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Show Editorial Poge Feature Dedicated to the Progress And 7 GrowthofCentral Utah SUNDAY, JUNE "Youth’- A New Era of Life Much is made of the fact that half the nation’s population is under 20 years of age. This is often suggested as the explanation of student unrest. But in all historical eras, the vast portion of the population has always been under 30, counters psychologist. In primitive socie- ties, most people sie before they reach that age. If chronological youth alone was enough to insure rebellion, the advanced societies — where more of the population reaches old age thanever before in history —should be the least revolutionary and primitive societies the most. This is not the case, says Kenneth Kenniston, associate professor of psychology at Yale Medical School, More relevant factors, he says, are the degree of involvement of those under 30 with established institutions of society and the opportunities that society provides for their continuing intellectual, ethical and emotional development. It is difficult for us to believe it now, but until the end of the Middle Ages, no separate stage of childhood was recognized in Western societies. Infancy ended at 6 or 7 (the “age of reason” in Catholic teaching), whereupon thildren were integrated into adult society to work as junior partners ef the adult world. The recognition of adolescence as a separate stage of life is of «ven more recent origin, the pro- duct of the 19th and 20th centuries. Only as industrial societies became prosperous enough to defer adults work until after pub- erty could they create institutions —like widespread secondary school education—that could extend adolescence to virtually all young people. Today, in more developed nations, we are beginning to witness the recognition of still another stage of life. Kenniston calls this the stage of “youth.” This stage, which continues into the 20s and sometimes the 3Us, provides opportunities for intellectual, emotional and moral development that were never afforded to any other large group in history. In the student revolts, thinks Kenniston, we are seeing one re- suli of this. Whatthe advanced nations have done is to create their own critics on a mass basis. Young people in college have been freed from the requirements of work, of gainful employment and even of good relationship between the boss and the hired man. Oh, I know it wasn’t always good, but occasionally it was. In the present mass production process it isn’t possible though after an em- ployee grows old and gray in service he and a few other old pelters may be given a banquet and a small gift of appreciation. When I worked for wages I knewthe boss well enough to like him as a man, or to hate his guts, and I worked for both kinds. A good measure of a boss was one who would buy an employee a beer if they happened to meet in town. I worked like a dog for my first boss when I was 11 years old. He deserted his family and ran away with another woman and I never goi a cent of my summer's wages. I was 14 when I began to work for a Mormon bishop who seldom spoke — I’ve since thought it was because he might swallow his chewing tobacco — and he worked me like a man and paid me a man’s wages. He taught me the meaning of trust, andI honor his memory. The man I worked for the longest, as a sheepherder, was ambitious. He had comeout of the Ozarks with very little education, worked hard, saved his money, built up his credit pariner and manager in the before he was 21. He became andisstill alive. This man, Henry L. Finch Springs, Ida., was driven by and was business wealthy, of Soda ambition to make money — to escape his boy- hood poverty, and he did. One time he went to England to buy purebred rams, and brought back with him a Scotch boy to trim and shape show sheep, a boy who became one of myclosest friends until he lost his life in World War I. Someyears passed and I ventured to try writing for money. Mr. Finca had sent me sume pictures of himself and His imported rams taken in New York the its end Among the few there was uneasiness Across the Zambezi River in la warfare in itution, frankly short of the practiced in South Africa, ain to swell their to i deeper the wedge between Rhodesia’s 225,000 ru whites and its 4,800,000 blacks Worst of all it provided oo Solution for the international expressed economic boycott under which Rhodesia has suffered ever since Smith's unilateral gecla- most important being a new cons amd the second a declaration that Rhodesia white sentiments on stould There was the suspicion that Smith, with the whole support of most of Rhodesia’s white population, had jumped from the frying pan into the fire. The June 20 referendum had won overwhelmingly divorced become a_ T didn’t receive any fabulous price, but Most employees used to have the idea of getting some kind of business of their own — usually a farm. It was a system which worked pretty well for about a century, but more people became victimsof it than beneficiaries. We became a class society. Hadit not been for un- At and parity is equally between the two, and in international theory the blacks can achieve a trade embargo which now may be toughened. A French Drinking Song Gains Fame week that might be of interest to some who read this folksy prat- tle. With Independence Day just around the corner, the subject matter is most timely Each Friday, the Provo Rotary Club starts its meeting by having the members stand and sing thefirst stanza of the National Anthem.Ii is because of this that prompted my good friend Mae Haycock, to write. He says in part: “At Rotary last Friday I noticed how our Rotarians stood erect and at attention while singing our National Anthem. Among those | noticed par- ticularly was one Bye Jensen who seemed to be doing very well with the words and also the music, This was not the pianist, but the publisher.” “As I also joined in, and while looking at you I wondered how many of us really knew what we were singing. We never sing more than thefirst stanza, andit is so well memorized that the meaning of the words, I believe, are secondary. I thought how nice it would be, and what a chailenge if each of us were to give the history, and interpret the entire song, I doubt that one of fifty can give the history and I doubt that even one, (except I, you see, I've been studying it since last Friday), can quote all four stanzas.” . I agree Mac!- I don't think there is one in fifty that can give the real history of our National Anthem—and that includes me. So, with all that research you have done, I'm taking the liberty to pass along your findings to people like me, who I’m sure, will find it interesting. f Wes “Did you know that until 1931 the United States of America did not have a national anthem? Most people don’t know that it was written on September J3, 1814, by Francis Scott Key. Tt was sung as the national anthem, I suppose, from then until 1916 when Woodrow Wilson ratified its use by the Army and Navy. Key didn’t really write the music, only the words. The words were set to music of the then popular song, ‘To Anacreenin Heaven’, Later it wascalled ‘The Defense of Fort iooamene raiey through all the states. In 1931 was designat national anthem under the Hoover administration” eso UG TodayIn History Deputy Replies Readers Urge Use Of Dogs to Find People Editor Herald: During the last few months two searches have been carried out in this area for people lost in the mountains. On each occasion volunteers were called for and several hundred people, without much organization, walked and climbed arovnd the area where it was thought the lost person might be. On each occasion the search wasstarted not many hoursafter the person Jeft a known location and began to climb, yet it took 3 days to find the student on Y mountain and 5 days to locate the boy on Timpanogos. Is this an efficient way to conduct a search? In other parts of the world police use trained dogs capable of following a man’strail if a piece of clothing is available to give the dog a scent. These dogs are also invaluable for locating people under snow. If the cost of training and keeping dogs is prohibitive, the expense of the present should be weighed against that of acquiring trained dogs. The State of Utah is famous for its mountain and desert recreation areas, and responsible use of these areas is encouraged, There is, however, 2 risk of irresponsible use and of accidents, Why is the County and State not better prepared to deal By United Press International Today is Sunday, June 29, the 190th day of 1969 with 185 to follow. The moonis new. The morning stars The evening stars are Mars and Jupiter. brought in, the animals are of little use in finding the person sought. He said owners who claimed otherwise in the last searcn brought in two dogs who had no successatall in finding the trail of the Murray youth who fell and was killed on a rockslide east of Timpanogos. One factor, the deputy pointed out, is that dogs are handicap- ped byrain andit rained torrents for days during the search. The rain washes out the scent or trail. But, emphasized Deputy HolJey, the big thing that handicaps dogs is a lot of people getting there first and tracking up the area, confusing the the trail or scent of the person sought. Usually friends and relatives of someone look for them even before they call officers, he pointed out. Deputy Holly said under these circumstances, dogs are not the answer to search proplemsthat people seem to think they are. with emergencies A thought for the day: Sir Tzaak Walton once said..."‘Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.” gladly.” SAIGON—Lt. Col. Andrew Marquis describing fighting at Ben Het in the Central Highlands “The enemy is paying a tremendous price.” and do not necessarily reflect the views of this news BERRY’S ‘WOR!’ BY JAMES O, BERRY Paper. in Fitzgerald, Editor's Note; Deputy Sheriff Holley, who coordinated the last search east of Mount Timp7nogos in the absence of Sheriff Ralph Chapple, says dogs weretried but with no suc. cess under the circumstances First, he said, dogs are effiif they get there first, If dozens, even scores or the area before dogs can be Paul Harvey The Reasons Back Of Antimilitarism Avowed enemies of our American institutions are always seeking to discredit them with raving or ridicule or by innuendo. Recently they have dug their teeth into the trousers of the so-called “military - industrial complex.” Some liberal members of Congress have aided and abetted their cause. Some Americans, frustrated by the dead-end war in Viet nam, have been willing to remounce anything military. With most explanations for our continuing intervention in to say the least, it has been easy for some Americans to accept the idea that we persist in fighting wars because the Pentagonis in cahoots with rich industrialists who wantto produce an endless stream of military hardware for purely mercenary reasons. Thus the “complex” which has thus far protected us from our enemies is itself denounced as an enemy. Some critics jump to their own defense with: “Eisenhower said it...” Then they quote, out of context, a remark by the late President in his farewell address in which he had sought Ben Donoho, David W. Hopper cient only T’'m going to do just that Mac—in next Wednesday's column. Perhaps there are a few people who don’t have all the stanzas ard would like to have them. But for sure, to study each of the stanza’s is a refreshing thing. Thanks Mac! a Vietnam tenuous, Respectfully yours, David Bleakley, hundreds of people track over Maccontinues to write: “Getting hack to the songitself, if each stanza is studied carefully there is doubt, arrogance, fright, challenge, faith, despair, and other factors, but there is no prayer until we reach the last stanza which to me, is the most important verse. I'm glad Mr. Key didn’t forget this at a time when prayer was about all we had left.” Ee closes by saying, “I’m enclosing a copy of all four stanzas, I’m sure you know themall, (I wouldn’t bet on that Mac!) but maybe you know someone who doesn’t, and who you can pass them on to,” NEWPORT, R.I. — Newport Beach Director Gerry Nevins when asked if residents can help themselves to the billions of clams which have cluttered the resort beach: “We're giving clams away availagle. Mac “Objections to the adoption of the Star Spangled Banner took many forms. Chief among them was the moral grounds that the tune was an old French drinking song which had been popularized on a greater scale by a social club of bibulous rounders in London, There were also objections that Key’s lyrics glorified war, and musicians objected to it because the low tone were too low and the high tones too high, and that it could only be sung properly by professional singers. In 1942, the Army, Navy, and Marines agreed to set it one whole tone lower.” On this day in history: In 1852 American statesman Henry Clay died in Washington. In 1946 the British arrested more than 2,700 Jews in an attempt to put down alleged terrorism in Palestine. In 1961 the U.S. orbited three space satellites at the same time. In 1964 the sister of Cuban Communist, Premier Fidel Castro, defected to Mexico City. these areas? If a moreeffective way can be found to organize and operate a search effort when human life is at stake, whyis it not being used? We propose that Utah County prepare for the next search by using whatever means are necessary to maketrained dogs Hal are Mercury, Venus and Saturn. search system to the Sheriff's Department and the expense and risk to the volunteer searchers jonism we were on the way to a system of serfdom. The great need of our puritan ancestors was labor, so they brought over debentured servants, whites and blacks, andto these they added Indians as soon as possible, and the next step was slavery. Some may be surprised to learn that at first these debentured servants could earn their freedom, Someof them, including blacks, got servants and then slaves of their own. Oh, yes, we had a few white slaves of black masters. No wonder thecolleges dont want to teach courses in plack history, incometax as do the whi-es. present they pay about one half of one per cent far, far in the future Few white Rhodesians so far have felt the full force of the K Generous U.S. Heart York. in The catch to the latter is that parity can be achieved when the blacks pay as much in A personal friend and fellow Rotarian wrote me letter last set of values, a newset of targets “beyond freedom and affluence.” But they also know that millions have not yet achieved these benefits they take for granted, “Whatcharacterizes student unin the developed nations,” § Kenniston, “is this peculiar mixture of the old and the new, the urgent need to fulfill the promise of the past and, at the same time, to define the possibilities of the future.” A more generous appraisal of themselves, our favored youths could not hope to ask for. it was a sale in the kind of market I had never hoped to make. It also pleased Mr. Finch, as muchasit did me, I believe. WhatI amtrying to say is thata fair boss whotreats you like a manis worth putting out your best effort for, Here was a boss with whom I have been friends for more than 60 years. That has been worth a lot to me. I am the last and the poorest of what he used to brag was the best outfit on our range, We made good money for him and never begrudged it. There were some good things about the old days. The boss I could talk to man to man never lost money on me for I would do a little more than expected, and so would most men who worked for wages. We were not too much concerned with the boss whose only bond with us was his with whites parliament. ByeLine by Jensen + new vision, a new iodical published in Wall Street, New Both 50-50 parity The new constitution divides the country into black and white. Land is divided almost li is not that industrial societies and I had the wild idea of using them and an article about Henry Finch, and not knowing any better I sent the material to Forbes Magazine, a business per- the republic from Britain. the Right Track, Too!” have failed to keepall their promises but that they have succeeded in some ways beyondall expectations. Many of today’s students have never experienced anything but affluence, political freedom and social equality. Not all of them, bu many of them, are Americans continued their tradition of philanthropy in 1968 to the tune of'more than $15.8billion in gifts to causes of their choice. The amount was eight per cent above the total in 1967 and represents an all-time high in contributions, reports “Giving, USA,” the annual yearbook of philanthropy of the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel. In 1968, living individuals gave $12.1 billion, while $1.3. billion came from bequests by individuals Grants by philanthropic foundations totaled $1.5 billion, and corporations gave $925 million. Whowere the recipients? Religious causes received nearly 47 per cent of the total, or $7.5 billion, Hospitals and health causes received $2.7 billion; educational institutions, $2.65 billion; welfare and similar agences, $1.1 billion; civic and cultural causes, $710 million. About $1.225 billion was given to other causes. including aid to citizens of foreign countries and contributions to foundations. issues, ration of independence on Nov. 11, 1966. position of disengagement. searching 4 Rhodesian two “| Think We Can Steer These Fellows or marriage, which permits them to Measure of ¢ Boss modern age with its bigness is the loss By PHIL NEWSOM Salisbury, Rhodesia, criticize society from a protected \ The Chopping Block By FRANK C, ROBERTSON Oneof the necessary tragedies of the In white community settle fortably down ming pools, sec c 5 that P, Smith's new con assured white rule so far into the future that no one could see to “Morale is VERY high, Mayor Daley! EVERYONE on the force yolunteered for duty at the SDS National Convention!® caution Congress not to abandon its watchdog responsibility on military spending. The Senate-House economyin-government sub-committee is presently considering the Presdent’s request for another $80 billion for “defense.” That sounds like a lot of money when he asks for $110 billion for all other govern. ment programs. Yet the military share of our total budget is virtually un. changed overthe past 10 years. Further, the House Armed Service Committee staff has surveyed voting records during the past fiscal year and finds no evidence of any relationship between the way a congress. man voted and the defense complexion of his district, So any sinister allianoe of military and industry to perpetuate military spending is a hobgoblin created by persons either malicious or uninformed. Dean Acheson, secretary of state under President Truman, called the present assault on the “military - industrial complex” a “witch hunt which could lead to a dangerous weakening of our national defense. There is an unmistakable wave of antimilitarism in the United States. It derives from high casualties, high taxes and low morale. Americans gener- ally are suffering understandably from varying degrees of battle faiigue. But about that, House Armed Service Committee Chairman L, Mendel Rivers (D.-S.C.) said this: “If the United States is overcommitied in the world, and made a mistake by getting involved in Vietnam, it was because of decisions of civilians, not military men.” End quote and Amen. |