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Show ' DESERET NEWS Never Catch Up V CONFIDENT LIVING With Faith, Anything SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As '"'n Having Been Divinely Inspired 14 A EDITORIAL PAGE 1 By NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Let me tell you about a boy by the name of Sam Reeve who grew up on an Indiana farm 40 years ago when farm prices were low and most farmers were impoverished. This boys folks were so poor that the first time he ever wore a suit was for his graduation from high school. And a neighbor supplied that. His one idea was to get away from the farm into something offering more security. He had one job in the mines, but in his eagerness to earn money fast got fired for taking foolish risks. He then went to 10, 1969 FRIDAY, JANUARY Nixon Mustn't Ignore LBJ Aid Proposals If other study groups moved with the molasses-lik- e speed of the presidential General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Problems, pressing social problems might never get solved. Nearly four years have passed since the committee of prominent business, education, and other private leaders was named. This week the committee finally got around to issuing Its first public report on how Congress might go about reorganizing and revitalizing U S. economic aid to developing countries. Detroit, arriving there with exactly $1.50 to his name, and got a job in an automobile factory. The pay. was by his modest standards that he was able to save a big chunk of it. He wanted security and soon had $400 stashed away. But he still did not feel so good The report comes only 10 days before the President vho appointed the committee leaves office. Even so, it would be a shame if the proposals of the advisory committee were allowed to get lost in the shuffle after the Nixon Administration takes over. For one thing, the committee is composed cf such prominent ar.d accomplished Americans among them former President Eugene Black of the World Bank, President Randolph A. Peterson ef Bank of America, and President Frank that its work alStanton of Columbia Broadcasting System most automatically commands respect. For another, so much time and effort have gone into the study that it would be almost a criminal waste to let the report gather dust. More important, the study sees the warts as well as the dimples on the U.S. foreign aid program, and doesnt allow either to warp its perspective. The result is a set of recommendations which, for the most part, seem sound and sensible. Among them are these: That U.S contributions to multilateral development but only as rapidly as these agencies agencies be expanded do more and as other countries join in. That the present U.S. Agency for International Development, burdened as it is by a record of waste and mismanagement, be scrapped and replaced by a streamlined successor which might be called the Development Cooperation Fund. That military assistance be separated from development aid by transferring it to the Defense Department budget. That new emphasis be given to stimulating private Investment in developing countries. , Whatever comes of these and other recommendations Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs, the philosophy that underlies them deserves to form the founds-tio- n of U.S..' foreign aid policy regardless of which political party is in power. First, regardless of the name or the form of the agency administering U.S. foreign aid, it cannot be a management agency within the receiving countries as long as we respect their sovereignty. Indeed, if we tried to make it so, local management abilities might never be developed. S' Second, despite aome mistakes and disappointments, experience has shown that the most effective kind of foreign aid is that based on encouraging Third, as a member of the world community, the U.S. has a vital interest in lowering tensions caused by hunger and poverty abroad, reducing the risk that instability of friendly governments will disturb world peace, and channeling our neighbors energies into constructive internal developments rather than into international grievances and adventures. of-th- e : self-hel- . p. As the Nixon Administration and the 91st Congress review the U.S. foreign aid program, they should remember that as we help others we also help ourselves. secure. Sams . had been profoundly ... you. Well, to Sam Reeves great good fortune he thought about this proposition long and earnestly and decided that he he believed It had complete faith in it was true. He further reflected that when his With savings he bought ' , -- half- filling station. And interest in a instead of merely getting the place shipshape and then just waiting for people to stop for gasoline, he started finding ways of being helpful to his neighbors. He let it be known to families living round about that he would be glad to turn. on their house lights after dark when they were out c! town; he would pick up grocery orders; he could be called upon to meet unexpected guests at the airport. And after every snowstorm he would plow out any driveway in the neighborhood. All without charge. He made these generosities a part of his way of life. He never discontinued them. run-dow- n , r . , And at his gas station it was service plus. The moment you diove up three men would simultaneously attack your car wiping the windshield, diving under the hood, asking how much gas. Do you wonder Sam Reeve was eventually invited to e White House confer-- ; ence along with other outstandingly sue-- ; cessful small businessmen? By that time his station (in a highly competitive areal v had 12 pumps and was pumping around 1.200,000 gallons of gas per year, as compared with a national average of 20,000 ' gallons for all filling stations big and small. The President asked him how he had achieved all that. Reeve's answer was, I just tried to give away more than my competitors. But to do that and keep doing it you must truly believe in it. It takes faith. , 4 iiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuniiiiiiiimiiitnmi Nixon: How Hell Seek Peace LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiuiiiimiiiniiiHi Second of fivd articles ture THE DRUMMONDS By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND - What do to bring peace will set out three for his negotiators in WASHINGTON- Nixon He ciples He will Richard in Vietnam? guiding prin- Paris. will make clear that he wants peace as quickly as possible. But he will make equally clear that he doesnt want it so badly that he will accept a peace that would mean selling out South Vietnam to the Communists. make-believ- e, face-savin- g R. Drummond He is prepared, if he must, to take on the militant, critics at home to gain public support to hold out for an honorable peace.' These guidelines need to be understood to see v.hat Nixon plans to do and peace-at-any-pri- G. Drummond war coalition government with the National Liberation Front to be forced on Saigon, but South Vietnam could allow any group, including the NLF, to take part ir. its political life If It is prepared to renounce , force. why. 3 The settlement should help safeguard the freedom and security of Southeast Asia as a whole. Obviously, neither side at Paris can get just what it wants, and the details of a settlement Nixon would accept should not be exposed so early in the negotiations. But the following, we think, can be set down as the shape of Nixons negotiating position : 1 The peace must secure the right of the people of South Vietnam to govern themselves. 2 South Vietnam itself should be free to settle with the Viet Cong. As an example, and most importantly, the United States must not permit a post- - It is likely that Nixon will press for the staged, mutual, supervised withdrawal of all foreign forces, including North Vietnamese and American, as the most practical first step in getting the peace he wants so much. He wants it badly because he knows until the war is over the United States can't really get on with the critical things which need to be- done at home. He knows that his whole political fu is bound up in getting reasonably early results. But does this mean that Presidentelect Nixon is so intent on ending the war that he would give to North Vietnam ' in negotiation what it couldnt win in battle? The answer is no. Nixon is not disposed to accept a fake peace so we can hastily pull out. He has long believed that the defense of South Vietnam was undertaken for good reasons and there is no evidence he has changed his view. He believes that a stable, independent Southeast Asia is vital to our security and that resistance , to Communist expansion-by-forc- e there was necessary. He believes it would be foolhardy, after having successfully resisted aggression in battle, to reward it with fictitious peace. He believes that the most compelling stake in the Paris talks Is trust by our .allies and knowledge by our potential enemies that America keeps it words. Nixons most influential foreign policy adviser, Henry Kissinger, put it this way: What is involved now is confidence in American promises . . , Ending the war honorably is essential for the peace of the world. Naturally, Nixon does not want the nation to be pulled apart more by lacerating debate over Vietnam. He wants to help pull the country together, and he cant do this as long as the Vietnam controversy rages. Out There Beyond The Stars RepairThe Repairers Since 1966, Detroit has recalled 3.5 million cars for possible safety defects. At the same time, car owners experience difficulties having repairs made simply and expeditiously; workmanship in warranty repair work is frequently shoddy; and exclusions, limitations and conditions in the warranties are not made clear to purchasers. While a particular car model costs $4,000, the parts that go into that automobile run to $22,000 in the flat rate manuals used for repairs pricing. For their part, car dealers are losing money on repairs covered by the manufacturers warranties. These are the main charges as the nation's automakers take the stand in their own defense Friday in the Federal Trade Commission's hearings into new-ca- r warranties and auto repairs. While broad reforms may turn out to be needed, the automotive industry should be given a chance to police itself before Uncle Sam presumes to take on the job. But if car repairers dpag their feet, then Congress need have no compunction about passing stiff legislation. thinking affected by something he chanced to read. He had been raised in a home where there was daily Bible reading. He had kept this practice up. One day he came across the passage that says, Give to others, and God will give to you all that you can hold. The measure you use for others is the one God will use for you. Which means, of course, that how you treat others is how life will treat you are always thinking about what you want for yourself you naturally worry. about your fuCire; but if your mind is on giving, you tend to do the best you can today and let tomorrow take care of itself. And this, he reasoned sagely, is the only real security. Part-Tim- e Mothers I was deeply moved by the story of a little five-- 1 boy who after having been denied the prive mother since he was a baby ilege of a chose to go for a bus ride rather than to go to the The paper further stated home of his that this morning. when his mom let him out to drop him off as usual on a street comer he was year-ol- d full-tim- baby-sitte- " crying a little. He is but one of the more than four million children under six years of age who are left every day by their mothers who go out to work full time." Little do all these moms seem to realize what their continuous absence from the home is doing to their family. Little do they seem to be aware of the fact that those who have studied home life and the conditions which break up families, are now coming to the conclusion that: Working mothers form one of the great threats to stable home life in America. Working mothers inadvertently become the cause of much of the juvenile delinquency in lhe nation. Lee Oswald, the assassin of the late President Kennedy, came from a home with a working mother. Working mothers tend to increase divorce. At present, the divorce rate in Salt Lake County is one out of two. The husband is by his Creator endowed with the qualities to defend his family and to provide for them. To relieve him of this responsibility tends to make him a follower and a weakling instead of a leader and real head of the family. All in all. if a new car, a new house, new furni-- , ture, a weekly trip to the hairdresser, etc., have to be bought at the expense of moms daily absence from the home, then they are not worth having; for no success in the acquisition of temporal posses-sion- s can ever compensate for failure in the home. -- ARIE VanTlELEN 717 So. 10th West ; ; Think! Thinking, as Henry Ford noted, is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in ' ' it Once upon a time there was a small planet circling endlessly around a third-rat- e sun on the fringes of a mediocre galaxy swirling through the boundless firmament. And this on tlie in flvspeck universe, life created. Here last was a proud creature , which could laugh and cry and love and hate and Mr. Hoppe cherish and kill and have faith and exercise reason, was called a human being. . t for countless milleniums human first with beings killed each other rocks and clubs, then with spears and swords and gunpowder and finally with atomic bombs. So The fate of lhe small planet and the miraculous race balanced on the razor's edge. it enough, human beings of themselves as human beings. Not really. Each thought of himself first as a member of whichever tribe he happened to belong to. . .Yet, ART HOPPE oddly didnt think he would say I am an Ugulap. proudly. If you asked him what he was. (Or an Etrasoan or a Piet or a Watutsi or whichever.) Consequently, he felt no compunctions about killing his fellow human beings. For they werent human beings. They were Romans or Gauls oi Twas or whichever. By now there were two major tribes: The Americans, who were Americans first, and the Russians, who were Russians first. They hated each other and built ever more powerful devices to blow each other up and the small planet along with them. Tnen one day, the Americans, to show the Russians a thing or two, sent three brave men in an incredibly primitive rocket all the way to the small planets tiny moon and back. After millions of years, life had broken free of the small planet and taken its first tiny step out into the boundless firmament. An odd thing happened. Most Americans, instead of crowing about an American victory, were filled with awe at this triumph of the human race. And most g the Russians, instead of pooh-poohin- achievement, felt 'likewise. And so did most everybody else. For the first time, human beings thought of themselves as human beings as fellow members of the same first miraculous race. J I read Mr. Dean Meacham's (Richfield)' letter recently and it seems to me that he believes in a double standard, a standard for him to express his opinion without dissent or criticism from any source. , I have observed that many people are afraid to think because it is hard work, afraid to let otlier people think because it might turn out that what they themselves have always thought is wrong. It hurts more to have a belief pulled, than have a tooth pulled, and no intellectual novocain is avail- able. I am well aware of the responsibilities involved ' for the best interests of our country and that free- dom is not free. But, I do know that when the Jime comes when the people are denied the 'privilege of the right to dissent or criticize, then and only then will the liberties of democracy vanish and we will ' be subjected to a police state. The success of dicta- - ' tors can only be accomplished when criticism and dissent are abolished. The price of liberty is cter-nvigilance. Consequently, I am involved. True, some were against taking any further steps out into the boundless firmament. It was a waste of money, they said. Of no military value, they said. And a lot of romantic nonsense. But some saw not only a new era of brotherhood in which human beings no longer killed human beings, but something more: a sense of purpose for the human race. Surely, this miraculous race cannot have spent thousands of years struggling upward to end its days endlessly circling sun on the fringes of a media third-rat- e ocre galaxy. Surely, its destiny, whatever it may be, must lie somewhere out there in the boundless firmament in who knows how many countless milleniums to come. Surely, then, it must continue with pride and brotherhood and faith in mirnot acles to reach out beyond the stars only because theyre there, but because al -- L 1133 We cite were her. British psychologist, has come up with a radical new scheme the think break. one yourself. All work would stop for 10 minutes, and everyone from management on down would stop and ponder on the job, how to improve on it and be happy about it. If the plan catches on, it isn't hard to predict what will happen. Somewhere a union leader will insist on compensation during the think break because of the onerous additional burdens it involves. And in just about every plant and office there will be those who conclude that because a break is set aside for thinking, they can forget about it the rest of the time. by Brickman ATiXTYTHe ! VlTU THIS CONTRACT YbU'LL & ABLE. TO time-and-a-h- CoVtPM.VTKT CAn TAKE CAPE OF US v X 3 mi peat IP in WAMT We have to show all our receipts for all things' we were fortunate 1o be able to buy during the year, or we are considered not eligible lo buy, 'the To PeTiPes MeifcWL stamps. Talk about the old Russian Czarist dictatorship days, that was kids play to what we supposed fret Americans have to but up with now. Whos going to lay us away in the ground when we starve to death? - i -- o --G. lap, A ii we NOW- te a x Lake Street Well, the powers that be have finally done it. Taken the very food of life right out of our mouths, just to please a bunch of capitalistically controlled political dictators. Im speaking of the food stamps now used in place of our regular federal surplus commodities. Now, for those poor unfortunates, like ourselves, who were absolutely dependent upon the commodities for food and do not have the ready cash to pluck down all at once for a months supply of food, we consequently go without, simply to please a bunch of bankers and international chain store grocery stores. Moral: Have faith in miracles. Youre the small society this observation because Dr. George Gall, a top R. JOHNSON No Stamps , Please! ; '. Pulling ' A Belief o B. HUNTINGTON 937 Pirrpont Ave. , ' |