Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday Jan "So What's Your Rush?" 24 1971 Your Right To The Facts Every newspaper in the free world large or small has a philosophy of its own as well as its own individuality The one thing perhaps that all agree on is that its freedom to print the truth is essential to all freedom Unless a free citizen has the right to access to pertinent information he cannot make informed decisions This is the keystone of democratic freedom and There is an inclination to take for granted this right Many great editors and precious and hard-wo- n have sought to express their dedication to publishers the fundamental right of the people to all the pertinent facts One of them J W Gitt on June 9 1945 wrote in his York Gazette: “A newspaper to be worthy of its existence must be in a large sense a trustee for its readers Its duty is to conserve their interests To publish all the news as accurately and objectively as possible without fear or favor To keep its columns open to the discussion of public problems To refuse to permit any interest or plans or group to use its columns to advance their selfish interests To do its best to keep its columns free of secret propaganda on behalf of any special interest To stand for the right as it sees it To fight corruption To advocate and press for every intelligent effort to make its community and its nation better places for all to live in To fight all those who would oppress or deny the lowest of us his rights and privileges as an American To refuse to prostitute its influence however little to those who would use it to their selfish advantage unbeknownst to the public” This is an eloquent platform to which the vast majority of newspapers in America including this one subscribe The newspaper is the only activity that publishes its own errors and likewise their corrections day in and day out Being a human endeavor it is fallible but welcomes correction and divergent views and strives to be the most disinterested defender of the rights of all free citizens It exists for your use LETTERS TO EDITOR Advises We Anticipate Such Future Problems East 3rd North Logan Utah 84321 January 19 1971 1244 Editor The Herald Journal Logan Utah 84321 Dear Sir: I am writing to express opposition to the request by Consolidated Capital to be allowed to proceed in building a 690 unit in housing development Wellsville-Sardin- e Canyon The necessary change in the County Zoning Ordinance is now pending with the County Commissioners There are a number of technical arguments against permitting this development including water supply sewage and solid waste disposal Consolidated Capital has said that unless these problems can be solved they will not go ahead Scolds Speaker On War Talk Dear Editor: I read with downright disgust the article in the Jan 17 Herald Journal in which Dr E W Pfeiffer ranted and shamefully downgraded the character of President Nixon He pictures him as a war monger and blames him for the war As I recall President Johnson wu involved in this war very much Also the French before them We pride ourselves on having a democratic government with free sreeck But I think our system of free speech has sunk to a new low when an organization will invite an unprincipled character like this to occupy the speakers piatform and even after the trend of his speech was evident allow him to continue “I say shame shame" It reminds me of an old adage I once heard: "He who holds is as guilty as the one who wields the whip" Pfeiffer also decries the use of defbliar Is indicating it is not something to use in war I'm sure according to him it would be alright if the VC used it on us And now just a quick recap I don't think there are any of us who wouldn't like to see the war ended but it is rank unsanity to think the troops can be pulled out all at once as Mr Pfeiffer suggests We have had some good men in Paris who have met with the NV and VC about a hundred times in the past two years or so with no decent results But Mr Pfeiffer and the enemy seem to see eye to eye at once and all we have to do is give the VC everything they want and all will be well I say “Wake up America and weed out such trash” LeRoy Forsberg I with the development Though I doubt that the problems can be solved without some sacrifice by Cache Valley residents let’s for the moment assume that they are able to propose solutions sufficient for this particular project Let us consider this community ten or fifteen years from now Can you imagine that there will not be pressure to be allowed to expand? If you think not can you name one other community that has been content to remain constant in siu? The inner core of big cities depressed areas and small farming towns don’t count since they hardly resembel the proposed development Now when this community of 3000 people petitions to have a fire department branch library schools additional commerical space additional residential units etc they will justify their requests on the basis of real needs Hie question of course is will the solutions to the water sewage and garbage problmes for 3000 people be adequate for 4000 5000 etc? Whether they are or not I am sure that pressure will be brought to bear to allow necessary expansion and the necessity for expansion will be documented and justified by the then existing conditions This reminds me of the story of the young man on trial for killing his parents He asked the judge for leniency on the grounds that he was an orphan Since his claim was legally valid the judge was forced to concur and he got a suspended sentence The time has come when we should be able to anticipate future problems that will arise out of solutions to today's problems Let's do it The time to say NO is now Sincerely Bruce F Burnham On Education— Good And Bad Editor: Mr G Homer Durham chairman of our newly formed board of higher education has requested an eight million dollar increase in appropriations and has promised to fill the gap by increasing tuition in that amount should our legislature uot agree or respond Governor Hampton faced with an ever increasing demand from welfare has promised less He now must meet welfare’s demands or loose government participation Utah's students now owe in excess of $25000000 which the government has guaranteed To increase tuition can but increase (Continued on peg-2- 6 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES from here and there: Some yean ago the Tax Foundation a private research organization made a study of the number cl taxes on certain products Only federal and state taxes were used Here is what they found: - A loaf of bread has 151 taxes An egg has 100 taxes 3-- A man’s suit has 116 taxes 4- - A woman’s hat has 150 taxes 5-- A house has 600 taxes 1- 2-- a A piece of meat probably has as many even more taxes on No woofer die price of almost everything has doubled it THE MASON COUNTY DEMOCRAT of Illinois declares: “Most of the employed people in this country are engaged in an economic battle royal Each group tries to get a bigger Increase in salaries than the others and sees itself as in a contest only wages with its employer “In reality however each group is in conflict with all of the others The struggle is becoming more intense each year the a combatants are demanding greater and greater increase and more and more groups are joining the fray “So long as this kind of economic civil war continues unabated file government's efforts to control inflation through monetary and fiscal means will have little chance of real success” Harlowton Mont Times: "The income tax law has 930 pages and is explained in 17000 pages of court cases and Internal Revenue regulations Maybe in onfer to study brevity the taxers ought to consult the Ten Commandments and Gettysburg Interpretive Report -WASHINGTON DC Having been assured that Nikita Khrushchev’s memoirs are the real Khrushchev (the book certainly sounds like him) it is just possible to conclude that he is sending us a message via this book It comes near the end and taking into consideration all of Khrushchev's guile bravado and bluff he may be trying to tell us something that will affect — or has already affected — President Nixon's policy Khrushchev makes it clear that the current ruling circles in Moscow are not very happy with the way things have been going in North Vietnam The Kremlin has given to North Vietnam the military supplies necessary to continue the war Without these supplies of rockets missile sites mechanized equipment and so on North Vietnam could not conceivably have persisted as Khrushchev sees it But in spite of this help and presumably after the death of Ho Chi Minh the ruling class in Hanoi has shown certain tendencies to line up with Russia's enemy Red China to the exclusion of Soviet influence It mdlfiorth Vietnam like China could become so distant from Moscow as to be regarded in the enemy camp which would be a poor reward for Russia's unflagging help Khrushchev of course expresses full confidence in the ultimate victory of the North Vietnamese over the American aggressor but as of the time he wrote or dictated his view he had to confess that victory was not yet won If that was true when Khrushchev committed his views to paper it is more true today And it may be no less true that the Kremlin leaders are deeply concerned over the future of North Vietnam and the huge material and ideological investment Russia has made there In that light the complete American disengagement now advocated by presidential candidate George McGovern Sen J William Fulbright et al could prove to be a colossal diplomatic blunder and worse than they say our original involvement was It should be remembered how remote seemed the prospect to the outside world only a few years ago that Russia and China would ever reach their present perilous confrontation Reading Khrushchev only enhances the impression of how bitter and dangerous that confrontation has become and its long range nature Reading Khrushchev also reminds us that we and the French and the British gave away far more than we needed to in the 1954 Indochina settlement to the utter delight of Khrushchev and Ho Chi Minh Today it does not seem imthat probable et al desire any kind of settlement regardless of how much is given away at a time when it is neither necessary nor desirable The military situation does not make it necessary The situation with diplomatic Russia fearful of North Vietnam's connection with China would make it undesirable It can be surmised that something like this reasoning (there would be other factors too) lies behind what now appears to be a very astute policy (m Nixon's part But it now appears evident that in the coming session of Congress the socalled peace elements intend to do all they can to destroy the foundation of that policy at a time when it shows greatest promise of working As Nixon’s policy lowers the ground combat role to the vanishing point and relies on air operations the pressure on a Hanoi government already suspect in Moscow can be continued And if it does the erosion inherent in the kind of Kremlin attitude described by Khrushchev can also continue The least that Nixon is entitled to is a chance to see if this policy will work a reasonable chance not inhibited or thwarted by the ambitions of candidates for the presidency in the United States Senate Once the Soviet Union decides that its ideological and material investment in North Vietnam has produced its maximum return Hanoi probably cannot continue Khrushchev tends to confirm that this point may not be as far off as sane think But is it maw likely to remain in the distance so long as Hanoi and Peking can conclude that war opposition in America is strong enough to thwart Nixon's policy? This is the Mg issue of 1971 and it is a shame that the presidential campaign can't wait to see if Nixon's policy works IT WAS INEVITABLE Man' the deliberate polluter of his environment through bending nature to his will has now been identified as an unwitting natural polluter as well Soviet researchers have discovered that such exotic substances as hydrocarbons alcohol ammonia formic and acetic adds and acetone are expelled into the atmosphere by the human respiratory system Here in this capitalistic society with its glut of mouthwashes breath fresheners antiseptic chewing gums et al we may at least improve the effect on our immediate environment if we don’t cure the basic pollution TAXES HAVE ALWAYS been a prime subject for disagreement observes the Randolph Iowa Enterprise This little jingle puts it very well: “In seventeen hundred and seventy six a group of American mavericks renounced the yoke of tyranny fiie tax on stamps the tax on tea Our Fathers felt that we were fit to tax ourselves— and youH admit we have been very good at if' We are constantly reminded of the drug problem in our nation It is getting quite out of control Comments the Bridgewater SD Tribune: “I think most of us tend to sit back and ignore the waldly problems such as this because we say it doesn’t happen in our small community "Well I think the silent majority better take action because those problems are here too” 0 THE PUBLICATION “SALT LAKE Business” published by the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce has translated government spending and deficits into declining dollar values in a way that can be understood by the fourth grader who will be paying the bill in the future Since 1942 the value of the dollar has shrunk 58 cents If it continues to shrink at the same rate during the next 28 years as it has during the past 28 years it will be worth only 18 cents as we reach the end of the 20th Century By that time the average worker now receiving $7200 in wages would have to earn $16800 just to keep even $3000 can would cost $7000 $25000 hones would cost $58000 and $4000 college tuition 19400 A $275 television set would bring $640 IF THE PRESENT SPENDING habits of government continue to g outstrip the productivity and ability of the people the average worker will be no closer to winning the race against inflation than he is today And the bigger die wage increases the bigger the government deficits the faster the inflationary spiral will turn Somewhere along the way the mirage of security within the framework of a welfare state win vanish HERE AND THERE— The man in the upstairs apartment yelled to the man downstairs: “If you don’t stop playing that clarinet 111 go crazy” “Too late now” the other fellow yelled back “I stopped playing an hour jigo” You’re middlMged if it takes you longer to rest than it took to get tired Paul Harvey News roe Volunteer For Home Fronts? President Nixon is working on a message to Congress proposing a mobilization of American youth power on the home fronts Will they volunteer for this any more readily than they volunteered — for that? In essence what President Nixon is going to propose to Congress is a merger an alliance a pulling in and pulling together of the dozen different government efforts to involve young people in constructive social work — The Peace Corps VISTA all those assorted outfits into one Center Fa Voluntary Action The primary objective would be to dean up the home fronts: survey of 160000 college teachers and students confirms that most now oppose campus and violence disruptive demonstrations Many are turning away from drugs But there -- emains wide agreement among students and faculty that "there is a need for reform in American society” with many — as many as one-ha— doubting that it can be accomplished through the traditional American political system So here we have a generation of students demanding change lf — blight pollution malnutrition Timely Quotes illiteracy to make our Beautiful mare America the beautiful The President the idea during a speech at the University of Nebraska It did not bring his audience to its feet cheering It's not that inspired or inspiring a project d But d the idealism of this oncoming generation is sbout to be tested Students are less restive comparatively quiet this year Several factors have contributed to the calmer campus climate But if school-ag- e rs are less volatile most remain uninmuch-vaunte- spired The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education in a recent Mass in cera nec- transportation tain areas is certainly essity but if you think mass transportation is going to re- place tne automobile 1 think you're whistling Dixie or taking pot It just isn't going to be not in my lifetime any how —Henry Kurd 11 My first step as Miss America and I dropped my crown —P hylhs George Miss Amcnro ii f 1971 whose crourn fell off as she began her runway walk after winning preferring peaceable change but fearful that “the system” will not allow it President Nixon is “calling their bluff” so to speak that our He acknowledges republic is in need of some cleanfix-u- p renovation up paint-u- p Maybe some tearing down and rebuilding And he is willing to give the government's blessing and to these assistance humanitarian ambitions The National Teacher Corps and the Retired Senior Volunteer program Foster Grandparents and the National Health Service all these and Volunteer Corps others would submerge their individuality in the interests of Two business acquaintances lunching together One whose wife was away on an extended vacation complained bitterly : "I can’t describe how sick I am of making my own meals taking care of the cat and dog trying to keep the house tidy How on earth can I convince her to leave ha mother's and come back home?” “Simple” smiled the more experienced husband “Just send ha your current local newspapa— with one item clipped ouL” - unity The Office of Voluntary Action and the National Teacher Corps and the National Student Volunteer program would dissolve into this new agency And in addition to giving school-agepart-tim- e a full to determine help opportunity and participate in improvement efforts it would afford the homecoming GI with a chance to make the transition from service abroad to service at home with minimal difficulty All right you stronger healthier handsomer smarter more capable young uns — you've got a big heart — Now we’re going to find out if you've got any sand in your craw! rs a "Never mind the snow conditions — what are conditions around the fireplace ?" |