Show Vi iji' iTtyf w ' ityit'i vi iry-- - J'ISX- - - 'ri - V Xt pwaNpliiiaM - JV " s -- —Ym' li'r fft ij yirtii i Opinion lo ft a is than through any kind 'five selection" By — Judge Learned Hwtd American )urM (1172-- 1 Cn SSI) Page 24 Thursday August 12 1999 The Herald Journal Logan Utah I of we ne drt Your view JS Friends of accident victim a great help To the editor: I am the mother of one of the Clinton Anderson's friends who was hurt in a hiking accident on Sunday While I know that the doctor that offered assistance was of a great help to the injured hoy the quick thinking of the four young men that were with him was also of great benefit to him Their friend fell and they immediately went for help and by the grace of God ran into Dr HuffI We should acknowledge these young men as being of great help to their friend as well as Dr Huff We should all keep young Clinton in our prayers Janet Blakeley Ijigan Panama Canal a critical passage OVER r ii'jiiiiMwr ana - Senate ratifies are different treaties and contradict each other One of the treaties being sure that the US still can be sure of passage Soon Torrijos a leader in Panama will be out of office as another takes his place We must contact our Congress and stop this mistake now! ma tici vet for A BARREL by bri wi Th flo ele toe the Christopher Johnson Paradise the al co na cn Reservoir plans not well thought out To the editor: br This past Wednesday afternoon the Department of Water Resources held a no Eii public meeting to address their intentions to build two dams on the Bear River at the the Amalga Barrens and near wt dil Hon-eyvil- lc Since the river has been dammed numerous times it's no surprise that both are less than of the proposed dam-site- s ideal But with very little research just d how they arc becomes undeniably apparent Building both will raise the water table flood farmland and displace dozens of families The lloneyvillc dam will impact the entire town of Elwood Aside from the cultural ecological and economical impacts the worst part is that (he benefits of all this havoc will go to those living 80 miles to the south Even more sickening they don't even need this water With some simple changes in water use habits there would be no need for either dam (hi no lik half-witte- To (lie editor: Panama is a small country of 28 million people Panama has not been wnny-in- g with war affairs since the United States has in a treaty guaranteed to take can: of these things for the use and control of the territory around the canal and the waterway itself Therefore Panama is less prepared to defend itself without the US This SI mile canal saves 8(XX) miles -- of travel around the southern end of South America saving transportation time in war time can save lives It is important in war time that we not only have access to this canal hut also that our enemy has not The only way to keep our crucial accessibility is to have the canal amply liineetcd under American control “If a hostile movement should at any moment he made against the Pacific Coast threatening danger to its people and destruction to its property the government of the United Slates would feel it had been unfaithful to its duty and neglectful toward its own citizens if it permitted itself to he hound by a treaty which gave the same right through the canal to a warship bound on errand of destruction that is reserved to its own navy sailing for the defense of our coast and the protection of the lives of our people" (Secretary of State James G Blaine 1881) A law called number five passed in Panama's legislature Jan 1997 gives a wealthy man from China who has control over many ports all over the world and is seeking to gain control in this canal named Dr Li's Hutchison-Whampo- a control of hiring pilots for the canal Pilots have power over all ships using this water route He may refuse to let certain ships use the canal (This violates the treaty of 1977 that guarantees US accessibility) Also control of the ports on each end The right was given to grant rights to others (Even China which holds us as their No I enemy) and to control certain war facilities Americans also contributed much hard work to building this passage dealing with disease after the French tried and quit Polls in Panama have shown that 80 percent of the people wish for the United States to slay The treaty Torrijos and that which the I've often thought about how far we've come from the sense of communi- ty responsibility that successfully settled this valley a hundred yean ago Are we fir If Nl B) Ni Requiem for a Western icon Writers w the really willing to flood half a town and By Christina Nealson impoverish its economy just to sustain our convenient lifestyles? Arc we so far hen I read that the chap-lade- n removed from the price of our habits? This is the point at which change should Marlboro Man was removed from the occur We should he thinking about how United States advertising landscape as we can sustain our water resources into part of the $206 billion dollar tobacco the future We won't be able to continue settlement I was so mad that I went out in our present habits forever and eventuand bought a pack of Marlboros This will the have fact has absolutely to use we technologies ally already available in order to conserve no significance what little water we have left Is it really unless you know so important to water our lawns that we that one I smoke are willing to sacrifice a whole town? one pack of cigaI'm sure the town of Elwood and the rettes a year and farmers in Amalga would say no After carry them in all they are the ones facing the loss of Baggies to keep their homes the flooding of land their them fresh and families have farmed for generations two I've never and the economic degradation of their bought Marlboros whole communities We are willing to How dare they strip the billboards of sacrifice this town for our convenience an American icon No this time the hut what happens when the next expendlawyers judges and the litigious Ameriable home is your or mine? Are we quite can public got it wrong and no one knows better than the symbol of the so willing to make the same decision? Progress will only come through independent West: the rugged ruddy adopting habits that will sustain and man with a white hat and a hone The enrich our communities It's not only cowboy who awoke every woman’s time to rethink how we use water but dream of a zip-leadventure If you think this man encouraged folks also how we prioritic these habits against our other values Eventually we to take a puff think again A desire for will have to change We might as well do tobacco was the last thing he evoked No it now and save time money and places siree one look into his eyes and you felt like the Amalga Barrens and towns like the need to hop on a horse and ride into Elwood Just as important we must also that blue sky You found yourself humhold our elected officials accountable for ming “Donft Fence Me In” as you came meeting this challenge Only then will upon the lonely wrangler driving his we really have progressed as a society beef Under the light of a rising full moon of course In fact if I harbored the faintest paraAmanda Thimmcs noid tendencies I'd say the timing of Logan this move was just a little too perfect Is ss her first drag she doesn't think in those terms She’s sure that she'll live forever But society is foil of people and organizations who will help her to stop if she truly wants to No "disappearing” the Marlboro Man has gone too far This icon stood for many of the best values that remain in this country He was a raw man unencumbered by unnatural schedules a man of few words who expressed loyalty and allegiance to those to whom he opened his heart often only his horse He carried only what he needed and didn't overstay his welcome He was a man untamed who symbolized freedom: the freedom to live the freedom to die the freedom to take a risk The Marlboro Man would have loved my Great Aunt Dollie Aunt Dollie married the man of her life in her teens and joined her husband as a “carnie” traveling from me small county fair to another She raised two boys under the harsh conditions of poverty and living on the road Many a night she and her boys slept in ditches newspapers their only cover And Aunt Dollie has chained-smoke- d all of her life Although these days she swims laps at the YWCA twice a week the Marlboro Man and I worry for her The next thing you know she’ll be sued or hidden away After all no one wants a living breathsmoker influencing happy ing the young Now where’s that pack of Marlboros? a! w when a teenager takes on Range it a coincidence that the Marlboro Man gets the ax just as city women show up in the West to find happiness with "real is men” cowboys? Just as books like "Cowboy: A Love Story” hit the shelves asking why educated women can't look for a mate based upon animal attraction instead of intellectual compatibility? More than a few cowboys I’ve known have lately been whisked away from the barren valley by gentrified women tired and bored with the soft sweet diaperchanging men they’ve created The eradication of the Marlboro man is nothing if not an insult to the West and the cowboys who helped birth the myth Every cowboy I have known has beat a smoker but none of them smoked Marlboros Everyone in the West knows that real cowboys roll their own And every cowboy I know would give a to the notion that the hearty heave-h- o Marlboro Man influenced his decision to smoke If he could have his say he’d have a one word reaction to the judgment against tobacco companies: fascism It’s one thing to sue the tobacco companies for lying it’s another to make them responsible for a person’s decision to smoke A person has to be illiterate and live in a cave not to know that smoking ups the odds of contracting lung cancer It is a person's right to choose a nicotine high n over a lengthened Of course vis-a-v- life-spa- ei t( ti w o n & d E h P h Christina Nealson is a regular contributor to Writers On the Range" a service of High Country News based in Paonia Colorado (wwwhcnorg) She lives and writes In the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado Other views if Mars Society boldly goes into uncharted funding territory Scripps Howard News Service A offbeat group culled Mars Underground ma he one reason why Boulder Colo is referred to as “26 square miles surrounded by reality” This cubic gathering of brainy types and 11 true believers formed in the 1980s to fur- ther their cause of coloniing the red planet But the ideas of the Mars Underground have grown more real to many The group has matured into a worldwide organization called the Mars Society sporting chapters in Europe and throughout the United States Astronauts and NASA officials will attend the society's convention this week which meets for the second time at the University of Colorado For the Mars Society it’s not a matter of whether humans will settle into life on the fourth planet from the sun but when and how Before a human-operate- d d mission is near completion the Mars Society will have shaped its vision of social law and order and lobbied to get support for exploration of this frontier Mans-boun- No me has to lobby us very hard In fact there are certain members of Congress we'd like to see volunteer for the first mission The search for life and some answers to the puzzles of the universe is an overwhelming prospect But the main message that resonates with us is the Mars Society’s push to make this huge expensive and sustainable venture a private me During his speech commemorating ’s 30th anniversary NASA Apollo Administrator Daniel Goldin told the spending bill cuts $73 million from the main message that resonates with us is the Mars Society’s push to make this huge expensive and sustainable venture a private one 1 1 Kennedy Space Center crowd that astronauts will land on Mars "in no less than 10 years and certainly no more than are questionable figures 20” These given current budget constraints A GOP Mallard Fillmore Vjy5iMfie APe-tHeoK- MdCOpyM fa 1 MB e Ittoffee $urFosep tolite — 1 TIm Opinion papa is intended to acquaint readers with variety of viewpoints on matters ot pubic Importance and prowda members of the community with e forum for Itieir views Personal columns cartoons and letters from readers reflect the opinions of their writers and creators Editorials under the heading Our represent the views ofthe Herald Journal lei board Members of the editorial board: BRUCE SMiTHfpuUsher CHARLES McCOLLUMmanaging editor MIKE WENNERGRENfcity editor CINDY YURTHleatures editor Instead of waiting for NASA and public opinion to get on track the Man Society has raised $230000 in cash and equipment from corporations to build a Mars research station in the Arctic The inclement weather is ideal for testing technologies that will be necessary for human life on the planet This is the first example of a private group funding a NASA project For schedules and more information on the conference see http:wwwmar ssocietyorg Letters policy Herald Journal Editorial policy future missions as well & gg The Herald Journal welcomes letters to the adNor Potantialy libelous or offensive letters wi not be published however and the editor reserves the right to edit el totters to conform to the lengtti and style requirements o( the Letters should be: Typewritten and double-space- d No more then 450 words In length Addressed and Include daytime phone number for purposes of verification Signed by the author individuals are Imiled to one puNshad letter within any 30day period Address Mlereto hjMterOhjnewsxom Guest commentaries are also welcome and are nm at tfio editor's dfecration POORC |