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Show BESEEET NEWS LETTERS Vy TO THE EDITOR , SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH r t We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Havinq Been Divinely Inspired Alarmed Over Lake J Utah, plus As d frequei t vis, tor to being a professional mining engnieer, I'm somewhat alarmed over both past and pending events concerning I.ake Pow ell. s r t,. 22 A EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1969 ? Why Campus Rebds Are Losing Support rf, y r X1 t i s Mounting antipathy and stringent against campus rioting should convince student dissidents to think twice bctore further endangering either life oz property or othenvise breaking the law in seeking their demands. Legislatures of at least 18 stites, for example, have passed or are considering laws to put down such rebellion by expelling students, cutting off scholarships, or by jail sentences. And even though the Nixon Administration has not directly intervened in campus unrest, leaving control of the problem to school administrators, Congress has not been idle on. the issue. Already, federal student aid has been cut off from those convicted of direct or indirect participation in campus disorder, and the Senate Judiciary Committee is considering the till Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Virginia, introduced last week to make it a federal offense to disrupt any educational institution receiving federal assistance. The Byrd bill would prohibit unauthorized occupation of buildings or other property, the use of force cr threats to keep others from classes, and provide stiff fines and jail sentences for violators. Students would not, however, be prevented from putting grievances through normal university channels. As might be expected, the vast majority of students is neither rioting nor protesting, but seeking an education. As the American Council on Education recently pointed out, only a minute group of destroyers . . . have abandoned hope in todays society, in the university, and in the process of orderly discussion and negotiation to secure significant change. Recent campus disturbances, for example, brought out only 10 of 800 students at Belmont Abbey College; 200 of 3,100 students at Dartmouth; and only 50 of the 8,400 students at the University of Rochester. It is also significant that rioting students are being condemned by such organizations as the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Council on Education, groups from whom sympathy would normally be extended to constructive effort to either insure rights or more meaningful education. Eut, as the ACE said recently, "Disruption and violence have no place on any campus . . . universities must attempt to deal with disruptive situations firmly before they reach the stage of police action. The ACLU warned that Protest that deprives others of the opportunity to speak or be heard, or that requires physical takeover of buildings to disrupt the educational process, or the incarceration of administrators and and incompatible with the others are To nature and high purpose of an educational institution. abandon the democratic process in the interest of good causes is to risk the destruction of freedom not just for the present hut for the future. If such criticism and laws with severe penalties are not enough to dissuade militants from rioting, they should consider its effect on their futures. As some civil rights leaders themselves are observing, students with records for rioting have an unnecessary strike against them when they leave college and apply for a job. Consequently, school administrators who inadvertently encourage campus chaos by failing to stand up to rioters do young people a serious disservice. ' 'A t I 7 i - wdtt-i!ie- I counter-measure- ... Heed The Cease-Fir- e If Israel is really unwilling and Egypt really is unable to resume war, as has been reported, it is difficult to understand why each escalates the conflict with continued military retaliation. Shooting along the Suez Canal resumed early last month, ih violation of a cease-fir- e ordered by the United Nations Secontinued. curity Council, and has The latest in a series of actions erealeting the Middle East situation was an Israeli commando strike 400 miles into Egypt this week. Commandos struck Nile River dams, bridges and electric power pylons, disrupting electric service and flooding farmland, apparently in retaliation for earlier Egyptian attacks across the Suez. There are reports that the earlier shooting spree by Egypt was merely aimed at either easing the frustrations of its army, or aimed at prodding the Four Powers to action that might result in an Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories. If that was the thinking, then the Egyptians miscalculated badly. The Four Powers may neither act quickly, nor be able to solve the matter. If Arab governments wait until they feel strong enough to negotiate v, ith Israel for peace, and the Israelis remain determined to hold new territories until there is a convincing peace, peace may be a long time coming. The continued artillery duels across the Suez seem bound to worsen what already amounts to a state of active war. all-o- ut "tit-for-t- at Yes-Me- n Wanted? anti-ballist- non-partisa- ic n non-politic- non-politic- al t i AH si $ m yf r 7I S f i fV V I b Js; May May 1st is the tight feel on the line of a swiftly jumping trout . . . And it is a small boy making his way along a Honeyville irrigation ditch wi'h a bamboo pole and a can of worms . , . May 1st is also the qu;et teasing of a father giving his son his first real fishing lesion up at Straw berry Reservoir while straightening out the snarls in the leader. . . . May 1st is the blossoming heights of Alto-na- h and Duchesne valleys receding in the distance while caught in an early summer sunset in different planes of light , . . And it is a hawk zooming up from where he had been feeding beneath the level of the road between Deseret and Clear Lake and keeping up with the motorwho is dung at ist at least for a second least 60. . . . May 1st is the family in tlie next block faced with its eldest sons leaving in June for military service, heading north with a boat rack, a trailer, a dog at the open window, and the younger youngsters piled high on the duffel in the station wagon . . . And it is another familys talk of summer festivals that will soon pop up all over, drawing talent from the lop drawer. . . . May 1st is our head gardeners outburst of war against winters collections of papers now that tiie spring cleaning virus has suddenly taken over her mind . . . And it is the silent fury of Iwr assault on the s ack of invitations not answered, donations not sent, bills not paid . . , May 1st i the opening of the rural highway antique shops where they are now polishing brass andirons, 'leather firebuckets, a grandfather clock, some weathervanes, old brass in a hundred patterns, Sandwich glass, Duncan Phyfe, and tea sets in copper luster . . . And it is browsing in a metropolitan nursery with its pots and flowering shrubs reaching toward the air, the sunhght, toward ones eyes, toward ones pock-etboo- d resiUtahs yet recreation-mindedents would benefit by a combined BLM-Uta- h icad development program within the Escalante area. Conversely, NPS protection from any resource development save an occasional horseback trip to the photographic arches and canyonlands would be an economic death blow to a state currently d for tax revenue. -T- HERIOT S. MELANCON Lomita, Calif. d k. . . . May 1st is the scent of lilacs filling the balmy air up in Eden; it is the fat buds of peonies out in Holladay gardens becoming magnificent flowers, while the stately tulips splash loud colors on beautiful Temple Square . . . And May 1st is everything moving outdoors. . . . hard-presse- Urges Death Penalty Sirhan B. Sirhan said last week after a jury decreed the death penalty, even Jesus Christ could not have saved me. Pretending That Paper Is Gold Some of us had hoped that the paper gold scheme was only an aberration of the Johnson regime and would be dropped when the came Republicans into office. It is to d i sheartening learn that some of the Nixon advisers are not only pushing the scheme, but want to see it introduced on a big scale. The plan, agreed upon in principle late in 1967, is for all the member nations of the International Monetary Fund to combine to issue annually Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and allot a supply to each member in proportion to its original quota in the fund. The United States, for example, would be entitled to some 25 per cent of the total SDRs created. The argument for this scheme is that there is not enough gold in piesent world monetary reserves; that the various national cential banks need constantly expanding reserves to be able constantly to expand their own paper currency and credit; that as there is little prospect of getting enough additional gold each year for this purpose (and as we certainly dont want to buy any more gold from wicked South Africa), then the thing to do is to issue jointly paper chits which every central bank will agree to accept in addition to gold, or instead of gold, HENRY HAZLITT net gainers. The captive creditors, forced to take the inconvertible SDRs in return for real assets, will end up as the net and which everybody will solemnly proclaim to be just as good as gold, if not better. When the scheme was first put forward, its sponsors suggested the issuance of relatively modest annual amounts of this "paper gold. But as the internal inflation in major countries has contins ued, and as their problems have become correspondingly grave, these suggested amounts have been increased. So now it is seriously being proposed that the first years creat'on ot SDRs should be $4 billion, followed by $2 billion a year for the next four y ears a total in the first five years alone of $12 billon, equal to nearly a third of the present entire world reserves of gold. There are several ways to describe this scheme. It would be an agreement by countries to make automatic loans to one another with no awkward questions asked. It is wanted principally by those countries that expect to become borrowers and want the others to agree in advance to become captive creditors. Only 30 per cent of the SDR borrowings would have to be repaid within live years; the rest would never have to be repaid. Each individual country would receive its allotment cf SDRs as a free gift. But even nations collectively cannot make a present to themselves out of thin air. The borrowing nations will end up as the only balance-of-payment- losers. The plan is directly inflationary as well as an encouragement to further inflation. The central banks, finding themselves with more "reserves, will be tempted to issue more of their own currency against these reserves. The paper-gol- d loans will go to th deficit countries that have managed their monetary affairs mast improvidently. The forced loans will be made by the "surcountries that is, by the plus countries that are inflating least that is, by the countries that have managed their affairs most prudently. The SDRs are designed to gei lid of the remaining disciplines of the gold standard and of the remaining disciplines against continuous increase of irredeemable paper currency. The SDRs would accomplish nothing that could not be accomplished much better by raising the price of gold. This action too, of course, might encourage still further inflation. But at least it would not permanenlty institutionalize a pseudo-asse- t and a childish fiction and a source of annual international haggling and recrimination. The gold standard, with its unquestioned convertibility of every major currency into gold on demand, was the only system that imposed national monetary discipline, and the only system that every will. But how to get back to it from here has become an appalling problem. a unopc Hni uvrrc In a bold and dramatic announce ment, Mr. Nixon fearlessly declared war on the Mafia. Hes out of his mind. The last time anyone counted, we hdd 174 wars already going. Among other tilings, we are currently waging war on pollution, urban sprawl, overpopulation, smog, hunger, smut, the Vietnamese, and , , sag. At last reports, polludon is spreading, urban sprawl is sprawling, the exploding, smog expanding, lunger is gnawing, smut is blossoming, the Vietnamese are more Mr. Hoppe than holding their and own, poverty is grimmer than the middle-ageaie sagging worse than before. In fee, we are losing every single war were fighting. But what if, heaven help us all, we lose this new Mafian War? You can assume that it will go wall at first. Most of our wars do. Therell be patriotic speeches: "As Chicago goes, so gos Cook County; And patriotic slogans: "Lets Make the Costra Nostra Our will carry out Thing; An J the hia plans to send arms and adviseis in to lie p tne local police. Bui the war will drag on. Most of our wars do. And Mr. Nixon, nther than accept defeat, will peur in more money and more troops. And pretty soon well etr doing, theyll say. For the problem is that losing 174 wars all at the same time has given Americans a defeatist attitude. I see where were losing the war against the bark beetle, I said to a the other day. Well, he said with a vague gesture, we beat the British in 1776. But how lung can we go on living on past glory? This nation hasnt won a war in more than 20 years, And it doesnt renlly expect to win one in the next 20. We start wais these days knowing deep down inside that wee going to lose Once weve been officially defeated, we ran, iu keeping with the historic traditions of America, spend billions of dollars to rebuild this shattered country. GUEST CARTOON fel-io- them. And now Mr. Nixon's dr dared war on the Mafia. You know Luv itll end. Thai e will be a pounding on the door. "This is the U.S. Mafia, Mac! Fork over 22 jxr cent of what you made last year for protection money or well break both 'our legs. Well, I, for one, prefer the Government .vcve got. It only sends you to jail. So this is no time to start new wars. Its time to end some cf tiie 174 were already losing. To me, the issue is very clear-cu- t. When, in good conscience, the death penalty has been decreed by jury in our American system, it should be fulfilled. If one deliberately takes the life of another, I cannot conceive of justice that would equate the life taken as being of no more value or worth than the suspension during a given period of time of the life of the taker through means of a prison term. In the ultimate, the death penalty statutes must be reserved in the people, and operable in the jury system, and not made forfeit as part of the defeatist admission of failure epitomized in the I dont want to get Involved of the moral vagabonds among us. We must hold firmly to the faith that moral principles are the very guidelines of existence, and be prepared to stand or fall by them. of this power in the body Relinquishment polite would bequeath tacit approbation of deliberate murder and guilt by association would follow. -V- IRGIL M. HANSEN 566 DeSoto St. Don't Sit On Fence I recently read an article in the April Readers Digest written by a great American, President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In this article, President Eisenhower praised President Nixon for being able to travel down the middle of a wide road. On one side of this road is the black militant and the other side the John Birch. My, isnt it wonderful to be able to be in the middle of the road? Or in other words, a fence sitter. Perhaps President Nixon has never heard a little fellow called Humpty Dumpty. That little fellow was a fence sitter, also. stand. Why I have a friend whos patriotically willing to surrender to smog. But I say lets accept defeat abroad before we accept it at home. Lets surrender unconditionally to the Vietnamese. its population isis Pie'-iOe- be sending half a million men and $30 billion a year to fight the Mafiosi. Worst of all, the public wont really give a hang. A few will demand total victory. A few will demand immediate withdrawal. But most w'ont care a hang one way or another. The Government must know what It is speculated that "Sirhan may never enter San Quentin gas chamber and that what may save him is sentiment against capital punishment plus legal appeals . . Theres no question We re A Nation Of War Losers povery yes-me- n v v J middle-age- d When President Nixon announced his Cabinet appointments a few months ago, he specifically said Lc was not lookn to staff his administration. ing for But now theres room for wondering if he has forgotlen that statement. Such suspicions are aroused by the case of Dr. Franklin A. Long, a vice president of Cornell University, who was reported to have been on the verge of being named director of the National Science Foundation. But the appointment was withdrawn. Why? Evidently because Dr. Long is a critic of the missile program, which the Nixon Administration is pushing. Without an ABM system, America will be defenseless against missiles fired at us accidentally, let alone against an intentional attack. Even so. criticism of the ABM does not seem like sufficient grounds for keeping a man from serving on the National Science Foundation. The foundation is a government organization dispensing funds fnr scientific research. The directorship of the NSF has long been considered by the scientific community to be Is political loyalty being made a test, for appointees? How willing is the new administration to tolerate dissent within its ranks? The Long episode raises serious questions to which the public deserves forthright answers. The proposed Glen Canyon National Recreation Area contains the most spectacular scenery for a body of water in the Southwest today. Adequate sho,elme road systems will greatly facilitate tourist use and enjoyment of this geologic phenomenon. Public lands immediately to the north of Lake Powell under the Kaiparowits Plateau and witnin the Hpnry Mountains contain coal fields estimated in the many billions of tons. The Escalante River what many within the encompasses mining profession feel is the largest undeveloped cil field in Utah. B'himinous sands also exist within (hi Hrainaap. Development of these valuable natural resources has been hampered by inadequate road systems and by Interior Department dickering. The present trend of poUicai events may effectively preclude any resource deve'jprnent or heavy tourist use of the north shoreline. Many public and users now suspect that all federal land northward from Lake Powell to Capital Reef National Monument will eventually become a sprawling empire administered as wilderness by the National Park Service. In 1967, Senator Frank Moss submitted a lull to the 90th Congress to establish the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The bill was sent back to committee with public hearings scheduled this summer. Although Congress has yet to endorse the proposal, both Senator Moss and the past Secretary of Interior feel that NPS now has all but full administrative authority upon the Bureau of Reclamation withdrawn lands. Recent NPS actions in both Kane and Garfield Counties tend to bear this out. Provisions of Senator Moss bill allow for oil, gas, and mineral development. The irony of this is misleading and economically cruel. All national parks are theoretically open to supervised oil and mineral use. However, the NPS and their policymaking companion, the Sierra Club, arent about to allow practices to take place within the park system. cant where the Communists we as Americans take a stand? -C- AROLYN HUNT Sandy Equalizing Finances Shall our government, by force, bring all men up to the highest income now enjoypd by anyone in our country or reduce everyone to the lowest amount of money any family now exists on? If we truly do away with poverty, wont we have to see that no one makes less than anyone else, for ii lie did might he not then consider himself poor? If the federal government undertakes the job of creating all men equal financially, perhaps the best course might be to take any excess anyone makes and give it to those not making as much, or are we in the process of doing that now? -S-UNNIE THOMPSON Richfield Asks Meroer . V'T-- - S W vri j If L , v- - fN Please will both the city and county commis sioners and mayor seriously consider and work fo the good of the valley, as we all should when serv ing the people? Im talking about the merger of tb county and the city. In a recent Deseret News Mr. Jones writes, Is Divorce Necessary? W surely dont wish to divide ourselves. When I speak of our beautiful Salt Lake City, think of the whole, as it should be. Bad feeling can develop ii we dont act more wisely. Im sur money could be saved on both sides in working hm dor at this merger. t hVvVv "S 'Tn fidf q flT 1 f U T said, 'I propose we all meet at the malt shop to discuss the hiring of a band to play at June prom" I Cleveland plain Dealer Wo know people talk of cheaper taxes in th county but they also want better service. The pec pie often see better ways of doirg things soone than heads of government. 1 feel the merger is wa past due. DELTA II. SANOH1 752 Harrison Av |