempt to prosecute a prominent New Orleans businessman, Clay Shaw. Garrison's star witness, Perry Russo, hadso little recollection the conversation he thought he had overheard that his inemory had to be prodded with hypnosis, And then, on the witness stand, Russo admitted that he. himself, had never considered the conversation he'd overheard to constitute a plot to kill anybody. He did not even consider the mn serious, “else I v ve reported it to police at the time.” He could not even be sure that the defendant, Clay Shaw, was a party to the conversation he thought he'd overheard. As the Garrison “case” began to crumble, Russo conceded that it was “the most blownup and confused thing” he'd ever seen. By now you know the rest of the story. But what of Garrison? What of the district attorney who publicly Isbeled men guilty — forcing them to prove themselves innocent — in a court room iravesty diametrically contradicting the very fundamentals of jurisprudence? Garrison deserves, at least, an official slap across mouth! the Lawyers are always reluctant publicly to reject one of their own, but if the American Bar Assn. does not take appropriate action in publicly reprimanding Garrison, then, Louisiana politics being what they are, he may yet convince enough voters that the “‘conspirators in Wash. ington” withheld vital evidence, And that he, the persecutor, is the persecuted. ‘Then, on a pile of old newspapers, this man whodisgraced his office may climb to new political heights. |