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Show Editorial Page Feature tala Sihanouk Getting Ready to Mend Some Fences Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah By PHIL NEWSOM Wrote Cambodian chief of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk Nox another of those twists was bringing him back to a in March, United States, with which he severed all aid relations in November, 1963, and diplomatic relations in May, 1965. The toppling and assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem of neighboring Scuth Vietnam had shaken Sihanouk intention achool levies and municipal issues —aunderstandable but short-sighted behavior which in the long run arm them, their chileir communities. however, growing awareness among Americans that eld belief in the essenss of the federal income tax laws is mistaken, Rather than being a progressive em, which takes most from those who earn the most, it is actually quite otherwise. Although they were not designed that way, the tax laws in practice work to make the rich richer becauseof a variety of loopholes, dodges and shelters. In 1966, four Americans with incomes over $5 million paid not one cent in federal income taxes. In 1968, 81 persons with incomes in excess of $100,000 paid no taxes. These are rare exceptions, per- Interstate Roads Paying Off The nation’s multibillion-dollar investment in the Interstate High3 tem continues to pay off in its most important benefit — the saving oflives. During 1967, 2.90 persons were killed for each 100 million vehicle miles of travel on Interstate freeways, says the Federal Highway Administration's Bureau of Public Roads. This compares with 5.66 on other roads, The 1967 Interstate fatality rate was a decline from 1966's rate of 8.08. Death rate on all highways in 1967 was 5.34, also a decrease from the all-highway rate of 5.55 in 1966. In rural areas, the Interstate fatality rate in 1967 was 3.68 per 100 million vehicle miles; on other roads it was 7.58. In urban areas, the Interstate rate was 2.12, compared with the non-Interstate rate of 3.80. The nonfatal injury rate on Interstate highways was also onethird of the rate on other roads. Statistics can be boring, but not when we reaiize that these translate into thousands of persons alive today who might not otherwise be, and tens of thousands of others enjoying good health who might otherwise be hospitalized. haps. But consider this: More than 1.000 persons with incomes over $200,000 paid the same portion of their total income in taxes as did the typical person in the $15,000 to $20,000 income group. The majority of taxpayers in the $500,000 to $31 million income group paid as smal! a proportion of their incomes in taxes as did most taxpayers in the $20,000 to y more than for Washington It was another in the twists and turns of Sihanouk that from outsiders had won for him unflattering descriptions ranging as one of Southeast Asia's most astute politicans, incomes of more than $5 million paid only half as much tax, proportionately, as those with onetenth as much income. Even more significant is the fact that taxlessness among those with incomes of more than $1 million has ‘ncreased five-fold in the past 12 years, according to Philip M. Stern, author of “The Creat Treasury Raid.” For those with incomes greater than $200,000, tav'essness has increased sevenfold. Tax loopholes serve a purpose and each can undoubtedlybe justified. Cities, for instance, might have a difficult time selling municipal bonds if the low, but taxexempt, interest they pay were to be made taxable. But there is something seriously amiss with a system that can take more from an individual on the poverty level than it does from a millionaire, that can even enable a man to report a negative income on paper when his actual incomeis in the hundreds of thous sands of dollars. Perhaps the most striking example of how this can be done is to borrow moneyto invest in real estate, claim the allowed depreciation (even though the property may actually be ‘acreasing in value) and use this “loss,” plus the deducted interest on the loan to offset other income. Every dollar in taxes avoided by the wealthyis noihing else but a dollar in subsidy paid by the nonwealthy to support tbe wealthy. There should at the very least be some way to gauge — and fairly tax — the real earnings of every citizen. But there will not be until and unless enough aggrieved citizens demandit. Defense spending is out of control... The result is a system not unlike the medieval knight who was so encased in armor that he was unable to move. We are now ao surfeited with excesses that we are almost unable to fight. —Sen. William Proxmire, D- Wis. é How Times Don’t Change drove ar one side of the court1 pointed to a high window on > top loor. there all right,” Father said. re are the rope s where the mob hanged those two boys.” It was the folklore of childhood I have never rgotten it, ie summerbefore we had seen an old man ith a flock of geese. As Father white marks on the old us he had known and method it could have haj day. The story spread ) that this old her life. He was a quiet. pleasant man who often let me ride with him. I wanted to ak him about the brother who had been hanged, but could never bring myself to do so. I have never forgotten this man nor the white streak on the jail window. I only knewthat he carried a tragedy around with him like a bag on his shoulder of in New Jersey that had the case in Washington, What cameout of both cases, and from meny similar ones, for they were far more frequent only a few years ago, was a loss of human dignity. I felt it as a kid; felt even then that the big loser had to be the participant in a mob more than its victim. When there is a riot and somebody gets killed the old cry for mob vengeance arises and we retreat a little farther into the jungle which was so hard to break out of as man struggled with his environment. Progress is so dearly bought, yet is so cheaply thrown away. Mobocracy hung over the world for centuries, and we say, as we say about other things: it can’t happen now. But use them. Two or three years later my father joined up with a couple of other wagon tramps to haul wheat from the rimrock of Snake River down to the wharf where the grain was transferred President Nixon has warnedthat it could lead to n war if it is not checked, Anyone should be able to see it, The riots we have can lead to national suicide. here was sheer drama in my oolorless overthrow. From 1955 to June 30, 1963, US. economic aid to Cambodia had totaled $355 million and military aid $84 million, includ- ing 40 per cent of the payroll it does. Guerrilla war is costing lives all over the world. In places it is a respectable form of warfare. Arabs and Jews have recently legalized terrorism by executing any enemy they maycatch. South Vietnam and Thailand. Sihanouk no longer was 30 sure that North Vietnam and Red China were the future masters of the South and of Laos as he had once predicted, son has teenage children. He laid it on the line to the teenager who expressed the crass opinion of some youths that society has done nothing for them “To start with, you’re ulive. Very much alive. You're wellfed, well-housed, well-clothed, well-educated, in superb health, vastly entertained, And you're safe, All of this you've been given.” This could very well be the answer to the sense of guilt that the older generation has been made to bear by so manydiscontented youth! As Harry Watson told his teenager: ‘(Compare yourself almost any other part of the world. How manyof the world’s children even live long enough to become teenagers? How manyare well-fed? How maty are in good health?” with your contemporaries in How many indeed! I don't beieve there's a place on earth that could begin to approach the good life our American teenagers enjoy today—yet, take it for granted. So why, then, with all this ‘good life’ — are our teenagers rebellious, ungrateful, and restess? Harry Watson thinks he knows. “Unfortunately, your have receivedall of these good things without a point of reference. You really don’t know what the bad things are. And you may never find out if we continue to pamper you.” I don’t believe there are too many of us that would deny the fact that we lavish our kids with material blessings. By so doing, we are probably depriving them of the thing that we older generation hold dear — fulfillment that comes from successful efforts. Today In Mr. Watson says: “it has been said too often — and thus has becometrite and suspect — that many in our generation are thankful that we grew up in poverty or grew up during the depression years. Nevertheless, we did gain from those years of personal deprivation. It gave us a point of reference, per- History Youth, 12, Supports NASA MannedSpacecraft Program Editor Herald: base when once explored, will “With all of the propellants, instrument units and the cost, why land a man on the moon, what good will it do us?” is a question some people ask. Wouldn't it be worth it though, if we were to communicate with beings on another planet? “But astronomers and experts say that there is positively no intelligent life on the moon,” is the reply I might get. There may not be, but still we must Jand on and explore the moon before we go on to other planets. Why? Because the moon is the closest heavenly body to the earth. It, as a Sasso lead to future shots to other planets, without the friction of atmosphere to slow down the ship. This will also help the cost to go down because without the friction of air it will take less fuel to launch the vehicle. Therefore, other planets (some may not have been discovered yet!) we wili be able to get to faster and maybe we wil] find intelligent life there. I fully support NASA’s manned spacecraft centers program. Rickie Feguson, 12, 264 Orchard Ave., American Fork Film ‘Charly’ Great; Reader Offers Plaudits QuotesIn Editor Herald: By United Press International SAN FRANCISCO—Radio call alerting police that six men calling themselves Sioux Indians There hasn’t been a movie this good in Proyo, to my knowledge anyway, for a long, were on a drunken rampage through downtown San Francis- funny, heart-warming, beautiful, sad, and exciting all rolled up into one fine movie! Cliff Robertson deserves his Oscer. Let's have more movies in Provolike this one. Vera Ivie “Beware of a pack of wild Indians.” SAIGON—Spec. § Thomas H. van Putten, to the crew of an ican helicopter which resn when he escaped after lt ths of captivity by Communist troops: "J love you! I love you!” long time. I think everyone should see Charly! It's a clean, BERRY’S ‘WVORLD spective.” The Almanac By United Press International Today is Sunday, April 20, the 10th day of 1969 with 255 to follow. The moon is between its new phase and first quarter. ‘The merning stars are Venus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter. The evening star is Mercury. On this day in history: In 1903 Andrew Carnegie gave $1.5 million for the construction of the Hague Peace Palace in the Netherlands In 1926 a picturegram of @ bank check sent from London to New York by RCA was honored and casned. It marked the first time a bank honored a check not actually in its possession. In 1959 Cuban Premier Fidel Castro was given the red carpet welcome in New YorkCity. In 1968 South African Airways jetliner crashed killed 122. A thought for the day: Anatole France said, “To know is nothing at all, to imagine is CRUZ, “All he wants fs a little bit of affection, but sometimes gets carried away.” MUNICH, Germany (UPI)— bile Association reported today, It said a survey showed that hippies had fewer car accidents than other motorists. Paul Harvey Vietnam Proves Most Tragic Error strode then grabbed his son by the arm and said, “Let's get started by cleaning up your room!” were part of a national organi- | ments expressed by Herald columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of this news | paper. * a BY JAMES O, BERRY forward, applauding, Tf you're over 40, that’s funny. Tt you are under 25, it’s not very. And the problem is that too many of us adults have been trying to “clean up the world” while neglecting our own home front. I believe that is going to lange. FormerState Secretary Dean Rusk says he sees “on the horizon the first signs of a re turn to isolationism.” So do I. In Congress there is increas- ingly outspoken opposition to the Vietnamese war. Rep. Paul Find!zy (R-Ill.) calls for “immediate withdrawal of U. S, Nps." He says he is aware that Some would consider withdrawal a “camouflaged surrender unworthy of our nation,” On Calif—Assl- their clothing: T echo Mr. Watson's remarks. I can swallow the long hair, the beards and moustaches, maybe even a pair of sandals—but I sure can’t swallow thecriticism of our society by a bunch of young punks who haveno idea of the sweat, toil and guts it took to make this country whatit is today. If anyonehasthe right to criticize jt should be those who have had ‘tough-sledding’ and mountains of hard work in making this a better world. In my opinion,it is those people who have the right .0 criticize — and to ask youth to stop whimpering, take up the burdens and geton with the business of improvinglife. —————— | The opinions and state- flag in existence is at Benning- home without a “T just got tired of seeing hospital rates go up every ime you turn around.” SANTA __Mr. Watson adds, ft takes mo special intelligence to he critical, and God knows there is plenty to be critical about, “but to be critical without being positive, without making some effort — even on your own behalf — is to be a leach.” ton Historical Museum, Bennington, Vt. Oldest “Stars and Stripes’”” her fifth child at stant Poundmaster Hollis Worexplaining why Mech Mosse’s pet lion sometime: knocks people down and rips the sense of values that come with such experience. But, if they won't listen to those who have been through it where else can they acquire a sense of values? forces, opposition borders on everything.” PORT ANGELES, Wash— Mrs. Harry Reynolds, who delivered Certainly neither you nor I would want our children to suffer through a major depression — or a major war — just to learn Did you hear about the college freshman on a soapbox, agitating: “Join me und clean up the world’? His father, paying an unexpected visit to the campus, Tf you haven’t seen tt yet do Hippie drivers live longer than nermal ones because their cars usually are painted bright colors that can be seen from afar, the West German Automo- onymous. If there is evil it is because y someboug respect Cambodian neutrality and its existing frontiers wih in 1964, Sihan- society!” Harry M. Watson, a Seattle businessman, knows. Harry Wat- METHOD IN MADNESS the rest of mylife. Or maybe I was just US. caution in acceding to his demands that the United States Subsequently, ouk was to describe Red China as Cambodia's “No. 1 friend.” In 1968 came a change in the atmosphere. vg Answers For Youth “They ought to be shot,’’ are words not uncommonlyheard. The complacent ac- ed that bravery and violence are syn- were violating Cambodian air space. He was irritated over Frontiers with both were in dispute. How do you answer a teenager who says, “I owe nothing to ceptance of violence can lead to so many crimes it should be frightening. I know that I camejust close enough to it as a kid to make meafraid of it a plain coward, but I have never believ- His diplomatic break in the A Man With Some co: s later I read about a sensational overtones mit must have money and the two boys attempted to force him to give it to them. They beat him to death, a mob ‘ed them from the top floor of the jail, and a small boy wondered what Kind of men they could have been er their names but shall not to the small steamers that took it down to the ocean. “ta astination of the wheat was of m ess interest to me than the name of one of the new grain haulers, for he was an older brother of one of the boys who had been hanged from the Whitman Countyjail. Bythat time I was eight or nine and barrassed haste of the United US. Central Intelligence Agency of plotting for his own for Sihanouk’s 30,000-man army. United States came on two counts. He charged that South Vietnamese and U.S. warplanes Bye LinebyJensen The News At nearly five years of age I was & seasoned wagon tramp and I remember a three-point episode that covered several years. We lived in the Palouse Country of eastern Washington. The t city T had ever been in was s the seat of Whit man Cou st have had three or four th ople. My father profoundly, as had the unem- States in recogniing Diem's successors. In his renunciation of $90 m) n annua! U.S. economic and m ary aid, he accused the $50,000 category, and those with } The Chopping Block By FRANK C. ROBERTSON restoration of relations with the @ 1969 by NEA. Ine. Wel, another April 15 is past and the “taxpayers’ revolt” that former Secretary of the Treasury Joseph Barr warned about last January has yet to materialize If there is a revolt at all, it is going onat the local level, where fed-up taxpayers are voting down “We have no ng for Hanoi or Peking Tax ‘Subsidies’ for Wealthy 1968: the contrary, says Congressman Findley, “it is an unworthy war and additional casualties will not erase our mistake.” Sen, Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) respectfully withheld criticism during the first months of the Nixon Administration. Now he urges our President ‘‘not to do anything which would proiong or intensify this tragic, senseJess and costly war.” Never in Americanhistory has the foreign policy of our ‘“government of the people” been 80 generally opposed by “the people.” Even within eur armed mutiny. Nine soldiers at Fort Jackson, Sc, court-martialed for participating in an antiwar protest meeting, revealed that they zation of “GIs united against the war in Vietnam.” At Fort Belvoir, Va., several enlisted men are publishing and distributing an antiwar newspaper. The soldier-editors Teport increasing acceptance of their paper among Gls on the base. This reaction is apparent beyond our own borders. The antiwar sentiment is apparent in student demonsira- tions the world over. In Russia, a prominent intellectual, Ivan Yakhimovich, dared to speak out against Soviet occupation Czechos'ovakia. Russia, less lenient with dissenters than we, promptly arrested and jailed YakhimoVich for ‘‘slandering the Soviet Union.” So the resentment and restiveness of today's enlightened school-agers cannot all biamed on Reds or Blacks — though they do use this grievance to increase agitation for their own objectives, What we are witnessing worldwide is what Mr. Rusk called a “return to isolationism.” I prefer to think of it as renaissance of enlightened selfinterest. We've been long enough trying to “clean up the world’ without each of us first cleaning up his own room, Personal income rose to an average of $3,197 for the entire U.S. last year, for a total od $800 bullion, |