Show Page 2 Millard County Chronicle Progress January 25 1990 Comments While in Taiwan one of the places I visited was the Chiang Memorial Hall The Hall was constructed after his death “to express profound and ever lasting respects to the late President Chiang The Hall is on the Memorial Park where the National Theater and National Concert Hall are also located The Hall as white walls blue roof and red flower symbolizing the National Flag of the epublic of China and freedom equality fraternity According to their "There arc two ponds on the Park wang Hwa and Yun Han Pond in which there are all kinds of precious red carp The flower beds are in new designs and various kinds of flowers and trees Several gymnasiums and bonsai areas exquisitely designed by the skilled gardeners make the park a great resort for the public It is also the best place for the people iq exercise and cleanse their spirit" While I was there I saw what that meant It seemed to be a very popular place for families and students The families included very small happy who delighted in feeding the fish and :hc young girls were practicing what I would describe as "drill team” I was able to learn a little about at the Hall and since I hiang nave been home I have been reading more bout him How ever his life was long and usy so I have only scratched the surface He died in 1973 at the age of 86 so I emembered hearing about him but I lidn't pay a lot of attention at the lime low I am interested in learning more He was bom October 3 1887 on Mainland China and his ancestors dot the agcs of Chinese history back to Poling hird son of the Duke of Chou H is began in 892 and by the next year he s njoyed playing army with his pretending he was the command-nofficer He was 8 when his father died and vhen he was 9 his tutor told his mother Your son is richly endowed by nature nd is bound to amount to something The leavens will reward you well as a women f lofty His mother then principles" ccidcd to begin teaching him the behind ancient rituals and begins iving him music lessons At the age of 14 he married his first by Sue wife At 18 he studied Sun Wu's famous “The Art of War" and by witnessing the great patriotism and dedication of Dr Sun set his heart on studying military science abroad He then began studying in Tokyo Dr Sun is regarded as the Father of the Republic of China He became a practicing doctor but gave up medicine for revolution against what he considered the weak Ching Dynasty and the establishment of a democratic form of government to replace it In 1911 his efforts were successful and the Republic of China was bom In 1910 Chiang met Dr Sun for the first time Dr Sun predicted Chiang to be a great Chinese leader and became his mentor From there his career went back and forth between military and government service In 1925 the National Government was established and the political party was begun Chiang set out for national unity Bui by 1927 areas were falling under Communism control Chiang who felt Communism went against all the beliefs of the National Government fought against it militarily and through many talks throughout Asia And taking a giant leap over the next few years of lengthy struggle to eradicate Communism and unite China under the I will National Government jump to 1949 when the National Government moved its seat to Taipei Taiwan as the bastion for national recovery Chiang spent the rest of his years in Taiwan serving off and on as President of the National Government Communism fighting against fighting for a reunited China and living the Three Principles of the People: Nationalism Democracy and People's Well- - Being and the Constitution which establishes the executive legislative control and examination judicial branches of the government In his will President Chiang asked that his remains be taken to Nanking on the Chinese mainland for permanent interment after the overthrow of the Chinese Communists Next Week I will try to explain the Kuom intang flanking the statue are two of Chiang's favorite sayings To live is to seek a better life for all mankind "and The meaning of life lies in the creation of a life beyond life ’ The base of the statue has a tablet bearing the Late President’s las testament calling on the Chinese people to never falter in their struggle to fulfil! the Three Principles of the People to recover the Chinese mainland to revive the Chinese culture and to stand by the democratic camp The rest of the building contains writings cbthing and other memorabilia of the Late President The two buildings in the middle are the National Theater and the National Concert Hall Near right is the main gate walls k Pictured is the Chiang Menorial Park The building to the far left is the Chiang Memorial Hall which houses a 2125 ton bronze statue of Chiang on the second floor On the two (Editor’s note: These two editorials first appeared la the Deseret News and are reprinted here with permission The first appeared in the “In Our The second written by USAF MJ Gen James Opinion” column Jan Neither has been WHopp appeared In the“My View” column Jan edited) Does military really need vast new land holdings? Docs the Pentagon which owns 25 million acres of property in the United States an area the size of Ohio really need to acquire another 44 million acres of public and private land to do its job? That question is raging in Washington where ranchers and environmentalists find themselves as uneasy allies opposing what they describe as a "land grab” or "empire building" by the military In truth the request for additional acreage in 18 stales including Utah does seem excessive at a time when a changing world situation and budget deficits may lead to smaller US military forces It makes little sense to have an military establishment at a time when peace and democracy seem to be breaking out over much of the world At the very least the timing The whole seems to be awkward in request needs to be dctaiL Military spokesmen say the added land is needed to prov ide training areas for new weapons Those weapons travel farther and faster than their older counterparts and require more space for maneuvers While that may be true and the "electronic battlefield” controversy it in Utah is a part of that story seems the Pentagon already is a of enormous size and any expanding will be done at the expense of other interests In addition to acquiring private property the Pentagon expansion calls for 31 million acres of public land to be granted to the military That is being fought by ranchers for the same reason that they oppose w il demess: They fear the land will be closed to grazing and other economic However environmentalists uses are joining the ranchers on this one saying that turning land into military training areas is environmentally damaging At least some members of Congress seem to agree that the Pentagon's idea of multiple use is not really workable in many instances Cattle grazing and bombing runs are not compatible Opponents also complain that the Pentagon says one thing but actually has larger tracts of land in mind That touches off echoes in Utah where foes of the electronic battlefield proposal say the military may be trying to lock up vast areas of the state as a “war games playground" The Utah battlefield plan requires only the acquisition of 396 acres for the Air Foicc The more troubling issue is whether tens of thousands of other acres could be affected and public use eventually restricted as a result of the vast electronic battlefield In these changing times the Pentagon must be more forthright and do more explaining about its proposals Just invoking “national security” isn't good enough any more to justify huge growth and expenditures The taxpaying public wan(s more details and more reasons That applies both to the electronic battlefield and the Pentagon's national efforts to acquire 44 million more acres of land Test Range is militarily justified JDelta Area By Maj Gen James W Hoop USAF Prccip Community Calendar I January 26 27 play “Meadowlarks" 7 pm Mother’s March The Millard County Chronicle Progress USPS Published 0 by DuWd Publishing at 40 N 300 W Located at Delta every Thursday Utah 84624 Publisher - 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to defend freedom around the world that has permitted the world to be where it is today Peace does indeed seem to be at hand in Europe and for that we thank God But no one should be so blinded by that light that they fail to see the many countries still in darkness in other parts of the world whose leaders do not love freedom and who see the United States and what we stand for as their enemy For that reason there is still a need for a strong US military to continue to act as a deterrent and if necessary to defend US interests It makes good sense then to ensure that this military works well and as efficiently as possible In this day of shrinking defense budget those fewer dollars dedicated to defense must work smarter and stretch further then ever And a smaller military both in terms of dollars and numbers emphasizes even more the imperative that every effort spent must be worthwhile One of the best ways I can think of to help ensure tax dollars for defense are well spent is to make sure that future weapons for defense and the current ones we con- - - politicians lie The good ones do it con- vindngly" Harry Golden "All - tinue to maintain and upgrade are thoroughly and realistically tested in an operationally realistic environment Vietnam painfully proved to us how vital this need is But this kind of testing cannot be done in the laboAirplanes ratory or the simulator must be flown and weapons deployed to properly test whether a system will really do what the manufacturer claims it will This is what the proposed Electronic Combat Test Capability for the Utah Test and Training Range will allow us to do if it is approved There are many proposals on the table right now Not all of them will be approved But I can assure you that the military will continue to act as a responsible user of the land and as a responsible agency by fully studying each proposal in accordance with all the laws that protect public and private interest And I can assure you further that as we have pointed out from the bein spite of the hysterical ginning protestations of a few misinformed we will opponents of that proposal continue to keep the public informed We began that process with scoping workshops in 1988 we continued it with briefings to public officials and publication of an informational booklet in the spring and summer of 1989 and we will bring the process to an orderly conclusion with full public review of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement due to be published in the next few weeks Finally I ask the people of Utah to continue in the tradition of our great nation to be as informed as they can be on these proposals Then and only then can they make informed decisions on which to act Let’s reserve judgement until all the facts are seen and not be by the arguments that have seen print and air time An informed populace is recently the other great force that has allowed our country to prosper and arrive at its present position of greatness (MaJ Gen- - Janies W Hopp Is commander of the Ogden Air LoHill Air Force gistics Center Base) “I hate war for it spoits conversation " Bernard De Fontenelle Media Man! journalism a hard way to fake a living yjj by Ken (beauty school dropout) Rand I bumped into an old friend the ocher interday who shares my professional ests dietary indiscretions and views about politics women and the therapeutic value of napping Having bumped into him we now share similar black eyes but that's another story You’ve read reference to the Informed Sourcercr in this column before He has been away I was glad he made bail (Y et another story) During the course of our lengthy reminiscences we whipped up a few solutions to the world hunger problem (all centered around “JD's Luzanna chili”) figured out who found a pul the bop in the way to achieve total nuclear disarmament (it’s done with mirrors) and even managed to finally understand women (But that was a week ago No doubt the species has changed it’s mind again since) Wc talked about how we got into this whacko biz: did we get dropped on our heads when we were Was it genetic or environmentally influenced? What about cosmic rays or sun spots? Where did our parents go wrong? Where can a guy find a good meatloaf sandwich at 3 am? Or was it journalism school or as they call it in the trade “J school?" (It’s called a lot of other things too that I'd rather not repeat here Just watch someone crush their thumb with a hammer and note the colorful phraseology You get the picture) Neither of us are too fond of the word We prefer “reporter" “journalist" “Journalist” is to "reporter" what “refuse disposal technician" is to “garbage collector" “attorney” is to “liar” and “congressman" is to “crook” I never went to journalism school I figured why should I pay somebody to help me waste four years learning stuff that was either useless I could never remember or that I’d be told by my first boss that I’d have to immediately forget instead of going right out of kindergarten and getting a job where I would be and just as poorly paid as if I had a diploma to prove how ignorant I was anyway I figured I's start out dumb and poor and skip the middleman ButlS had gone to school and I was curious about what he’d learned So we babbled on and on and on into the wee hours of the next mom ’way past And I learned a few things Did you know there are different kinds of schools of journalism? Yes and some of them are leas stupid than others Like rins Lance: — -- Yellow Journalism Used to make manufacturwar and profits for ers it was coined by the publishers who War gave us the Knowing a big profit when they saw it the concept was nationalized by several f Questions notable use was governments It’s most under die administrations of Hitler Franco and Reagan Also Broadcast journalism called “electronic journalism" Radio is included in this category because noit It body can figure where else to hide mostly concerns TV of course the primary instrument in modern propaganda technology It is used by advertisers like bureaucPhillip Morris and racies like the Pentagon to alter history and distort the truth which is easy because everybody believes everything they see on TV whether they say they do or not It is o news what comics are to literature - - journalism Most often used by TV reporters Also known as "Scoop the Press" it is based on the concept that the quicker reporters report anything about whatever they know however little that is or however unimportant the better This provides work for editors who have to spend days correcting mistakes they wouldn't have had to deal with if reporters would have taken the time to get it right in the first place thus it is praised as a stimulus to the economy Helicopter journalism Also a TV thingy If the other channel has a helicopter your newsroom has to have one too so goes the rationale for buying The exthese expensive playthings pense is also the reason they get used on and rock conevery little cert within 200 milci (Yes it has happened: Several years ago a TV helicopter broadcast live reports from the scene where two other TV helicopters crashed into each other while covering a story I think it was in St Louis But stay tuned It’ll happen here eventually) Find a presiVoyeur journalism dential candidate find a presidential candidate’s bimbo voila! you have a news story Chamber of Commerce journalism Also known as the school of glasses Anything for a buck Often Editorial Journalism confused with the funnies but not often - - - - - enough Technically Legal journalism not a school of journalism but related allegedly to communications which is difficult to reconcile because although lawyers write in what appears tote English nobody seems to have the foggiest notion what they're talking about Typical of the school is WiDiam F Buckley who is believed to actually understand what he writes There are more schools but you get the picture Besides we're running out of column And the Editor would like to add a few words L (Editor! note: MM (UiM mention the humor columnIM school of which Is often confused Journalism with the funnies but too often But that’s another story) - r' continued superiors to whom the airman reported? Why did Bates go into such detail about the age of the shells? The BLM did not ask about how old they were Was it an attempt to diminish the problem by casting it in the remote past? It is likely the 20mm shells found were closer to 20 years old than 0 and the shells so commqn in the area likely pre dated the Korean War when Air Force officials say the range was larger than it is today (Rose inay have erred is saying the shells he found in his grove of trees at Pleasant Valley were from an “I can state unequivocally that is impossible" Col B ill Miller assistant deputy commander for operations of the 388th fighter squadron said But the shells were real and a plane did crash there) Many shells found in the desert are old but some incidents are new Recall the fuel tanks cast off by the pilot on Tuesday Jan 9 over die Great Salt Lake If ammo and bombs have fallen on public land over the past 50 years without time off for good behavior as the record indicates what does this suggest for the future? These and other questions need to be asked now because our future may include the electronic battlefield project The project will increase air activity by about 30 percent That is not comforting to hear in view of the existing questionable safety record (Discussion of the safety hazards posed by sonic booms crashing airplanes clandestine aerial fuel dumps and falling airplane parts are beyond the scope of this ar- ticle) It is not comforting to hear that no live ordnance will be used The “Stealth Bomber" the ATF (Advanced Tactical Fighter) the and the are expected to be tested but we don't know what kinds of weapons systems they will deploy It’s secret Some of it could be even mqre deadly than conventional weapons It is not comforting to hear some forms of radiation dismissed as harmless not in this age of deadly Star Wars laser technology wliich will be used on the range Effects of these new systems are not fully understood It is not comforting to hear that men will be stationed on the battlefield while tests are conducted That doesn’t make the “electromagnetic sous” to which Hunthey will be exposed harmless dreds of soldiers at ground zero and thousands of civilians downwind from delibwere site the Nevada nuclear test erately exposed to radiation during atmospheric bomb tests in the 1950s They were not told of any danger Nor is it comforting to hear that no civilian has ever been killed by off- - (Recall the injured range ordnance California camper) It's whistling in the dark to believe that since it hasn't happened it never will The probability may be small but it is not zero And it is growing The buck could stop here as the shells found in the desert prove shells so common they appear al school show and tell And if the project is built the ante goes up How do we rationalize a moral position in which the lives of West Desert residents are bet on the chance however small that any of them man worn an or child -- might die if their luck runs out? Certainly the military will continue to “sincerely regret” violation of regulations and “endangerment to public safety” whenever it occurs (and we have no reason to believe it won't happen gain) but when the protoplasm is violently separated from the ectoplasm “Oops" is an inadequate explanation offered too late It is a major principle of medicine: first do no harm Should the military be required to abide by the same ideal? If not why not? USAF Maj Gen James Hopp in a Deseret News editorial reprinted in full elsewhere in this issue calls protests by opponents of the battlefield “hysterical” If that callous characterization is true it may be because those who live work and love the desert are afraid of losing their homes their livelihood and even their lives They are afraid of him A long as that fear remains the issue is more than the “tempest in a teapot” Rep Hansen says it is Despite wavering in Congress the military still wants the project Critics say “military" and user of the land" is an oxymoron Bury my belief in military integrity at Wounded Knee And My Lai And Port Chicago And Dixie Valley But the problem cannot be shrugged off with cynicism nor can we dismiss it by saying it is “ done deal" and “you can'lfight city hall" WemusL It is our We have a responsibility to country defend it The Draft Environmental Impact Statement on tire project is due Feb The DOS is a process created by the National Environmental Policy Act Among issues the DEIS must address is the e x ten t of the "risk to heal tli or safety " of the project Public hearings will be held questions asked and answers offered Will they be the right answers? - by Ken Rand |