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Show ERMA BOMDEC1C DESERET NEWS SAM LAKE CITY, UTAH Is Lunch Worth It? We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired The first day of school I packed my son a lunch containing a bag of assorted bar nibbles, eight plums, a ballpoint pen and a banana.. Barter-wishe teils me it was near perfect The TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1969 12 A EDITORIAL PAGE e, U.N. Should Face Up To Middle East Crisis bar nibbles brought a candy bar; the a gum plums, eraser; the ballten-ce- point pen, a cupcake. (He ate the As the 24th General Assembly convenes today, the steadiconflict stands as a continuing ly worsening Nations United to the rebuke impotence in keeping world banana.) Arab-Israe- li Since then my lunches have gone steadily downhill. On Monday of last week I packed my CARE Package bonanza. (Or, Who Ate the Bulb Over the Weekend?) I sent a peanut butter and jelly jammed between two bread heels, a single apple with craters and a chocolate, Santa Claus. On Tuesday, I favored him with my Air Rescue Survival Kit lunch. This contains two frozen pieces of bread surrounding a piece of cheese with a roll of breath mints and a bag of dried apricots. (Jean Ken is right. They do look like ears!) Wednesday was challenge day. It was a challenge to unscrew the thermos top without a lug wrench and an additional challenge to eat its contents without a fork or spoon. Thursday was the day before the end of the week, which means lunch can be anything from a bread sandwich to a group of discouraged fruit flies. Friday was the morning after grocery day, which means I try for Brownie points for Mother of the Year. I packed a virtual smorgasbord of goodies; potato chips, individually wrapped cheeses, three kinds of bread, small chilled fruit cups, a hot thermos and several candy peace. Just how stinging a rebuke is indicated by the way efforts to bring peace to the Middle East have shifted away from the U.N. and to the Big Four powers, the United States, Russia, Britain, and France. To a great extent the inability of the U.N. to work out a peace settlement is a reflection of the complexity of the problem, including an absence of the desire for peace on the part of many parties to the conflict. Russia, for example, seems to prefer maintaining tension in the Middle East as a means of extending its influence in the Arab nations. Even when Arab governments announce they are willing to compromise substantially for peace, they have to contend with Arab cpmmandos whose increasing military strength and popular support suggest they cou! topple any government making a settlement unacceptable to them. As for negotiations Israel, it has called repeatedly for with the Arabs but insisted that certain key issues arent negotiable. 'I'5 the undeniably great, difficulties involved, theres still rpom for wondering if the U.N. is doing all it can and should to achieve peace in the Middle East. For example, the U.N. has stationed soldiers from seven : t Ht- r ,'ob cf tli. Utrtz Cm"!. r naflf 90 cease-fir- e There exists. no are which a only longer pervise of them. They are unarmed. And their shelters are so flimsy they cannot protect the men against shell fragments, let alone the Eg'otians have the racty habit of 6 . h from Israelis positions close to the U.N. shelters, firing at the the Israelis return the fire. ducks when are which sitting to It would be folly withdraw the U.N. observers, since that would constitute an open invitation to a repeat performy war. Yet, unless the U.N. force is ance of the 1967 its sodi.-rv'!l be onl inarmed targets in a s of instead the buffer that is needed. gallery shooting Without a settlement, the Arabs and Israelis will at the very least keep on pouring money and material into military preparedness at the expense of national development effort. As the General Assembly gets back to work after an layoff, it should start treating the Middle East a crisis that could easily bear conflict as what it really is the seeds of World War III. face-to-fac- Light ' , e r bars. six-da- s Mid-Ea- st eight-mont- h Good TV Needs Help A sword of Damocles hangs over radio and television broadcasters in Utah and throughout the nation. Every three years a stations license to broadcast expires, and the Federal Communications Commission decides whether it should be renewed or canceled. Thats as it should be. Because theres a limit to the number of broadcast bands that exist, those allowed to use them ' e iv: l:c ri- rev I. r- -d dsioncT.t or irreop ' e sponsible broadcasters should be put out of business. This s ot??.' !ons. por'o "e amine" - c r. reqr But a station can lose its license if bomeone else comes along with extravagant promises to do a better job of broadcasting. Such promises are easy to make, and theres no penalty if they are broken. Indeed, the vultures can gobble up an expiring license without any evidence that the previous broadcaster failed to meet his responsibility to the public. The upshot, beyond long and costly hearings before the FCC, is that broadcasters are discouraged from investing as much in their operations as they would if their futures werent so insecure. To correct the situation, Sen. John Pastore of Rhode Island has introduced a bill that would require the FCC to determine whether or not existing broadcast station licenses should be renewed before it allows others to apply for those facilities. Under Pastores bill, stations would still have to file for license renewals every three years. The FCC would still be free to levy fines, issue reprimands, or revoke licenses if broadcasters didnt live up to their obligations. Its just that I he FCC would no longer be allowed to weigh the past performance of a license holder against the extravagant promises of a newcomer. Although radio and TV stations compete against newspapers lor advertising, the Pastore bill is supported by the American Newsjxiper Publishers Association as a matter of principle. The principle is that the public is best served not by thine who promise the most but by those with a solid record that proves they can and do deliver. , ! ! r - rt-t'- -" Gars Vs. Grades To drive or not to drive? That is the question for many Utah students now that high schools are back in session and they must decide which comes fiist: Their studies or their ear. New light has been shed on this familiar problem by an insurance firm which studied 20,000 high school students' and found that the more a student uses a car during the week, the poorer his grades will be. That goes for good students as well as for those not so academically inclined. Grades begin to suffer, the study found, when the ear is used more than two days out of five during the school week. Its up to parents to keep cars and school work in proper perspective. On the basis of its study, the firm suggests that parents : 1. Restrict the use of cars to weekends, and keep the week days for school work. 2. Dont permit a teenager to have a part-tim- e job just to to a ear or for one. maintain pay 3. Keep the keys in their own pocket and lend the car only under the proper circumstances. Since young drivers have the worst accident and death rates, parents should realize that more than a young persons education may suffer if he is allowed to use the car too much. 4 C - The Kremlins conWASHINGTON tinued actions against freedom show how increasingy afraid of it the Soviets have become. They arent afraid fheir regime will be overthrown by force. They are afraid it will be overthrown by freedom. The repression Moscow is forcing the new and pliant Czech government to impose on its people reveals a Soviet colonialist mentality blatantly at variance with its anticolonial propaganda. n Czech people is to have summoned the Czech prosecutor general to Moscow to blueprint for him how best to get rid of those Czech traitors who refuse to proclaim that they wanted the Red army tanks to come in and take over. Apparently Moscow wanted to make sure that Alexander Dubcek and other liberal leaders who wanted to improve communism, ,iot destroy it, would be dealt with as The strongest evidence of Soviet fear freedom series of steps they are taking to pretend that the Red army occupied Czechoslovakia at the request of a legitimate Czech govern-- " ment and is now helping a legitimate Czech government suppress anticommunist and traitors. This is a fabrication designed to justify tlie unprovoked invasion. There isnt a single fact which can be dredged up to support it. It is published widely in the be and not merely as The Soviets know mind and so do Czech leaders. They not cringe. nals, anti-Sovi- anti-Sovi- crimi- political dissidents. what they have in the weep but they do Obviously the Kremlin can get any of the officials of the Czech regime it brought into being after the invasion to lie for it. But that does it little good as propaganda gloss. These are the Czechs eager to do Moscows bidding. But to this day there is not a single Czech authority in power at the time of the occupation Soviet Union and in controlled Czech press and known for what it is in most of the Free World. The number of Russians who doubt its truthfulness may be considerable. The latest contribution which Kremlin is making to protect n the the By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK and state INSIDE REPORT WASHINGTON The remnants of the Kennedy political apparatus are determined to oppose any national political ambitions of Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma. Democratic National Chairman, as a and National Committeeman from Mississippi, vowed he would stage a sit-i- at national party headquarters that day unless Harris changed his mind. result of bizarre maneuverings last Alerted by their friends on the execumonth over the party debt. tive committee, Kennedy lieutenants The Kennedy men feel Mr. Harris frantically sought Harris on Aug. 1. attempted, unsuccessfully, to renege on a Their telephone calls went unanswered. promise to pick up the Presidential camInstead, acting treasurer Pat OConnor paign debt of the late Robert F. Kennedy suggested to them that, in view of the after Sen. Edward M. Kennedys politifamilys latest tragedy, perhaps they cally catastrophic accident. To them, might want to bypass questions of politiHarriss actions were inexcusable and cal finance. The Kennedy men replied irredeemable. heatedly this was not the case. The story begins in January when. At the luncheon break, three Robert Short, then Democratic national members of the executive comtreasurer, proposed to a meeting of the mittee Evers, Stephen Reinhardt of National Committee that it assume the California, and Mildred Jeffrey of Michiwere ready to inform Harris they Kennedy campaign debt (as well as gan would raise the question of the Kennedy Hubert Humphreys debt). In return, the National Committee debt during the afternoon session even if would get the services of the partys he would not. But at that point, OConnor averted the confrontation by announcing greatest attraction and Ted Kennedy in erasing the stupenthat details with Steve Smith had been dous out after all. worked debt. Humphrey As a result, the executive committee Kennedy emissaries readily agreed to the deal, and it was to be formally apunanimously voted to add the nearly one million dollar Kennedy debt and the over proved at the next meeting of the execuHumtive committee of die National Commitone million dollar tee. But that meeting carne on Aug. 1, million owed to debt $6 by nearly phrey two weeks after Kennedy's accident. In the Humphrey general election camthe minds of hardheaded politicians, Ted paign. But bitter memories linger. Kennedy Kennedys prowess had simmen could forgive Harris for supporting ply disappeared. Without notifying Sen. Kennedys ofHumphrey instead of Bobby Kennedy for fice, Harris removed the proposed President but not for what they consider assumption of the Bobby Kennedy debt a low blow at a time of deep trouble for from the agenda. the Kennedys. He is cn their black list. Kennedy partisans on the executive Devious Dale committee were apoplectic. They were unsatisfied by Harriss explanation that J. Daley of Chicago Richard Mayor the National Committee had not pinned showed recently in his handling of down arrangements with Stephen Smith, the reform Democrats picnic at the and Kennedy brother-in-laLibertyville, 111., farm of the late Adlai during nearly seven months since the Stevenson that he remains a master of January meeting of the National Comthe devious. mittee. Charles Evers, civil rights leader With a full complement of national n anti-Dale- y Democrats (headed by Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota) scheduled to attend, Illinois organization Democrats sought guidance from the mayor. Daley advised them that he wouldnt think of going. Getting the message, Daley stalwarts such as state house Democratic leader John Touhy and city treasurer Marshall Karshak stayed home. Consequently, the Daley men were as surprised as the reformers when the mayor turned up at Libertyville accompanied by his close lieutenant, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski. That put Daley in the posd and progresture of being sive, while lesser figures in the organization were not. As the top reformer glowingly told us: Daleys presence ended the battle of Chicago that is, the 19G8 Democratic convention. broad-minde- GUEST CARTOON fund-rais- fund-raisin- g fund-raise- f i. Ho Chi Minh's Will Christian 4 ar nc he Ni pr toi tii ar on of go dii ar in. tr he ke pr yo th; ra: 20; bu didnt bring any lunch and everyone in the class gave him something. He got eight apples, five bags of corn chips, three candy bars, a bag of peanuts, a fingernail clip, a hard boiled egg and a pair of broken sun glasses. That w'as only on the school bus. I dont know what he racked up once he got to the cafeteria. Mi in M en tre wli lo lai shi Junky impressions I was born and raised in Utah, and have always been proud of my home state and the people who inside- there. I now live in San Bernardino, Calif., and am a member of the San Bernardino County Planning Department We work with people and land, land use and community appearance. Not long ago, while traveling back to my home town, I encountered something which made me somewhat ashamed of Utah, and very ill. While approaching Salt Lake City from the west, just west of a relatively new and very beautiful airport, to the north side of the highway sat a great, ugly yard. The first thought that came to mind was, what kind of image or impression would that leave of the state of Utah in the mind of one seeing the state for the first and perhaps only time in his life? How beautiful will the rest of the state or city look with that kind of a greeting or good-by- ? Being in the planning field, I know how vital and necessary the wrecking yards are in keeping junk cars from showing up everywhere, but why next to an Interstate highway, without a fence or landscaping around them to keep the byesore to a minimum or even .enhance them if possible? The Utah Travel Council and Chambers of Commerce spend thousands of dollars each year to advertise the beauty of Bryce Canyon, Zion Canyon, Utah Lake, Great Salt Lake, Bingham Copper Mine, Lake Powell, the Golden Spike Monument, colBrighton and Alta skiing, Temple Square, the lege campuses, hunting, fishing and all that there is to do and see, and how are the guests treated? St. George greets them with a big junk yard, Cedar City with another one, Salt Lake City and Ogden, Logan and Brigham City with more, each the very first or last thing you see. Is this the kind of impression you want to leave lat ca sg fa; ab Ne in foi wh wi ab me lai wa g the visitors with? Harris Is On Kennedy Blacklist de th LETTERS TO THE EDITOR who has either been cajoled or coerced to say that anyone in the government wanted the Soviet army to save Czecho- Slovakia from the Czechoslovakians. After hav'ng ousted the government and having installed the Soviet-chosegovernment, the Kremlin then directed the obedient Czech regime to turn on the Czech students who dared to show that they didnt like the Red army invasion. Whereupon the Czechs who wanted their nation to have the independence which Soviet officials, three days before the invasion, claimed they totally respected, suddenly became traitors and have to be bludgeoned into submission. Why do the Soviets feel they have to go to such lengths to erect such a make-beliefacade behind which their military colonialism is played out? Do they expect to fool the Czechs? Hardly. Do they expect to Muddle the Free World? Not likely. Do they expect to persuade the Soviet people the occupation was a fraternal act which the Czechs asked for? They almost certainly do because while the Kremlin is apparently determined to crush Czech liberalization, it is afraid to let its own people fully understand what it is doing. Some Russians have dared to protest openly in Red Square against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and when a people begin to lose their fear of a dictatorship, the dictatorship is in danger. Today the Soviet leaders in the Kremlin are exhibiting a double fear. They are even a neighbors afraid cf freedom freedom and they are afraid to let the Soviet people know they are afraid of freedom. Czech-chose- of freedom of thought, let alone of expression and .action, is lunch with me today. Dont tell me. YMre trading your socks for a piece of bubble gum. Right? Nope. I saw a kid last week who iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii,Miiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuniiiiiiiiiiiii THE DRUMMONDS If the Soviet Union wanted to end as it says it does colonialism it could do its share by ending it in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. It was no surprise when my son said this morning, Dont briber to send a iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin Moscow Fears Freedom Most By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY ' DRUMMOND I suspect this confession is going to bring all kinds of mail down upon me warning that the kids gums will bleed and hell be nutritionally starved. But the truth is hes in pretty good health and hasnt had a case of beriberi since his last voyage at sea. I dont fuss anymore and why should I? Do you know what it does for a mother to see her homemade cookies go for a box of cough drops? Can you imagine how it feels when you curl a stack of carrots, stick toothpicks in them and submerge them in ice water for crispness only to have them traded for a Pete Rose baseball card? --J. QUINN LARSEN San Bernardino, Calif. Me the SOI ste sa Gr etc tyi Oi the Ba we ani dit we in ter Band Together lizi I wish to congratulate Mr. Perry, author of the em letter Strength In Numbers. He is 100 per cent ha' fro right. We decent people may now be outnumbered wil by all the perverts that walk the streets, and that cli filthy group that is ruining our campuses and fillwe ing students veins with dope. I cant help but retch every time I see the contents of magazine racks, or doi see all those women of ill repute running around. sc And now some commie group is trying to teach our me children sex, in classrooms instead of cars! shi His suggestion that we meet together in study shi groups, little cells around the state, to stamp out Mi this horrible evil is grer,t. Leis band together, to be keep America moral and pure. Were on the road to ruin and Mr. Perrys moral vision Is the only spi we thing that can save us. Citizens, unite and threw off these chains of moral oppression. iy -J- IM POLLMAN Bbe shi Cedar City otl Bothered Reputation? By So Stephen Holbrook (letter to editor feels you are calling names by referring to those people who shot the patrolman as hippies." Then he goes on to say you should group hippies as a class of people like the middle class, or the clean cut, or the Mormons. Nobody in these three classes of people minds being called by these titles. And we do label these other groups, but there are very few of these people shooting patrolmen. If he would like to read about them, he should try the society page, or the business section, the sports section. Of the three groups he mentions, the Mormons are perhaps labeled by this nickname more than the other two. Why doesnt Mr. Holbrook complain about this? I suggest what bothers Mr. Holbrook is the reputation that goes along with a person called a hippie. If the hippies want a good reputation, let them earn it. The most ironic part of Mr. Holbrooks letter is he starts out complaining that you called them hippies, and then goes on to admit they are a major minority group in this country. What is it that really bothers him? --S. LAWRENCE MUNGEB 2406 Science Monitor I Cardinal WaJ |