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Show f Page 14 rrrrrtrr r T7 sT he Salt abe f fibune nr 3 William S. White Morse Code Old Frontier Work Okeh, But JFK Falters on New Monday Morning, August 6, 1962 Utah Water Studies to Be .... Expanded "" n K"J' J ' . iim - ' ... g Strtp.-pinWASHINGTON away any toadying to the administration or partisan rancor toward it, one may fairly ask: Where does' President Kennedy now really stand? W, Confer- Approval by a Senate-Hous- e ence Committee of a $300,000 appropria- tion for the initial unit of a federal water-shed research laboratory in Utah is an im-- - portant step toward solving primary prefer lems of the Intermountain West The laboratory, --eventually to cost 1 12 million dollars, plus the price of furnishings and equipment, will be constructed on the" campus of Utah State University, Logan. It will be operated as a field research unit of the Intermountain -- Forest and Range Experiment Station. THE NEED LONG has been recognized that studies should be expanded as to water yield Improvement possibilities. Evaporation and transpiration losses need to be established under various j conditions to determine the practicality of replacing water hog" plants with vegetation requiring less moisture. Eight individual studies of watershed problems are already under way by the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiother press- ment Station. Twenty-seveing studies are planned as soon as facilities and staffing permit. The station has doubled Its manpower and research efforts on the water yield improvement problem " this last year. Three main watershed management fe-search projects have been assigned the laboratory. They are: 1. Water yield improvement in the Great Basin drainage area and thehead-water- s . : of the Missouri River. . n - . - Dispassio- nate analysis suggests some conclusions. The Presir- - White dent's person- al popularity is still high, though probably not nearly so high as is suggested in the polls. For the polls have a grave defect To ask people some such general question as, How do you think the President is doing? will usually return a misleadingly high fa- vorable response. - MANIPULATION OF vegetation to increase water output could create many related problems such as soil Instability under the changed vegetation. Increased stream sedimentation, and pollution of culinary water. Other questions involve the impact of livestock and big game on the cleared areas, the economics of manipulating the vegetation, changes in stream temperature and its effect on fish and fish food, and the legal aspects of water - rights to the increased streamflow.Native plants have been replaced with other vegetation in several experiments but some introduced plants did not do well. Many nutritious and palatable plants quire slightly more water than less desirable plants. The quality of vegetation, incharacteristics of root cluding systems, should be weighed against possible increased water yields. The research program envisioned for the watershed laboratory is necessary before any full-scaprogram of removing vegetation from watersheds is undertaken. Otherwise the goose" could be disastrously killed without finding out whether she had any golden eggs. - ' QMlOlCcl replace- - be Quack Remedy 40-ho- ur 40-ho- There is, however, considerable workers go in lor moon-fightibecause they have the time to do so. ' , By William F, Buckley Moreover, they are willing to work 60 hours or more a week, even without the overtime scale, in order to earn two Thus, it is hot unreasonable to assume week were to become a that, if 'the fact, the number.of moonlighters would increase. And what would then happen to the anticipated additional jobs? SECRETARY GOLDBERG favors other methods for reducing unemployment, such as retraining and redevelop-meprograms plus stimulation of economic demand through tax cuts and investment incentives. He also warns that a concerted drive for a shorter work week would mean more strikes and would cause economic 30-ho- His warning should not go unheeded. The problem of unemployment (five and three-tenth- s per cent of the work force in will not be solved by the application July) of a quack remedy. Visiting Cartoonist has called Tshombe a Sir Alexander Bustamente, who will Jamaicas premier, is frankly Buckley clown; President Kennedy has announced his intention of using all measures to wear down his resistance; Union Miniere, of Kathe copper-colossutanga, has revealed that pressure is on it to refuse to - pay taxes to Tshombes and U Thant has announced that he will go to the United Nations and seek permission to use military force if necessary to discipline Tshombe. y veto United Nations niembership, but it will be welcomed into the Organization of American States and International Monetary Fund. Bustamente wants a treaty with the U.S. guaranteeing military tection. Under a 1961 pact, we retain rent-fre- e World War fl bases on the island. Jamaica has been promised U.S. economic aid. Last year aid to the West Indies area as a whole came to about s $2,300,000.' , all Britis-h- posses Windward groups sions) started out together a few years ago as the West Indies Federation. But Jamaica, which has half the population and most of the resources, abandoned its poor relatives and decided to go it alone.-Brit- ain has 'granted both the big islands, Jamaica and Trinidad, Separate independence. The Eastern Caribbean islands continue as a federation, under British rule. Trinidad will become independent tions direct involvement in a countrys internal affairs. Those who wish to justify the U.N. presence in the Congo have therefore the burden of the argument against them. Why is the U. N. there? Because the Congo is a threat - to world peace? Hardly. In any case, surely it is not nearly so great a threat as a dozen other areas where the U. N. isnt, e.g., Berlin. Because we are afraid of Communist infiltratio- n- in the Congo? August 30. Jamaica represents almost a model of integration. It has serious economic problems but is improving. In mapy ways it is far ahead of most members of the Organization of American States.,. -- Oil the Beach? Readers may recall that in the Nevil Shute novel, On the Beach, the first atomic bomb in a short war. which de- - stroyed mostQfthewortd,was dropped a skirmish between the Arabs Mid - BUT ME are presumably afraid of Communist everywhere; does it follow that the U. N. should be everywhere? And anyway historical fact that it is ipfil-tratio- n - cor MobuoFthecentraI Government expelled the Czech technicians rather handily, and without the aid of the U. N., two years ago, and, with Kasavubu, overthrew Lumumba; and now with the collapse of the power of the Gize.nga. the central and western Congo are not gov-erned by Communists. True- ,the government of Adoula ik infiltrated by Communists, But what on earth reason is - there to believe that that in- filtration is kept down by the presence of the LLN. force which is itself influenced in proportion as U.N. policy Is influenced by Communists. ' Israelis. The fanciful and awesome story was recalled last week by the huge military show featuring Egyptian rockets made possible by West German experts. They were displayed at the tenth anniversary celebration of the regime of President" Nasser of the United Arab Republic. A little more than a year ago, Israel solid-fumulti-stagfired an Israeli-mad- e weather rocket. And the Israeli deputy defense minister announced after the successful firing that priority fiad been given to the rocket program because of grave defense problems. A large new reactor (a second) is being built in the Negev by . Israel with French assistance. Prime The U. N. should stay in Minister Ben Gurion told Israels parliathe Congo because there Is an outstanding dispute ment Dec. 21, 1961 that the reactor was two areas within tiie intended exclusively lor peaceful purCongo? poses. But Nasser announced at the time learned Israel was making that if If we follow that rule, why an atomic bomb then we shaill get atomic shouldnt we send the U.N." bombs no matter what the price. to Kashmir? Or to Algeria? At present there are four members of . Or to Since when has it been the the atomic dub: The United States, the responsibility of the United Soviet- Union, Britain and France. The Nations to. decide what are responsibility for finding a means of logically , cohesive geopolit- trolling the nucleaFnightmare and bringgrows more Ing peace to the Middle-EaKatanga belongs to the urgent as some phases of On the Beach' Congo ln. a sense in which become more prophetic. Israel does not belong to - Le Pelley in Chriitiia Science .Monitor . horse. . - f - st --t- FINALLY -- and here Is follow is a reconciliation of the interests of the central government at Leopoldville, and the eastern government of Tshombe. What have we to lose if, by withdrawing the UN., the balance of power should shift in favor of Tshombe? His government alone has shown stability; his government alone has - fiercely- - resisted the mischievous ' mumbo-jumbof rambunctious black nationalism. look THE SMALLEST at Democratic Congress shows this is precisely the case. For this Congress has been generous in support of the President for what really matters foreign policy, foreign aid, foreign trade, deand frugal in the fense support of the President on new frontier actions . , Kennedys difficulties with Congress (and this column-- , ist believes with the country, too) have not come from his role as the national leader in facing the perils, and costs, of the cold war. Those difficulties have come in his requests to Congress for too much too soon on things like medical care and urnreform and so on. THESE ARE not in themselves insignificant. But in relationship to the immense and overriding problem of the cold war and the next greatest problem, the economy, they are presently almost irrelevant, both to Congress and to the country. Again, it is wrong to present these difficulties as the work of the Republicans. It is not the Republicans who have balked the President so much as it is the Democrats. Other Viewpoints Bhutans Sure Source of Revenue The Oregonian; 5 Africa is not the only continent producing new countries. There is Bhutan, in Asia. Bhutan is riot precisely new. It has existed for centuries as a more or less independent kingdom, long under the general control of Great Britain and, more recently, of India. But it is getting ready to make what generally a debut of sovereignty. It soon will issue its first postage stamps in nine different designs. The half million Bhutanese do, not yet have their own national currency. Nor do they have any. post offices. But philatelists will appreciate why the rulers of Bhutan consider nine new stamps more important than currency or post offices. With any kind of luck in the world philatelic market, Bhutans treasury should be well sweetened without the bother of a post office bureaucracy. o What has Tshombe done to deserve our hostility? The cynic would reply, with that strain of realism that distinguishes cynicism He has from caricattirq, sided . with the United States. Shouldnt we forgive him that error, and get behind a movement to pull the U. N. out of the Congo? n . the actions of the present fore-doom- the crowning consideration as far as the United States is concerned if the U. N. were to pull out, what would ? The Public Forum the years; or he is so Defeat Spenders By Tribune Readers The' charges hard-presse- d to find flaws in Mr. Bensons philosophy that he finds it necessary to resort to subtle innuendo. It is amazing that Mr. Black should find Mr. Ben-- , son unsuited for the office because he (Mr. Benson) has not held office in the state. I should think that anyone who has 1) served on the staff of the Republican Congressional Committee; (2) served as an assistant to the veterans administrator; (3) served on the executive council . of the National Young, Republicans; (4) served on the staff of the Republican National Committee; and so on, would be Editor, Tribune: The series of articles recently published in The Tribune concerning the prepaid continuous party enjoyed by all of our congressmen is. something every suspected and taxpayer hoped would be brought to light. Most taxpayers won-- ' der how. the writer of the article dared tell . these truths and how The Tribune dared publish the articles. Taxpayers all talk and want something done to correct this abuse, but most leave it to others to make the protest. Why not every taxpayer make his views known here in Utah in brought by the FDA against the publisher of the book Calories Dont Count have not been proven; on the other hand, through the irresponsible' press releases by the government the reputation and integrity of the publisher have been irreparably damaged. Thfere certainly should be some positive action taken to let government officials know that they cannot use their power of office in a flagrant manner, without placing themselves in legal jeopardy. After reading one of your paragraphs about the book Calories Dont Count, I I am sure the FDA could spend the taxpayers dollars to better advantage, and still protect the American peoples health, and atthe same time llmberup4ts stiff spine than by trying to tear down a good reputation of a fine publishing house just because a book is published that does not agree with the accepted FDA thinking. BLANCHARD . GAAR Best in USA Editor, Tribune: For older The Salt Lake Tribune is the best newspaper in the U.S.A. It is easy to read, has the best layout, the best type and the best columnists. people, -- sturrred-fron- nr Lets all request-th- at to serve in Washington as our congressman, even though he may not have held lesser positions in the state. Mr. Black, should remember that in November we will be electing a man to the United States Congress not the Utah Legislature. kubkKTW. LEE who Washington for political gain only, but who are there, to represent the people. Lets change our . cure a copy of the book and find out first hand the viewpoint on what type of calories . count and dont count in the control of obesity. authors Interpolations BOOTH I02F Read Book First INVEST IN AMERICA Editor, Tribune: You stated in an editorial on July 22 American Art that you were "puzzled to put it mildly at the violent outburst of Congressman King - against the Federal Food and Drug Administration." I have read the pertinent facts surrounding and leading up to the congressman's action, and I am Amazed, fix put it mildly, at the position that yott assume in this' regard.' Congressman King was defending the right nf freedom of Amply Qualified the press, and the Tight to Editor, Tribune: Milton G dissent and you, of all peo--to . discredit-- . pie, should support that posi. Blacks ' Reed ATattempt Benson's qualifies--tion- s tion for Congress .(FOrum, One of the difficulties beAug. 2) indicates one of two. setting this nation today is Mr.-- Black is things-Eitha growing centralization of of the exten power in the - bureaucrats sive record of service to the in. Washington, whp in-iRepublican Party, which Mr. stances operate on the prem- Benson has compiled, over ise of government by decree. - UwcfZybty representatives each election until we find those who are willing to work for us and not for themselvesL relatives and vote gains Possibly the new candidate for election to the Senate this fall will represent the people. Lets have a change of lawmakers and get some opposition to this free spending and this group of present lawmakers. DISGUSTED boy, -- give-awa- , y - er , . welL must bear in mind that the presumption is always against the United Na- Rwanda-Burundi- Hi cant be all bad. He doesnt kick his -- I should like to propose another solution. United Nations should get out of the Congo. One . will grow into an intolerably meddlesome force in internal affairs? Arabia?: Or Gibraltar to Spain? A withdrawal by the United. Nations at this point would, moreover, pay tff in solid prudential dividends. - The U. N. crowd are going -crazy trying to raise money to finance their imperial enterprises, U Thant complains that operations in the Congo alone are costing ten million dollars a month. Why not save 120 million dollars over the next year alone by pulling out of the Congo, and thus endowing the United Nations with savings in excess of the one hundred million U Thant is trying so hard to get from the United States government? AND WHY not appease the fears of those f I am one of them: so also are men of such disparate political backgrounds as Sen. Henry Jack-soof Washington, Lord Hume of England, former PTime Minister Bidault bf France) who fear that the precedent set by the U. N. action in the Congo justifies latent fear that the U. N. , The Jamaica, Trinidad and the eight Caribbean islands known as the Leeward and e' . . The boys are. cranking up another campaign against Moise Tshombe of Katanea, and they ap-pear quite determined this time to do him in for good and all. Why? Never mind why lets not be c o ntroversiaL Mr. U Thant nt -- Jr. . Kennedy, is doing welL And it is along the new frontier that area of domestic inin novation and thinking which he is not doing so AND AMONG the Demo-His hold on the electorate crats the real source of trouresults from a wide and corble has not been the Mod) rect impression that in the erates and Conservatives so one really vital present much as the Liberals. The Liberals have endlessthing in our lives, the cold war, the President is behavly pulled and hauled at him ing with courage and skill I .to concern .himself with.conu and -- without - partisan moparatively piddling and tives. The next biggest real domestic reforms. concern of the people the The score for his congresstate of business is resional program looks poor ducing his edge of popularprimarily because he has in- sisted upon going domestiity but has not cut it below the safety level. - cally most of the time with In a word, it is along the his partys left wing at a oldest frontier of all moment in history in which that frontier defining a nations what that wing has offered that is second in importance. safety from without Simple Congo Solution; Get U.N. Out -- ng The reason for this seeming Inconsistency is not hard to find. On the Right For that reason,. SovietRussia jnay " When" Secretary Goldberg expressed the fear that a continuing high level of unemployment will bring union pressure for a shorter work week, he was merely restating one of the arguments used when week was established. the A shorter work week is supposed to create jobs. Yet in recent years, with the week in effect, there has been an increas- or the ing amount of moonlighting holding of two jobs by one worker. One explanation for this is economic; that is, a single job does .not provide enough New FfCC StfltC JAMAICA HAS achieved independence (within the framework of the British Commonwealth), established based on universal adult suffrage and improved living standards of the people. He advocates drastic removal of vegetation with the aim of increasing runoff for irrigation use in the valleys. . The general inquiry Ts. ln short, far different from the very pointed question asked In the polling boothsr All the same, there is no real doubt that Mr. Kennedy if the would be 1964 election were held toThere is, however, day. much evidence that while he personally is still generally approved, many of his programs and advisers are not. AAobos , The United States has many reasons to welcome the independence, scheduled for today, of Jamaica, situated only 90 miles from Castros Cuba. ' Haying undergone an apprenticeship TiT ces democratic-practiand traditions, Jashould be a positive Influence in the maica Alliance for Progress. The U.S. also has adjacent interests with the new island nation in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and of course the Panama Canal. Ser any- d .. sought-bya-Sanpet- H la. In such questions, not running against body else. soil-bindi- T . studies show that water-consumi- le - 2. Watershed protection requirements and rehabilitation measures for the reduction of flood runoff, erosion, and sediment: from deteriorated rangelands. 3. Stabilization of steep , mountain, stream channels to reduce storm runoff and the production of sediment. THE RESEARCH PROJECT, In which trained personnel of USU will cooperate, should go far to provide answers County committee on watershed yields in and allied groups " River system The Sanpete,, thT studies of effects on the want also groups economy of lessened water yields. A leader in the Sanpete County movement claims that streamflow from the mountain watersheds in that area has decreased steadily in the last 30 years. Scientific ment of high plant life with vegetation consuming less water will increase water in streams, but many vital questions need exploring. The moisture storage and release characteristics of the soil mantle and fractured bedrock are not yet well known. And the great diversity of soil and rock conditions in which plants their capacity to grow on watersheds hold water and give it up to plants and to the force of gravity are factors requiring Investigation. - . months vacation and couldnt resist telling you how much I appreciate getting back to The Trib again. E. F. 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