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Show Sun Advocate OP Din) DODD When the FBI asks for information .EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE, THKTONEJHOSETVJO ICOME TO mm Congress should investigate complaints from American citizens that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has harassed them. Agents have asked them for intelligence information upon their return to the United States after trips to pro-Sandini- IDA Wednesday, May 1, 19 OB lUTHECOTO- ,- Nicaragua. The right to foreign travel and the right to return to this country and be free from harassment, no matter how critical you may be of your governments foreign policy, are basic American rights. Only in the Soviet Union are citizens refused permission to travel and opinions. disciplined for Some Americans are so supportive of the that they refuse to acknowledge the facts of the Sandinista repression. There are American romantics who have gone to the hills of Nicaragua to help in the coffee harvest and have returned to this country singing the praises of the rural revolun-tionarie- s. anti-governm- San-dinist- On as their return, some have gotten a call from the FBI. There may be considerable paranoia in the citizen protests against the FBI. Emotions are overwrought by the controversy over our aid to the contras. Congress should look into the complaints to determine that they are largely unfounded, if for no other reason. That will reassure all of us. We believe William Webster, director of the FBI, when he says there is no intent to harass dissenters. We believe every American citizen has a duty to cooperate with his government, whenever he can give helpful information to that government. There is nothing wrong with giving those Americans willing to cooperate an opportunity to do so. But the government must never question the loyalty of those who decline to cooperate. It must be willing to take no for an answer without rudeness or suspicion. Webster knows that. All of his agents should know it too. anti-Sandinis- ta Critical differences Mexican poet and diplomat Octavio Paz, an ternationally celebrated literary figure, has long been in- a critic of capitalism. In a recent article in Partisan Review magazine, he contrasts what he sees as capitalisms evils with communisms. - Paz writes : QmmunisnvisanewI orm political and economic domination, more cruel and more absolute than oligarchic capitalism. It is more complete, more savage despotism than any traditional dictatorship. Capitalism has coexisted with democracy. It has deformed democracy but it has never suppressed it. Russian communism has rooted democracy out and thus eliminated itself as a vehicle whereby mankind might achieve freedom. r --- , ?-- (Reprinted by permission of The Indianapolis Star) Third World children Every day, 40,000 Third World children die of of these deaths disease and malnutrition. One-thimight be prevented by a simple, inexpensive cure championed by the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF). The preventative is known as Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT). Diarrheal dehydration is a major killer of Third World children. It is caused by poor water, inadequate sanitation and other poverty-relate- d conditions. Diarrea drains energy and precious bodily fluids, weakens the appetite and accelerates malnutrition. Rehydration therapy consists of a simple solution of water, sugar and salt that increases the bodys ability to absorb fluids by 2,500 percent. It costs ten cents per treatment and can be administered m the field by parents or health care rd chuck's waggin Keep the letters coming in, folks! By CHUCK ZEHNDER Managing editor This is the second column Ive written this week. The first one depressed even me, so I killed it. It was about the two old wars in the news today and how we need to let them rest. nations, including Mexico, produce on a large scale. Last year UNICEF salts rehydration million $10 spent distributing 65 million ORT packets bellies to throw up! If you were lucky enough to be born good looking, you can win. Now I know they have the talent portion of the pageants, but that is t. There are no plain or just an ugly, but talented, Miss Whatevers. Physical appearance is the first criteria in selecting the one for the title. The thing I think is really sad, is that these things are popular. My wife likes them; though Ill never understand why. Maybe there is a psychologist or psychiatrist out there who can tell us. warmer than fake fur. I trap. And I have found animals fast trap. Ive been to a asleep in a slaughterhouse more than once and let me tell you, there is as much and more pain for the slaughtered animals in many cases as the one sleeping in a trap. So dont talk to me about no hunting, no fishing or no trapping as long as you eat meat, use perfumes or colognes, glues, and the list goes on. v f I feel the need to look'aroundand see if there is someone else I havent offended leg-ho- after-though- Id rather talk about new battles. Like fighting with mothers over kids Boy, have I ever had that lately! The problem is there have been four beauty pageants in just a couple weeks and everyone wants their daughters picture in the paper. Ive been accused of not liking beauty pageants. Can you believe that! ? Well, its true. I dont like them. Beauty pageants promote all that is plastic. Plastic denotes, to me, all that is not real, all that is imitation in life. I believe the same thing about beauty pageants. Why should someone be awarded for an accident of nature? That is what beauty pageants do. Real beauty is on the inside. Beauty pageants promote the surface, the outside, the apparent, not the real. Our whole society today promotes surface beauty, surface relationships and surface conversations. Just keep track tonight of the advertising on television. Its for beauty products, colognes, creams to make you look younger, etc. If they knew what one beauty pageant As I contemplated the beauty pageants of the past two weeks, one cutesy saying kept reoccurring in my mind: Real people wear fake fur, fake people wear real fur. Dont ask me why, cause I dont know. Maybe the psychiatrist can tell me about that, too. But that saying has become the anthem for the hunting and fishing people. Those people never have ceased to amaze me. They will hold a big dinner and chow down on prime rib while condemning people who wear fur coats. What difference is it what part of the animal is being used? There is more than ten times more protein in a peanut butter sandwich than a prime rib. Let em eat peanut butter! Real fur looks better than fake fur, feels better than fake fur and is er anti-trappin- g, -- -- ce .. ld today. I feel the need to put a disclaimer on the column today. The views expressed in this column are my own and do not necessarily represent those of anyone else on the staff here. If you have a differing viewpoint, send a letter to the editor and well be glad to allow you to express your view in this newspaper. Here are some suggested topics for your letter (in addition to the two above) : Reagans German cemetery visit Our failure to help Nicaraguan rebels The budget deficit T.P. Tip ONiel Mormons Non-Mormo- ns Davis County Carbon County New Utah motto: Largest Women mike royko Mrs. Grobnik a personnel. Thirty-eig- contestant spends to look beautiful, Ill bet the starving children in Ethiopia would if they had something in their throw up checker-uppe- r ht to 78 developing countries. Although it is available, rehydration therapy is sometimes difficult to deliver to Third World populations, a situation requiring skills. In the African nation of Gambia, for example, flags emblazoned with red hearts fly over therapy training stations. Women drawn to the stations are encouraged to learn about rehydration therapy and receive useful prizes in informal heath-car- e quizzes. In Honduras, an informational rehydration therapy radio jingle achieved national popularity. Long-terand seemingly intractable political, economic and climatological problems hinder developing countries. Simple and cheap ORT treatment provides hope now and could prevent the g loss of four million Third World children a year. The United Nations should devotp fewer dollars to UNESCO boondoggles and more to the lives UNICEFs rehydration therapy can save. mass-marketi- ng m heart-rendin- Moratoriums A Chicago bank has hired a creature named Gucci to design arty new checks and checkbooks. Gucci, who is famous for designing womens shoes and purses, has created checks with swans, daisies, trees, rippling water, a sunrise and even a seagull against a lavender background. d Gucci is not the type. The bank thinks maybe this mist-shroud- ed hairy-cheste- will attract new customers. Maybe it will, but I wont be one of them. Banks should be serious. My attitude toward them is the same as that of Mrs. Grobnik, who was Slats mother. A good bank, she always said, should look like a jail, except the banks walls should be thicker." Whenever she made a deposit-- and she never made ' rs. The soft drink superpower, Coca-Colhas just announced a new sweeter formula. The new Coke isnt the real thing, countered Pepsi. We propose an immediate bilateral soft drink freeze, leading to a staged reduction of sugar, verified , by the American Dental Association. a, Grobnik would walk around the lobby to see if they hired any new gaurds. If she found one, she would ask him: Are you a good shot? They always said yes, so shed ask: Who have you shot? ' If they hadnt shot anybody, she would go to the chief cashier and ask why they were hiring inexperienced people. Once in a while, she would set the alarm clock for 1 a.m. Then shed get up and walk to the bank and rap on the door. When the night guard peered out, shed say, Remember, no sleeping. After using the same bank for 24 years, shes abruptly closed her account and put her money somewhere else. The reason was that a cashier had grown a mustache. The next thing, she said, is he will take my money and run away to Las Vegas." Im sure that Mrs. Grobnik would not have felt comfortable with Guccis checkbook. Id fact, she never in her life used a checkbook. She thought that anybody who put their money in a bank, then immediately spent a nickel writing a check to get some out of it, should be put away by his relatives for his own good. , Mrs. Grobnik finally stopped dealing with banks entirely when she found out that they loaned money. She had always thought they just stored it away. It was her opinion that . anybody who borrowed money did so because they didnt have enough of their own, which meant they were bums. And she didnt trust her money to an institution that would lend it out to bums. Im not quite as conservative as Mrs. Grobnik about such matters, but the business of the Gucci checks would make me nervous. For one thing, his name isnt just plain Gucci. No Italian mother is going to send a boy into the world with no more of a handle than Gucci. Would an Italian priest baptize a baby as plain Gucci? Yet, when I called the bank and asked them what Guccis full name was, they said they didnt know. Maybe just being Gucci is enough for the fashion circles in New York, but a bank ought to get a guys first name before they do any kind of business with him. If they hire somebody who goes around saying, I am Gucci, they might decide to lend money to people who walk in and say, I am Smith lend me a thou. I am not opposed to adding a little art to checks. But it should be something serious. When a person writes a check, he shouldnt think about daisies, seagulls, rippling waters, sunrises, trees and other pleasant things. He is spending money and he should think dark thoughts. If there are going to be daisies on the check, they should be surrounding a gravestone with his name on it. If there are going to be rippling waters, a hand should be sticking out of the water. If there is a tree, it should have a noosed rope attached to a limb. Id like to see checkbooks with pictures of a turnip, with a drop or two of blood oozing out of it. Many men would like checks for their wives that would bear a drawing of a widow in black, sitting at a lawyers desk, with the lawyer saying: Well, you can always sell the furniture. Or maybe a bleak, rickety old building with a sign over the door that says: Poor House. Married men could use personalized checks with a snappy slogan across the top. Maybe something like: Bartender: Please dont accept this. Signed, His Children. |