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Show Bye Line by Jensen Dad, Son, And A Dedicated to the Progress And Growthof Central Utah Page 30—THE HERALD,Provo, Utah Tear In The Eye Sunday, February 7, 1971 Maybe it’s because .he years are creeping up on me but I do believe I’m becoming a sentimental slob. Like a couple of weeks agoI found a box of 78rpm records that were packed away nearly 2 years ago. Needless to say, I played them. The room literally cameative with nostalgia and time seemed to melt away. And there I was, back in the 40’s doing ‘my thing.’ Such a lump in the throat you've never seen. But it was nothing compared to the lump or the tear in myeye that came a few days ago. T happened to be reading an editorial that appeared in People's HomeJournal quite a few years ago. The last lime I read it was aboutsix years ago andit never affected methe wayit did the other day. That’s why I say I’m becoming a sentimental slob with each Astronauts Face GreatPeril Even the 33-hour stay on the The apparent ease with which the Apollo14 landed early Friday within moon's surface was sprinkled with perils. 130 feet of the moon target may have nazards and There are 2,149 man-made objects seemed rather routine to some in space, the balanceof the 4,960 sent people. A Indeed, many seem surprisingly aloft having burned out. This disposed to take manned moon number in the wide reaches of space flights for granted. But the record, does not constitute a traffic jam, vet despite some grand successes, does mean an added risk. However, the Aerospace Defense Command emphasizesthe awesomerisks. As this was written, the Apollo 14 keeps track of each man-made crew stil! had some extremely satellite and would provide warning hazardous hours and days ahead — of anypossiblecollision. Despite the infinite precautions takeoff from the moon, docking with the command spacecraft, the pull taken to insure the safe voyage and away from the lunar gravity, the return of the Apollo14, it ill becomes longtrip through space to earth, the the earthbound to downgrade the splashdown, and finally, the risks or the heroism of the men who venti. ¢ into space or to forget the recovery. Apollo 14 was troubled by brave men who have given their difficulty in rejoining lunar module lives in the effort to expand man’s and spacecraft,one key to successin knowledge beyondthis world. Gains from the space effort have the mission,onthe very first day of proved its value in important the flight. After achieving the linkup on the developments on earth. The promise sixth try, NASA control decided the of the future is beyond imagination. risk need not abort the landing. The Exploration of space, now hardly bullseye landing is history now, as beyond the comparable stage of air will be the planned takeoff from the travel when the first flimsy planes moonbythetimethis is printed. began to fly, is a challenge to man’s insatiable desire for knowledge and mustcontinue. USO Turns 30 The United States Organization, Inc., best known byits initials USO, marks the 30th anniversary of its founding on Feb. 4. More than 25 million Americans who have worn their country’s uniform since the beginning of World WarII have been served by the USO. Today the organization is still serving the troops at more than 50 points overseas and in 125 communities in the United States. At a USO club or lounge, a serviceman may relax, write letters, enjoy television, radio or records. He can get tickets to sports events, plays and moviesor help in housing or personal problems. In addition, more than 1,000 USO- sponsored entertainers annually give some 8,000 performances to audiences totaling more than seven million servicemen. The USO receives no financial support from the governmentbutis maintained by voluntary contributions primarily from the United Fund, Community Chest and other independent campaigns. State and Local Revenue Sharing A little statistical fuel for arguments over the need for federal revenue sharing with the states: Americans paid an averageof $480 in taxes to state and local governments in fiscal 1969, reports Commerce Clearing House. This was a leap of $42 over the previous year. Per capita state-local taxes — which grew heavierin every state — ranged from a low of $221 in Arkansas to a high of $576 in New York. California was a close second with $540 per person. Three other states — Hawaii, Nevada and Massachusetts — collected more than $450 per person. Totalstate-local tax take was$76.1 billion in fiscal 1969, up $9.14 billion over 1968 and anincrease of 60 per cent over 1964. Collections in 23 states are now pastthe $1-billion-ayear mark. McGovern:Early Bird Candidate Thefirst candidate to announce formally his bid for the Democratic nomination for President is Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, who sees himself as “uniquely qualified” for that high office. McGovern has supported liberal Democratic candidates for Senate and has been an arch dove in demanding total American withdrawal from Southeast Asia. However, McGovern himself apparently has felt the need to shore up his credentials and has tried to gain public attention and approval by twoactions of doubtful political wisdor m. He has gone on recrod as favoring U.S. recognition of Red China and of throwing Chiang Kai-shek’s Free Chinese government on Taiwan to the Communist wolves and he wants to get rid of J. Edgar as head of the FBI, which Hoover has directed under both Democratic and Republican Presidents for nearly forty years. Time,of course,will take care of Hooverin due course so there isn’t much to be gained by McGovern in that direction. McGovern saysthe U.S. should abandon the “pure fantasy” of recognizing the Taiwan government and should recognize the Commrnist regime of Mao Tse-tung. This may score points with a certain element, probably but it has little appeal to the majority of Americans. To be sure, McGovern is with the majority in his yearning for peace, but he would cut andrun from Vietnam ata time whenthere is every indication that President Nixon’s efforts to extricate us with honor are succeeding. Our experts believe we have a continuing stake in Southeast Asia that does not permit abandonment of Vietnam. None of Red China’s neighbors wantto be swallowed up by the Asian Colussus. We have historical obligations and treaties that cannot be summarily thrown out without inviting mistrust of all our commitments. The more Senator McGovern seeks a gimmick to win the nomination, the more he looks like a loser. Herald Guest Column ‘Contrary Actions’ In An Environment of Goodness By J. MORRIS RICHARDS Here in Utah Valley one is aware of the innate goodness of the average person, who is willing to do a kind deed whenever the opportunity presents itself, or to offer a helping hand,or in general to display in daily living the principles of the Christian way oflife. ‘This is particularly true when there is a recognized need to which people have had their attention called. In this environment of goodness and amid the smiles of almost everyone — sometimes referred to as our ‘Happy Valley” — it is just little disturbing when contrary actions are observed with such frequency and as a matter of course from so manyof these kindhearted people. If one observes the automobile driving habits of Provo and Orem citizens, and to a e extent all Utah drivers, he is ied to ieve that here more than anywhere else he has ever been, thereis an inclination to run through traffic lights,take advantageof other drivers on the road, and to display a woeful lack of common courtesy. "This apparenttendency to bad manners can be detected in otherplaces where people meet in . At a concert, in a church, on the stairway, or in a hallway, one finds people , visiting, and blocking the way without the least concern for those who would like to have access to the aisles or public wavs. | local philosopher, noting these opposing behaviors of the samepeople, has tried to evplainthe rationale. He says that while the natural goodness of the le comes from their basic beliefs in the principle of doing good to other, as taught in the tenets of the predominant church, it is true that they are yetonly three generations removed from the pioneers whose waking hours were all devoted to producing the bare necessities of life from Mother Earth, and whose occupation with these basic needs leftlittle time or strength for developing what may have been considered ‘city manners.” There was just no need or time for the frills of civilization. Whatever the reasons, the facts are quite evident. On the part of many people who wouldn’t knowingly hurt a fellow human being for anything, thereis a real lack of good manners.If this comes from ignorance, then here is an opportunity for parents and children to devote sometimebeneficially in their family home evenings. If it is a basic indifference because people think that in this Happy Valley they will be forgiven by others who are equally good and forgiving, then maybe there needs to be some effort devoted to ig us all aware of the kind of social lubrication that good manners and concern for others — as a daily habit — can and should provide. The people are too fine to let indifference Jead to a misinterpretatign of their motives! passing year. The editorial concerns the thoughts of a father toward his littie boy. Perhapsit affected me because I have three of them. But I would cefy anyfather whohas son, to read it and notget a lumpin his throat. So dads, there's the challengeand here's theeditorial: “Listen son; I am saying this as you lie asleep, onelittle paw crumpled under your cheek and the blondcurls stickily wet on your dampforehead.I havestolen into your roomalone.Just a few minutes ago as I sat reading my paperin thelibrary, a stifling wave of remorse swept over re. Guiltily, I came to ur bedside. “These are the things I was thinking, son: I had beencross to you as you were dressing for schoo! because you gave your face merely a dab with the towel. I took you to task for not your shoes.I called out angrily when you threw someof your things on the floor. “At breakfast I found fault, too. You spilled things. You gulped down your food. You put your elbows on the table. You spread buttertoo thick on your bread. 43 youstarted off to play and I made for the train, you turned and waved a hand and Holmes Alexander called, ‘Goodby, Daddy’ and I “rownedand said in reply, ‘Hold California Governor Reagan And His Views on Welfare ¥ , By HOLMES ALEXANDER not by how muchit grows.” Closely related to welfare is shrinks each year — not by how anotherleft-over-from LBJ War WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gov. much it grows.” on Poverty activity, federal Ronald Reagan (R. —Calif.) was ‘The firs: steps toward welfare legal assistance, which is also on telling us at a National Press reform a la Regan would be to the governor's non-approvallist. club luncheon about one of his separate a class of permanent Reaganis inthe strangeposition female constituents who is now pensioners — the old and of fighting Richard Nixon’s antiin her 15 month of pregnancy. unemployable persons —from a poverty office and also fighting This, of course, could happen class that should be temporary Sen. Alan Cranston (D.), the only in the unnatural world of pensioners — those who are California liberal who would liberalizeall the“poor” laws. bureaucracy, and in this in- able-bodied and fit to work. It should not be beyond the The particular dispute is over stance it was welfare bureaucracy. The example is range of human intelligence to Reagan’svete of a federal grant oneof the many specific reasons segregate these broad groups of which would have given $1.8 why Reagan is determined to citizens,but it’s very clear that million to legal assistance for use his second term in we've aliowed the wrong kind of rural Californians. — Sacramento as an opportunity to person to become the typical Legal assistance is a War on Poverty activity that President smite this degrading and wholly welfare adriinistrato: Paradoxically, a man who Nixon wouldlike to get rid of. un-American system of paracitism, The governor did dislikes the welfare system will One of his White House advisors not directly criticize the run it better than a man who had proposed allowing the President’s Family Assistance really enjoys and believes in his American Bar Association to Plan which would extend the work. If welfare is to be reduced, supply lawyersfor the poor. In dole to hundreds of thousands of as Reagan proposes, the any event,the California legal additional families. But Reagan reduction has to be doneby those assistance group which Reagan said, “Welfare should measure who wantit to “shrink” and not opposes has flaunted violations of many regulations andplainly its success by how much it to “grow.” deserves to be disbanded. Although prohibited from entering criminal cases, this group has several times done so on the excuse of aiding the poor . Paul Harvey WeScalpedindians First-—AndLast President Nixon, deploring the plight of the American Indian, tells Congress it is time ‘for a new era in which the Indian future is determined by Indian acts and Indian decisions.” He proposes legislation that would empower Indian tribal ups to take over control and operation of Indian-benefit programs which presently are operated mostly by white bureaucrats. You know why? Because the Bureau of Indian Affairs in its employment practices has been discriminating against Indians. And that’s not all. You saw a cowboys-andIndians movie from the beginning. You’ve always “comelate,” where the Indians were doing the scalping. You never knew until right now that we taught them how, The pre-history of our United States records that in November of 1755, in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of ‘Sovereign Lord” George II, the crown decreed, “For every scalp of a male Indian broughtin as evidence of being killed, forty pounds, “For every scalp of a such female Indian or male Indian under the ageof twelve years thatshall be killed, twenty pounds.” ‘Thus by the English, scalping was introduced into Indian land. Letter to Editor ' (California has a separate Public Defender system to do just that.) The legal helpers of th, poor are paid for their work and forbidden to accept fees. But this up, whose grant the governor vetoed, has un- Bounties were set. An Indian dertaken to handle cut-rate scaip brought a higher price divorce suits for $300, An in- your shoulders back.’ “Then it began all over again in the late afternoon, As I came up the street, I spied you, dewn on your knees,playing marbles, There were holes in your stockings. I humiliated you before your friends by marching you ahead of meto the house. Stockings were expensive — and if you had to buy them, you would be morecareful! Imagine that, son, from a father! “De you remember,later, when I was reading in the library, how you camein timidly, with a hurt look in your eyes? When I glanced up over my paper, impatient at the interruption, you hesitated at the door. ‘What is it you want?’I snapped. “You said nothing but ran across and in one plunge, threw your arms around myneck and kissed me, and your small arms tightened with an affection that God has set § blooming in your heart and which even neglect could not wither. And then you were gone,pattering up thestairs. “Well, son,it was shortly af-.rwards that my paper slipped from my hands anda terrible sic fear cane over me. Whathas habit beendoing to me? The habit offinding fault, of reprimanding — this was my reward to you for being a boy.It was notthat I did not love you;it was that I expected too much of a youth. It was measuring you by a yardstick of my own years. “And there was so much that was good and fine and true in your character.The little heart of you was as big as dawn itself. ‘This was shown by your spontaneous impulse to rush in and kiss me goodnight. Nothing else matters to me son. I have come to your room in the darkness, and I have knelt here ashamed! “Tt is feeble atonement; I know you would not understand these things if I told them to you in your waking hours. But tomorrowI will be a real daddy.I will hum with you, and suffer when you suffer end laugh when you laugh. I will bite ny tongue when impatient words come.I will keep sayingasif it were a ritual: ‘He is nothing but a boy —a little boy!’ “T am afraid Ihave visualized you as a man. Yet as I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see that you are still a baby. Yesterday you were in your mother’s arms, your head on her shoulders. Ihave asked too much!” Dr. Lawrence Lamb Electric Shock Usually Temporary Dear Dr. Lamb—My 18- or without having been elec: than did a pelt of beaver or otter. vestigation disclosed that those The Crown had decreed that offering their legal services year-old brother was electro- trocuted. But let me assure Indians were animals to be revealed “ablatant indifference cuted when a conveyer belt you that as a rule thereis no three months permanent damage ‘o a per: hunted and skianed. to the needs of the poor,” but a cableHebroke was unconscious for son who recovers from a Even after American Negroes strong desire ‘‘to stir dissension, ago. 12 hoursandincritical con- severe electric shock. were emancipated by laws fear and division.” dition for several days. He An electric current car passed during andafter our un- Thus, asin the case of welfare, was burned on his arms and affect the brain temporarily. Givil War, Indians were ex- the right persons to run the War had deep burns onhis pelvis After all, it is still used for cluded. To this day the Indian, on Poverty are those who wishto andlegs. His doctor said he is, by law, “segregated” more reduce its size instead of to in- may go insane later in life. inescapably than blacks ever crease it. Is this possible? Will it affect were. Both the governor and the his memory? Alsois it true President want to reform that he will be sterile? I The U.S. governmnet has Welfare. Butit came to notice would like all the informasigned more than 400 separate during Reagan's visit here that treaties ard agreements with heand notthe President, is the tion you can give me about moves through the body,i a person who has beenelec- can cause the muscles ta Indian tribes; none of which ‘ trocuted. contract violently. remains intact. We broke every eee dislikes welfare, Dear Reader —Noone can The electric current cal sn and this is the kind of ad- guarantee that any person, cause an irregularity of the} So the question of whoscalped ministrator who'll cut it down to including you and me, will heart that prevents it fro! whom is pretty obvious but the size. not be insaneorsterile with pumping blood. If this per worstof it is that it’s still going sists, death ensues. This is} how mosi electrocution on, Despite our highly dramatized work. compassion for the rights of Vietnamese, we have demonstrated little real compassionfor our own “natives.” in muscle damage and burns The average reservation on the body. Indian has life-span only about half what yours is. His family Electrical burns are usualincome is less than one-fifth ly at the point where the curwhat yours is. His unemrent enters and leaves the ployment rate is eight times body. If the current passes whatyoursis through a small part of the Gradually we are taking from body and doesn’t reach the the Indian his last land and brain or heart, it will cause fishing rights. only local effects in the part of the body involved. Current often doesn’t do a lot of damage inside the body because the blood and inner organs are good electrical conductors. Burns on the skin occur becausethe skinis relatively resistantto electric currents The resistance is what causes the heat and the burn. Shoes and clothing may literally have holes picnics go we could probably eat burned in them. lem in our cars as we whiz After the shock, affected through the canyon at 70 miles per hour. armsor legs may be stiff or paralyzed for months but 3 We will ‘create problems usually recover, There may probably worse than the one we also be miid personality wiil solve, e ° changes but these, tuo, are Please, all of you whofeellike temporary. About the only © 1971 by NEA, tne Cen By My I do: Voice your opposition. If permanent effects are those you don’t and the freeway goes “t's awful! EVERYBODY’s taking up skiing!” of actual burns—usually on through, you may haveiton your the surface—and, rarely, @ conscience, too. later formation of cataracts Carol Bigler in tne eyes. The exception to Mapleton BEAR'S WORLD Citizen of Mapleton Opposes Canyon Road Editor Herald: I get a little sick to my stomach when I think of a freeway through Provo Canyon, I wonderif we havethe right io deface such a beautiful place. We are living in @ time when peopleseek out the beautiful and we are going to destroy something so beautiful it is breath-taking. As far as recreation goes the freeway would do away with mostif not all of it. As far as ( |