Show 4 - 7 - V emtvwriiiitiou cAtilvcrkatkil f:ake T!'tibuite 1 hits I I A Natuttlay Morning August t J:Jtr o The vast nuclear arsenals of the Unit-N- I — the balance of terror — have helped preserve wolld peacc Yet all around the globe brushfur wars occur while in Viet Nam a limited war constantly threatens to become a far larger one Indeed wherever East and Vat come into conflict a miunent of error or madness could produce catastrophe 'The dogmas and the vocabularies of the cold war ere enough for one generation" President Johnson saLt The world must not now flounder in the backwoods of old and stagnant passions Our purpcwe tit TIO lOr ger tO avoil nuclear war it Li to enlarge the peace" The Soviet Union ri obably agrees its leaders are always ready to preclaim their peaceful intentions W doubt however that they would agree with the Pres' dents &Assumption that the war in Nam should be no bar to efforts to build a better peace For the Soviet leaders publicly brand the United States as an aggressor In Viet Nam And they may well use the war in skiutheut Asia as an excuse for any course they de-tide to pursue President Johnson is a realist He does not expect great changes overnight But he believes and we think rightly that the Soviet Union motivated like other nations is fully aware that an by enduring peace is to its own great ad vantage The great task is to convince the Soviet Union to accept cooperation And neither Washington nor Moscow has moved out of the backwoods of the cold states emt the Soviet Union Nam The President had not asked for any such authorization In fact if he proclaims there is an emergency be already has the power to call up the reserves And the Senate's reason for authorizing the callup was less to beef up the forces in Viet Nam than to level an unwarranted charge of g on members of the National Guard or Army Reserves As The Tribune said previously this was an unfair accusation Many of those In the reserves enlisted long before the Viet Nam war escalation Furthermore they were taking one of several lawful options of military service established by draft-dodgin- grounds Public's Help Needed to Catch an Arsonist Fire Chief Al Thompson's report that a series of fires in downtown Salt Lake City recently were act by an arsonist is worrisome At least four of the fires were set in hotels or apartment houses and one In a school While none of these fires was too serious at least one other arson fire caused $50000 damage Furthermore there is always the possibility that a fire in a hotel apartment or school will get out of control with heavy loss of life A auspect was arrested but had to be – released for lack of evidence — which emphasizes the difficulty of trapping an arsonist It is difficult to convict an arsonist unless he is caught in the act or makes a voluntary confession tl Policemen or firemen cannot know where the pyromaniac will strike next and they cannot possibly watch over every possible point of attack Public cooperation is needed to catch I "11'Nf - — Ease Straitjacket i ''''''''''' rrustration is a gniwn roan trying to buy legoething tor iliniaelt in a department toil trowlett utth -- barit youngsieti 4 A 1 i f: the arsonist in the act If the g continues someone surely will see him in action and with a prompt report to police or fire headquarters and possibly some Identification this desperate and dangerous activity can be halted It is after all the public's life and property which is at stake — fully justifying an appeal for public cooperation to catch this firebug fire-settin- all-o- ut Orbiting Paragraphs 0 1 la CON 0 - rrnt ' ' 1 s 4 I 4 4 V t ' I f 4 1 Fisperts say Lunar Orbiter's performance larks high resolution 'This is the sad story of lb lives of so many of tra - b o 1: N P i Travel I Depending upon your slew whether you are living there Or merely passing through On N vi —D 1' I ' - 1 kta - AwdellrA " 1 7 ‘ ( N '7 1 C '' 4 ' k do i t4- A f‘ Chicago Tribune: President Johnson ended his speechmaking tour of New England with a sober warning that what this country needs more than anything right now is a strong dose of self - "Unless there is voluntary by management and labor" he said "your government Nvill be compelled by sheer neces- sity to take action" The action which Mr Johnson has in mind of course would be directed against management and labor It would probably in elude some sort of compulsory freeze on wages and prices similar to what Britain has been forced to adopt It is in these rising wage and prices that Mr Johnson sees the "real danger" today He longs for the relative stability of the last six years during which t time he said wages went up 17 per cent and prices only 8 per cent meaning a substantial Increase in the average standard of living Of course it is true as Mr Johnson complains that the wage-priguidelines have failed He doesn't have to cite the airline wage settlement or the steel price Increase as evidence Any housewife knows when she goes to the grocery that prices are going up But if inflation Is Mr Johnson's target he should have mentioned that while average wages were rising 17 per cent the average civilian wage paid by the 'federal government ce i Bureau le IStraltjaeset In an editorial titled "To Save the Grand Canyon" in the Aug 20 Saturday review Wallace Stegner1 authorhistortan-professrspeculates that the seven Colorado basin states have allied themselves with the Reda mcion Bureau in the fight over the dame "because historically that is the way things have got done" It Is just possible he continues that the vote on 1111 4671 could begin the reduction of Bureau of Reclamation Influence "for If alternative sources of power are approved for this project (as darn opponents advocate) Reclamation will not build them: It is author'zed by law- to build only hydropower plants as elements of multipurpose dams" Speaking before a Town Hall meeting In Los Angeles in June Reclamation Commis- stoner Dominy addressed himself to the subject lie denied In strong terms that hydropower Is outmoded soon to be replaced by great thermal generating plants And he added that arguments that there are alternative means of financing reclamation developments have found a singular lack of practical support in Congress" "Thermal or nuclear power alternatives to either or both of these dams" he emphasized "are not options open to consideration under present congressional thinking or expert 1 - 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I :L A: 1 t '" t-- 'Hoist about a surninit m eeting( The Public Formn A clean home-lovin- g and patriotic like helping an old lady across the street The fact is MStrs Aid Mission to Viet Nam which began functioning in 1956 did much more than act as a cover for the CIA Its main job was organizing advising and arming Ngo Diem's civil police militia and secret police—the same police whose brutal methods led to the downfall of Diem and his retinue The aid mission largest ever undertaken abroad by an American university produced few benefits for MSU and its students was a violation of the Geneva Agreement of 1934 and cost the American taxpayers some ' million 'dollars The question is not "helping a cop do his duty" but: Is the university a place of learning or an instrument of foreign policy? Should the US government be able to "buy" a uni— versity as they did MSU? Should a "great institution" support foreign military dictatorships? And the question Ramparts asked: "Just what is a university doing buying guns anyway?" One can lose all standards of decency by giving in tothe majority too anyone who can throw out such phrases as "gumshoeing around" "knavish noggins" "Pecksniffian protestors" and "confoundedly cowardly" does deserve some sort of prize Perhaps a teaching assistantship at MSU's Center for International Programs where all is "clean" "patriotic" and "objec- - 1 By Our Readers America and its environs were settled by whites about the'same time North America was being settled In the South the Infusion of white Negro and Indian blood has created an indolent slothful and sluggish people And along with the score of Negro nations created in Africa the last few years not one stable government exists today South Editor Tribune: Dr Max Rafferty's garish article in the Tribune Aug 24 headed "The MSU-C1Caper —11 never gets around to saying just what Michigan State and the CIA did (or where) — except that it was tive" - lAtitlkkit: s Unti ersity Integrity Ino1vcd ERIC BREITBART Du gway Utah Twig! WS J 17 t 4 0-- Otersatios ton is dull or interestieg The 4 vi ence" So— Did not Congress In all Its power and set up the Bureau of Recta mation to fill the nation's Irrigation needs in 1902 and enact further legislation in 1906 authorizing development of hydroelectric power? And hasn't the bureau been flexible and Imaginative enough (with congressional au thorization) In recent years to launch extensive rtsearch activities in weather modification program and other projects related to water development and storage? Congress which created the bureau and appropHates funds for it annually surely ought to be able to free it from Its 1906 straitjacket—provided It has encouragement from the bureau itself Everyone recognizes that the plight of the Negro in the United States is shameful and it regrettable It is physically possible to replace slum areas with modern educational facilities bungalows mansions and high rises but we would still be housing the same ignorance frith want hunger sickness nakedness death and frustration With these modern homes and facilities we must have millions of jobs new markets if f tztk t t ' t1f 4 re lifs A t - ' '''' ''' rr 1 frP‘ 11- i!osinki ''' ' : c 4t iltstit 1 11 1 e: 41 1 ror41 - i1114 Public-Be-Damn- w Interior Secretary Udall who as boss of and the National Parks- - must be frequently meeting himself at sharp corners complained last week that the Miller Redwood Company of northern California was pursuing "an outrageous stands of giant policy In cutting Reclamation industrial development education — in short — everything that makes modern civilization And in addition we must start at "Head-star- t" followed by generations of evolution culture training and braining to create a colequal to first class citizenship King is carried away with the sound of his own voice His ranting is calculated to appeal to the emotions to incite hatred and mob psychology He is creating a situation that may and with Negro blood running deep in the gutters of many cities across the United States DEVERS C OWENS Garland Utah Editor Tribune: I think it would be lair to call up the reserves Colonel Clay says he What of State Fair Laborers? cannot understand how people can take the Editor Tribune: I note with interest the attitude that boys are Joining the reserves to $600 The old home town is considering a Hall avoid active yearly raise given to the State Fair duty in Viet Nam He must have for the good Job he is doing since he of Fame with statues honoring all the sucmanager his ears clogged up I have heard many boys took over in March I am sure that his present cessful native sons who were smart enough to and mothers boast about getting Into the re move somewhere else employers will not begrudge him the raise if serves so that they won't be sent to Viet Nam the following items bave been changed since I was an employe in 1963: and so they can lead a normal life My son was drafted last week and he also (1) Raise the pay scale from $125 for la tried to get into the reserves but failed be borers: (2) Pay overtime for laborers (I was told the state did not have to pay overtime) cause of a long waiting list-Wwere all heartsick because of the how about that? (3) Do not deduct awful things people said about draftees They from overtime for mealtime which we did not told us he will be trained as fast as he can take This was automatic so says the book rose nearly 30 per cent And while the aver and then be sent to Viet Nam and be there keeper We would go to work at 6 am have age cost of living was rising 8 percent the until send him home on a stretcher So hour for lunch so our day should they cost of government as measured by the see how many of us mothers feel I don't end at 2:30 pan Now comes the rub we were you eral administrative budget rose from 761it believe there are many boys drafted Where told to work until certain job was done So it billion dollars in 1960 to 1069 billion in 1966 deferred because or reserves took till 7 pm which is 412 hours but we are In the they? or 40 per cent of college The boys who go to college probaonly got paid for 4 hours I never took extra What is even more shocking is that while bly never will get into the service As soon as lunch time for one thing I had to wait until I administrative spending as a whole was going jobs got home to eat cause I couldn't afford the graduate they will get they up 40 per cent and while the Increase was and grow rich while the draftee is serving his prices for a snack at work usually blamed on defense spending nondeWith the State Fair about to begin maybe country And be is not a hero because he was fense spending actually rose' from $28600 drafted and did not enlist I was told that this will do a little good in letfing all con000000 to $51600000000 or 80 per cent in they gave a boy a certain time to enlist or be cerned know a little about what goes on back the last six years: drafted Not my son He was dratted one of the stage A good deal of this new spending has gone month after his physical larrn DI BURNETT : think the system ought to be more fair Into the various poverty and welfare programs which are supposed to lead us to of selecting men te fight in a war we did not Canal Hazards Remain the Great Society although it seems that the ask for and do not fully understand MRS SPENCER C BIND more we spend on them the more we have to Editor Trubune: Last My a small boy drowned in a canal in the Granger-Kearn- s spend in order to bring us to Mr Johnson's area The cry came out "Why don't they do utopia Bloodshed? Kin e Working There is no doubt that what the country something to protect our children from the Editor Tribune: Martin Luther King's hazards of canals?" Many of these people needs is a strong dose of But In the place we need it most is right in Wash marches and destruction of life and property -- - have forgotten their plea but the hazard still ington The best way for Mr Johnson to prove only one' thing: The Negro isn't ready exists avoid the wage and price freezes which he WM these children have the protection for full blown citizenship Why? from canals that is needed or will we have to Is it a lack of one to two thousand years professes to abhor is to impose a spending freeze on his own administration and by we also -- - be awakened with another-deathof culture and civilimtion? Or-dmore courageous use of his veto power on blame the American people for the fact that ' The "save Our Children From Drowning Congress With a little of the Negroes in natural habitat in the Congo in Committee" is still active but can they do the he urges upon others he could trim billions of Ethiopia wherever they have been left to Job for us --- or will we have to help? wasteful CLAIN LOTT their own development — are still in a primiboondoggles and on status symbols such as the moon program Utah tive tribal state? Granger ' -- The ruins of the colosseum in Home rew mind us of what can happen to a mighty nation if it doesn't put domes on its stadiums e one-ho- - public-be-damne- th redwood Inside the proposed redwood national park Udall 'told a Senate parks subcommittee that a private foundation was willing to pay the company for 'losses it might sustain by moving its present cutting operations outside the area sought for the national park In Del Norte County He also proposed negotiations on the true price of the250 acres Inside the park which are now being cut The company president refused saying "We are there to stay we stand opposed to the bill (to create the park) and we shall con tinue to oppose It with all the vigor that we can muster!" ' Udall said he could conclude only that the logging operations along the Jedediah Smith State Park boundary and other key spots is in reality a spite cutting action designed to destroy the great trees whose preservation Is he main purpose of a park in the Mill Creek watershed The House Interior Committee headed by Tlep Aspinall of Colorado made Its contribution to the ruination of the redwoods recently by ishelving the redwood national park plan for this session of Congress — Erna Linford ored population A Mother's Views on Draft 1 time - ' '' reillow-- 1 to esi3 the toir eitursition citation a to It as the liTttlerti Utah hher Chi the rio411n tune goerntir gke it t I N I cmor ilamptun t!Tith tam ovv V ' i tothert "crisis' but refer f - L : 4 A ' : 16 ' their anti ZZh ' Right Prescription But the Wrong Patient 6 Bureau 0)111(1144p d : Other Viewpoints - - t 1 t self-intere- Congress itself And as was pointed out in House debate the fact that 133000 reservists hive not completed their required six months training is not their fault be cause it is due to insufficient training facilities to take care both of new Army recruits and reservists rerhaps the best reason for House rejection of the Senate authorization is that it was taken without proper consid eration by either the House or the Senate Armed Services Committee or sufficient consultation with those in the executive branch responsible for military affair' The reserves are just what the name Implies—a standby military force which can be called to duty in time of emergency Whether or not the nation is faced with an emergency situation in Viet Nam is properly a national security decision to be reached on military not political - - IN 1 -- II:4::-- Soviet-America- n House Acts Wise lyr to Reject Reserve Ca llup the House of Representatives acted wisely in rejetting overwhelm ingly the Senate's propoeal to authorize the President to all up reservists either as individuals or units for duty in Viet ki 1 L- I- so-call-ed weapons" We think c f -nt4 ' " - ---"1 ! 4 t e i 1'7 Still in the Backwoods of the Cold War President Johnson's latest plea to the Soviet Union for a common effort to 'mien the chances of nuclear war came only a disarmament canfeday after the receLsed after "even ll-tiro In Geneva months of talemate on dell major issues The Soviet Union Ilke the United States recognizes the fact that nuclear war would be a woild etssater Yet in all ths weary years of discussion the only ton Crete achievement hsa been the limited test-batreaty of 11)413 And while the ii treaty Important it repreornts no more than a minor advance toward the major goal Fortunately however the queat for agreement continues The Soviet Union la ready to resume the Geneva negotiations immediately after the United Nations General Asaembly winda up ita sessions which open September 20 in New York President Johnson has now made another powerful appeal for sanity lit international relation" The President's speech was delivered at a most sumo-tatplace Ile spoke at the Nuclear Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls Idaho where 15 years ago acientists in ths country first produced usable electric power from atomic energy Sinre then great strides have been made In putting the atom to peaceful utes As the President said the curtain has been raised "on a promising drama in a long journey to a better life But as he also warned "there is another — and darker —aide of the nuclear age that we cannot forget This is the by nuclear danger of destruction t one-ha- lf - — - Interlandi 1 ' ( s 1 top-payi- z - '" - : tIt IISt - - - ne cr ek ' II WPM s vr4k511 ti d 411 ti a II sl‘ A w 011 ' i - a a int ' Ili tqp7 a 0 1 I 4Y ' : IT SC - is 4 t ?' 0 8 I C::::':-:----- T - 4timrsoloolonamo ' id — -- — "— A - aAZ2s4lAsnozsrows' g c ' 1 I -- vote-gettin- ) (1 1 it i 1 :41 1 c : for 0 1 0 1 -- - V ' II( -- - St nc in w ' - The Shadow of Your Sneer — il a A 'i 4 i |