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Show f 'Ami right, DESERET NEWS "r Hare It ' wright-Le- t's AQT HOPPE 1 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 'Ve Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired morning, housewives and other shut-ins- . Its time for another chapter of the heartwarm"Forward Together, ing story of Dick and Pat and their buffeting by life's and defeats. Mostly the latter. But as we join them today, all is well. They have moved into the lithouse tle white around the comer that Dick so covet- ed. And they are sitting on the porch glider, Dick contentedly pouring catsup over his bowl of cottage cheese. Pat: I dont want to nag, dear, but you promised to fix up this place. When are you going to get started? Dick: I want to be perfectly frank with you on this point, dear. It is my judgment that we must not act with reckless Good TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1969 16 A EDITORIAL PAGE victories De Gaulle Bows Out: A Time Of Testing obstinate, and rash though Charles de Gaulle was, his resignation as President of France should provide little cause for rejoicing. With his departure, there is talk that the franc may be devaluated. If so, it is expected to force a revaluation of the Deutschmark, the British pound, and possibly the Swiss frdne, and shake the American dollar. His resignation creates a vacuum which the Communists can be expected to seek to exploit and which could plunge France back into the political instability from which DeGaullism rescued it. Although he kept Britain out of the European Common Market, its admission is by no means assured because there are still many in both Britain and France who oppose entry. Nor can anyone guarantee that France will automatically the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which De Gaulle spurned in his campaigns to woo the Soviet Union and to turn Europe into a third force in world affairs. In assessing the election the past weekend that brought about his downfall, it is well to remember that no one defeated Charles de Gaulle except Charles de Gaulle. The election was on a long, complicated constitutional change that many voters did not understand or care about. It wasnt until two weeks before the election that De Gaulle made the outcome a vote of personal confidence. If he had let well enough alone, he could have remained in office until 1972 when his term expired. ' With his resignation, France comes to the end of an era. It;fcas an era in which De Gaulle refused to help curb the spread of nuclear weapons, forced NATO out of France, vetoed Britains efforts to join the Common Market, flirted fiifci Moscow and Peking, and opposed the U.S. on Vietnam, ty. But it was also an era in which he extricated France from tfie long war with Algeria and did it with honor, restored political stability to France after more than 12 years of shaky, ineffectual coalition governments, steadfastly refused to devalue the franc, and restored France as a major influence in world affairs. . Perhaps President De Gaulles worst shortcoming was n government, then the. way he moved France toward failed to groom a successor. The 10 years De Gaulle served as President is a long time in office for a leader in just about any democratic country. And the longer he remained in power without grooming a successor, the more difficult it likely would have become for France to adjust to his eventual departure. As it is, France faces difficult days ahead. Its up to the nation which repudiated De Gaulle to show that his resignation does not bring on the chaos of which he warned. High-hande- d, one-ma- The 00 Days Yardstick 1 At the end of his workday Tuesday, President Nixon completes his first 100 days in office. The first 100 days, as used in American politics, is a phrase that has nothing to do with its origin. Historys Hundred Days was the period between March 20 and June 28, 1815, the interval between Napoleon Bonapartes entry into Paris after his escape from Elba, and his abdication. In America, the political application of the phrase goes back to the first 100 days of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, when the New Deal program was being enacted into law. FDRs first 100 days saw the passage of at least 15 major measures. By contrast, John F. Kennedys 100 days in 1961 saw Congress clearing six of 16 major measures requested by the administration. At the end of his first 100 days, President Johnson pointed to the enactment of 10 of the 15 appropriations bills . . . that were Carried over from last year plus education and tax reduction bills. As for President Nixon, he has given Congress little to work on aside from broad outlines. But comparisons are tricky. The quality of the laws Congress enacts is much more important than their quantity. The more laws that are put on the books, the more difficult adjustments there are for Americans to make. After Congress has stepped on the accelerator for several years, its only prudent to start applying the brake. Moreover, its hardly consistent for certain lawmakers to complain that Congress is losing power and prestige to the White House, and then complain that the President isnt giving them enough work . to do. If the first 100 days is to be used as a yardstick for measuring new administrations, lets all remember that its a yardstick made of rubber. Chiseling On Safety its important to protect the consumer from the butcher who cheats a few cents on hamburger, its more important to protect him from the odometer artist who chisels a few hundred dollars on a used car by turning back the- mileage indicator. i This practice, Consumers Union reports, costs Americans as rfnuch as $1 billion a year. But the cost in terms of reduced safety is beyond calculation. ' Even with the best, of care, Consumers Union observes, a car with 75.000 miles on the odometer is not the car it was at 25.000 miles. The prudent owner knows this and yls less likely to take his steering or wheel bearings or exhaust used "system for granted. But the owner of a car may be lulled by the odometer. Until the critical moment, ,ie may have been completely unaware that his car was dana menace to himself and others. gerously in need of repair Yet, Utah and 44 other states lack laws making odometer tampering illegal. A bill to outlaw the practice was introduced in the last Utah Legislature but got nowhere. deal-el- s A bill perding in Congress would require used-ca- r to give their customers a statement signed by the last private owner of the vehicle, certifying the mileage that was on the car when he sold it. In the absence of effective laws, used-ca- r the themselves check with should former owner cars buyers to certify the odometer reading. While low-milea- ge anti-tamperi- . ( v 1 Forward Together!' haste. Pat: But we moved in over three months ago! Couldnt you at least paint the picket fence? It wouldnt take long. The whole neighborhoods beginning to talk. Dick: Let me make one thing perfectly clear, dear. Before taking drastic steps, we must first organize a specific chain of command, draw up a blueprint for vigorous action, and find my paint brushes. think it ought to be white. Dick: I have had this matter under full and comprehensive study. Some white and should be feel it neighbors some, whose opinions I respect equally, feel it should be green. At the present time, pending further study, I am giving serious consideration to painting the pickets white and green alternately. Pat: I I i Well, while youre studying that, could you weed the lawn? I have to stand on the porch railing to see whos coming Pat: down the path. Dick: In my view, privacy is to be cherished. On the other hand, the ecology of our garden must be preserved. I therefore hope in the near future, as soon as plans can be drawn up, to propose a ten per cent weed cut. Pat: While youre waiting for the plans to be drawn up, I do wish youd fix the roof. If it rains, well drown. Dick: I am proud to say that I have moved swiftly in the area. I have drawn up a modified coordinated program, which I hope to implement vigorously. If I can ever get the money. Pat: Thats nice, dear. But theres one other thing. I hate to mention it. But I think there are termites in our founda- tions. Dick: Our very foundations are an area to which we must give top priori;;I cannot and will not tolerate termites in our very foundations. It is my intent Pat: Good heavens, I smell smoke! Dear, I think the house is on fire. Do ; I ? J . ! ... Y something! Dick: I cannot and will not toleratp or anywhere. anytime conflagrations That is my conviction. And I pledge to you here today that I will conduct a full and complete investigation seeking to obtain compliance from conflagrations evfu- erywhere. Moreover, looking to the . . . me say iure, let Pat (wringing her hands): Oh, weve been here three months and you havent done anything but talk. Arent you worried the neighbors will start criticising? I know how sensitive you are when people think youre wrong. Dick (smiling for the first time) : Yes, but dont forget, dear, if I dont do anything, I wont do anything wrong. ; J tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniininiiiiii Russia's Moving Fast On ABM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I THE DRUMMONDS By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND - WASHINGTON The Soviet Union is moving faster and further than the United States on all kinds of antiballistic missile defenses than has yet been disclosed. This fact bears directly on the decision Congress will soon make on the American ABM. This information on the magnitude of the Russian antimissile program is not speculative. It is not based on intelligence sources. It comes from the Soviets themselves. Theyre not covering it up. Theyre perfectly willing to have it known. They are publicizing it probably on the premise that knowledge of their antimissile defense will be an important additional deterrent to any nuclear attack from any direction. This is the likely explanation of why Moscow has recently published a new military compendium, Fifty Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR, which has just become available and which the American Security Council has alertly summarized. It discloses: That the Soviet ABM system was begun 15 years ago and is proceeding steadily. That, with its own ABM well advanced, the Soviets are now developing and testing far more sophisticated devices for defense against space weapons. That as long ago as 1954 the Kremlin created a new branch of military service equal in status to the army, navy R. Drummond to concentrate exclusively on the development of Nuclear Age defenses. The new service is now called PRO, the Russian initials for antirocket defense. From these developments, now openly confirmed by the Russians themselves, it seems inescapable that the Soviets have a very considerable lead time over the United States in the whole range of antimissile defenses, even if Congress soon approves a start of the American Safeguard system around some of our Minuteman missile sites. The author of the authoritative Fifty Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR is Marshal M. V. Zakharov, chief of the Soviet general staff, who stresses that since .1958 Soviet antimissile defense has been taking on new dimensions. The creation of ballistic missiles and and air force, is far The problem of populaton more complex than we ordinarly assume. It is not merely a matter of having too many people to feed or house properly it is a matter of social needs outrunning personal supplies. Take one example, not commonly considered as being part of the population the dissatisfaction in the naproblem tions colleges and universities. With a few exceptions, this is as much a matter of size as of anything. Students in the large universities feel that is, there are so depersonalued many of them that none feels like an individual, or feels that he is getting the training and direction he needs on a personal basis. Much of the campus disaffection springs from this sense of being through the machinery d of college. Now the obvious answer would be, say. to break down a college of 30.000 students into 10 units of 3.000 each. But this would not be much of an answer, because of the scarcity of professional talent relative to the booming demand for a college education today. There never have been enough good teachers; now e there are not even enough above-averag- ones. The same is happening with medical in our society. As the standard of living goes up, there is an increasing gap between the number of doctors and the numbers of people demanding them. Thus, the same complants about the t mechanization of the r about the as relationship care doctor-patien- student-professo- relationship. Through technology, we may find means of feeding and clothing an immense world populaton. But the chief problem will be adapting our social mechanisms to the peripheral needs of all these people, which grow in a geometric ratio while their mere numbers increase only arithmetically. t Be Kind To Animals Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of the lowest and basest of people. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignoJones of Nayland. rance and meanness. In the Book of Genesis we read where God gave man dominion over the animals of the earth. It is very evident from the number of cruelty cases we have to investigate that some people interpret the word dominion to mean that they have the right to do anything they want to animals regardless of the resultant suffering and in some instances agonizing death. And sometimes we find this sadistic action in families who profess high Christian ideals. The deliberate starving of an unwanted "pet or unjust brutality cannot be said to be the acts of a true missile. And then these significant disclosures: Vnissile "Our modern surface-to-ai- r complexes are capable of destruction of all existing types of planes and missiles the enemy possesses at this time. . . . Christian. A number of people dump their unwanted dogs or cats in places hoping, perhaps, that someone will find and take care of them. Then we have the dog and cat nappers, and the dog poisoners perhaps the meanest of all people. Then, again it is very difficult for a child to understand adults when his pet, which is on a leash, is stolen from his front porch. missiles are stantly undergoing developmental improvements. New families and generations of missiles are created with improved and perfected combat qualities and alert capabilities. These facts do not surprise American intelligence officials. They confirm what they already knew. But when U.S. senators decide whether to approve or reject the Safeguard ABM, Marshal Zakharov should be an impressive witness. The surface-to-ai- r con- so every day reports come in of various deanimal cruelty and if these reports continue to increase we will have to place two investie ingators in the field; we now have one vestigator. Lets hope Utah can improve its image. And grees The famous English preacher, Rowland Hill, made the following statement: I would give nothing for that man's religion, whose very dog and cat are not the better for it. McCarthy ism In Reverse? - SAN FRANCISCO The motel's TV tube came up the other night with the sober visage of Eric Sevareid, looking as usual like a bust of Pericles. The statesmans message, if a tired eye caught It that we are right, was to this effect witnessing on the campuses this spring a reverse form of McCarthyism, not of the Right but of the Left; and the new form merits the same condemnation that was heaped upon the old. The analogy wont hold water. What we are witnessing on the campuses, from Berkeley to Cornell, is a threat to i n t ellectual freedom ten times more deadly than any threat McCarthy ever posed. The bearded re volu-- t young i w ho o n a ries stand on the cor-- , neis of San Franusco, hawking the Berkeley Barb and taunting passersby, removed from the paunare chy Legionnaires who solemnly resolved, 15 years ago, that Dean Acheson was a pinko. No. This is something very different. ran on for The McCarthy era, roughly five years. It began with the Senators speech of Feb. 9, 1950, in Wheeling, W.Va. I have in hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as having been members of the Communist party. It manifested itself a few months later in the McCarran Act, demanding' tie registration of Communists and Communist fronts. Then the movement lost steam ; it finally subsided with the Senate's resolution of condemnation in December of 1954. light-year- s In those days, McCarthyism. meant the suppression by the Right of Leftist or Liberal opinion. In point of fact, very little such suppression ever occurred. A small handful of men in foreign affairs suffered harassment: Owen Lattimore, John Carter Vincent, John Stewart Serv- - 4 of full-tim- JAMES J. KILPATRICK The Problems Of Population By SYDNEY J. HARRIS G. Drummond space vehicles, he writes, required a modern air defense system, to respond not only against the aircraft threat bet to provide antialso and first of all missile and antispace defense. Marshal Zakharov reveals that the Soviet ABMs first were deployed six years ago and have since been steadily improved and increased in number. He comments as follows on their operations: The characteristic element of those missiles is the fact that they are guided in flight which permits directing the missile to the target area and homing it on the target for its complete destruction. The aiming of missiles is accomplished by means of complex automatic computerized guidance systems. The target is destroyed as a rule by the first launched ALFRED JOHN CORDERY Executive Secretary, Utah Humane Society 470 Douglas St. f t? I , ice. An Army dentist. Irving Peress, had a hard time. Here and there, as in the famous Slochower case, a local school board flexed its muscle. i s Who's Talking? Seen in retrospect, however, and compared to the convulsions that afflict us was today, the virus of McCarthyism no worse than a mild case of sniffles. Throughout his brief and calamitous career, Joe McCarthy had robust opponents. The myth is that liberals of that day were gagged; the truth is that liberals kept hollering at the top of their lungs. Throughout the McCarthy period, at least the forms of law were observed; Slochower sued; committees held hearings; speakers, pro and con, made It was interesting to read in Tuesdays paper about the City Commissions attempts to raise the local option sales tax. Three state legislators commented: They cautioned commissioners that the city must demonstrate efficiency in government before the legislature will consider anything. My one comment is: Look whos talking. I doubt g that I could consider that circus the legislators are a part of as being very efficient. t. two-rin- -T- IMOTHY A. TATE 809 S. 9th speeches without interruption. Nothing of the sort obtains today. Civility is gone. Good manners are gone. In the savage code of the new barbarians, no place exists for the rights of others. At Cornell, black militants rout visiting parents from their beds; they hold a building by force of arms; they issue bloody threats of further violence unless ' demands are met. It is impossible to recall, in the worst of the McCarthy days, anything to compare with the ruthless acts of suppression we have seen in recent months. i Protest To Unions A group of housewives protested a raise in taxes which was under consideration by the Utah Legislature, while offering no alternative such as less tax supported services. Why did they not protest to and picket the unions who shut down Kennecott for eight months and raised taxes? These union demands have been declared wholly wrong by the courts. Kennecott relieves us of millions of taxation when operating, but when not we all have to pay more taxes. Those housewives should visit Kennecott in a thank them for keeping our taxes down even with only four months they do when the unions would work. Perhaps it is a vain exercise to search the past twenty years for specific causes. The more important questions go to the crisis at hand. The terrifying fact is that at one great university after another, a tiny minority of revolutionaries has succeeded in working fearful disruption. Obsessed by mad notions of tolerance, college administrations have opted for craven appeasement. Faculty members, saddest of all, have abandoned the authority they are expected to assert. The recent incidents at Harvard, and especially at Cornell, bring us to a critical point : Either the forces of order and tradition mount an effective counteroffensive, or our institutions go down. At its worst, the McCarthy era was no more than a flickering shadow. It is a terrible darkness that faces us now. East V f dollars of operating protesting body and as low as operation railroad union man wrote saying the reduction of train crews was similar to the school teachbut there is no comparison. If so, ers problems the teachers would be protesting the closing of hunA dreds of small schools by consolidation and hence fewer teachers. The schools have no featherbeds where one may sleep while another engineers the students. 5 L L Whether in the copper industry or the railroads, the unions skyrocket our taxes and the organized housewives sit home and smile. -- D. A. RICHARDSON 3577 S. 5th Jjv ( Ijast |