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Show Enr.iA ' Chicken ' DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH The Pruning Menace We Stand For The ConstituiiQn Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired madman. If you watch dosely you can almost see the phy- How U.N. Can Help End The Viet War For the past few years this page has c lied on the United States to take the task of bringing peace to Vietnam to the United Nations. We have done so out of the conviction that by laying all the facts before the world forum, the U.S. could demonstrate that it is in Vietnam as a friend of peace and freedom. We have done so because Vietnam has demonstrated there are sharp limits to Americas power, end because other nations need to be persuaded to lend a hand if is to be guaranteed in Southeast Asia. We have done so because the U.N. is weakened not only g as a organization but also as a forum for airing different points of view and shaping world opinion as to long as it doesnt come to grips with such a major threat wcrld peace. We have done so because, with the Paris peace talks on dead center, the U.N. provides a means for the U.S. to take the diplomatic initiative. With his appearance Thursday at the 24th General Assembly in which he urged the 128 U.N. member countries to take an active hand in promoting a Vietnam peace, President Nixon has taken a major step toward getting the world settleorganization actively involved in working out a just ment to the conflict. But in asking U.N. members to put diplomatic pressure on Hanoi to negotiate seriously in Paris, Mr. Nixon stopped . debate that is needed. Moreshort of seeking the as individual nations to members U.N. the if respond over, President Nixons appeal, wont that be less effective than if the U.N. took collective action? Granted that the U.N. General Assembly should have taken up the Vietnam war on its own initiative long ago without waiting to be prodded. Granted that a full and formal U.N. debate on Vietnam no doubt would result in some embarrassing, painful moments for 'America as friends and foes examined not only the reasons for our involvement in Southeast Asia but also the manner in which the U.S. has conducted itself there. Granted, too, that Russia could veto whatever the U.N. decided to do about Vietnam, be it as little as adopting a resolution condemning the aggressors or as much as getting U.N. forces actively involved in the conflict. But as long as the U.S. holds back from submitting itU.N. examination of a self to the than complete less demonstrate we something of Vietnam, confidence in our own policy and actions in Southeast Asia. As for the prospect of a Soviet veto, that would amount to a confession that its the Communists who have blood on their hands in Vietnam. The U.S., as President Nixon told the General Assembly, already has stopped bombing North Vietnam and is withdrawing troops only to find that peace is as elusive as ever in Vietnam. Now how about really pursuing peace in the U.N.? There is something about a pair of pruning shears that turns a mild, conservative husband into a raving w FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1969 14 A EDITORIAL PAGE sic A give-and-ta- T l Extradite Air Pirates Since 1950, when the first act of international air piracy was recorded, there have been 136 attempts to hijack airplanes, all but 33 of them successful. Although the U.S. has been the victim about half the time, 19 other nations have had planes hijacked. So President Nixon wasnt just grinding Americas axe when he went before the General Assembly on Thursday and asked the United Nations to give high priority to discouraging skyjacking. As he observed, skypiracy cannot be ended until the pirates no longer receive asylum abroad. In 1963 the Tokyo Convention On Offenses and Other Acts Committed On Board Aircraft was worked out by 61 nations. The convention, which provides for the prompt release of passengers, crew and aircraft, takes effect when 12 but as recently as two weeks ago only six nations ratify it had ratified it. For five years two U.S. administrations dragged their feet before sending the convention to the Senate, where it lay for eight months before ratification last May. As of early September, Americas paperwork on the convention still had not been deposited with the U.N. and other signatories, which is the final step in ratification. Moreover, the U.S. has yet to prosecute or surrender for extradition a single hijacker who forced a foreign plane to fly here, even when the hijacking involved murders. Although the U.S. would have been in a better position to ask the U.N. for help if it had acted more promptly on the Tokyo Convention, President Nixon was still right when he observed that hijackings endanger all air travelers and involve the interests of all nations. But if we expect other countries to surrender air pirates, we had better be prepared to extradte those who land here Scrap Crop Boycotts Utah and Idaho farmers are no exception to the rule that those who forget the lessons experience should teach are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. We make this point because representatives of the National Farmers Organization from eight western states were in Salt Lake City this week to discuss ways to prevent a drop in potato prices, and there was some talk about plowing under surplus potatoes. So far it seems to be only talk, which is just as well in view of the failure of previous efforts to boost farm prices by holding milk, livestock, and grain off the market. The NFO has an estimated 300,000 members from the nations 4.3 million farm workers, and the threat of past withhave holding actions has been diluted because refused to go along. Even when enough farmers can be persuaded to hold their crops off the market, there comes a time when marginal farmers can no longer resist the temptation to market their produce. Other farmers eventually follow suit, and the boycott is finally broken. As the worlds most successful food producers, America's farmers ought to be well paid, particularly in a world where hurts the hunger is a growing problem. But very people its supposed to help, and the NFO would be well advised to scrap this particular tactic. over-prunin- i ' . - - That So whats the problem? Ill just even-Iup a little. The last thing you evened up were those evergreens on either side of the garage t W'hat evergreens? That's what I mean. WHACK! Did anyone ever tell you youre vicious? I mean there has to be a sadistic The first year I planted the privet hedge my husband knocked It down with a hose spray. The second year he inadvertently ran it down with his power mower. By the third year it had barely strength enough to grow leaves when he said They look a little raggy. Maybe I should prune them. You wont prune them as severely as you did our maple tree, will you? What maple tree? Thats what I mean. Women do not understand the principle of development, he explained. If you want the hedge to become bushy, you must prune it to promote growth and fullness. streak in a man who destroys beautiful things. . . . For heavens sakes, will you keep your voice down? Theyll grow back. Hah! Look around you. This yard looks like a testing ground for nuclear a few battered twigs, a few weapons twisted roots a mound of dirt here and there. . . . ... WHACK! I rest Israel s Dangerous New Game By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK INSIDE REPORT - The real target of WASHINGTON Israels new and fantastically successful military operations against Egypt is Moscow more than Egypt itself a daring but dangerous tactic. The Israelis want to demonstrate to Egypts patron, the Soviet Union, that they can control Egyptian skies and raid Egyptian territory on the western side of the Suez Canal at will Once Moscow realizes this, Israel hopes, Moscow will push Cairo into serious peace talks. But what worries U.S. policy-maker-s is that the new and dangerous game Israel Is playing against Egypt could lead to menacingly different results in Moscow. Instead of reacting by pressuring President Nasser to talk peace with Israel, the Soviet Union may feel that the humiliation of its No. 1 client in the Arab world and, therefore its own humiliation requires a drastic response. The nature of this response is unknown here. It could be Soviet introduction of sophisticated weapons, such as a medium range conventional missile capable of hitting Israel from Egypt. Or it might temporarily transfer Moscows attention from Egypt to a new emphasis on subverting such royalist regimes as Saudi Arabia and Morocco, as King Idriss regime in Libya was subverted two weeks ago by a revolutionary military clique. Whatever Moscows reaction, it could Introduce explosive new elements into The Swedish 'Flower Fund' the combustible Middle East.' Israels current offensive against Egypt is fundamentally different from the cycle of raid and counterraid conducted along Israels eastern frontiers of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. It marks a profound turning point, a calculated Israeli intention to demonstrate military El preeminence not against Fatah guerrillas but against the Soviet-armed regular military establishment of the most powerful Arab stale. In proving that it can maintain control of both the skies and the ground across the canal in Egyptian territory, the Israelis are also proving that the so long as he is forced to Russian work through the Egyptians is a paper tiger. The new Israeli strategy has been in the making for three months, starting with strategy sessions early last spring. When those government sessions ended in June, the air force was ordered to clear the skies of Egyptian aircraft MIG 17s and 21s and the SU-- 7 fighter bomber. For the next two months (July and August), this first phase continued with brilliant success. half-train- d, Soviet-advise- Then, Israel having established air supremacy over Egyptian territory, phase two started with last weeks astonishing cross-gul- f ground raid. In control of the air, the Israelis were able to bring tanks ashore by amphibious landing craft without loss, move down the coast shooting out military targets, and return by amphibious craft to the other bank. That raid, it is safe to say, was only the first of what may turn out to be many. The Israelis are determined to knock out the highly effective Soviet artillery on the canal, which has taken unacceptable Israeli casualties. However, that military objective, important as it Is, is secondary to the real purpose of proving Egypts Inability to defend itself whenever Israel chooses to attack. The unanswered question is how the Soviet Union will respond. Soviet air planners are now assigned to Egyptian operations down to the squadron level, helping plot and interpret radar screens showing incoming Israeli fighters and doing everything except man the planes themselves. Even so, the Egyptians cannot cope with the Israeli air attack. Consequently, there Is almost nothing in the field of conventional warfare Moscow can do to help Egypt that it is not already doing. Yet, it cannot allow Egypt to become an Israeli shooting gallery without dire consequences for the prestige and reputation of the Soviet Union all through the Arab world. The frustration this must be causing the Kremlin is what worries U.S. diplomats. It could convert the spectacular Israeli military success into a new political crisis. Colonel Sanders' Example An elaborate floral tribute seems a misplaced sentiment at a death, and I was interested to learn some years ago how sensible Sweden handles this situation. In Sweden, since 1921, there has been an organization called the Flower Fund, formed to honor the dead in a more worthy and lasting manner than with floral pieces for the bier. Membership in this group was begun by a distinguished group of religious leaders, governors of provinces, and prominent literary and artistic figures. Its spokesman was Alma Hedin, sister of Sven Hedin, the famous explorer. Instead of sending an expensive wreath, the Flower Fund proposed that the friends of the deceased should remit the money to the bereaved family for a simple memorial message in the name of the giver. The money received in this way was applied to a project for obtaining houses with small apartments for old people in straitened circumstances. In three years the Flower Fund erected a large building on a site donated by the City of Stockholm. A second house soon was built next to the first, and before long six additional houses were built, providing living quarters for more than a thousand old people, who pay lower rent than they would elsewhere. and also receive medical care. Theie is nothing institutional about the place, and tenants are quite free to stay or move, as they please. Each building has a restaurant which serves meals at cost, plus a grocery shop, laundry and bakery. There are always more applications for tenancies than can be filled. r How to have what it takes; that is a which everyone needs. There is real strength built into you whether you realize it or not In fact, you have within you all the strength you will ever need to handle anything you will ever have to face. Quite a claim, but true. A few months ago I was talking to a friend, a fascinating and lovable person. Colonel Hariand Sanders. The Colonel always wears a white suit and a black string tie, has white hair and a white beard and carries a cane. His ruddy face is written over with kindness. He looks like, and is, really, a Kentucky Colonel of the old school. Everywhere around the country you are likely to see his picture on many a restaurant where they serve his Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is, according to him, finger lickin good. His father was a miner, back in the days when miners didnt make much money. I believe his father was killed in the mines and his mother had to go to work in a shirt factory. She had several young children and Hariand was given the job of being cook for the family, which later paid off with the fried chicken business. He worked hard all his life. He had to leave school at the end of the sixth grade, experiencing the kind of poverty that has always existed in the Kentucky mountains and in Tennessee, at least in the poverty pockets. He was very poor. Finally he opened a little restaurant Folks have to eat, he reasoned. He work put several years of into it. Then the highway was and he lost everything. He was 65 years old at the time. As Colonel Sanders was sitting on his porch in Corbin, Ky., one morning, the mailman came up the walk and handed riim this first social security check. Sixty-fiv- e years old, broke and defeated, he looked at the check and said, My government is going to give me $105 a month so I can eke out an existence. Surely there uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiinimiiiiiimtnmiiiii 'Fallible Opinions' Jim Pollman of Cedar City is quite a virtuoso in his commendation letter of Sept. 16. However, his praise of loyalty and patriotism and crusadt to rid Utah of its inherent evil is nothing but good southern Utah logic. His fallible opinions begin with he is 100 per cent right. With this absolute doctrine in his pocket, who can argue? He further declines Intelligence by saying, We decent people may now be outnumbered by all the perverts that walk the streets. Generalities. Come now, he doesnt mean the evicted Park People, does he? Maybe he means the ones walking North Temple every day. And his that filthy group that is running our campuses and filling students veins with dope could be either the Student Health Services or the YAF (Young Americans for Freedom). .However, I do believe he cant help but retch every time he sees the contents of magazine racks, as he so medically puts it Mind you, he didnt specify any particular magazine, and probably meant them all. And his sentence structure in now some commie group is trying to teach our children sex, in classrooms instead of cars! is certain to leave General Motors red-face- He concludes his letter with remarks which would make Field Marshall Herman Goering sound like Mahatma Ghandi: His suggestion that we meet together in study groups, little cells around the state, to stamp out this horrible evil is great Citizens, unite and throw off these chains of moral oppression. -D- OUG DUTTON 1121 Buccaneer Dr. For Humans, Too NORMAN VINCENT PEALE know-ho- my case. letters to the editor By SYDNEY J. HARRIS As a flower lover of long standing, I think that nothing makes a finer gift for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries and other joyous occasions. Bat I could never see the point of flowers for a funeral. ... WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! Murderer. rs 3 Now youve done it, I said. side is lower than the other. features and his muscles fairly ripple with the excitement of all the leveling trees and bushes to the ground. There is rumor that seven states are g as cause for diconsidering vorce, second only to incompatibility. I hope our state is one of them. No judge would dare deny me freedom after he heard the story of my privet hedge. le full-fledg- ed al Look, he said, didnt I prune your roses back last year and didnt they do better this summer? Better than what? I had to re-pthem and give them penicillin shots. WHACK! change. His ears become pointed, his teeth extend over his lower lip peace-keepin- full-sca- uoiAumi is something I can do for myself and other people. He began to think, and thinking always produces results. The thought of his mothers special recipe for fried chicken came to him. It was a particular formula which he considered something special He decided to try to sell franchises for marketing his fried chicken formula. After being turned down by scores of restaurants, he sold his first franchise in Salt Lake City. It was an instantaneous hit Ten years later at age 75, he sold his rights in his company and was employed as goodwill ambassador for the new organization. It is not the financial success that Colonel Sanders achieved that makes his life story significant His experience primarily underscores the fact that no person need be defeated unless he wills it so. Life is full of possibilities If we look for them and work and think. GUEST CARTOON Our public lands are to be used for multiple purposes for the good of alL People camp, picnic, fish and hunt on them. They build summer homes, lum- bermen harvest the forests, and ranchers let their stock graze on the vegetation. This is as it should be, but shouldnt some equality to be used in all of this? We can only fish and hunt at certain times of the year, the lumberman is well regulated as to where he can cut, summer homes are built and maintained according to strict standards. Why, then, arent certain areas preserved for human use only? Is it right that range animals should be allowed to graze and devastate camp and picnic grounds to make a barnyard of the yard of a summer home? It certainly detracts from the enjoyment of the beautiful mountains when one cant camp ip an area because it smells and looks like a stable or when summer home owners, who have carefully tried to preserve natural surroundings, find their places trampled, eaten off, and smelly. --MRS. R. G. BARAN 975 Foothill Dr. Questions Serial Your editorial policy of giving truth and unbiased reporting has certainly deteriorated to the level of sensationalism with your choice of printing such prejudiced material as that on Mrs. Onassis. Not only are you slandering her but our late President as well. If you desire to reveal the flagrant abuse of money (not gifts), please inform us as to what our public elected officials ..re doing with their pay raises from our 10 per cent surtax which they tell us they cant terminate as yet. --L. T. ROWLEY --0. G. TONDRO Holladay self-vot- ' Family back-breaki- ; Shrlttlin tcltnc Monitor Circus Thank you for Family Circus by Bil Keane especially for the vacation trip to Grandmas house. It shows family life at its very best with humor, patience and understanding underscored. We really got interested in that vacation trip many smiles and at times a choked up feeling as we related our own family to it. Bil Keane must be a fine person. -- MRS. V. 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