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Show ' I won't make your nose too big if you won't make my nose too big ' DESERET NEWS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiii We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As ISA For Better Schools Having Been Divinely Inspired PAGE EDITORIAL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Our forefathers considered education to be vitally important to the success of our new nation. To prove this, under the Articles of Confederation the Congress instituted the first federal aid to education by designating one section of each township io a rather daring move fur be used lor education time. at any any legislature Today educators must threaten, negotiate and even strike to got the necessary funds to adequately edue: te the taxpayers' children. Countless parents rely on the school to take care of their children. They realize that someone els- is paying ike tab for their children's education. The percent ol their individual tax money spent to educate, transis far less port. and allow lunch for their children than the cost of a teenage baby sitter. The serious thing, however, is t hat while parents take this attitude, many schools are out of tiie necessary supplies by the middle of the school 19, 1969 Europe Needn't Let De Gaixlta BuHy ft - Europe may nut jump as high as French President Charles de Gaulle would like at his latest attempt to throw the continent into political and economical turmoil. De Gaulle has let it be known that France will boycott indefinitely proceedings of the Western Economic Union called to discuss the crisis. Cut the meetings are going on him. without anyway Fiances pique is as easy to understand as it is difficult to endorse. The WEU consists of the six Common Market Countries and Great Biitain. It was originally formed to control West German rearmament, but lately the Belgians and the British have been trying to expand it to include cooperation in foreign affairs, defense, technology and monetary policies. Since France has vetoed Britain's attempts to do precisely this by joining the Common Market, De Gaulle regards the jevitalization of the WEU as a back door approach for the British to get around its veto. BelThe other five members of the Common Market gium, West Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, and Lux- g mbourg are having none of this. Theyve sent jug officials of their foreign ministries to the WEU meetings in what diplomats interpict as a deliberate snub to De Gauile. The turmoil shows once again Britains dilemma in trying to solve its economic problems by expanding its trade area. The Bi itish, who spurned the chance to join the Common Market when it was founded in 1937, have been trying to join since 1961. They could gain more economically by embracing the proposed North Atlantic Free Trade Area, which centers around the U.S. economy and would include Canada, Australia, Japan, n New Zealand and the European Free Trade Association headed by the British. However, the price would be submission to the dominance of the U.S., and it is just this special relationship with the U.S. that De Gaulle uses to explain his veto of British entry into the Common Market. The British still prefer the Common Market, and they can take heart in the solidarity of the other five member nations in the face of Do Gaulle's opposition to their latest attempt to include Britain. The British may yet find the WEU will help them achieve Common Maiket status. In this the whole Western world has a stake, since a strong British economy would strengthen the worlds economic affairs. Hopefully, De Gaulle is being taught a lesson: That West Europe can be pushed around only so long before it starts pushing back. Mid-Ea- st year. All we hear currently is statements such as, not more money for education, but mote education for the money." We even have delegations of mothers collectively uninformed threatening our legislature by telling them they wouldnt stand for a tax increase. Ctah is getting more education for tiie money spent than any state in the union. The average grade achieved by people 2.1 years of age or older is 12.2 years which is first in the nation. Fewer men in Utah fail tiie army tet than in any otliPr state. Utah schools are in session longer than schools in 39 other states. One reason Utah lias ooon able to do this is thp fact that the teachers have subsidized the ''duea-tiona- l program for ycais. They have been taking a substandard salary and working part time to get a living wage. Oiip of these days they will likelv salat v lor professional ser- demand a piofos-iom- .l Nixon Warns The Russians For these reasons Mr. Nixon apparently feels that war in the Mideast can lx averted for the visible future, it Washington and Moscow do what is necessary to convince the Arabs and Israelis that neither side will have one ol the nuclear powers as a fighting ally. Behind this leoling is the eonviition hiue that the essential deterrent which can keep the Soviet Union from Inking tie risk of becoming Egypt's fighting ally should war ncciu is its leaf of a niihlaiy confrontation with the United States. This is why the President is warning that war in the Midpast could involve ery well a confrontation between the nuclear powers." Be does not mean that preventing war in the Middle East is the same as making peace in the Middle East. He sees a state uf nonwar Ihere as no more than buying time while stronger efforts ate made to reach a tolerable settlement. To this end the President is accepting r disDe Gaulles proposal for cussions at the United Nations, is sup. pot ting the U.N. Jarring peace mis-ioand is going to Europe, among oilier reasons, to enlist the active help of the NATO countries in promoting a settlement. But Mr. Nixon does not believe that a peace could be imposed by the Big Powers or that an imposed peace could be enforced. He Mieves the only way to peace in the Mideast is for the belligerents to make it through direct negotia- THE DRUMMONDS Bv ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND WASHINGTON Though it was hardly noticed at the time, Pi evident Nixon has delivered his first warning to Hie Soviet Union. It coneeins the Middle East. It high-rankin- is apparent from his actions that Mr. Nixon is convinced that a major war between Arabs and Isialis can lie averted if both the United States and ihe and are caieful Soviets keep hands-of- f to keep their matches in their pockets. This is the leal reason the President used his fiist pi ess conterenee to show bow gravely lie viewed the consequences of renewed lighting not alone as they would affect the Arabs and the Israelis, but the nuclear powers as well. Mr. Nixon is acting on the premise that both Russia and the United States want, above all. to avoid direct military confrontation and therefore want to make sure that no war crisis drags them into conflict. This is why the President did not hesitate to describe the Mideast as a powas der keg," as very explosive, in gently requiring a "cooling olf. Then, will). nit making it formal, lie went to the heart of tiie message lie wanted to get over to tl.e Kiemlin. He said we must reduce tile possibility, of another explosion, bt cause the next explosion in the Mideast. I think, could involve very well a confrontation between the nuclear powers, which we want to avoid. seven-natio- long-overd- This is the core of the thought that ihe President hopes the Soviet leaders will Help For The Courts When a defendant who commits a misdemeanor has more rights of appeal than a convicted murderer, something is wrong with Utahs court system. And when 33 out of 36 prostitutes can escape sentence for months and in most cases altogether by appealing their cases to district court, the court system is sadly out of step. Bills before the Utah Legislature would help correct these defects by tightening up the appeal process to halt current flagrant abuses. d sentence Defendants who dont like a city can now appeal on almost any grounds to district court and be granted an entirely new trial even if they have pleaded guilty in city court. As a result, the judicial system has extra burdens imposed upon it, and trials may be so delayed that witnesses disappear, memories fade, and evidence becomes misplaced or lost. The Legislature should act to correct such abuse of the court system. court-impose- What? No more youth fares on airliners? No more teenagers poking into Americas historic old places via the air lanes and traveling Richard llaiiburtons Royal Road to Roe mance around the world at prices? incredible. But, alas, thats the decision of a Civil Its Aeronautics Board examiner, who has declared such airline rates discriminatory and wants to abolish them. Pshaw. Railroads cut prices for youngsters. So do the movie houses. So do the bus companies or at least did until youth fares came under attack bv the bus company owners and prompted the whole CAB review' which cut off the air travel bonanza for those 12 to 21 who had the travel bug. The CAB must review the examiners findings and, hopefully, itll find a way to continue reduced fares to the young. Grounding young Americans would deprive them of an early acquaintance with the speed and convenience of air travel. Nothing is insurmountable, Robert E. Thomas declared nine years ago as he took over the exacting task of superjust Salt Lake City library system. the vising Now, as he leaves for a new assignment in the Ramapo-CatskiLibrary System in Middletown. N.Y., he can look back on some imposing advances in the Salt Lake City system since his arrival. Mr. Thomas is quick to point out, modestly, that most of the credit goes to the Library Board and staff members. Nevertheless. the city now has one of the outstanding library services in the country, not only in its collection of books but in its build;ngs. Both the Ccntrai Library and the new Rose Park branch were built during his tenure. The Hansen Planetarium was located in the old Main Libiary, and bookmobile service was initiated in the city for the first lime. Just as there is a strong place for libraries in American lives, theie also is an important niche for the dedicated men and women who keep them operating. The Deseret News wishes Mr. Thomas well in his new responsibilities. ll six-da- It is ironical that we all hurrv to a doctor as soon as our children have a physical ailment. Wouldnt it seem reasonuhk to pay the same price for professional people who are with our. children the entire clay, five days a week, shaping their minds, bodies, and attitudes for life? ROBERT S. HUNSAKER 4864 Coquilla Ave. high-price- - ' Average Because: President Nasser can't risk losing another war to Israel without assurance n, that the Soviets would come to his rescu before it was too late. Israel has no need, no incentive, to attack the Arab countries because, as a tpsult of the 1967 war. it has adequate security until a peace settlement can lie attained. ' The harassment of the Arab terrorists is not great enough to weaken Israel or provoke it into renewing the war. e tion. This will take time, and time is in short supply if either side makes a mis- n One reason that .parenthood is the most difficult discipline in the world far more difficult than an academic dis-- c lies in the fine line that parents iplinp must draw between what the child is and what they want for the child. in the loved Many children are loose and sentimental sense of the word but at the same time the parents want hint or force him or expect him to be different. And. to the childs nascent mind, their wanting him to he different means lie mu.--t be unacceptable as tie is. If he comes to believe this, and takes it for granted, then he has given up as a lieisonalitv in his own light. He beand turns into a kind comes of automation, reacting to parental presand it makes little difference if sure lie reacts with conformity or with rebellion. In eitlter case, he is not an authentic personality, but a blind responder to external forces, often for a lifetime. calculation. But the parents have a legitimate claim to develop the child, even a duty to civilize it, to instill values and shape attitudes and correct malfunctions and misapprehensions. Being a parent is being a teacher, only on a deeper level. This is where the problem and the paradox come in. The child desperately needs to be loved for wliat it is, and yet the parent is continually prodding it to to cat become oilier titan what it is better, to look more a tractive, to strive hauler, to meet the standards of the family and the milieu and the society at large. So that the parents drive to be satisfied by their children is in constant danger of being interpreted as rejection by the child; and the more the parents hold to some objective, abstract standard of child should be, what a satisfactory . Line the more the real child loses his own feeling of identity and worth. At bottom, the emotional task for tiie parent is to learn how to tread this fine and dplicate line between acceptance and change. Someone has said of God that He is always pleased but never satisfied with human beings: and that states the attitude nicely. Children must be made to feel that parents are pleased with them even though they aie not satisfied with what tiie children hive made of themselves. The attitude of pleasure, of joy, of acceptance of a fresh and unique personality is much rarer among parents than we like to think: most of them have an abstract model of the the child" in their minds and want the real child to resemble the ideal one. usually for reasons that have more to do with parental vanity than the welfare of the child. - Valentine For Utah Tiie greatest valentine that could be giveil has come to Utah from our lawmakers and our newsSenator Bennett expressed it perfectly papers. when he said. We cannot lock up large tracts of lands in Utah just for looking." Space will not permit listing of every name on that valentine, but every official responsible for our welfare stood by the people. Every newspaper, radio station and TV station lias spoken out. Our thanks for this valentine. We know the fight isn't over, but we have Some Scary Student Demands WASHINGTON strations demands sonable, but others have b u i i n mousetraps. A few that 1 question have to do with student demands ih.it uni1 versities people take in whether they're qualified r not: that all siu- Mr. Bncimnh dents who have flunked out tie allowed to n'imn to school, ami that ptofessois abolish the system of grading students lor their courses. that in the liberal arts departments vou might not have to lie too concerned about high standards you've seen one economics professor, you've seen them all but its in the science and professions that you can get a little tensed tin. believe 1 If our future doctors, lawu-s- . engineers and scientists no longer have to lace stuf quality ing examinations, or if tne schools re'iise to grade them on their abilities, s ime very vend situ.dioiis might arise. A ART BUCHWALD As student demon- the on campuses continue, of the militants keep escalat ing. Some of the demands are rea- parent goes into a What seems to lie ti doctor's mure. e trouble?'' the doctor asks. have a pant in my side, doctor. "I don't know anything alxwt pains in the side." I thought you were a medical doctor. At least that diploma says so." Are you some kind of a racist?' I hope. The southeastern desert and mountains of Utah are marvelous beyond beliet, for getting out of the press of humanity. Wc want to shaie it, but not lose it. There is room for all. WILLIAMS -L- UDEAL and EVANGELINE TAPPAN Bicknell years from now at tiie new Mayor John Lindsay Bridge connecting Long Island with Connecticut. The engineer is standing on the platform with the dignitaries. "Well. Mr. Itouhleday, you built a mighty fine bridge. V. No. I'm a patient." Well, it so happens I am a medical doctor. I just didn't do vety well in anatomy. Never cared muc h for it. As a matter of fact, we locked up the dean of the medical school until lie agreed to drop anatomy ns a inquired course. We got him to do awav with biology, also." But if you didn't like anatomv c.r biology, wliv did ymi become an M.D.?" "A man has to he something. Meanwhile, across town, a man was murder and bping tric'd tor his lawyer and he were listening to the first-degre- e piosecutor. I want you. ladies and gentlemen, to send this man to the chair." The defendant turns to his lawyer and asks, "Can tie do that to me? The lawyer shtugs. It beats me. "But you're my lawyer. Don't you know what the law says? I never told anyone this befote, but I never realty cared much for law. Matter of fact, all chit ing school 1 concentrated on fraternity lite. . . . "Look. don't care abci't youi fraterlose, will nity. My life is at stake. If yon at least make an appeal'." "Whats an apjiea!? You start study- Family' We are, I bplieve, an average familv in this highly taxed state of Utah. Approximately 80 per cent of the other families in Utah are slrikingy similar. Between our wives wot king, c arrying part-timjobs and our regular jolts, we c):e out an $3,000 to SLO.OCU yeatlv income. We live in $18,000 to $23,000 homes and have four to six children. In other words, we arc almost earlton copies of ll.o noble Mrs. Hood and her family. Our family is struggling hard and we dread the evening paper to come fo: fear of what other impositions we are facing. Mr. Rampton and most of his associates, on the other hand, are above the average salary' with the comfortable feeling of being able to initiate salary increases for themselves. These types are incap-able of thinking like the average salaried man. . but it is past time that they should sense the true public pulse for what it is before tilings etupt violently. The governor seems to en joy bandying petsonal family statistics around and in so doing appate...;' has come up with those of Mrs. Hood ar.d her faini- Jy as being the magical average under whi: h we can pay more and more taxes. It is for these very reasons along with skyrocketing medical, food. Utility, and other costs, that we can't stand higher taxes. Raising salaries, taxes, costs and . spending is the last way in this world to fight one inflation. of our most urgent problems today We all want more lor ourselves, our families and others, but there is a point beyond which it is impossible to go. We are at this point now 6n a state and national level. DOYLE OLSON 3016 Bonnie Brae Ave. four-powe- y By SYDNEY J. HARRIS cut-rat- Thanks, Mr. Thomas ponder carefully: that the best way to cool the most explosive danger spot in the world today is for the two nuclear powers to make it crystal clear to the Middle East nations and to each other that they will not allow themselves to become involved. Why is this the key to averting renewal of the war of 19(17? Parental Discipline: The Fine self-les- 'Grounding' The Teens It. Drummond ii ps. 7s Life So Dear "Tnat-- s my job." It seems to lie sagging at one end. Is that the way it's supposed to be?" I'll build the bridges you cut the ribbon. "Look, there goes the first truck over the bridge it's tailing. IXJL'RLEPAY. THE ENTIRE BRIDGE IS FALLING I"- Sotry alxnil that. 1 never could out luiw to ue a slide rule." . . . ?' A man encourages civil disobedience nationwide. He is killed and the nation mourns; schools are named eiter lent: special days are planned in ln hollar. The highest official in the country expresses his sad'tes and bereavement ever the event. I'nied States Navy ship is challenged on the seas by a small country. The captain quickly throws his personal armament overboard and orders his citw to oflor no resistance. The people of the U.S. support His actions by 68 to 9 percent. tig-ur- e A High GUEST CARTOON Cowardice condoned by a nation is still cowardice. This captain is praised as a hero and anyone who Says his actions weie sadly lacking as a military man is labeled a crackpot or extremist. Men and women are assaulted in public and killed while people look on refusing aid. It was a minority tiiat gave us our great nation and it looks like only a minority remain to preserve it. One man of our original minority, addressing Ihe convention in Philadelphia in 1773. said: What is it that gentlemen wMi? What would they have? Is lie so dear ami peace o sweet as to he purchased by the price ol chains and slavery? Forbid it. know lot what course others may God! take, tail as for lie', give me liberty or give me death I" 1 1 1 in ing about at! this legal mumbo-junibcollege and you won't have any social Lie at all." But the law siys . . (lie defendant i ril'd. What does the law say ? And cijn't go too fast because ! want to write all this down. I never did take notes in school. Tne third scene could take place 20 n - V l It saddens me to see people without conviction? with nothing they ronsidei worth dying for, because this means they l cully have nothing worth living lor. Let us hope our minority today is strong enough to preset ve the rest of us. S. 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