Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday June "Shake Soul Brclher!" 1 1971 Firebug In Cloak Of Righteousness FOR THE HARRIED executive who simply can’t take time off for a vacation a French office rental firm offers a unique solution — take the rat race wife you The plan is called the “Ultimate Working Vacation” and works like this: First have your travel agent book a European vacation for wherever you and your family wish to go Second have him book YOU to centrally located Paris sometime in the middle of the trip for a week of catching up on business That’s where the rental firm comes In To handle your complete business needs the firm will provide office space by the day or week just a few steps away from the Arc Arson has increased dramatically in the United States in recent years and especially in California where the 21st firebomb attack on a Bank of America office occurred the other day Fire officials attribute much if not most of the increase to the fact that arson has come into its own as a form of “social protest” to the National Fire Protection According Association known incendiary or suspicious fires accounted for 58 per cent of all fires in the United States in 1969 the last year for which complete figures are available This compares with a percentage of 23 in 1959 According to the California Governor’s Arson Information Study Group the rate of incendiary fires in that state increased an estimated 87 per cent in the last three years At the same time the total number of fires both criminal and accidental rose only 19 per cent In other words the rate of arson increased more than four times as fast as the combined fire total “Beginning with the Watts riots of 1965” states the California group “the factor of fire bombings and arson as a means of dissent became a dominant and significant motive for incendiary fires de Triomphe in the hurt of the city trilingual secretaries complete communications service including Telex and an international telephone switchboard conference rooms and even typewriter with American keyboards And if you ask they’ll probably throw in a vacation’s supply of your favorite ulcer medication It doesn’t mention what the cost is of all this A SMALL BROWN-EYEgirl who looks not much more than I lies bound in an attic Her kidnaper bursts into the room with a knife and is about to murder her when he is at tacked The little girl la one of the key characters in a film called “Cat o' Nine Tails” which also indudes one decapitation by train two stranglings (the first followed by facial mutilations) three attempted murders (two poisoned milks and a gas jet) along with assorted stabbings and a fatal plunge down an airshaft D “Organized groups have already distributed leaflets pamphlets ‘underground’ newspaper articles and have furnished speakers and demonstrators to instruct and advise on the construction of various kinds of incendiary and explosive devices" There was a time when the firebug was considered a sick deranged person Today he can cloak himself in the garb of righteousness and be considered by some misguided people as a brave fighter against the forces Of repression Red Bird Needs Shoes Imagine a guy going to a party in top hat white tie striped pants and tails — and a pair of battered sneakers That was somewhat the impression created by Russia’s Tupolev 144 supersonic transport when it landed at Le Bourget Airport for the Paris Air Show be other day Observers noted that the sleek plane which is capable of flying 23 times the speed of sound soft gum tires on its sported two large The were worn down to their tires front landing gear cords One French technician commented that all Soviet planes used such tires which are designed for operating on dirt airfields The probable reason is a lack of dean concrete runways in the Soviet Union The nation that produced the first commercial SST the nation that was first in space is in many respects still in the primitive stages of modernization Wonder if there is a saying in Russian to the effect that “Any country that can land a rocket on Venus ought to be able to”? low-pressu- re New Soviet Arms ? We Grope In Dark By RAY CROMLEY ALL ARE PHOTOGRAPHED Richard Wilson’s Interpretive Report DC-lYesi- dent WASHINGTON Nixon says he won’t talk politics but everyone else in Washington is A New York editor left the federal city in disgust after he came here to talk about what he considered the real problems of his city and the nation Everyone he saw was more interested in next year’s presidential election Rarely if ever has a presidential campaign begun so early and involved more and confusion or more cross-currenand unknown factors Perhaps this is a reflection of the confused state of the country Functionally however It reflects the determination of a can-(fidat- es ts democratically controlled Congress not to let a Republican operate effectively as President Out of the resulting stalemate have emerged a half dozen and more congressional sonalities 'eeking first-strik- SS-9- ls on-si- te per- the presidency as much as two years ahead of the election and even before Nison's first term was half finished Nixon was the first President in 100 years to be faced at the outset of his first term with a Congress controlled by the opposite party The results have been negative Take any major line of action— getting out of the war welfare reform en- vironment! The virtual impossibility of foretelling what the Rus-siin- s will do next in strategic weaponry is illustrated by the argument between intelligence analysts over what missiles Moscow will put in its new “super” silos: e s which used as a Will they be the big weapon could endanger our Minuteman defenses? now powerful or accurate enough Or the smaller SS-lto be a threat to the Minuteman force? The difference of opinion demonstrates the limited— and late— nature of most intelligence data available on new major Russian systems This is despite orbiting satellite “spies in the sky" our sophisticated electronic intelligence sensors and our battery of computers Take a new development in any of the most crucial weapons systems— ICBM missiles aircraft submarines and ABMs Frequently all that intelligence can indicate is a wide range of possibilities from mild to ominous A long lead time is necessary to develop major weapons By the time we have certain knowledge of what the Russians are doing it can be too late to catch up without a serious defense gap Cautious men assessing the possibilities revealed by intelligence assume the worst And others looking at the same possibilities assume the best The data is often so sketchy that even completely objective analysts (of which there are few) cannot determine whether the cautions or the noncautious answer is right Sometimes it doesn’t matter The United States has enough nuclear weapons to devastate the Soviet Union many times over The Russians could make great breakthroughs and get ahead in some very significant areas with no catastrophic results US reserve strength would still be great enough for this country to hold its own until we caught up But there are other Russian breakthroughs that could upset the strategic balance and possibly endanger the very life of this country The US government could regularly assume the worst and act quickly to match everything the Russians might possibly be developing But the nation could spend itself to death producing expensive new weapons systems which might then turn out to be useless and obsolete So what to do? Arm control agreements will not solve this problem short of comprehensive inspection arrangements which are unlike'y to be acceptable to either side Scientists will always discover new and more destructive weapons in areas not covered by the bans and the ceilings (Insofar as arms agreements do effectively limit the scope of the arms race however they serve a most useful purpose) If not arms agreements then what? In the short run we must continue to depend on educated guesses These have frequently been expensively wrong But for the time being there seems to be no way out of that dilemma In the long run other better solutions are possible in grisly dosfrup detail with to match “Cat o’Nine Tails" with its theme of a homicidal maniac on the loose also contains a scene in a homosexual bar a seduction scene and implications of incest It is a new film just labeled GP by the Motion Picture Association of America in its ratings system That means that any child of any age is permitted to walk into the film without an adult although as the P in GP indicates “parental (Sanction is suggested” sound-trac- improvement educational programs revenue sharing— and it will be found that Nvon cannot originate and carry out consistent lines of action because of congressional opposition or harassment Only in those areas where he can directly act by presidential authority such as winding down file war or creating an environmental protection agency or by granting tax advantages to hirinM can he create and carry out an effective policy of his own A few out of numerous examples suffice to illustrate the point Nixon advocated a $10 billion program of matching federal and state fuiufc for waste treatment plants along with 36 other specific proposals in the environmental field They have mostly been forgotten Whatever became of the project for an unconventionally powered automobile in five pollution-fre- e years? Effective government reorganization has gone down the drain Revenue sharing is Welfare doomed reform emerges in a different guise Reforms in aid to education No make little progress coherent urban program emerges at all Instead there is a great proliferation of Democratic presidential cardidates now expanded to include Rep Wilbur Mills the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee which has proved to be a major barrier to the fulfillment of Nixon's programs Along with the proliferation of candidates the elective process is being made more complex Third fourth and fifth parties are being talked about Twenty-thre- e states and the District of Columbia the largest number in history will hold primaries reflecting varying degrees of preference for one candidate or another beginning with a Feb 29 1972 primary in Alaska and ending June 20 1972 in New York convention Democratic been have procedures democratized in a degree which could easily lead its propsective 5000 delegates into wild scenes of confusion after six months of presidential primaries which had given no single candidate a commanding lead A Wallace party a McCarthy party a Blade Coalition party cculd so fragment the vote that neither the Republican nor the Democratic party could elect a candidate with majority support The risk of not being able to elect a president by a plurality is also increasing It is in this atmosphere of political mania that Nixon finds himself deeply entrapped Scares of millions of dollars are now being solicited on behalf of the Democratic contenders who are seeking Nixon's defeat own Nixon’s campaign organization has begun to function in an office a few steps from the White House He is campaigning in an indirect way in trips to various sections of the country including his recent foray into Alabama and rearing trips to many other sections of the country A two-yecampaign for the presidency is thus under way and it contorts and will probably frustrate Nixon’s last chance in his first term between now and early 1972 to see enacted and put into action a comprehensive program of reform More important than that this ar premature presidential cam- paign threatens to contort and frustrate vitally necessary action to ensure the country’s defense and security A with Congress seething presidential ambitions is not the best forum for objective consideration of security measures the country does not like to think about in its revulsion from the war in Asia Paul Harvey Agitation Steadly Worsens Records are crashing this is not just rain on the way it’s thunder and lightning and tornado warning And it’s the worst drought and the most pollution and the recession is a depression and don't just sit there — worry ! There’s no way things can be as bad as they sound The late Joseph Wood Krutdi was a personal friend but he never read these columns because he did not take a daily paper Dr Krutch whose great depth perception allowed him to see today from 30 years away said he could not allow crises to preoccigiy him or he’d have no time to "think” So he purprseiy deafened himself to the newscasters' He insistent percussion discovered that after a few days most potential explosives proved to be duds anyway He watched trends as they were sifted by reliable periodicals but he refused to sit constantly on the edge of his chair seating over nothing The performing weatherman is likely to rename every rain a “thunderstorm" In winter it’s not "zero” any more: he has to add that the drill facot is 40 below He thinks he’s protecting us he's driving us nuts Leave early Icy streets — in Broadcasters maybe helicopters report expressway jamups When those snows melt look out It’s not just a dry spell in West Texas and Florida it's an ecological disaster from which mankind may never recover Man alive nnow onder 1 in 20 Americans ir in a mental hospital and 1 in 10 should be And with increasing competition for your attention from a multiplicity of media the agitation is steadily worsening Beadies are inviting but look out the pollution count is You and I grew up earning merit badges by assisting elderly ladies across the street homebound up picking Now hitchhikers schoolboy every newscast warns that she may be a mugger and he may be a killer News isn’t news any more — k warning it’s a round-the-cloc- Don’t breathe — the air is toxic! Don't eat — food is con- ks One film reviewer comments: “Since the MPAA ratings were designed to protect children from scenes of violence and sex or any problem material which might be harmful to them the GP tag on films like fills one suggests that the ratings are at best whimsical and at worst reprehensible" “SO SHALED THE STALK” is the Utle of these lines by Kathryn Ainsworth Grover: Blight cannot mar the nurtured root of joy which spreading in me dares to leaf and blossom snd bear fruit and cherish to itself the dear songsters of delight performing there without regard for cynic censure need or night Thus propagation's firm burgeoning in me from childhood has been taught to prove this singing shelter of a tree this greening canopy of love where heritage foresaw the bloom— so shaped the stalk that even now undaunted I can still presume to find a bird on every bough reward-Joy-nouri- ahed WITH APOLOGIES TO Riatyard Kipling if you can keep your cool in a monetary crisis while all about you are losing theirs you must have a credit card my son R seems that during the recent “dollar crisis” in Europe when many American tourists suddenly discovered that their greenbacks or travelers' checks were considered so much funny money fay the local populace holders of credit cards had no such problem The cards had to be of the international variety of which there are three major ones —American Express Diners’ dub and Carte Blanche -o THE REASON IS THAT the issuers of these cards pay merchants innkeepers etc in their own currency when they present file chits Thus it is immaterial to proprietors how much the value of the dollar may be fluctuating In relation to their national currency In feet they are eager to do business There comes the day of reckoning of course when the tourist gets back home and has to reimburse the company in good (?) old American dollars HERE AND THERE — America's college-ag- e people with their increasing interest in the soil and In life styles that harken back to the time when Americans lived a simpler life may be creatiig a new peasantry suggests the editor of Organic Gardening and Fanning magazine “The young peasants you must realise are a people” he writes “They have seen the damage to body and soul that machine living has done to the people in their parents’ generation They find real freedou to exercise their mimfe tilling the soil or while revealing in good feeling that honest manual work can create "And coming from an aflluert aociety they are CHOOSING peasant values not having them forced on them by grindii inescapable poverty “These facts make the new ‘organic peasantry’ something liberating especially when you realize that the young people's islandsof natural living are surrounded fay cities and towns full of people who are still locked firmly into a machine-dominate- d society” well-educat-ed taminated! And don’t drink water with chemicals in it and for heaven’s sake don’t drink water without chemicals in it Don’t have a baby there won’t be enough food he’ll starve The human nervous system can't take all this dissonance It's driving a whole sleepless generation to booze and pills and worse External crises piled on crises create an inevitable internal which causes suicides to soar 160 per cent in 10 years Saving your money you contribute to depression spend it you worsen inflation Cities are bankrupt do something Campuses too quiet we must expect riot The flu bug next fall is sure to get us all And I don’t know what to do about it My own professional efforts contribute to it A cartoon in a recent Wall Street Journal showed a youngster handing over his report card saying “Now remember Dad they just print the bad news” tug-of-w- ar © 1WI I NU lac Tour manuscript exposing the Little League is sensational but I'm afraid it's a little too hot lor us to handle!" |