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Show r ii Nh"JF a jHi.imiipw iwtHiii im mk " kIH m (i!iiiiii!ini!iii!!!iiiiiii:iii!!!ti!i!niiiiiiiii!iiiiiiniiiiiniiiiiiiniiiiiiiii:'iiiiiiinii!iiiiii 'This Security We're Buying is Sure Giving Me a Feeling of Insecurity' DESERET NEWS , ; LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmi New War Horrors We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States ; As Having Been Divinely Inspired .'IS A EDITORIAL PAGE New strains of deadly virus and disease are being developed along with better and more obscene gases at accident-pronDugway, and some community leaders make the big pitch to convince missiles would be a nice us that nuclear-tippeto Salt Lake Valley, yet some while away their hours saving us from the pot menace. THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 196? e d Must U.S. Resume Bombing In Vietnam? one Should the United Status renew its bombing of North Vietnam in retaliation for the new enemy offensive in the South? i That question is raised by President Nixons warning this week that the U.S. is considering an appropriate response to the current offensive, and that renewed U.S. bombing has not been ruled out. With the American casualty rate having doubled since the start of the current enemy offensive late last month, the U.S. has no choice except to retaliate if it is not to suffer at the negotiating table as well as on the battlefield. Since the Communist attacks on cities and bases in South Vietnam are in clear violation of the understandings which led to the current peace talks in Paris, the U.S. is no longer bound morally or legally by those understandings. Nor need the U.S. be greatly concerned about the cries of outraged indignation that undoubtedly would be forthcoming should we choose to resume the bombing. Such indignation is to be discounted because these critics are so blatantly onesided, condemning only the U.S. for its activities in Vietnam while, turning a blind eye to Communist violations and Nor Snow, Nor Patronage ...! ... - Most of the audible WASHINGTON groaning has subsided on Capitol Hill over the approaching end of postal patronage, but Post- master Gen eral Win ton Blounts troubles are only beginning. The his Cabinet post as last month innocently as a student driver approaching a Los Angeles freeway. Blount was like that former Secretary of the Navy who had once rowed a boat. He had mailed a good many letters, but his knowledge of the postal system stopped with the box on the corner. These few weeks have been weeks of dramatic education. Nothing in Blount's long business background had prepared him adequately for the travesty upon sound business management that is the U.S. Tost Office Department. He discovered tiiat he had no effective control over his expenses; he certainly had no control over his revenues; he could not even promote a good man from, say, Akron to Cleveland, or Rockford to Chicago, without going through the tortures of Tanta- lus. He discovered also that the grim warnings of the Kappel Commission were not exaggerated. It is entirely conceivable that mail service could collapse in a JAMES J. KILPATRICK number of critical centers. Weather delays, personnel shortages, equipment breakdowns any of these could bring on a crisis. These dire prospects led Blount to his first major recommendation, that the patronage system, as such, be abolished. He will make the recommendation stick, despite the woe it has caused among Republicans especially Southern Republicans. Fortner Congressman Bo Calloway, the Georgian who almost became governor, confessed his anguish in a talk last month to the Georgia Press Institute at Athens. He had counted on rewarding scores of GOP workers with local postmasterships. Not any more. Instead, if Blount gets his way, a new national management selection board will choose postmasters for the country's 400 largest post offices from among qualified career employes. Regional selection boards will follow the same procedure for 31,800 smaller offices. Even rural carriers no longer will be chosen by the old system of a friendly wink and a nod. In the course of time, the new procedures should have an excellent effect on the postal system, notably in the morale of potential career men who will find new avenues of advancement opening to them. Meanwhile, Blount has other troubles approaching in the fight over a pay raise for postal workers. Since I960, the clerks and carriers have had seven general raises. The most recent agreement was worked out in 1967, as a three-stag- e affair. Postal employes were to get substantial increases in the first two stages, and something less in the third. By contrast, other federal workers, in the general classified service, agreed to take lesser raises in the first two steps and a larger increase at the third stage. The third stage is now at hand; and sad to say, the unwritten agreement of 1967 appears to have ended in the dead letter office. Last week the administration proposed a 9.1 per cent hike for postal workers. When the news hit the papers, a howl arose like an air raid siren. The postal unions are yelling that they will never accept such a piddling raise especially not since congressmen raised their own salaries by 41 and rumblings of a postal per cent strike are being heard. To be sure, a strike of postal clerks and mail carriers would be illegal, but the experience of New York and its sanitation workers whose strike was also is not inclined to raise Blounts illegal spirits. The administration almost certainly will have to sweeten the offer. Without a rate increase, this will make the postal deficit greater and add to Nixons budgetary problems. Taking one thing with another, Blount may be wondering why he ever left Dixie. It was warm in Alabama, but nothing in Montgomery insulated him for the seat he holds now. Its the hottest spot in town. Stop Wasting Your Energy By NORMAN VINCENT PEALE miner not only saves a companion When a but also survives himself for four days without food or water, it stimulates wonder and pride at mans victory over advercool-thinki- sity. The heroic effort to rescue William V. (Buck) Jones in the Lark mine cave-i- n also is a tribute to those valiant mining crews which refused to give up hope despite overwhelming odds and constant danger from other cave-inMoreover, this episode constitutes a sobering reminder of the need to stress mine safety constantly. Even now Congress is looking into ways to reduce the mine death toll, which reached 290 last year including 78 coal miners killed in a W.Va., coal mine explosion, and to improve health s. n, conditions. Congressional emphasis currently is on coal mining. mine.) A new Nixon Ad(Lark is primarily a dust control levels minimum set to is ministration bill seeking or of incidence reduce the to mines pneumoconiosis, in coal disease. black lung Other provisions originally outlined in a Johnson Administration bill and largely incorporated into the Nixon bill seek to improve standards on roof control to prevent roof falls, prevent dangerous buildup of combustible gases, prevent smoking or using unshielded lights underground, and possibly make miners liable for a $500 fine for flagrant violations of mine health or safety measures. When death looks over the shoulder of every miner underground, there can be no such thing as too much safety in the mines. er After the wedding of Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower on December 22, Mrs. Peale and I attended their reception at the Plaza Hotel. After a happy and delightful occasion, we shook hands with our hosts and made our way to the doors on the 59th Street side of the hotel, along with a lot of other people who were leaving at the same time. When we got out on the sidewalk we found it was raining hard, a real drenching downpour. We tried in vam to get a considered taking a bus, but would have been drenched getting to it. Then I remembered a similar situation when 1 had practiced intensive positive thinking and immediately a taxi had pulled up. So I started thinking positively, hoping the same thing would happen again. But instead along came an ld horse-draw-n hansom cab. The driver, perched on the high outside seat of this ancient conveyance, had on a great sou'wester. taxi. We The rain was coursing down it in rivulets and dripping from his rubber hat. Standing beside us were two people we knew, friends from Denver. They said, We've been here 25 minutes waiting for a taxi. What do you say we all take this cab? We all got in. The driver tucked us in with a big robe. We started off. The windows of the old vehicle rattled. They were the kind of windows that stubbornly drop down when you try to pull them up shut. We gradually adjusted to the pace and tempo. We plodded along slowly to the of the horses hoofs patient through the raining streets. Taxis going the same way swerved past us, perilously dose. I concluded there must be a special providence watching over hansom cabs. p Having dropped our friends at their hotel, we proceeded north on Park Avenue. Every so often the horse would trot for a few minutes, then walk slowly. Sitting back in the ancient vehide, rain beating against the window, a delightful feeling of relaxation came over me. As we came to the rising grade extending from around 66th Street north, the horse toiled up it step by step. It was the slowest trip to 84th Street I have ever made, but by all odds, the most pleasant. You couldnt hurry, so all sense of haste was laid aside. Curious what worried hurrying does to you. Small delays and difficulties seem interminably long. Get it bad enough and obstacles, things, people and situations take on the quality of a nightmare in slow motion. When you are rushing or overpressing, your mental tempo is out of kilter with the rhythms and capacities of things. Instead of handling circumstances to advantage, you fight them. Hurry doesnt get you to your destination faster. Its like racing your motor. You just waste energy. The Mutiny Of Private Drab The Second Platoon was pinned down ART HOPPE a drainage ditch, badly outnumbered 1 in big trouble. ... We'll just have to hold out, men, and pray that relief gets here in time, Captain Buck Ace But said grimly. lets keep our spir- up Yo:.Dra? What' Causes Crashes? Investigations of auto accidents often fail to disclose the true cause of the accident. If the tragic and costly waste in auto accidents is to be reduced, some deeper study needs to be made to get at the loot causes. Such a study is contemplated in Utah under cn SSO.OOO grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to the Utah State Dept, of Health. Dr. James T. Weston, state medical examiner, will dirert the study. The findings will be correlated with those of nine other teams throughout the country. The President's Committee for Traffic Safety concluded some years ago that special studies hold tremendous" potential value. The few comprehensive studies that have been made of auto accidents, particularly fatalities, indicate their real cause is often far removed from what appears in the police report Faulty equipment, driver inexperience, psychological problems, faulty highway or vehicle design and other factors may play a vital part in such accidents. Only a comprehensive study by experts in several fields may actually determine the major cause and suggest corrective measures. With traffic accidents the No. 1 killer of those in the 15 to age group and No. 6 for all Americans, the Utah i study inmost welcome. they didnt know it was happening. HOLBROOK 1054, E. Millbrook Way --D. STEPHEN I would like to convey to the people of Utah the deepest respect and admiration we have for the members of the Utah Civic Ballet. They are ambassadors ior Utah without peer, and the people of San Antonio will not soon forget their first visit to the Alamo City. We expected the professional brilliance we have heard so much about, and it was a real pleasure to find that this great artistic talent resides in the finest group of people we have met to date. Despite a hectic schedule, a long tour, and a small stage they gave a performance that was positively incredible. The Utah Civic Ballet has made friends with Texas, and when you befriend a Texan you can't get rid of him for life. We await their return visit, which may well become a love affair between one state and another. As we say down here yall come back! And back. And back. -R- ICHARD J. MCCRACKEN San Antono, Tex. Laughter Helps Wouldnt it be wonderful to be able to fick up a newspaper and find a page inside reserved for humor and laughter? What a relief it would be to break the tension of everyday tragic news. Whatever happened to good, clean fun and laughter? There is nothing more uplifting to the soul than laughter and there is no one more delightful to be around than a person with a good, clean sense of Humor. Wouldnt it also be nice il the LDS Church could broaden the MIA and Relief Society programs to include a program dedicated to fun and laughter?, A program to include everybody young, middle-agesenior citizens and as well as members. And how about MIA members forming-- a welcoming committee and making rounds throughout their neighborhood inviting the inactive , and to enter into such a program? Not making rounds as the home teachers and Relief Society teachers presently do, but by using a somewhat different approach. There are many youth, as well as adults and the lonely, who are inwardly craving to be personally invited, because they are somewhat reluctant to enter on their own. The world is so in need of relief from hate and tension. Laughter, not drugs, is still the best medid, rs cine. -B- LANCHE PETERSEN 365 Utopia Ave. No Birth Certificate For Safer Mines 24-ye- ar balding Alabama businessman, former president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, came to "Despite considerable justification, the U.S. should for its own sake go slow on any resumption of the bombing in the North. First, with the Paris talks having passed the stage where the various parties state their positions and reached the point where hard bargaining begins, Communist provocations were to be expected. If Hanoi is to justify a peace settlement to its cohorts in Peking, North Vietnam cant afford to seem to be negotiating from weakness. This situation warrants a degree of restraint on the part of the U.S. Second, if the U.S. resumes bombing at this time, it not only would have escalated the war more than North Vietnam, but it also would have exhausted one of its most potent options. Simple prudence dictates that we resort to bombing only when no other choice is open to us. Third, instead of escalating the war, the U.S. should consider replying strictly in kind. If the enemy violates the Demilitarized Zone for his purposes, why cant we use it for our purposes? If the enemy sends teams of commandos and saboteurs into the South, why can't we do the same in the North? If the enemy shells our cities with mortars and rockets, why can't we launch the same kind of attack against his cities? Finally, why is the U.S. so timid about attacking the Communist offensive as a betrayal of a pledge? Why aren't we pillorying Hanoi with scathing speeches in the United Nations? Why arent we mounting protest demonstrations in the capitals of the world, as the Communists themselves so often do? In the struggle for mens minds, words are a potent weapon which we cant afford to neglect. can say Y'Ail Come Back ! attacks. Man-ningto- but Acting from fear is sometimes valuable, why the present priorities? If anyone here is left liii the ilex I Nuieinlmig-lyu- e hearings, at least no i g rr Mr. Hoppe Yes, sir, sing something sow t!l0se gooks J out there were full of fight and confi- dence. A fighting song. A l defiant I never heard of it. Hope to die. The private's obvious innocence mollified the Captain. Well, I'll tell you the he said. And let it be an exstory, ample to all of you." Oh, yes, sir, said Private Drab. I love stories about mutinies. Well, there was this bunch of bad soldiers in the Presidio Stockade, misfits, foul-up- s and psychoes, all of them. And one day, one of them just ups and saunters off from a work detail. Naturally, a guard blew his fool head off. e. private. Ace snapped Captain Mutiny! coldly. The other men In the ditch shifted uneasily. But ail I did. sir, w as sing like you told me, protested Drab. I suppose you never heard of The said Captain Great Presidio Mutiny? Ace with a sneer. I suppose you're not plot of part of the insidious Army-wide mutineers? those power-ma-d said Private Drab. honest, Nf, sir, round fortunately drowned I still dont see how the Army figures its setting a good example by giving a man 15 years at hard labor for singing a civil rights song, Drab said later to his friend, Corporal Partz. Youre wrong, Oliver, said Corporal Partz. Its a good example of how the Army feels about civil rights. GUEST CARTOON Naturally, said Drab. And you know what the rest of them said Private Oliver Drab, And after a moment's thought, he lifted his chin and in a somewhat quavering voice began to sing, We we shall over . . . shall overco-omThe Captain, moustache quivering, turned on him like a tiger. Consider yourself under arrest. Drab. Oh, you'll be lucky to get off with 15 years in Leavenworth for this. For what, sir? asked the frightened ing mortar him out. did? Recently I had a baby at the Utah Valley Hospital, Provo. My husband and I were astonished to learn upon checking out that no birth certificate was available for our baby. We were told to go to the County Court House in approximately two weeks, fill out a form and for $2 we would receive the certificate. This we did. I am both angered and ashamed of this certificate. Angered because for our $2 we received a Xerox copy of a badly typed form (value to 3 cents certified true by a clerk. For two dollars I think the county can do better than this. I am ashamed of the certificate because it is so tacky, unattractive, and so unofficial. While this method of record-keepin- g may be fine for the county, I wonder how many times during my sons life he will be required to show it and questioned as to its authenticity. Certainly, he wont be proud of it. I for one would be willing to pay a higher price for a more attractive, official certificate. Why was the present system ever adopted? --MRS. T. GRAY LOWERY : lj Provo Bank System Info I would like to suggest to any of your readers who would like to learn more about the Federal Reserve System that they send $2 to Jerome Daly, 28 East Minnesota St., Savage. Minn., and ask for the Feb. 7, 1969 issue of The Daily Eagle. Among other items, it contains a reprint of a letter from Jefferson to Washington on the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States, 1791; also Andrew Jacksons veto in 1832 of the Bank Renewal Bill most interesting reading. --MRS. JAMES C. MADSEN Hurricane Larger Families? In his speech before the Womens State Legislative Council. Rep. Nielsen, said, ", . . Utah has lower wage scales than surrounding states, but Utahns raise larger families and provide more education per family than any other state. Other letters to the editor recently have inferred the same statistics. I really hate to deflate anyone, but the Irrevocable and true statistics obtained trom the U.S. Bureau of the Census reveal that the average family in Utah consists of two adults and two children. The national average per family in the U.S. is 2.4 children. -H- They ran amok, killing every officer asked Drab eagerly. they could find? No, they sat down. And they refused to stand up. And they sang , , . they sang that song. Then they ran amok? Then they were carted back to the stockade. And now theyre getting 15 years apiece in Leavenworth. Oh, said Private Drab disappointedly. But thats just a civil rights song, sir. I mean you once said thats what were fighting for our civil rights." Thats right, soldier. And if you ever got out of the Army, I hope you enjoy them. Now sing something else." Private Drab scratched his head. He had just begun to sing, Well neer when an incom- we'll neer . . ever-cooqi- e, AROLD 1556 M. STOCKSETII E. Stratford Ave. Adequate School Funds With the present pitch of interest created by the legislative session and the efforts to improve education, we find ourselves at a loss to understand the feelings that are so often expressed; at the same time, decrying efforts to raise revenues to pay for these increased services. Many studies have shown the amount of education recieved has a direct relationship to the income, purchasing power and taxes that will be paid by members of the community. Therefore, we would plead for finances adequate to the educating of our children at least equal to the average of the Mountain West states, Someone f Is Finally Rescuing Him ChrUtlin Icitnct Monitor -B- RUCE L. WASDEN 1922 ML Vista D. |