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Show Remember The Good Days Days When Most People lived Lives Of Quiet Desperation? DESEKET NEWS ni!HIIimillKHHl!;illlll1tiilllIII!!l!HiiniH!!!HIlHmilllIIIIIIlIllllIIItIII!HlHll!lllIII LETTERS TO THE EDITOR aiiimuiiiuiiHiiiiiHiimiiiiiiiuuiiiiiiuiuniiuiiimuuuiuiuiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiuuiDa SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States Cut Military Spending As Having tieen Divinely Inspired I sincerely believe our current economic Instain the military. bility is due to an Since the turn of the century, there has generally been a rising level of military expenditure. From one decade to the next, the actual quantity of money increases: more importantly, the percent-- ' age also increases, until now two out of every three federal tax dollars goes to the military. MONDAY, A 14 EDITORIAL PAGE June 2, 1969 How Mails Can Win Race With Disaster Given the growing complexity of weapons sys- come, It out of service U.S. the politics and postal If ever there was an idea whose time should have is that of getting operating it like a business. For decades there have been suggestions that the mails be turned over to private enterprise to end the vicious circle of higher rates and deteriorating service in which the Post Office is caught under federal operations. Two years ago Lawrence F. OBrien, then Postmaster General, acknowledged that the U.S. Post Office Department was in a race with catastrophe and urged that the department be turned into a government-owne- d corporation. n commission President Johnson named a which studied the postal system and, after considering various alternatives, recommended a government corporation for managing the mails. When President Nixon took office last January, he directed Postmaster General Winton M. Blount to review this plan and others. This review came to the same conclusion as the others, and as a result the Nixon administration has proposed the Postal Service Act of 1969 which would provide that: The postal service would be administered by a board of directors selected without regard to politics. All present postal workers would be transferred into a new postal career service with full retention of their Civil Service retirement benefits. Postal employees would be given collective bargaining while the existing bans against strikes rights by law, and would continue negotiating impasses would be resolved by arbitration. binding The new postal service would be authorized to borrow for capital improvements and other purposes. Changes in postal rates and service classifications would be established after public hearings before a three-ma- n panel of expert rate commissioners, subject to Congressional review. The aim would be to make the new postal service within five years, except for those entirely subsidies which Congress chooses to provide for certain public service groups. This proposal would be a vast improvement over the present setup in which the Post Office Department ranks with but General Motors as one of Americas largest businesses is a business in which: The head of the firm doesnt have to know anything about its operation to be appointed; the company lacks the power to set rates for its services, which rates are set by Congress; employees go over managements head and bargain with another party (Congress) for wages and benefits; and men running branch offices cannot be transferred. With such outmoded management methods, no wonder Post Office Department has incurred deficits for 114 of the the last 131 years. The deficit for the current fiscal year is $1 billion, a figure that is expected to double in the next decade unless the postal system is thoroughly overhauled. If Congress is serious about giving the taxpayers better government for their money, it will lose no time in making sweeping reforms in the postal service. blue-ribbo- nine-memb- er ' tems, we can expect the quantity and percentage of such spending to continue rising. It is conceivable that 90 per cent of our federal budget will go to the Defense Department by 1995. Yet, whether we spend 45 per cent or 90 per cent of the budget for security, we will lose half of our population in au exchange of nuclear and biological weapons. The point is, that increasing expenditure does not guarantee increasing security. The economic instability spoken of earlier can be translated into personal injury to the American citizen as consumer and taxpayer. Accelerating prices are impairing the standard of life for elderly people on fixed incomes. They are forcing d men off their farms. Those of us who are struggling to meet these inflationary prices are pressured from the other side by layers of taxes. Unhappily, there is only a finite sum of tax money to meet our nations needs. Since military spending creates its own momentum, it is difficult to control. To effectively place the military back under the laws of economics and the control of the civilian Ronald McDonald, managing director of the Melbourne Age, pointed up the part of our government, I urgently recommend: 1. The military budget for the fiscal year begindanger: ning July 1, 1970 be absolutely reduced by 5 per It is impossible to believe that the cent relatively wealthy and comparatively 2. The following year, it be reduced by 4 per secure nations on the perimeter of the and at a rate of 3 per cent each year thereafcent, namore even affluent like the Pacific, until ter military spending takes no more than 45 tions of North America and Western Eucent of the federal budget, and that this perper to continue will unaffected, thrive, rope, centage be maintained by law thereafter. by this potentially explosive force of MR, NOLAN KAISER massive poverty, uncontrolled population Mt. Pleasant, Mich, economic inequaligrowth and gaping able-bodie- U. S. Pacific Policy Will Continue THE DRUMMONDS By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND HONOLULU Whatever happens in Vietnam, the thrust of U.S. foreign policy will continue to be deep into the Pacific. By the 1970s we will likely be a domination in the nantly Pacific-orientegame way we have been an Atlantic-oriente- d nation during the past 50 years. This is where the next phase of histofor ry is going to he principally made during the coming decade. good or ill And unless we think we can stop the world and get off, the United States will have much to do with making it. d The reason is here: The great conflicts and challenges of the rest of this century are now centered in Asia, just as the great conflicts and challenges centered in Europe from 1911 through the Cold War in the 191Cs and 50s. of the people of this world live in a country bordering the Pacific Basin where ferment is high, living standards low and governments fragile. Any candid look ahead shows both peril and promise. It is perilous because the potential of conflict, large or small, will be near the surface most of the time. It is promising because many of the matters of the Western Pacific, from Japan to Indonesia, are going well and because a new generation of young Asian leaders is emerging which is not fretting over the colonial past and is more concerned with achievement than with Ideoled Two-thir- ogy. ties. It. Drummond G. Drummond These conclusions arise in part from a wide-rangin- exchange among Asian spe- g cialists who presented a symposium on the Pacific Dawn to the International Rotary Convention in Honolulu this past week. The very fact that some 15,000 businessmen and professional men from 70 countries, are organizing to become personally involved to do things and see it as to turn peril into promise is part of the vital for them to do so evidence that the wave of the future may well be in this part of the world. Here are the dangers which, unless greatly reduced, make the outlook for the 1970s anxious and uncertain: 1. The pervasive poverty of most of the Asian people. 2. The mounting overpopulation and unchecked birth rate of most of the Asian countries China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India. 40s. 4547 By SYDNEY J. HARRIS was sitting in a doctors waiting-roopreparatory to being examined for an insurance policy and most of the other people waiting with me were elderly types. Some had come together and were chatting. Two older women were commiserating with each other abut their grown children, whom they rarely saw, and their young grandchildren, who came to visit them with decreasing frequency. And it occurred to me that, although we do treat older people shamefully in our culture, perhaps too much stress has been put on the indifference of the young, and not enough (if anything) has been said about the obligations of the old. It has always seemed to me nor have I changed my mind now that I have that older people do entered my 50s not automatically cam interest from their children or grandchildren, the way a savings account earns interest the longer you keep it in. Attention and concern, yes, and a measure of respect but if you crave the company of your young relatives, you have to deserve it. And deserving it means keeping yourself active, if health permits, or at least interesting, if it does not You must merit their liking as a person, and not just demand it because of old age. The last thing I would ever want would be for my children to visit me as a duty, or as an act of filial piety because they were ashamed to be thought neglectful. I would want them to visit me as often or as little as they cared to, tree-line- well-dresse- d families Nephi and Richfield . . . And it is casually-dressesitting by the roadside on the banks of the rushing Provo River, and it is families sitting in their cars under the trees by Wanship Dam and Bear Lake and Echo Reservoir, watching small silent sailboats and the raucous outboards pulling & sunburned water skier . . . June 2nd is ranch exit roads sliding away from the federal highway into the verdant farmlands near Blue Creek as one drives by . . . And it is the Western sky heavily banded clouds with their infinitely slow settling to with smoke-dar- k earth of their light burden carried by the warm, solvent day . . . June 2nd is the picture that the yeilow and mauve-pinbanks around the Mlnersville Reservoir make . . . And it is the picture of the setting sun from Park Valley with the culmination cf its incandescence; it is also the picture of a sunset that is transformed by a turn in the road at Eden from splendor into magnificence . . . June 2nd is a vivid sunset at its moment of greatest glory sunset, the peerless decoration of the days in our warm, dry land where June dust frequently hangs high in the air . . . d k I self-pit- 'Fence The Road' How The Peace Was Won WASHINGTON - The Vietnamese war, after a brief absence, is back in the news. President Nixon is going to Midway Island to see if he can get President Thieu to agree to what President Thieu supposedly to before Mr. Nixon made his speech. President Thieu is going to Midway to get President Nixon to say that what he said on television is not what he rr Uy meant. And theyll probably come out of their conference with a joint statement saying they are both resolved to have an honorable and Just peace in Vietnam and that their meeting was "very helpful. Then President Thieu will go back to Saigon and say that President Nixon assured him that he would back the Saigon government and would not support any other form of government. President Nixon will go back to Washington and assure the American people that as soon as Hanoi comes to terms, the South Vietnamese people will be able to choose their own aestiny. This will cause consternation in Saigon, and President Thieu will demand to see Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker to have him clarify what President Nixon said when he got back. Ambassador Bunker will assure President Thieu that President Nixon has the interests of the South Vietnamese government at heart, and nothing President Nixon said changes the desire of the United States to see that the elected government of South Vietnam in protected in any peace settlement. President Thieu will then tell report- - agreed June 2nd is time which does not stride but floats like a bright cloud . . . And it is winding down I.ogan Canyon into the broad valley where there are bands of wheat through d farms . . . June 2nd is the Sevier River, shaded by pioneer-plante- d poplars, winding almost unnatuially around the curves of the hills, like a roadway of water . . . June 2nd is boys and girls out strolling in the bright Sunday afternoon on the streets of Parow'an and Your May 29 issue contained a letter from Mrs. Malta Dahlstrom in which she complained that, via his Golden Spike Centennial Party, our junior Senator, Frank E. (Ted) Moss, was raising funds in Washington, D.C. not in Utah. I submit that Mrs. Dahlstroms complaint Is unfounded. and how congenial depending upon easy Since it Is well known that, for two terms, Sen. and undemanding they found me to be. Moss has been Washingtons man in Utah ndt If I grow to be wrapped up in a nar- Utahs man in Washington what could be more row little world of my own, complaining, natural than that he would raise money from his interde facto constitutency? boring, being filled with -A- LICE SHEARER''; fering, advising, uttering bromides that 1332 Harvard Ave.' have little relevance to modem times then I shall have forfeited any right to their company. Just as it is the duty of the young to learn, it is the duty of the old to Im not a skier, hunter or a winter sports fan, And it is everyones duty, young and but I do use this section of highway frequently. The old alike, to become as interesting as it one thing I am, is an ordinary taxpayer who gets is possible to be for, finally, when all rather disgusted when I see or hear of deliberate else is gone, that alone remains: a mind of wasting my and your tax dollars, such that is flexible and humorous and re- ways as the proposal to close Parlevs Canyon below sourceful, and a spirit that looks at itself Mountain Dell Reservoir so that the highway can as quizzically and accepts itself as gracebe widened. fully as we expect the world to accept us If this highway is widened into a roadway much when we are past our prune. wider than it is now, it i3 going to be a potential slide area for mud and rock slides to come down onto the highway especially in about three or four spots. To take some chain link fencing and put it down , the center of the present highway would be a lot less expensive in creating a double freeway system This story will leak to the press and for this area. Just take a look at the freeway sysPresident Nixon will be asked to explain tem in Silver Creek area just west of Wanship, how President Thieus view of negotia- Utah where the chain link fencing is being used. tions differs from his. President Nixon If something like this were done it seems to me will say that the views of the United It would be sufficient and serve the purpose and . States and the South Vietnamese are the that the money allotted for this could be project same; the United States will continue to used to finish the bottleneck that exists over bestress that the South Vietnamese people tween Kimballs Junction and Silver Creek Juncmust decide their own destiny and that tion. This area is in a deplorable condition and has they are the only ones who can say what been for the past winter and year. It seems somekind of gvernment they want, whether it thing could be done to make Utah more attractive be the present one, a neutralist one or to the natives of the state as well as the tourists, even a coalition with the NLF. -G- EORGE A. PHELPS Thiu will immediately demand a 1516 So. 8th West meeting with Ambassador Bunker. Meanwhile, back on Hamburger Hill . . . Oldsters Have Obligations, Too one-thir- It's June 2nd " h I When crime reaches the point that the very existence of a is the small business major American institution threatened, strong counter measures must be found, and fast. Statistics show that losses by all business now total $3 billion annually, but that those of small businessmen are 35 times greater proportionately than those of big business. For example, the Small Business Administration reports that small businesses last year suffered these staggering losses: 71 per cent of the $958 million in burglaries; 77 per cent of $504 million in shoplifting; 58 per cent of $813 million In vandalism; 60 per cent of $381 million in employe thefts, and 77 per cent of $316 million in bad checks. Hijacking c? merchandise from docks, terminals and trucks en route alone d of all losses to business. accounted for chairman of the Senate As Sen. Alan Bible, Small Business Committee, emphasizes, This report makes it plain that thievery and vandalism have reached such proportions that survival of the small businessman in high crime areas has reached the crisis point. The committee is investigating hijacking with an eye to passing new laws on it Its hard to see how federal legislation can deter hijackers. Even if it can, business can and should take step3 to protect itself. The trucking industry, for example, has such a great need for drivers that there is little investigation of applicants. Clearly, stricter security measures are in order. Peach St, Spike Party 'Defended' , Business Vs. Crime ' Backs Pay Raise 3. Increasing Russian penetration of Asia and Chinas support for wars of national liberation Despite the many emotional arguments against against its neighbors. pay increases for Salt Lake Countys elected offifeel that if we really want capable execu4. The danger that the suspicion and cials, I our public affairs we need to recogtives handling and Russians between the bitter hatred the Chinese will erupt into major war. nize that they must at least be fairly remunerated in light of their responsibilities. Many Asian nations are in an unpreIt would be impossible to hire executives in pridictable, possibly revolutionary, state of vate business to run a corporation comparable in political and social transition. size and structure to Salt Lake County (over half But there is also promise. the state of Utahs population resides in this Japans potential as an economic im- county), and expect to get competent officers, at . petus and stabilizer is great. Most of the the wages our commissionrs and other elected countries are making county officials were receiving. . The minimal effect that the raise may have on great economic progress. Indonesia is moving back from the brink of disaster our present taxes should be more than compensatto which Sukarno took her. Excessive ed for by our elected officials recognizing that a nationalism is slowly yielding to regional pay increase means an added demand on them ta A decent peace in Vietnam handle our county business with even greater care- will strengthen the security of all SouthAfter all, a corporation executive is properly east Asia. paid as an incentive to produce a profit for the in this case the citizens of Salt The United States can no more with- stockholders draw from the Pacific in the '70s than Lake County. she could withdraw from Europe in the -F- ARRELL M. SMITH I ART BUCHWALD ers that he has been assured that he is head of the legal government of South Vietnam, and nothing the United States says will have any effect on what the United States agrees to in Paris. This will cause some discussion in Paris, and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge will ask President Nixon if he can proceed in trying to negotiate the settlement despite Thieus hard line. Ambassador Lodge will receive Instructions to proceed toward a settlement according to President Nixons original program. When Lodge follows his orders, the South Vietnamese delegate to Pans will fly back to Saigon and report to the South Vietnamese that the United States is trying to sell them out in Paris. President Thieu will call In Ellsworth Bunker and demand to know what the United Slates is doing in Paris Bunker will assure Thieu that Ambassador Lodge is only doing what Thieu and President Nixon agreed upon at Midway. Thieu will tell Bunker that he and President Nixon did not agree on anything except to bring the war to a just and U.N. Vs. Sovereignty five-poi- honorable finish. Bunker will then cable President Nixon that he needs help in reassuring Thieu that the Saigon government'3 interests will be protected. President Nixon will send out Secretary of State Rogers and Secretary of Defense Laird to mollify Thieu about the United States intentions. After their meeting, President Thieu will report to his rabinet that he has the promise of President Nixon that under no condition will the NLF have any role in a future South Vietnamese government. GUEST CARTOON Recently the newspaper told of Sen. Frank Church giving the keynote speech at the Model United Nations in Salt Lake at the U. of U. dont think it is consistent to help promote the United" Nations and still claim to be working hard for Idaho. I simply don't believe that anyone who has raised his arm and sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States can honestly and conscientiously fulfill that oath and still promote the U.N. In my opinion, to build up the U.N. and make us a subordinate party will lose our sovereignty (the right to be our own boss in war and peace) and is the same as tearing up the Declaration of Inde- pendence and making as nothing the sacrifices and blood of the patriots of the War of Independence. -L- YMAN KUN2 Montpelier, Idaho I No Meat, Please "If we can get men to the moon . . . who knows? We may even learn to get the mail across town." Louifvlllt 1 V) Courir-Jsum- l There would be less war, crime and violence nationally and internationally if people would stop eating land and water animals for food. People are stronger and healthier and have clearer minds for thinking if they live on cereals and vegetables and fruits. -I- I. J. RYAN ( |