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Show "4 I tt. At 'il ' tirry'tiM,ll t',1M'(i'lfri,'l I1 1 j n V - ,y''iTfW' DESERET NEWS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH iiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;iiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiuii!!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiuuii We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Dr. Teller Sees It As Having Been Divinely Inspired TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1969 20 A EDITORIAL PAGE Apollo Pushes Back Frontier In Space says Americans have lost their sense of wonder at strides man is making through outer space? Not those of us who watched in excitement and suspense as the three Apollo 10 astronauts safely splashed down Monday after a flight that puts the moon within man's grasp. Not those who realized that these young men had circled the moon at an altitude almost as close as a passenger jetliner cruises above Salt Lake City, at a speed twice that of a rifle bullet. Not thr who knew that success in space travel is a measure of Ameneis leadership in science, engineering, and national defense. Not those who reflected on how far and fast man has come in conquering distance, and what this triumph portends for the future. In the 1500s, it took one of Ferdinand Magellans sailing ships, the Victoria, three years to make the first trip around the world. Today, a jet airplane can circle the globe in 36 hours. During the 1800s, people seldom left their towns or farms because travel wa3 difficult even for short distances. Today, the average American travels 4,000 miles a year. Little more than a century ago it took a month to travel from New York City to London, by boat. Today, an airplane spaps the same distance in only six and a half hours. 65 years ego that Orville , Yet, it was little more than Wright made the first successful airplane flight, a trip that covered a distance of 120 feet. Only 22 years ago the first jet flew faster than sound, and most concluded it would be physically impossible to top that achievement. I Then came Sputnik I in 1957, and with it the space age waf ushered in as Russia proved an artificial satellite could escape the pull of gravity and circle the earth. Man himself ventured into outer space less than four years later as Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth in Vostok I. In fact, it was only eight years ago this week that the United States made the decision to land men on the moon and return them safely by the end of the decade. In the few years since the beginning of the space age, mans horizons have been expanded startlingly. A new field of medicine, called space medicine, has come into being to study the problems of living and working in space. The moon has been photographed and its dark side observed. The Van Allen radiation belt was discovered by space probes. Navigation and weather forecasting have been advanced. Scientists believe space travel can answer many questions about the universe, such as how the sun, the planets, and the stars were formed, and whether there is life elsewhere. With the Apollo 10 flight, man has taken a big and impressive step in pushing hack the frontiers of knowledge, and Americans have a right to be proud as well as thrilled at this achievement. YVho the seven-leagu- e Police And Parks If Salt Lake City is to preserve the use of its parks for the enjoyment of everyone, it must serve strong notice that groups must either conform hippie and other to park standards or be ejected. Otherwise parks become unusable by the very people who helped pay for them and for whom they were intended. Sundays altercation between the police and a group of belligerent young persons in Sugerhouse Park should serve as a warning that these hippie groups will not be allowed to infringe on the rights of others who want to use the citys parks. Furthermore, Police Chief Dewey Fillis has pledged he will do everything within his power to insure that the parks even are kept orderly and used for their intended purpose the of and the out, to the point locking people moving gates non-desirab- le 1 s if need be, Chief Fillis adds. Sugarhouse Park isnt the first to suffer from such abases. In years past both Liberty Park and Reservoir Park have had their share of undesirables. Regular police patrolling has helped to ease this problem considerably, and hopefully the same measures will be effective in Sugarhouse Park. With the advent of warm weather, incidents in the parks and an are bound to increase. Only firm police action can keep the parks aroused public that will support the law or places open where ordinary citizens can enjoy themselves. Scandal In Subsidies The exorbitant subsidies which a few farmers are paid for not growing crops is a national scandal which Congress should not allow to go uncorrected if it is to keep faith with the taxpayers. There are 4,843 farmers receiving $25,000 to $43,999 a year in such subsidies: 1.2S5 in the $100,000 to $499,999 bracket: 15 receiving $500,000 to $999,999: and five farmers who receive more than $1 million. One farming operation, the J.G. Boswell Co. of Kings County, California, received as much as $4.1 million in subsidies in 1967, and $3 million in 1968. Last July the U.S. House of Representatives voted 230 to 160 to impose a limit on agricultural subsidies of $20,000 per e farm, only to have the limitation deleted by a Conference. With the annual agriculture appropriations bill reaching the floor of the House today, taxpayers should speak up on behalf of an effort to amend the bill to re .tore the $20,000 limit on farm subsidies. ; A U.S. Department of Agriculture study prepared under the 'Johnson administration shows the limitation would have no serious adverse effects on production or on the effectiveness of production adjustment programs and would yield budget savings ranging from $200 million to nearly $300 million. Budget savings are urgently needed to combat inflation. The increase in the cost of living during March was the greatest in 18 years. As Congressman Paul Findley of Illinois observes, "With many federal programs cut back or cut cut . . . and with extension of the surtax likely, huge payments to wealthy farmers are more outrageous than ever. House-Senat- t frrrrfmfj The ABM debate is now raging in Washington over the questions involved in deploying an rraent-l- y needed missile system the Safeguard ABM. The opponents claim there is no defense against nuclear tipped ICBM's. In my opinion there is not sufficient scientific data now available to definitely affirm or deny this claim. It is fair to say that there is not yet a sure defense against enemy nuclear attack. But this is certainly not tire same as saying that there cannot be a defense position against nuclear lCB.Ws launched against this country. President Nixon, after thorough review with highly qualified advisers, has decided that an effective detense using the Safeguard system of our deterrent forces is a hopeful solution lor insuring the future security of our nation. Unlike the defense of cities and populations, a defense of our hardened Minuteman sites is effective as long as it is capable of intercepting enough of an enemys incoming missiles to insure that substantial numbers of our retaliatory Minutemen survive. It is important to realize that a deiense of our SAC bombers need be effective only for the short period which is needed for the airplanes to take off. It has been claimed that the defensive radar is easily put out of actcn. Mutual defense of this radar does furnish some help and furthermore it is difficult for the attacker to know that he has succeeded in inflicting sufficient damage on the radar. Of course, if even one enemy warhead impacts in a city it would be unacceptable and since present technology will not provide the required 100 per cent the President has chosen the next best thinjj to use Safeguard to insure that our deterrent retaliatory forces remain credible to potential enemies and thus prevent attack on our cities and our land-base- History At The High Court For any student of the U.S. Supreme even the poorest and most amathe Presidents remarkateur student ble press conference last Thursday was a moment that comes once in a life time. By the time the 40 or 50 reporters trooped out of his office, we had been granted a glimpse revealing of this Presidents mind at w'ork, in Mr. Kilpatrick terms of the highest court in the land. Court A few hours earlier, Mr. Nixon had announced his choice of Warren E. Burger to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States. Now he wanted to talk about the appointment, why lie made it, what he would seek in other nominations to the Court, how he views the role of the executive and judicial branches. For conservatives at least, the President could not have made a better presentation. Mr. Nixon spoke at some length of the differences, in his mind, that ought to separate a Chief Justice from his eight Associate Justices. There has to be a leadership quality, he said, for the Chief is both the leader of the Court and its JAMES J. KILPATRICK top administrative officer. A brilliant he thought of Holmes, Bran-dei- s Justice is not necessarily and Cordozo qualified to become a gieat Chief. He then explained with great candor why five prospective candidates had boon eliminated: They had eliminated Most of the speculation themselves. had Justice Potter Stewart of Ohio; it was widely believed that the President would name him Chief Justice, as Roosevelt elevated Harlan Stone in 1941. B it Justice Stewart had asked the President to count him out. He did not feel it would be in the best interests of the Court for a junior member suddenly to be elevated above his older brothers. Four other names were eliminated. Charles Rhyne, former president of the American Bar Association, was too close a friend; General John Mitchell and Former Attorney General Herbert Brownell were eliminated for the same reason. Tom Dewey, at 67, was barred by age. So the President tnrned to Judge Burger, of the District of Columbia Circuit Court, and saw in him the Chief Justice he turned upon wanted. The governing question in the Presidents mind, whenever he considers a ju dicial nomination, will be to ask how a prospective judge regards his role as an interpreter of the Constitution. The President happens to believe that the Constitution should be strictly construed. And he knows that in making nominations to the Court, a President can affect the direction of the supreme law of the land. These several lines of reasoning converged on Warren Burger. While the President has known his nominee since the Republican convention of 1948, the relationship has been' wholly social. He has seen Judge Burger only off and on, over the years. No one could object that considerations or close personal friendship played any part. A vital consideration rested in Judge Burgers 13 years on the U.S. Circuit bench. All other tilings being equal, a candidate with judicial experience will have an edge n the Presidents appraisal. In this case, Mr. Nixon studied some of Judge Burgers opinions. He knew something of Judge Burgers constitutional views, and he was satisfied that his legal philosophy was close to his own. Without consulting the bar, the Cabinet, or any members of Congress, the President made his choice final. Warren Burger, in the President's eyes, is a strict constructionist of the Constitution and the Court that expounds it. d people. The need for a favorable deeioion is urgent because Soviet Russia has caught up with us in offensive power and is rapidly forging ahead. In not mure than five years they may have tire ability to wipe out our retaliatory force with a sudden first strike. Missile defense would at least cast a doubt into the minds of Communist planners. If they cannot be certain of success they probably will not attack. These arguments have been supported by detailed facts in the testimony of Secretary Laird. Unfortunately, because reassuring statements by Secretary McNamara had lulled us into a sense of false security, this testimony was accepted with some doubt. Secretary Laird declassified some relevant secret facts. But proof thus offered to support the ABM proposal was discounted as scare tactics. Yet Secretary Lairds position deserves full credence. This situation demonstrates that there Is an urgent necessity to open the book of military secrets to Congress and to the public. Only in this way can a democracy like ours arrive at firm and reasonable conclusions. -E- DWARD TELLER Berkeley, Quality Of Justice: The Crucial Criterion By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Other people may despair about what they call the lower classes. But I dont. I despair more about the upper classes. About the affluent, the educatand the basically ed, the influential ignorant. The magazine, Nations Business," asked its affluent, educated, and influential readers this spring: How can we best get law and order? and the overwhelming answer came back: Get tough with the This is so basically ignorant that even the most ignorant member of the lower classes would laugh at it. Because it doesnt work. It never has, and it never will. who are These magazine readers totally insulated from reality in their little business cells and their snug suburban hideaways uniformly demand, and Quit coddling the lawbreaker, Reverse the recent findings of the Supreme Court, and Get more judges with the courage to impose a penalty, and Moie diaciline for oar youth," and so on in the same vein. Why have the laws, and the handling of criminals, become more lenient over the years and over the centuries? Simply because harshness turned out to be the wrong way to handle the problem. When they used to hang people for stealing handkerchiefs, it didn't lower the rate of it just upped steahng handkerchiefs the rate of murdering the men you stole them from to prevent them from testifying against the thieves. What these affluent, educated, influential and dumb citizens dont seem to is that or dont want to grasp grasp the quality of justice in a state determines the rate of criminality, and not law and order. People are fond of pointing to England's orderly system, and they mistakenly believe that the crime rate there is low because of the severity of sentence. Actually, the average sentence in England is shorter than in the U.S. Calif. Editors note: Dr. Teller, internationally known scientist and popularly called the father of the is director of the Lawrence radiation laboratory at University of California, Berkeley. Praise The Youth But in Engluiul, the juJiuol system La wholly divorced from politics. Defendants are given a speedy hearing. The police behave properly and do not treat a poor man any different than a rich man. The quality of justice is swift, evenhanded, uncorruptible and based on the fact that if the police dont use undue force, the criminals wont. And they dont. It is, however, expensive and laborious to reform our whole a system system in the U.S. that makes the lower classes contemptuous and cynical about the law. Moreover, it is perfectly plain in our society that the more you have and the more you steal, the more likely you are to get away with it. This is the canker in our body politic. It has nothing to do with coddling or the Supreme Court or permissive parents. It has everything to do with public corruption, private hypocrisy, and gross inequities in the law. Until we know this, we ourselves are criminally ignorant. I was glad to notice an arncle in the paper recently captioned Teenagers Save Town. I was pleased to note this one reference to the good th youth in our country is doing among all the articles featured of the bad. The older generation is continually condemning the youth for being dissenters and radicals. They do not consider that it is only a two percent minority of the youth that they are reading about in their papers and magazines and that most young people freedom-lovin- g Americans like are themselves. I would like to encourage more articles like this showing the true youth of America. KATHY CARLSON Spanish Fork - Continue TB Fight Ward C. Holbrooks suggestion (May 5) that none of the Federal Tuberculosis Project Funds (which will now come to Utah as an addition to the block grant money) be used for tuberculosis control is cause for deep concern. ' To control TB it is essential that the 55,000 Utahns who are now infected with tubercle bacilli be prevented from developing active communicable tuberculosis and spreading their disease to the particularly to children. In 1968 there were 1,571 patient visits to State Division of Health sponsored tuberculosis clinics Young Appleseed learned his lesson. across Utah. More than 40,000 school children were He became an energetic real estate detuberculin tested in the 1968-6- 9 school year. Antiveloper. In fact, he was credited with tuberculosis drugs have been provided for more of apple orchards replacing 3.268 acres than 1,000 Utah residents since Jan. 1, 196S. The with housing tracts. And he was awarded a scroll as "The Man Who Helped Build majority of these persons were individuals at special risk of developing active tuberculosis. Last a Greater Megalopolis. year, nearly 10,000 public health nursing visits So he died rich in wealth and honors. were made to persons infected with tubercle bacilli Kind friends attributed to senility the to supervise drag treatment and to assure that mysterious phrase he sighed over and proper medical followup was obtained. over on his death bed: It was all so Since almost all of the community aspects of the fruitless. It was all so . . . tuberculosis program are supported by the federal funds I, as chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, am deeply conGUEST cerned. Shall we again permit tuberculoids to increase, as we did venereal disease, by eliminating the use of the special Federal Tuberculosis Project funds? Or shall we continue to protect the approximately 945,000 Utahns who are not infected with tubercle bacilli by the expenditure of 25c per persons per year? -J- OHN R. WARD. M.D., MPH Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Utah Johnny Appleseed (Revised) One of the problems of educating our little ones is that the legends we parents cut our eye teeth on are sadly out of T date. Its no wonder our children grow up with 1 Hoppe all sorts of use-- J less, antiquated values. Herewith, then, is the first in a se-- r U i e s of Legends for Our Times. Ls title: Johnny Meets Appleseed the Tac Squad. Once upon a time there was an idealistic young man named Johnny Apple-seed- . He loved apple trees, biids. apple blossoms, squirrels, apple juice, human beings and apples indiscriminately. You mast make something of yourself, son, said his Father. Why dont you become a real estate developer? ART HOPPE for How fortunate, said Johnny, surely universities approve of spreading loveliness. So he took off his pack and began digging a hole. A crowd of the curious gathered. What are you doing? asked one. "I am planting an apple tree, said Johnny happily. It will grow and grow. In the spring it will be a cloud of blossoms to delight passers-by- . In the summer, children will swing beneath its branches and lovers will lounge in its shade. And in the fall, people will come to pluck the fruit, bite through the skin and taste God. The people thought this a marvelous idea. And they all pitched in to plant grass and flower beds and . . . I shall pass this way only once. Father, said Johnny. "And I have but one desire: that the world shall be a lovelier place for my having passed through. Therefore, I have decided to wander through life planting apple trees wherever I may go. What have I done, said his Father with a groan, to deserve a hippie son? But Johnny was determined. And he left the Appleseed home in Megalopolis with a seedling, a shovel and five pounds on his back. of Orttio-Gr- o Our plans call for building a Department of Thisology or Thatology on that vacant lot some day, said the University Chancellor. And if its got an apple tree on it, it will no longer be vacant. So he called out the campus police. "Planting an apple tree without a permit shows you to what desperate measures these advocates of lawlessness and anarchy will go, said the Mayor. And be called out the Tac Squad. These many malcontents are destroying the sacred right of public officials to keep public property private." said the Governor. And he called out the National Guard. But, of course, Megalopolis was all covered with concrete and asphalt and lie wandered miles before he iound some diit. It was in a vacant lot. And tne sign said. "Property of the University of Megalopolis. So a officer helmeted uprooted Johnny's seedling for evidence. Two more blinded Johnny with tear gas. Three more filled his backside with buckshot as he Red. And four more carted him off to jaiL CARTOON Boys And Guns Our daughter attends second grade at Uintah Grade School. She recently brought home a copy of a brochure. This brochure, proclaiming that Boys and Guns Go Together, we find (as parents dedicated to raising our children to work for peace rather than mob rule) to be both offensive and "Some things can have no price tags, because then they'd be worthless." SI. infuriating. Boys and guns do not go together, Idiots and guns go together. At a time in the history of this country and of the world when fewer, not more, guns are needed, when war toys are denounced on every side as negative ti diners of children, and when oil reasonable people are seeking an end to human hostility so that the race might yet survive, the school has the audacity to promote the use of guns. This is offensive. MR. AND MRS. W. DAVID LAIRD - 1528 S. 1600 Lauit r 4 urf ? W East t |