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Show EditorialPage Featu tald Straws in Wind on Soviet-German Relations By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst A new era of improved re ons bot he Berlin as the election site Nuclear Weapons Soviel i genero: ow approval of the ken Heinemann, Sociams from Soviet Union and West Germany may be in the making not aly without certain U.S. mi Drug Abuse Probiem in Valley Evidence continues to mount that we in Utah Valley like other areas of the state and nation—have a serious drug abuse problem. it's a problem that can neither be swept under the rug nor solved simply and quickly. Definitely it can't be left strictly up to the law enforcement officers. These men are trying, but they need your support. They need your backing up the law citizen should—and willingness to expose support in as a good that means persons who sell dope or otherwise break the law andto testify in court. It means, too, putting our own house in order, As with so many things, obedience to lawbegins in the home Testimony both of the existence of the drug problem and of the crying need for better community support of police efforts appears in a letter to the editor on this page. It was written by Richard L, Maxfield, the district attorney of the Fourth Judicial District. Whena district attorney is moved to call to publie attention (1) the rise in illegal use of drugs and (2) pathetic public support for the officers trying to do something about it, you can be assured we have a problem we'd better tackle with more vigor than has been demonstrated thus far. We can nolonger say: “Why don’t the police do something about it?” The job extends far Inflation’s Treadmill Guest “editorial” from a newsletter published by the investment firm of Goodbody and Co.; “From 1965 to 1968, gross weekly earnings in manufacturing rose nearly 14 per cent, to $122.50, with about half the increase occuring in 1968 alone. Higher Social Security taxes and the surtax, however, held the gain in average take-home pay for the manufacturing worker with three dependents to 10.3 percent. The consumer price index during the same period rose by 10 per cent, thus leaving a three-vear gain in purchasing power of only 26¢ a week.” That, in case you were wondering, is what is knownas inflation — or running as fast as you can to stay in the same plac The average worker was actually better off in 1962 thruogh 1965, the newsletter points out. more stable price livel enabled him to realize an annual average increase of more than $2 a week in his purchasing power during those years. pee ay beyond the specific borders of police work. We do not wish to portray the problem as being worse than it law-abiding. half a dozen cows valued at $350 each he has a right to squawk. The animals are hauled away in trucks and once they are on the high. waythe rustlers are obviously hard to catch, A hunderd years ago Visalia had the notorious Sontag gang, but they were highway men who robbed stages and people and entitled, I think, to a little more respect than the present day out laws. Just the other day a 79-year-old woman was robbed of her money 3 then beaten into unconsciousness. It seems to be the common practice, sheer brutality and sadism. Truck rustling was beginning before 1 left Idaho, and I heard of it in Utah and nowthatit is practiced in California the custom must be widespread. We ave accustomed to bank and store rob beries which are carried out with ndic ulous ease, but cattle rustling is going too far, I read about a load of walnuts beirz stolen and it doesn’t stir the blood like robbing a bank orstealing cattle. One offense is as bad as another, so it must be some of the glamor of the old outlawry day has been handed down. Or perhaps a worship of property no matter how il is come by has caused those who can't get it Objections to the use of West new cordig strated by the So’ dor Bonn, Semyon World Tensions while the if West Germany had he b id States welcome any step toward K. “Relax, We Have a New Safety Device Called a Bandaid!" to his new, Yes sir she just HAD to be my kind of women! I’n referring to Jennie B. Newell. Some of you may have kno fi Per whale of a sense of humor. This humor is very evident in a small book titled. But they did the right thing by getting her rhymes I was fortunate enough to receive this bock as a gift from the 19th Century Club—bless ‘em, And with Easier fast eppreach ve 10 ing, I would like to reprint one of Jennies Rhymes 1 Easter. Sec if you don’t agree that her humor is really something. —The report of Dr. Glen Brown, “THE LITTLE BROWN HI “Alittle brown hen sat on her nest Provo that there is a 20 percent » in young patients admitse of drug problems, arrests Drug Dejected, sad and forlorn. She was doing her best at the roosters request To give forth by Easter Morn.” ee “She thought about this, she pondered on thet Turned on the heat, and sat and sat. The love proud Chanticlear, who never would see, He wasn’t as young as he used to be.” are up 700 percent in the nation, he reported. “Who in the coop has had such luck?’ Said poor Mama hen andshe started to cluck Within a few days Rep. Burton plans to join several colleagues in The rooster came in a frantic hurry introducing the “Drug Abuse Ed- Pray tell me my own, why all this flurry?” oe ucation Act of 1969," a compre- “Can it be by any chance, hensive measure to help parents, students, and community officials Cluck out the truths my sulking Myrtle learn more about dangerous drugs Are you trying to say I no longer am fertile? and the effect of their use. This is commendable. Legislation can help. But at best it is only a partial answer. Individual ognition of the problem andits dangers, application of a strong effort in obeying and enforcing thelaw, and sincere attempts both to prevent violations and to punish and rehabilitate violators are primary steps. Parents must be more concerned; schools must maintain tough rules and enforce them; citizens in general must recognize Reflections you cast in your insolent glance TodayIn History Destroy Monster Before It Destroys the People Editor Herald Do you think the “quiet ma- The Almanac By United Press International Today tite for other drugs such as LSD, spzed, and even heroin. their duty to cooperate with the law and not sidestep the obligation to “get involved.” In San Clemente, Calif., a police chief upheld the law and had fe ow officers arrest his own son for possession of heroin and mi juana. This was a toughdecision for the chief, but to him there was only one honest course and jority” might be willing to act? During the past year, the re- For lack of proof that would stand up in Court as to the ports of drug usage by the young people of our community sellers »f marijuana (the purchasers are unwilling to testify in Court) the police officer: that was to carry out the law no ends with drinking parties, they are now concerned with matter who was involved. We need more people with that kind of devotion, The drug abuse problem will not go away by itself. Now is the ime for a total effort to control it. As Mr. Maxfield suggests, we'd better conquer it now before it devastates our society. ever they get in any way they can, property one owns the The less Jess reverence one holds for it. It is also true that in general reverence for property is tied in with gious ardor; has risen to alarming propor- tions, It has been stated that it is easier in our community some people having ne wealth they accumu- tied in with the amount of piety they display. Historically this is a mistake. The founders of Christianity were poor men, and those who were not were bidden by their leader to sell their goods to the poor and follow him, That is often read, but seldom practiced. A man who follows that admonition is invariably called a nut by his ownassociates. Just today I read of a young minister downin Texus whois in trouble withhis because he insisted on standpoverished Mexican-Ameri- Just possibly a men may be juciged by his fairness toward his fellow man; dope parties. One police officer recently stated to me that he had the names of 21 students in the Provo High School and the two junior high schools who were selling marijuana, If 210 are selling. how many are using marijuana? Some may question the harmfulness of marijusna, but few juana only whets one’s appe Y courage to do so eal rustlers probably had a Jot more fear of Sheriff Wiley than they ever had of St. Peter, the received from her life since the former president suffered a congestive heartfailure last Saturday “T live from day to day, from hour to hour.” stars Mercury and Mars. The evening stars are Venus, Saturn and Jnpiter. Onthis day hands.” along missed on technicalities set out by the United States Supreme Court which our District Courts must follow, and receiving no support whatsoever from the parents of the students involved, the police officers are becoming very frustrated and the Pacific Coast In 1966 a total of 32 persons died as a blizzard swept through the Great Plains. ‘Athought for the day: Ralph Waldo Emerson said, friend is a person with whom I maybe sincere, Before him, Ii may think aloud.” monster destroyed before it destroys us. Richard L. Maxfield BERRY'S ‘VORLD ———— | The opiniuns and state- | ments expressed by Herald columrists are their own ! and do not necessarily re | flect the views of this news | paper. Ls HOUSTON—Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, on opposition to the proposed anti-ballistic missile system Several passengers, expecting the train to be delayed, gotoff, The manlay still on the floor of car four, turning grey pages, It was the motorman, Tom I predict that in the to come you will see it Patterson, who began urgently fo massage the fallen man's chest. When there was no re- sponse it was the motorman whoplaced his mouth over that of the unconscious man and WASHINGTON—Secretary of R. sought to breathe some ofhis ministration plans to do in Vietnam if the Paris talks fai] to produce a settlement: the war is concerned.” The Lake St. elevated train, “the El,” loaded with commuters was Loop-bound approaching California St. When,in the fourth car back, a man in his middle 50s turned pale,let go, slumped to the floor. Nobody screamed. Nobody moved toward him. Those near him drew back in stunned silence or unconcern. The elevated guard, in that car at that time, pulled the emergency cord; the speeding elevated train screeched to a Stop at the next station. The El guard ran into the station, shouted for someone to call the police, which somebody gen, the stricken man was breathing again. Andit was the motorman who held the oxygen while the police placed the man on a stretcher and removed him toward the hospital. The delayed train resumed its run, The delayed ers, with a sigh or showed only relief guant, prestrate man out of sight, that passenga shrug, that the was now they were again on their way; they would not be too late for work The man they last saw standing alive—they last saw prone on a stretcher — in the hospital died. The motorman returned to work. When his work day was done he would make out a formalreport—onhis own time. Perhaps it should not make any difference that the passenger, Fred A. Ellerman, so long igncred there on the floor, was white. And that the man who kept himalive if only for little while in the onlyeffort to rescue him was motorman ‘Tom Patterson, 27, whois black. Tt should not make anydiffer- ence.Ii's just that you've read So much about the “demonstrations” in Chicago that I thought you should read aboutthis one, Onepair of robins could leave 3 million descendants in 16 years. or resumed reading the sports “The antidefense campaign in this country is accelerating “We are hopeful we will be Of Demonstration There was a “demonstration” of significance the other morning in Chicago. breaker, Tt was then that the motorman from four cars ahead ran back down the platform,entered the car and in an instant was on his knees beside the fallen passenger. Ripping open the man’s coat andshirt, the motorman placed his ear to the exposed chest, listening. He heard nothing. Other passengers stood and watched or sat and watched-— lack of power: “Hell hath no fury like the frustrated intellectual.” successful. But if we are not, [ A Different Kind against the dark blue of his crumpled, almosi shabby wind- akawa, hard-line acting president of San Francisco State can assure you we will have an alternative approach as far as Paul Harvey did. a BY JAMES O. BERRY College, admonishing his faculty for feeling “frustrated” bytheir Melvin to inland communities as a wartime precaution, Let us, each one, support them and then get out and really support them bygetting involved. Let's get this Helived so long and grew so rough Even his liver was stringy and tough. Could be the eggs you serve now and then Werelaid by the granddaughter of thatlittle brown hen.” Virginia Convention: “I know not what course others may take but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” In 1942 Japanese-Americans were moved from their homes After having many cases dis- “T have given the one about the little brown hen Readit over and over again The rooster she hatched that Easter Day Has raised a family and passed away. in history; it in Court. Otherwise, you will have a false arrest suit on your that stuff unless you can prove It's high time you vanished your foolish fears T've been cock of this coop for years and years.” . 8 “Just then could be heard a faint little peep Cock-a-doodly and cluck felt awfully chie For you see tomorrow was Easter Morn Peace was restored—a Spring rooster was born. eo ee Here is her sequel to that: In 1775 Patrick Henry told the SAN DIEGO, Calif —S.1. Hay- Defense are not accuse my child of selling mentandlet them know that we WASHINGTON—Mrs, Dwight D. Eisenhower, commenting on morning In 1933 the German Reichstag “You better call or write the police depart- The News The gave Adolf Hitler “blanket power” for four years. community. By United Press International first quarter. every parent called was, of the helo and support of the QuotesIn rapidly. Wanted {0 speak out against injustice, with discouraged. They are in need h an almost hysterical pitch among certain groups.” but lacked the involved answer all men in his neart. It may be the only judgement ne will ever have to face s that of his own conscience when he comes to die. 1 am sure my mind missed going to church when | could have gone, but I shall cringe before the memory of the kind deeds I could have done, but neglected; by the times I youth cers were concerned on week- by the kindness and good will toward will not be troubled by the umes 1 the selling of marijuana in hopes that they would take over and straighten out their child. The is Sunday March 23, the 82nd day of 1969 with 283 to follo, The moon is approaching its called the parents of someof for a teenager to secure marijuana ‘han to secure beer. Where formerly the police offi- can deny that the use of mari- to justify themselves in taking what- bsok form so her humor coud be preserved for posterity—if there's such a thing. assistant director of the Utah State Hospital Youth Center in dope. “Jenme Rhymes.” Her rhymes were sorted and compiled into book form by Mrs. Marilyn Newell Hicks in collaboration with Mrs. Jone Newell Vance. I assumethese two ladies are Jennie’s dave’ its illegal drug traffic and “every tried | personally—I sure wish I had because in my opinion, she had a high school and college has a nareolics problem.’ time, the West but My Kind Of Woman Le —The district attorney's disclosure (quoting a police officer) of alleged widespread involvement of students in sale and use of drugs. —Rep. Laurence L. Burton's information from the FBI that ne: ly every community in Utah has report that 15 school at one “of our nei My Kind Of Humor, The violators are a Rep. Burton. said one reaching his office showed percent of all the high students in Utah have, it more di elected rgely ceremonial, Bye Line by Jensen relatively small minority. But you can't ignore such evidence as: Modern Cattle Rustling of what a problem it was getting to be in Tulare County. When a farmer loses nterior minister in Konrad Adenauer's cabinet rather than support the have faith in our young people, the great majority of whom are 4 Cattle rustling is something that belongs to the old west and it comes as something of a shock to me to sce a picture in the local paper of Sheriff Cowboy Bob Wiley putting handcuffs on a rustler in this rich agricultural county, but there it was with an account Heine- mann’s election as West Germany’s new president, despite its actualiy is We emphasize as we have frequently done, that we _ The Chopping Block By FRANK C. ROBERTSON Stra The Soviet Union's obvious approval of Gustav " ma: ed © 1969 by NEA, Ine, QnBin. “+450 what—there werelots of millionaires who didn’t bay income taxes last year, either! own life into the silent lungs. Minutes went by; there was no perceptible response. The motorman did not give up, did not look up, continued his per- sistent, determined effort at artificial respiration until, when the police arrived with oxy- FORUM RULES Herald welcomes letters Feacers. Plrase note these rules Length lint, 250 words. Signature and adores required ver, W |