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Show giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii DESERET NEWS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitimiiiiiiiiiiiitiimiiiimiiHiiiiiiiitiiiimimuiimmiiiHiimiiu t We Stood For The Constitution Of The United States Sees Communist Plot As Having Been Divinely Inspired 6 A EDITORIAL PAGF WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1969 No-Wi- n Curing Ghetto Crisis A Challenge For All If George Romney, secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), can bring order out of the chaos of the model cities program, that single accomplishment would be enough to enshrine him as a wonder-workeIndeed, Romney took an important step in that direction this week by designating officials as final authe and refor city, enlisting private participation, thority gionalizing federal administration. where the It all adds up to more local decision-makin- g problems are and removing at least some of the bureaucratic control from Washington which, as one redevelopment director commented, shows "an innocence of local problems. This innocence is sometimes a malady, as some local officials have ruefully learned. In Gaylord, Michigan, for instance, federal officials insisted that the city change its sewer despite plans before they would agree to a $300,000 loan the fact both state and special consulting engineers had already approved the plans. The change would have cost an additional $300,000. Like some other areas of big government, the ghetto problem has unfortunately sunk into a welter of government programs which spend money but accomplish little. The model cities program originally designed in 1966 to administration Johnson the help solve the problems by of the urban poor by improving housing, schools, and recrea-ti- n has cost the taxpayers at least $23 million in three yet not one program for the 150 cities involved is years yet out of the planning stage. Some idea of the confusion surrounding the effort to "save our cities is the report compiled last year by Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of a subcommittee studying government channels. He found that 21 federal agencies with 150 bureaus in Washington and 400 offices in the field were programs financed by 403 separate directing 220 federal-ai- d appropriations. All this is bewildering to applicant cities. Even if they find the correct program that can help them, the application takes forever to obtain a Washington decision. " Yes takes twice as long as no, says one city manager, "but 'maybe talces longest of all Curing the ghetto problem is not a job for government alone. In fact, David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhattan Bank, has estimated it will take about $5 of private capital for each dollar of public funds. But the stakes are enormous. As a McGraw-Hispecial report pointed out not long ago: if ghetto dwellers "If todays sick cities can be cured can be better housed, better educated, and, above all, better new and profitable markets will open up for employed business. That should be incentive enough to bring business and private capital in on a full working partnership. r. locally-electe- d ll Why No Stamp? the composer of the St. Louis Blues, l Botanical Congress and the 100th annithe 11th football are being honored with a versary of commemorative stamp this year, doesnt the Golden Spike Intel-nationa- inter-collegia- take-ove- I Secretary Rogers By ROSCOE te Centennial deserve one? Of course it does. Yet, despite the concentrated efforts of several Utahns and others throughout the nation, no stamp will be issued by the May 10 centennial date and theres only a very remote chance one will be issued at all. Actually, its absurd for the Post Office Department to pass up one of the nations most historic events. The reason given by the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee, which rules on such matters, is that a commemorative stamp was issued 25 years ago for the 75th Golden Spike anniversary. and "there have never been two stamp issues for the same commemoration, the committee chairman told a Utah philatelic group. That just isnt so. The Pony Express, for instance, received a commemorative issue in 1940 on its 80th anniversary and one again in 1960 for the centennial along with an embossed envelope. American beautification, too, was commemorated in 1966 and again this year with a issue. The bid for a commemorative stamp was proposed by Senator Moss in January, 1966, and the Utah Philatelic Society asked for such a stamp in February, 1967 long before the advance time specified by the stamp committee. Senator Moss, as a member of the Civil Service and Post Office Committee, is in an advantageous position to investigate the matter. Certainly the Golden Spike centennial organizers, as well as stamp collectors everywhere, deserve an explanation. GEOFFREY DRUMMOND WASHINGTON Secretary th A Teen Litter Lesson the other day worthy example for teens everywhere. Even more important than cleanup, however, is litter prevention. Although figures for teenagers were not given, a recent study disclosed that those from 21 to 35 were nearly twice as likely to litter as persons in the and age bracket nearly three times as those 50 and above. Few things destroy an otherwise esthetic setting as quickly as litter. With growing populations and fewer open spaces, it becomes incumbent on everyone to preserve pub35-4- 9 lic areas from such eyesores. A case in point is Sugarhouse Park where litter and vandalism have become serious. City officials are looking for ways to combat the problem among them the possibility f prohibiting drinking beer in public parks. This is the most beautiful park I know of, declared Sugar House businessman Paul L. Pehrson recently in a treeplanting ceremony. "It should be a place of peace, serenity, fun and enjoyment: but instead, park employes must continually collect rubbish left in the park. Such conditions reflect badly on those who use the parks. Perhaps those Murray teenagers could show their eiders & and how to keep it clean. thing or two about park cleanup New ordinances may help, but only civic pride can provide the- ultimate answer. - of THE DRUMMONDS ' State William Rogers recently gave out a h which sounds innocent but is very half-trut- misleading: "The weak can be rash. The powerful must be restrained. He said this to the American Society of Newspaper Editors after North Korea shot down an unarmed Navy reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the Sea of Japan. So far no one has publicly questioned Mr. Rogers seeming truism. It needs to be questioned. It isnt a truism; it is only a and therefore needs to be examined closely before it becomes accepted as some kind of certain verity in an uncertain world. Here is the inaccuracy: "The weak can be rash thats EC-12- 1 half-truis- true. "The powerful must be restrained" thats untrue. The truth is that one powerful nation, the United States, is almost always restrained and that another powerful nation, the Soviet Union, is almost always unrestrained. Since there are only two really powerful nations in the world, Mr. Rogers apparent verity applies to only half of the the Free World world and does not apply to the other half, the Communist world. h massed in Budapest; they killed thou- and shot the Hungarian premier, Imre Nagy. After long and mounting pleas from the nonnuclear powers, the Soviet Union violated its own voluntary pledge not to conduct nuclear testing in the atmosphere and did not hesitate to blandly announce it on the eve of a worldwide conference of neutral nations which Moscow had long been courting. When world opinion gets in the way of Soviet interests, world opinion gets rejected. The Soviet Union showed noconcern for the peace of the world when it provided enough arms to encourage Egypt to feel it could threaten Israel; and after Egypt lost, the Soviets started to pour in large quantities of new arms. When the Soviets did not like the way the Czechs were managing their own Communist regime, they sent troops across the frontier, occupied the capital, deposed the elected leaders and warned that war repression would follow if needed. And what do you think the Soviets would do if Finland or Romania or Austria or Belgium shot down a Soviet reconnaissance plane? We are not suggesting that the United States should ape the Soviets. We should not. But Mr. Rogers that the powerful of necessity will be restrained should not be allowed to leave the impression that it applies to any more than half cf the world. sands of Hungarians Thats quite a discrepancy. None of this is to suggest that Secretary Rogers would be wrong if he had said the powerful ought to be restrained in their actions. None of this is to suggest President Nixon and Secretary Rogers were wrong in the restraint they exercised in responding to North Koreas extreme provocation in the incident of The United States acted with the notable care and prudence, but there is a great dilference between counseling that the powerful ought to be restrained and asserting that the powerful must be restrained when the Soviet Union does not act as though it has to be restrained at all. This is an odd and perverse double standard of conduct that the United States feels it cannot respond with force to such illegal acts as the seizure of the Pueblo and the downing of the reconnaissance plane because the powerful must be restrained while the Soviet Union totally rejects the idea that the powerful must be restrained and does as it wishes. The evidence that the Soviets are not restrained by world opinion, by Communist opinion or by any restraint out of deference to the risk of a larger war, is considerable: When the Kremlin felt that the will to freedom was getting out of hand in Hungary in 1956, Red army troops were EC-12- non-Sovi- r. earlier wars. The face that the Vietnam war has never been conducted in this acceptable military style and, concurrently, serious erosion of the dollar has oc- curred through proliferation of domestic programs, suggests these conclusions: (1) the Johnson administration was most irresponsible and unpatriot- ic; (2) the federal government is subject to consid' erable influence from the industrial-munition- s infiltrated communists. with or else complex I have not joined the John Birch Society because it is not clear to me that sufficient numbers of Communists now find continuing gratifications of ; a personal nature adequate to maintain destructive activities requiring organization, discipline, and' long-terpatience. I ,n willing to be educated, however, as I remain keenly interested and appre- " ciative of many truths and warnings coming from the society. I am also watching to see how patriotic the Nixon administration will be and what discipline Americans will muster. Many things happening to our nation have not come as a surprise to me, and I pray that future prognostications shall not come to pass. -G- ARTH T. HARRISON 1986 Condie Dr. Sees Greek Gains half-truis- In your article Two Years of Tyranny and in several articles previously appearing in your newspaper, you support the idea that the military gov-- , ernment in Greece is the worst thing which happened to Greece for some time. Although I firmly believe your position about the situation in Greece is there are a few and more facts that should be mentioned about Greece and its new government. well-mea- That Tiny Spark Of Expressiveness What would you consider a fine compliment paid to you about your child? That she always looks neat and clean? That he has good manners? I wouldnt mind hearing any of this but what really pleases me most is when some adult happens to mention that a child of mine is interesting. And this seems to be a trait that many parents overlook altogether. They feel responsible for giving children wholesome food and warm clothing and setbut pay litting a good moral example tle, if any, attention to turning out a human being who is an Interesting per- sonality. Thus, the world is filled with dullards who have been given wholesome food and warm clothing and sent to Sunday school and instructed to say "Please and Thank you and have been bitterly neglected and underprivileged in First I quote from your editorial. "Before the military takeover, Greece was rocked by riots and swept by political unrest. That sounds something like the situation in which America now finds itself, the area of true personality development. This is a tremendous disservice to the child, for every baby born without deficiency is a merry, curious, humorous bundle of interest But within a n years, by the time the child begins first grade, much of the curiosity has been knocked out, the humor repressed, and thereby the learning process has been severely inhibited. Our first obligation as parents beyond the bare subsistence needs is to turn out children who are interesting, . to themselves and to others. This means children who are interested in the world, who are confident of their abilities, who are unafraid to question, who are willing to experiment and be wrong and accept their knocks. Instead, most parents want children who are quiet and neat and and dutiful and then who rebel in their half-doze- d teen hood, when they discover that society is a far larger, more exciting, more colorful, and more complicated structure than they had been led to believe. The only way to be interesting is to be interested; and when you are interested in external reality, then you are not bored or disaffected, and you have a focus for your activities. It is this lack of s focus that makes so many restless and ready for rebellion. If you cant raise yourself, all you can do is raise the roof. teen-ager- Dull, flat, constricted and uncreative personalities clog this earth of ours, through no fault of their own, for God has breathed into each soul the spirit of wonder, of exploration, of humor, of charm. What parents do for their children is not nearly as important as what they fail to do in fanning that tiny spark of expressiveness. No Student Uprisings four-stam- p The heartening response of Murray teenagers in that citys clean-u- p campaign is a AND Half-Trut- By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Since W. C. Handy, Letters in the April 22 Deseret News entitled Wars and Ban Sex Class? call for "No Goold almost exactly expresses Norris responses. my sentiments on the Vietnam war. Indirectly related may be the matter of sex education. Most Americans can give opinions about the obAmerijectives of communism but not very many apof in leadership, those positions cans, including pear informed about techniques of Communists. Communists want to draw our nation into wars with smaller nations for the purposes of draining our resources, weakening our economy, and demornaalizing our nation while the major Communist tions build their own war machine in preparation for a possible all-osurprise attack upon the United States. It is considered that such an attack may not be necessary to the extent that subversive activities are successful in weakening the moral nature and patriotic willpower of our people to resist an internal Communist From the beginning of the U.S. occupation of Vietnam, it has been apparent to me that our involvement was unlike World War II, done without taking the American people into partnership and without United Nations support. It has been equally clear that our administration never did make up its mind either to get i to the war or get out. If our nation is morally justified in going to war, I believe we are obligated to fight in a prompt, swift, hardhitting manner, attacking every logistical and military target that stands in the way of an effi-- , cient victory. To do otherwise is to insult the American people and military personnel who served our nation for more justifiable causes in v ASHINGTON There is some que tion as to what role the communicatio media are playing in student unre; Most of us like think were ju . reporting tl events on colle; , V2tv cam b puses, 1 there is a gnawit suspicion that oi role may be one j participant vvl rath than observe Have you ev w o ndered wh mi Mr. Buehnald might happen the press and TV didn't show up at a si dent demonstration? yy. Twenty-fiv- e ART BUCHWALD dent takeover of a building. They said news ar.y more. "Did you tell' them we were going to tar and feather the dean of the law school? Yeah, and they said to send them a press release on it. Wheres the reporter from the school newspaper? The school said they newspaper didnt have any student to spare for our demonstration, but theyd get a fill-ilater from one of us. If "Boy, this isnt much fun. Key, here comes a guy with a camera. Up against the wall! Up against the wall! The university is a fascist cesspool. the steps of the law building. "OK, guys, were taking the building. Is everybody ready for the attack? "We better hold off; the TV cameras haven't arrived yet. Who was supposed to alert the TV "I beg your pardon? "Who are you shooting the film for, "What good will it do? Nobody will know we did it. "It could keep j$ in practice. "Why are you combing your hair? "Well, if nobodys going to take my picture, I might as well go to English class. new "Such as? "Its the administrations responsibility to see that our student demonstrations are covered by the press and TV media, and if they dont provide adequate coverage the university has three hours to live. "My cinema class. Would you mind doing that again? "Get out of here. did alert them. I said we were going to lock ourselves in at noon. They said they were covering the flower show at the Coliseum and they didn't have any cameras available. "That's some note. It's just like the bourgeois, racist, capitalistic TV media to ignore the revolution. What do we do I "Someboys got to come. What about the radio stations? "No dice. They said we cw call In on their telephone talk show if we wanted to, but theyre not sending anyone over. now? "Theres got to be some press has to cover a student "If I had known nobody be here, I wouldnt have "Lets take the building anyway. "What good will it do? There are no press photographers or newspapermen law that the riot. was going missed to my lunch hour. , "I want to read my speech telling why we are taking over the law building. "Who cares? You wrote It for the sightseeing? Why cant something be done about our teenagers and this drug problem? A person can give names, maybe they are picked up and maybe not If they are picked up and charged charged with what? Then they are taken before a judge and he figuratively just slaps them on the wrist and says no, no, and they are allowed to go their merry way doing the same thing. Cant the young person be fined and made to work and pay off the fine? Some solution should be worked out. Cut out all the red tape and get the facts names, addresses, and then do something about it. And no patting and tell them to go and do it again. An adult is punished to some extent for his so why cant something be done in wrong-dointhis instance? Have parents lost their authority or interest in what their children do? If we have just e a law, then there should be some changes made. --MRS. GRACE ERNST 338 Stanton Ave. make-believ- ' Unjust "Lets hurry. I promised my parents I'd be on the Cronkite Show tonight man? stations? Unemployment was chronic. A few lucky individuals who knew some politician could find a job. Greece was very ripe for a takeover by the Communists. The revolution in Greece didnt come from the colonists. It came from the majority of Greek people. There might be suppression of certain individual rights, but the gains of the people are far greater. -- WILLIAM A. P1PPAS 736 Elgin Ave. What is the matter with our law? Is it just a farce to take the taxpayers money to furnish motorcycles and cars for our police to ride around press. As long as theyre not showing up, spare us. I say we should take over the law building anyway. "Wait. Dont go. Lets make demands to the administration. What you fail to mention in your editorial is that in a period of two years immediately preceding the military takeover, Greece had more than ten different governments, most of them having no or little base on parliamentary majority. Greece was governed by a mixture of political parties with no programs of any kind and the professional politicians were busy arguing who was going to form a new government. As a result the Greek people were left without programs of mass development. Where's Drug Law? n students are standing on here, either." "Where are they? "I called up the papers and told them what we were going to do and they said iey were too busy to cover another atu-- It wasnt doesnt it? GUEST CARTOON Criticism' Hack Miller wrote an article in his column (April 23) alrout Rouvaun (Jim Haun). It was either meant to be hilarious or else not too compli- mentary. Mr. Miller sounded downright envious as fun at Rouvauns name and talent. He even went so far as to suggest that Rouvaun and Valley Music Hall put on a free concert for poor people like himself. All performances for Rouvaun have been sold out. This is a great tribute to a great talent. After years of struggling and expensive voice lessons, Rouvaun is entitled to and should expect to be paid for his concerts. His hometown shouldnt expect less for him. Thank goodness Mr. Millet doesnt speak for the people of Utah. The record sellout at Valley Music . . Hall does that. ' . -- C RCL MILL! 77 EdgecombcyPr. |