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Show M m 4 r mi when I DESERET NEWS jiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiumiiiiiiiiimimiinmniiiiiiitmmiimimiiimiimniiinimm child, I spake as a child . . . but became a man, I put away childish things " "When I was a LETTERS TO THE EDITOR llllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllll,l!lll,u,ullll,,,,,ll,lul SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States Mayor Reminisces As Having Been Divinely Inspired We drove a Model T Ford and a Franklin when 1919. From we came to Delta from San Diego in were wagon roads best the Pass on, the Cajon Virwheel tracks. There was no bridge across the forded it. After five We at River Mesquite. gin Arizora. days faveling, we camped at Littlefield, I was 13 years old then. My grandfather Snow, who had helped survey He the railroad line via CaiLnte, knew the land. mountains by the cut out through the gorge pointed the river. He said no road could be built there, it was too narrow and rugged. In 1919, neither the aerial photos, contour maps and triangu-latic- n 19 computed by Univac (quoting your April earth moving and rock article) nor the mighty machines which are making the project possible now, were dreamed of. So I enjoyed your story and aerial photos of this more, possibly, than some other costly link of readers might have. For half a century, Ive dreamed of some day driving through the .Virgin Narrows. The highway may be complete by the time I am 65, and I look forward to the trip with keenest anticipation. After all, Ive waited almost a lifetime for it -R- ICHARD S. MORRISON Mayor, City of Delta 6 A EDITORIAL PAGE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1969 It's Time To Cut Out Duplication, Waste When responsible officials estimate government waste at $10 billion a year and perhaps even as high as $40 billion, isnt it time to overhaul the federal bureaucracy to cut out duplication and waste? When a better, more efficient method has been developed to determine feasibility and cost effectiveness of a program, shouldn't it be mandatory for government to adopt it? When perk barreling, political pressures and pet projects send costs spiraling, isnt it the duty of every Congressman to examine his own area for possible budget trimming? Of course it is As senior editor Louis Cassels of United Press International points out in an article on the next page, waste crops up in duplication of services, lack of coordination among government bureaus, loose practices in military contracting and failure to adopt proved and efficient methods. It is true that considerable efforts are being made by some individuals to cut this waste. The Budget Bureau, for instance, has instituted an overview system to review govern-mer- it manpowactivities by function rather than by agency er programs, for example, in all rgencies. A House resolution before the Congress would require every congressional committee to submit cost estimates for the first five years of operation of any new federal program or extension of an existing program. Representative Wilbur Mills, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Cemrrttee, has suggested establishing a Government Program Evaluation Commission similar to the Hoover Commission to study the substance rather than just the efficiency of each federal activity. It would seek out and identify redundant and ineffective programs. a bill in the last Senator Wallace P. Bennett d grant-in-aito limit life of the programs to stats Congress and local governments to five years unless either another termination date was specified or unless the time limitation was waived. It also would have required Congressional committees to review each program periodically to determine its effectiveness ari terminate those which had achieved their purpose. This bill should be revived in this session. a r'T"" i rock-botto- m 5, ! Finally, accepting the consequences of wise budgetcutting is a job for everyone. The Colorado congressman who recently advocated cuts for everyone else but hands off Colorado projects is doing a disservice to his country. If fiscal integrity is to be restored, such myopic attitudes must be rooted out of Congressional thinking. If, with all this effort, waste cannot be brought under control, it is a clear sign that government has grown beyond Its limits of usefulness and only the economy ax, used unsparingly, can bring it back into recognizable form. The problem stems from the fact that the Spanish would like more than mere rent money for providing air and naval bases. They would also like some mutual defense pact an Idea pushed strongly by the Spanish diplomats. The U.S., however, is hesitant to make any new commitments abroad. The Senate, particularly, is hostile to such actions. Much of that hostility can be traced to the Vietnam war. There are some reports that, even if negotiations succeed In extending the lease arrangement which has now run out, the Senate may refuse to appropriate the rent about $200 million in military hardware. One alternative suggested in such an event, taking it out of the defense budget, is certain to meet stiff opposition. Perhaps the solution might be one the Spanish have already suggested, negotiating an agreement for a shorter term than the present five-yeextension under consideration. It might be the one compromise that would enlist Senate support and provide more flexibility in case General Franco dies and there is a change in government. Gentlemen, would you settle for three years? ar Give Them The Facts Ironic though it seems, parents whose advice to their children is limited to a youre too young approach may be unknowingly encouraging that very habit. Such advice, warned the French publcation Sante Presse recently, is not only trite and unimaginative, but unappealing to the mod generation which demands proof. Furthermore, by advising their children they are too young to smoke, the publication warned, parents as much as imply that there is a proper time for taking up the habit an implication refuted by the U.S. Surgeon Generals office with its findings that smoking can bring on cancer, heart disease and other serious ailments. As Sante Presse indicated, it makes much more sense to familiarize youth with the consequences of smoking. For example, they should be told that smoking a half pack of cigarettes a day can chop 2U years from the average life span and that such illnesses as heart trouble and lung cancer may shorten life even more. anti-smoki- Treating youths in this manner not only tells it like it is, but provides seme sobering thoughts for them to reflect upon in making a very important decision. Afterthought is The trouble with the con servative that he cares for people, but only for his kind of people, and is indifferent to the general needs of mankind; the trouble with the liberal is that he cares keenly for the needs of mankind, but isnt too concerned with the actual people around him. The conservative cant see the forest for the trees, and the liberal cant see the trees for the forest THE DRUMMONDS By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND Because President Nixon did not put a crash program to Congress during his first 1G0 days, some suggest he is in for trouble by not doing erough fast enough. Maybe, but not for sure; it is a judgment Mr. Nixon is taking a far view longer than the 100 days and it remains whether he will be rewarded or punished by the longer-terpublic response for his measured way of doing things. , If he begins to make headway chi what he is undertaking, it is quite premature to assume that public support will desert him. Because Mr. Nixon is not turning evand thats not erything upside down this going to be done at any time doesnt mean that significant and substantial changes are not in the making. They are and they have nothing to do with ideology or liberal versus conservative policies. It is now evident that there are distinctive Nixon approaches and they are beginning to mark out new directions like these: Praises Paper Boy budget in order to have a nice surplus rather than use it for human needs. This surplus and the continuing of the surtax are indispensable to getting inflation under control and essential to securing the dollar. This will be a boon to everybody. which could well be wrong. J.F.K. crash - programmed Congress, and public opinion didn't help him get ' much through. L.B.J. crash programmed Congress, got a mountain of measures passed, but public opinion didnt help him when he got in trouble over Vietnam. The President is potting first things first even if it hurts. Instead of trying to do everything at once, he Is acting on an order of priorities which has been absent from Washington for far too long. His priorities are: end the war in Vietnam, control Inflation. His reason for these priorities is that relatively little can be done to attack the most acute domestic problems until these two conditions are met and nearly everything can be done if and when they are met. Mr. Nixon well knows that until the Vietnamese war is behind him, he will not have the revenue resources to embark on larger spending which he is fully aware will be needed to deal with urgent domestic needs. And he isnt cutting $4 billion from the This is putting first things first and, meaning it, the President is candidly telling the country that other things must wait upon these two essential priorities and that to talk about doing everything at once and then not being able to do it is worst of all Another major departure from the past is Mr. Nixons initiative to cut back of power and authe in a Washington, goal which most thority Americans have been seeking and supporting for some time. He would accomplish this by beginning to share federal revenue with the states to enable state and local government to do what the federal government isnt doing well This move comes at the right moment liberal when many Democrats have come to see that the thicket of federal aid programs is inefficient and when there will be a calamitous breakdown of state and city government if federal funds arent forthcoming. On balance, it may well be that the his putting Presidents measured pace first things first, his saying frankly that everything cant be done overnight and that trying to do it that way would mean this approach may not only failure to be what the country needs but prove what it v"nts. Reaction Was Worse Than The Action Compromise On Bases Those pesky Spanish bases are providing some of the toughest decisions for the U.S. in some time. Pace Too Slow? Is The Nixon By SYDNEY J. HARRIS v What is distressing about the human race is not the way a small number of people act, but the way a larger number of people react. It is our reactions rather than our actions that condemn us to perpetual barbarism. In Switzerland, not long ago, six members of a tiny religious sect were tried on charges of flogging to death a girl while trying to exorcise the devil from her body. When the story of this fatal flagellation was published, according to Time magazine, the people of Zulich reacted with a primitive moral fury that was terrifying. Police cars taking the accused to and from the court needed extra protection from masses of lynchers. The court was swamped with threaten- ing letters, and proposals for the most frightful tortures were made by letter received hun and phone. Newspapers dreds of suggestions for punishment no less demonic than poor Bernadettes exorcism, including one writer who wanted to seal the defendants into a barrel full of Epikes and set it afire. And Switzerland, be it remembered, hng ago abolished the death penalty for murder. This is one of Europes most civilized nations. The latent paranoia of the human race, and the raging aggression that lurks beneath the surface at all times, can be vividly seen in this reaction of the and good, respectable, Zurichers. What they wantpeace-lovin- g ed to do was far worse than the crime they were punishing. This crime was obviously psychopath. ic, committed by religous fanatics in the grip of hysteria. People can scarcely get any sicker than this, and society should put them aWay in order to study them as law-abidi- we study carriers of ail malignant and fatal diseases. This is a job for the trained clinician, not the executioner. But the depravity of their crime released all the commensurate feeling of for all of us are potenthe populace tially homicidal (if we dont know that, wre have learned nothing from the Bible or from Freud) ; and under the guise of the respectable members retribution, of society fed free to act out their own murderous fantasies. It is not frightening that a few psycho-tic- s beat a girl to death. But it is frightening that the mass of people regard this violation as an excuse to unleash etheir and in so own repressed aggressions doing, become worse than the offenders they are chastising. No criminal has ever wounded society as severely as society wounds itself. Connie Wasn't A 'Spy Plane By GORDON ELIOT WHITE IN WASHINGTON help the Bismark and Prinz Eugen prey upon Allied shipping. Today it is hard to separate the shad- of them EC-12types, have flown dally and Pacific air over the Atlantic approaches to North America, watching with their radar for possible hostile aircraft. In the natural course of events, U.S. and Soviet fliers have picked up each others radar signals, analyzed them, and attempted to counter them. This is a practice and much secret spy equipof the supposedly ment is of Korean War vintage and ' may bt bought readily in any electronic surplus junk store. owy world of code breaking from the mere easily understood practice of patrolling along the Iron Curtain with planes. In a sense, the s are a code in themselves. Certainly the patrols, carried out almost continuously, are no more basically hose than the ground-basetile or radar net around Pearl Harbor or the U.S. mainland Deseret News Washington Correspondent - Talk of the WASHINGTON shot down last week by North Korea as a spy plane is great overdramatization of the role of that u n f o rtunate old EC-12- 1 piston-powere- ' i 5 T that obscures the rou-- s tine but important behind U.S. irces on watch throughout the world. work tV . rLJ Unite d u-- 2 camera-laden- , pow-M- r. ere(j glider, was jperly Labeled a spy plane when one s shot down in 1960 deep inside the Union. It was indeed spying, aim-- ; its cameras at Russian military from within that rations bars. However, electronic intelligence of sort that the Pueblo and the unfortu-t- e were gathering is more of an :ension of traditional air patrol work m a new sort of spying inside anoth- oh-liv- EC-12- 1 During World War n, the combatants patrolled the seas with lumbering flying boats: Catalinan, Sunderlands, Focke-Wui- f 200s, and so forth. At first they used human lookouts, then rudimentary radar. In the campaign, tried to deceive the radar the searchers with jamming signals and other countermeasures. The same sort of electronic warfare marked the air battles of 1941-4Fa1 many years, patrol planes, many 1 well-know- n radar-equippe- d radar-signal- d spy-lik- GUEST CARTOON The monitoring of communications is as old as warfare or diplomacy, and the eavesdropping on radio and other signals was commonplace during World War I. Though the U.S. dismantled Its agency in the 1920s on the policy that gentlemen dont read each others mail, the Navy succeeded in picking up Japanese coded messages in 1940-4- 1 and from them broke the Japanese naval purple code before the Battle of Midway In 1S42. code-breaki- The British were able to locate the Nazi battleship Bismark in 1940 only because they had picked up and broken the code. The German Navys enigma same intelligence victory helped defeat the and was an important factor in the winning of World War II. Partly because of knowledge of the German cede, the British were able to pick up the Bismarks supply tanker Gedania on June 4, 1941, nine days after she was ordered out of St. Nazaire to "What are you gonna be grow up . . .T if you Tarcntg Ttlesrtm Being a subscriber of the Deseret News has given the wife and me a wonderful bit of information, helpful hints, and some new thoughts about our future generation. What I want to scribble about isnt about me. Shucks, no, but it is about one fellow who has just now started out in the world: Our paper boy, Scott Wall. Recently ny wife and I called the paper to have it stopped at our address and told them we were moving so they might start it there. That done, I called our paper boy to have him stop by so we could pay him. And he stopped. him about a dollar, Not knowing it, we over-pai- d and we all thought it the right amount. About 30 minutes later Scott Wall was back and he said he had overcharged us, and wanted to correct the mistake. That boy is all right He is a good, honest boy. Too bad we dont have more Scott Walls scattered around to brighten up our days. Ill bet I know one boy in Salt Lake City who can go to bed at night and know his mind is clean. A SUBSCRIBER Are Studies Worth It? I was somewhat shocked to notice in one of your recent editorials that you were rather taking Mayor Bracken Lee to task for not supporting a scientific study. You pointed out that apparently this study would cost some $16,000 to complete and that Salt Lake City had already contributed $8,000 of this amount I am sure that I am in sympathy with Mayor Lee when he questions the validity of any such study, and I wouldnt be too surprised to find that he is right when he indicated that perhaps after the study is made it would accomplish no useful purpose and maybe even be thrown in the waste basket. It would appear to me from different studies that have been made that there has been quite often a tremendous waste of money and nothing of any great value has ever been accomplished. One of the outstanding examples, as far as I have been able to determine, was the $150,000 spent by the Little Hoover Commission a few years ago. I realize I do not have all the facts and information. The information I do get comes from your newspaper, and from the information I have received the money spent by the Hoover Commission could have been used far better in other fields. -A- RIEL MICHIE Roosevelt No Laborer Rights in a letter to the editor Disagreeing on 14-April 14, Harold M. Stockseth ridiculed the April 9 editorial, Dont Repeal 14-by showing how Utah had dropped to 36th place wage-wis- e and 6th place from the top in tax collections of all the B states. Utah does not want its employes to organize like businessmen because they would insist cn more of tte wealth they helped create. This the power structure does not want to happen. In a letter to the editor April 17, Ira Carley argues that stockholders join the company and buy stock of their own volition, by choice, no! by compulsion. He added, The laboring man, when forced to join a labor union when he disagrees and is in the minority, cannot leave the union. He Is compelled to stay and pay dues whether he agrees with management of the union or not. This is absolutely stupid. The laboring man can do the same thing as the stockholder does. If he doesnt like to pay dues and be represented by a union, he can go get another job. Rule 14-- does not give a laboring man any rights whatsoever. It just gives management a tool to keep unions out of the shop. There are no advantages here as long as we have 14-- and the power trust dictates the policies to the Legislature. Utah has no labor laws for the of the protection working man. What regulation there is is handled by the Industrial Commission, which doesnt have the manpower to police what regulations it has. If it did, Uncle Sam wouldnt have to prosecute employers for violating national laws. -- ROY A. HART 411 N. 9th West A Strong Leader? Hats off to President Nixon. He has proved to the world that he, too, is willing to sacrifice the boys and equipment of the UJ5. for the sake of peace. President Nixon, like his predecessor, is susceptible to a feeling of ultimate caution. The Communists are free to harass and commit mayhem against the free people of the world without fear of retaliation. We people are told that the Vietnam war is going in our favor. I wonder if anyone told the boys m Vietnam or the South Vietnamese who are attacked with rockets and mortars? May I express my appreciation for our servicemen and their dedication under such circumstances. After four years of war, a loss of millions of lives, including 34,000 Americans, we are told that we will seek a political peace. Result, another Korea; years of trouble and frustration. Did you know that the Soviet Union Is our friend? That is the word from Washington, D.C. The Soviet Union loves Czechoslovakia, too. That kind of friends we can do without. I thought I voted for a strong leader, not anoth- er pacifist -R- OBERT CHANDLER Vernal , |