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Show DESERET NEWS ERMA BOnBECK 'Play It Again, Gama I' SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH On Raising Children We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 18 A EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY, OCTOBER From time to time a reader will accuse me of not liking children, which is ridiculous. I asked for this aggravation. I could have been like a friend of 23, 1969 Tell U.S. The Facts On The Secret War Beautification Pays Off Does beautification pay? One southern Utah community lost a potential convention of a California clothing firm simply because the town was not attractive enough. After getting a look, commented one spokesman for the firm, we decided to go where the yards are not littered and main street lots full of high weeds. That .attracting more tourists is one important reason for the formation of the Governors Cleanup Campaign this week. But there are other reasons as well. One is community pride. Another is property values, for certainly a well. kept neighborhood has an impact on a prospective Industry, too, likes to go where towns are progressive and show civic improvements. The governors cleanup campaign is a natural outgrowth, of the Utah beautification drive sponsored for the past too, two years by the Deseret News in which $3,000 in prizes are awarded to six cities judged the cleanest and most improved, proved. While much has been accomplished by these earlier efforts, a big challenge still lies ahead in making Utah as clean and beautiful as it should be. Lets all roll up our sleeves and post haste. get the job done 400-emplo- home-buye- top-kno- ts I came to motherhood unskilled, untried, undaunted, underpaid and under sedation. Every day since then, including Sundays and holidays, has gone to raising kids. Last week was a record. In one lay alone I made 23 mistakes in child raising. I may top it today. I dont do anything right. I use expressions like, Because I said so, thats why. I abhor family councils and tell them if we have one I get five votes and three desserts. When there are parties, I plug in the Christmas spots and park myself in the middle of the action. I dont make beds or do dishes. I havent been a pal since I suffered a sack nosebleed at a race at day camp. When I raise my hand to wave bye-by- e they flinch. I do my gossiping in front of the This weeks announcement of plans to slash rates for political advertising by the National Broadcasting Company and the American Broadcasting Company should be welcome news not only to the candidates, but the voters as well. The spiraling cost of campaigning has made politics, especially at the higher levels, a rich mans game. Increasing use of television advertising was a major factor in the record $58.8 million spent for political broadcasting during all election campaigns of 1988 a 70 percent increase over 1964, according to Federal Communicatioi s Commission reports. 33 1 3 per Obviously, the advertising rate reduction cent for ABC and 50 per cent for NBC would even more meaningful if the giant of the industry, Columbia Broadcasting System, had followed suit. Hopefully, CBS will accede to the move soon so that meaningful plans may be laid to help local affiliate stations extend the policy to the local level. Its no secret that the broadcasting companies are making the move under government pressure. Legislation has been introduced in both the Senate and House to reduce advertising costs to Congressional candidates at even more drastic reductions than those proposed by the networks. In fact, presidents of the three networks were testifying this week bcfoie a Senate Commerce subcommitte probing into the matter. Televised debates not only help to bring out the issues, but also acquaint the voter with the political philosophy of the arious candidates. Even if candidates refuse to debate in such a forum for fear of wrecking their political chances, their refusal often weighs heavily in helping make up a voters mind. The move is at least a step in the right direction of helpto ing open high office to all competent candidates regardless of the balance in their 'nk accounts. 1 , has a price tag and Im reasonably sure none of them can afford it jet. If they get one at school theyll get two at home. Its not important if they consider church a drag or a privilege. They can make up their mind while theyre there. Im not impressed by people who burn draft earr's. (Show me a man who destroys his Bank of America credit card. Now that takes some guts!) Dirty movies are out. Learn to take No for an answer. Im doing my thing. soWho knows in this crazy, mixed-uor not. on I track the we if are right ciety only know I like what a reader wrote me a few weeks back. She said, I think the reason the family unit is crumbling is be p cause it used to be that children tried to please their parents. Now, we are trying to please them. Mother-Daught- By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT - INSIDE REPORT NOVAK WASHINGTON The reason for deepening concern among politicians and foreign diplomats, including emissaries from Communist countries, over the effect of anti-wa- r demonstrationsi on President Nixon can be understood only against the backdrop of White House actions just before the Oct. 15 Moratorium. Contrary to published speculation, the ouster of draft director Lewis B. Hershey and the announcement that Mr. Nixon would make a Vietnam speech on Nov. 3 were not intended as concessions to soften the will of Moratorium sponsors. White Hou&e planners correctly judged the implacable mood of the Moratorium as far beyond softening simply by announcing the departure of the aging and embattled Gen. Iler-shelong-expect- y. The real reason for the timing of those White House announcements was that Mr. Nixon did not want to make them after the Moratorium because he would then appear to be buckling to pres- sure. Thus, having decided not to make a Vietnam talk to the nation until well afta decision er the Oct. 15 Moratorium being widely criticized here as bad poliMr. Nixon felt compelled to tics announce the Nov. 3 date of his speech before the Moratorium took place. That decision broke modem precedent for the announcement of a Presidential speech, which never comes that far in advance unless keyed to an event already on the calendar. But so concerned was the President over even the semblance of yielding to external pressures that be dared not wait until after Oct. 15 make his speer , announcement. It is precisely this impact of the antiwar demonstrations that is beginning to worry foreign diplomats and a good many U.S. politicians, who want the war Comover. As one of the top munist diplomats here told us privately, the higher the pressure on Mr. Nixon from the anti-wmovement, the more it may inversely affect his decisions. The reason this is regarded as tie possible reaction of Mr. Nixon to the anti-wa- r demonstiations is his own statement on Sept. 2 that under no circumstances will I be affected whatever by the growing anti-wa- r protests. Then, on Oct. 13 in a letter to a Georgetown University sophomore, the President explained his of the Moratorium by Sept. 2 kiss-of- f saying that if a President allowed his course to be set by those who demon to non-Sovi- ar much-criticize- d LETTERS TO THE EDITOR strate, he would betray the trust of all To allow government policy the rest to be made in the streets would destroy the democratic process." What that implies, in the view of those now worried over Presidential inaction to mounting demonstrations, is that Mr. Nixon will avoid any action that seems to take account of, much less to yeld to, those who demonstrate. The White House decision to make Her-slepiemature announcements of Gen. retirement and the Presidents Niv. 3 speech both show how far Mr. N xon is willing to go to piove that he is rot being influenced by what happens on the street. By this reasoning, a Presidential announcement scheduled for Christmas that, say, 100,000 U.S. troops would be withdrawn immediately from Vietnam, might be adversely influenced by street as now demonstrations in movement. planned by the anti-wa- r The President will have a chance to say what he thinks about the Mobe, the Moratorium, and the war in Vietnam on Ncv. 3. But if he comes to view the demonstrations as a test of will power between himself and the demonstrators, the supremely ironic result may be exactly the opposite of what the demonstrators intend a tendency by Mr. Nixon to dig in and concentrate on his war opponents at the expense of the war in Vietnam. ... ys Yale s Answer To Student Rule ' 1 - reaction Kingman Brewster, NEW HAVEN, CONN. The to Yales president, who is opposing the notion that colored sfudents deserve a role in the management of their insti-- t u tions, suggests that rationality may be coming back into style, at least on this campus. tooK Brewster his position, which runs boldly against Mr. Bartlett the thrust of the student movement, in unequivocal words recently and the reaction here, and apparently elsewhere in academia, has been surprisingly acquiescent. He may well have spiked a trend that has gathered momentum in many universities. He argued for democracy without representation in college life. He said a university can be accountable to its riudents and responsive to their attitudes without yielding them fixed roles in the decision process. He wants to bring the governing boards closer to the students, not by putting students on the boards but by bringing deliberations into the open. CHARLES BARTLETT represented in policy making and many administrators have assumed that peace withot student participation could not lung endure. But power is not easily shared in these complex institutions where the balance of power among the administrators, faculty, and students is so uneasy. The faculties aie jealous of the administrators but they dont want their duties. The faculty leaders are dulled by their necessity to avoid offending faculty factions. The issue of participation was originally raised by teachers and they may in the end be responsible for its interment. Since it will never be possible to yield students much more than an illusion of power in university decisions and since the illusion will quickly be branded hyprocisy, it seems wiser to do as Brewster proposes and make the management more compact instead of more representative so it can adjust swiftly and wisely to pressures for change. In fact Brewsters performance testifies more eloquently than his words that The trouble with representative democracy, in Brewsters view, is that a small handful of activists will seize the representative roles which are made available without necessarily representing die majority of students. Symbolic representation can have no real meaning m a dav when student interests are varied and a very few will spend the time these goermng boards require. Like Robert Brownings Duchess, whose quote, looks went everywhere, Yale students are backing so many causes and engaged in so many fronts that they are unlikely, when the dust settles, to have much time left to run the colmust take its place lege. Governance alongside the Vietnam moratorium, the campaign .or welfare moms, the stress of studies and other diversions in bidding I liked that. And until I catch onto child raising I will continue to subscribe to the theory that the hands that hold the car keys can rule the world! llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli)!il!jj Will Nixon Dig In On Vietnam? r. TV Break For Politics breeds Yorkshire Terriers, worms them, puts a ribbon on their and sells them for $150 a head. (Including leaky plumbing.) I love children; its just that Im Mr'- -. Bombeck about them. r who claims she One mistrusts a mo never loses her temper with children, never tires of their chatter, is never bored playing Pir Goose Run and is never tempted to givu them an occasional belt. If there's airthing America needs less than another credibility gap, it is to become bogged down in another Vietnam. Yet, both risks are being run as a result of our involvement in Laos, strategically situated in the heart of the Southeast Asian peninsula. According to President Nixon, there are no U.S. combat forces in Laos. But that statement doesnt entirely square with persistent press reports from Laos that U.S. per- sonnel are engaged in a clandestine war on behalf of the neutralist government against North Vietnamese - backed rebels. Nor does it entirely square with Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfields claim that U.S. involvement in Laos is growing along with U.S. casualties. The public hearings being held this week by a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the extent of U.S. involvement in Laos should help clear the air in Congress. It also could help clear the air in the country at large if the public were let in on much of what goes on behind the closed doors of the hearing chambers. If the administration were entirely frank with the American people, it would acknowledge not only that the U.S. has been bombing North Vietnamese troops in Laos, but also has been providing combat advisory missions to Laotian troops. In providing combat advisers, the U.S. is doing in Laos what we did in Vietnam before our involvement there escacted. The reluctance of the U.S. to acknowledge its involvement in a clandestine war in Laos stems from the 1962 Geneva Agreement by which the neutrality of Laos was supposed to have been assured. Put since North Vietnam has never lived up to its side of the bargain and is reckoned to have 60,000 men in Laos, the U.S. need not consider itself unilaterally bound by the accord. Indeed, without U.S. help, Laos likely would have already fallen to the Communists. With an aggressive power in control, Laos could be used as a springboard for taking over Thailand. Moreover, Laos has become an extension of the Vietnamese battitfield because Hanoi sends troops through Laos into South Vietnam. Even so, the U.S. needs to guard against getting bogged down in Laos the way we have in Vietnam. A deep U.S. military involvement in Laos would run counter to President Nixons policy that the U.S. would try to avoid serding its forces to meet crises on the Asian mainland. It also would be at odds with the policy of gradual disengagement as evident in U.S. troops withdrawals from Vietnam and Thailand. These policies reflect a sobering lesson the U.S. should have learned in Vietnam: Beyond a certain point, the more deeply the U.S. becomes involved in Southeast Asia, the less incentive there is for our allies there to develop their ability to defend themselves. We also should have learned that one reason the war in Vietnam has become so unpopular is that the White House wasnt entirely frank with the American people. Lets not make the same mistae th Laos. who mine children. (Everyone comes out more Christian that way.) I tell them freedom strong presidential leadership, communicative and flexible, may be the best answer to the tensions in campus life today. He has capped the students turbulence and caught their respect by going with them when their positions were reasonable and balking when they werent. He has thus far managed to channel the revolution. The admiration for Brewster on the Yale campus seems almost phenomenal. Militant Negro seniors boast of his sangfroid in rugged dealings over black studies. Many want to run him for public office. They hope his call for a review of his tenure in 1971 may be the prelude to a political race in 1972. They want to instead of impinging it expand his pov counts himself a liberv, ho Brewstet , al Republican, supplies no clue to his ambitions. He has made no moves, shown no disposition to draw close to President Nixon or to temper the toughmindedness which some criticize as arrogance. He has said little on Vietnam or any public issues that do not relate to the campus. But Yale cannot be blamed for hop-- i .g. It has not produced a president since William Howard Taft. c GUEST CARTOON viHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiinm UNICEF In Action Hopefully, no mother m Utah wall deprive her children of the experience of compassionate service on Halloween night because of Vene Dee Turnbulls letter to the editor (Deseret News, Oct. 20) attacking the program of the United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund. Let our youngsters go about collecting pennies or dollars for UNICEF instead of treats for themselves, assured that hungry and sick children of poor countries will be the beneficiaries. I saw UNICEF milk, vitamins and medicines dis'ributed directly to mothers with infants m their arms and small children tugging at their clothes in Ethiopia, Uganda and Turkey in 1961. There was a requirement. Before receiving, the mothers had to watch demonstrations of child care carried out with simple, practical UNICEF equipment. In Ethiopia, one distribution center was the modest Young Mens Christian Association building. In charge was an American employed by the YMCA. Other infant and child care clinics were conducted in thatched huts, in rural community development centers, in fragile structures in back streets of cities where those poverty-ridde- n who needed them lived. The distributors I saw were native assistants and their supervisors and teachers doctors, nurses, home economists, social workers from the Australia, Israel, U.S., England, Switzerland, Sweden and Belgium. Among them were volunteers; medical missionaries, local public health personnel Nations staff. and members of the UNICEF-Unite- d Many countries and many people care. It is good to have our children know that there is benevolence in this troubled world and that they, also, can be benevolent. -I- MOGENE W. KING 1233 Foothill Di. Becoming A Minority Far from being one of the silent majority, Mr. Felix Jensen (letter to the editor, Oct. 14) is rapidly becoming a member of the minority. Each day it becomes more apparent that tnose who favor this or any war are losing favor. America is finally realizing that the only way to show its concern for those 1,200 (Mr. Jensen's statistics) G I.s imprisoned in Hanoi is not to give them support, but to give them freedom. If it is a sign of retardation to be concerned about living in a world of conflict, famine and violent death, Mr. Jensen has reason to be paranoid: He is surrounded by the lesser gifted population. If Mr. Jensen can laugh at any attempt to end this waste of manpower and men, perhaps he has pointed his finger of suspicion at the wrong ideals. Unfortunately, our policy of foreign involvement dictates that only time will tell. Only time, destruction and death. May we all survive long enough to see how it ends if, indeed, it ever does. --NEAL E. VANCE 193 S. 19th East A Crime To Be Poor? Apparently the Federal Bureau of Investigation considers it a crime to be poor Witness the arrest by the FBI of Maurine Record for flying a homemade flag during the recent Moratorium Day demonstration. The FBI logic is that if you dont have enough money to buy a flag, you are a disloyal American to make one. Typical J. Edgar Hooverite thinking. --WARREN P. KEUFFEL , 621-5t- h Ave. Save Our School Im writing this letter to you not only for myself, but also for 48 other children woo go to Behavior Modification. This is a school for retarded children, and we think its the best in the state, but we dont know how much longer we will have a school. W7e are short about $2,000 a month, and we cant seem to get help anywheie. We only have about two weeks to solve the money problem. If this isnt done, then some of our fire teachers must be let go for attention. again. Right now most of them are working all day and getting about three hours pay. Can you please help us to save our school? Manv bright minds across the nation have been dwelling on the redistribution of university authority because it seemed to be inevitable. Dr. Galiup found that over 80 percent of all students want to be Phlllpstn r ,w am Herald MRS. DARRELL JENSEN 660 S. 8th West |