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Show 'Help, I'm Bleeding To Death DESERET NEWS Enf.lA BOf.IBECK SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH vVe A Nut For Antiques Srcnd For The Constitution Of The United Stctes Having Been Divinely Inspired As '6 A EDiTORiAL PAGE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER My husband and I are antique buffs. Anything that looks older than either cf us. we buy. We figure in two or turee i t'i 1 be priceless. One of the lures of collecting is the story that accompanies an item. 4, 1969 years, Let's Give Nixon Plan A Chance To Work have a sliver of wood framed over our mantel that is either (a) a chip from George Washingtons false teeth or (b) a toothpick used by John Wayne in his lat movie. The dealer wasn't sure. We ha e a buggy owned by a little old lady from Hyde Park who drove it only on Sundays and a slop jar that helped conquer the We Although President Nixon's address on Vietnam Monday lyht contained few surprises and no policy changes, it was stili an important talk that needed to be made. By manner as well as word, he left no reasonable doubt that his desire to extrirate the U.S. from Vietnam without y cpaidizing our own interests or that of our allies is real and sincere. r Old West. In directing his remarks to the "great, silent majority of d realization that Americans, he reflected the Hanoi is fighting on three battlefronts Vietnam, Pans and American public opinion. Moreover, from all that Mr. Nixon said Monday night it should be clear that the "secret plan which he announced during the election campaign for ending the war is simply the Vietnamization of the conflict. a A specific schedule for disengagement had been urged on the President in recent weeks on the grounds that it would strengthen his plea for public patience and support at home while exerting pressure on Saigon to do more for itself. But a withdrawal timetable drawn liberally enough to satisfy criiies at home could undermine the confidence and stability of the government in Saigon. If drawn cautiously enough to satisfy Saigon, a specific timetable might only provoke critics within the U.S. President Nixon is trying to win through incentives and diplomacy some of the objectives the U.S. failed to win on the battlefield He should be given a fair chance to put his program to the test. Keep Airways Safe By the time a pilot in a jet sees another on a collision course, it may be too late to take evasive jet action. This is the nightmare that air traffic controllers and others who supervise the nations airways must struggle with in the jet age. And with the era of the jumbo jet ready to open, air tragedy is assumirg larger proportions. Thus the hearings by the National Transportation Safety Board opening today take on added meaning. Some experts expect the already heavy air traffic to triple by 1980. And its readily apparent a whole new generation of safety equipment and air controllers must be developed to meet this demand. New navigational aids will help to solve part of this problem. but by no means all of it. A new collision avoidance system (CAS), for instance, is now being tested that will compute a collision course with another aircraft and tell the pilot how to avoid it. These systems, however, can be only partially successful. Because of their high cost, they can be installed only on the bigger planes. The cost factor makes them impractical for smaller planes, since one such system could well exceed the price of the airplane. Since the largest number of inflight collisions occur within 10 miles of the airport, the Federal Aviation Administration is planning to set up air corridors around most airports for planes entering and leaving. There is an urgent need, too. for more traffic controllers to handle the increasing load. The growing demand on air controllers, many of whom must work six days a week even week in facilities that are dilapidated and inadequate, points up part of the safety problem. The FAA plans to hire 2,800 more in fiscal 1970. As the U.S strives to fly mote passengers further and f stii. the mote emphasis should be placed on getting them there saieiy. With all that Cedar City City has to offer, its a shame that town recently lost a convention because the company involved decided to find a cleaner community." But m the long tun Cedar City could gain if it comes to see itself as others sometimes see it. and acts accordingly. Moreover, while Cedar City has been singled out for attention, there are other Utah communities with worse eyesores, and we all should learn from this experience. Residents of Kentucky once thought they had done just about all they could to attract tourists. But the year after their first massive cleanup campaign they found visitors spending S7 million more than the year before. Maryland, West Virginia and many other states report similar economic benefits from cleanup campaigns. Contrary to popular opinion, smaller communities must v. iik ha:der to keep a clean appearance. The latest Litter ut out by the Ulass Container Manufacturers F.ct Bc-Assn. iyi us otic- puli to the effect that, "people living in small n mnv : rruu : hen t.;e.r city and subuiban ' eousu,.-- . It al.--u of both city and small towns more litter than tourists." As Cedar City has shown, no community can afford to leave yards full of weeds, or gutters full of litter for visitors to see. K is a hula hoop. It belonged to old Ohio pioneer called Fern-t- et Pingo in the late 1930'-.- " That an What's it for?" Well, back in those days people had nothing to do but sit around and watch television and dream about the moon. In the evenings, they'd gather in a circle. The Spiteful Hobbling Of Defense Re.-.de- f eri think the dealer from Betnel h,J one over in his exhibit." "I y. Did you see this? It's a real primitive. A can opener. This even You just insert this around the flip-tothe rim of a can and w ind in a clockwise direction." "What's a can? They're hard to come by. Ah, I see you've purchased tvo popsicle stick. Hang onto those. In a year or so they'll deodorant bring more than the roll-ocontainers. "Would you like to see a contact lens? pre-dat- p. . ( n I paid Sl.OGO for it. It's the right eye of either Fannie Flagg or Wanda Hendrix. No. it's not for sale. I have one of those rare editions you might be interested in. This is the collected wit and humor of Richard M. Nixon. Say, Low about an antique snow tire? They make adorable planters. tiiuiiimnmimiimmmmiumtintniiiiuiHHmmnfuitHmimimitniumiiimiMn LETTERS TO THE EDITOR iiiiminiiimnim!iiiiiiimnniinini!iiininim!iiiiiinin'nii!in!i!iiiis!iiiii!iiii)n:i THE DRUMMONDS By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND WASHINGTON America's first line of defense scientific research is in peril. It is in peril by the spiteful, political-minde- d provision of the arms procurement bill demanded by Repu L. Mendel and tire Armed Service;, Rivers Committee which he heads. The gimmick Chairman Rivers tucked into the appropriation requires the Defense Department to notify Congress 60 days before awarding any contract to any university. to any university scientist or to ar.v research certer connected with any uniresearch-and-developme- nt versity. It is bad in purpose, worse in its potential consequences and pernicious. Unless this provision is killed in Conit will and there is still time gress become a malignant part of the law. hamstring vital defense research and poison the relations between the universities and the federal government. Chairman Rivers has been carefully vague about what he wants by having award none cf these the Pentagon research contracts without a advance notice. He was asked, when he was managing the bill on the floor of the House of Representatives. what he wanted to do with the information lie was requiring the Defense Department to supply. "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, was all he would say. This should be warning enough to responsible senators and congressmen that there's something funny going on. Some- two-mont- h G. Drummond R. Drummond body should call a halt before it's too because being too late could put a late dangerous, unworkable and unnecessary halter on the quality of research so crucial to national defense. The clue to what Rivers is actually getting at is that he is asking for far more than simple to Congress of intent to award a research contract to a particular university or member of that university. The Defense Department is to detail how the university has dealt with its ROTC program and what has happened when military recruiters have been on campus. And more, it is instructed to accompany any projected research contract with a statement as to attitudes" on the part and record of of the university. Whats wrong with this kind of thing? Heres what is wrong: 1 The effect would be to deny to the Defense Department the use of some of HARRIS By United Press International It would be a foolish exaggeration to say that the American motion picture has come c? age; more accurate to say that it is growing up from infancy to puberty. Adulthood is still quite a way off. But all the encouraging signs are here, if the two films I saw last month mark the growth period 1 think they do. There were The Midnight Cowboy" and Medium Cool " different in completely Although theme and approach, both compel our attention. interest and repxit for much the same reasons. They deal with real people (unlike most American films of the past) ; they forgo false naturalism for the sake of a deeper realism; and they know that motion photography i rot just a series of stills in rapid succession. In both there pictures, the camera is fully in charge, or its own specific terms. A movie - rot a novel that is photographed, or a play that i reproduced; it ratier, it own art form, with its own rules and laws, its own sense of spatial and temporal relationships. And the moving camera can give u- -a view of life rot possible in any other i. art legitimate dissent and academic free- dom. If Congress Wants Washitgton to take over some of the running of the uniwhich most congressmen and versities President NLxon avow it it should do so openly, not shouldn't surreptitiously and with such great harm to defense. Chairman Rivers and his supporter simply haven't thought through what they have succeeded in putting into the House version of the arms procurement bill. It will inflame campus dissent, not Any campus radical help to solve would need to do no more than pin Section 402 (the Rivers thing) to a dozen placards and shout with telling effect: We told you so! Take federal money for research and you get political control by Congress. it Reactions To Nixon Talk Are Growing Up J. This hobbling provision will do exactly the opposite its sponsors want. It won't punish the militant, antiwar students. It will punish the Defense Department by giving the radical militants on campus the veto over their university's research contracts. AH they have to do i turn on a demonstraton and the Pentagon will have to turn away from the scientists who can do it the most good. 3 The whole thing egregiousiv violates the constitutional separation of powers by making Congress a negotiating participant in the Executive Branch. 4 It is a careless, heedless threat to EDITORIAL OPINION Motion Pictures By SYDNEY the best scientific minds in the nation. Know that the Rivers provision warns not only against contracting with the university on whose campus recruiters have had trouble with students, but also against any scientist affiliated wrth any university which has had such difficulty. 2 .) form. "The Midnight Cowboy and "Medium Cool demonstrate this uniqueness with charm and power. The camera moves, as it will, between past and present and future, m a series of quantum jumps: and between external reality and inner fantasy, so that we are never quite sure what i out there and what exists on!v n me mro- - of the characters - ,. , ak. high-densi- ty Cedar City's Lesson over their bodies and rotate I understand this particular survived SCO garage sales. a garage?" asks the custom- I dont know whether the stories are true or not, but I feel cheated when I buy something without one. In an advancing society where todays children dont know what a piece of coal or an ice pick is. it is interesting to imagine what dealers will tell antique collectors a hundred years from now. 'Could you please tell me what th.s tiling is?" a prospective customer will much-neede- Diplomatically, this is meant to increase the possibility of negotiated peace settlement by dangling before the Communists the prospect of a stable South Vietnam capable of fighting its own war within a few years. Militarily and politically. Vietnamization Is designed to give the U.S. an out" even if the enemy continues to refuse to negotiate a settlement. Under this program, U.S. troops can continue to be withdrawn as the South Vietnamese become more capable of defending themselves. But m pui suing this policy the President has to walk a rarrow line because the more persuasive he is in satisfying critics at home, the greater is the risk of raising Hanoi's hopes for unilateral concessions. Thats why Mr. Ninon was wise in rejecting a fixed deadline or timetable for U.S. withdrawal. sling these their hips. hula hoop "What's Th.s -. of course, 'iupi to Ide in re. -. plodding renal qu di'y oi convei t'Ca: films, which move heavily from caii-to effect and from present to future. We live in three kinds oi time, not one: our remembrance of things past and our hopes or fears of the future combine to afec our present actions and attitude. tre e to reaction Editorial Nixon's Vietnam speech: President The New York Times: "President Nixon disappointed the nation's hope for a reordering of American priorities with a plan for peace that appears rather He to be a formula for continued war proposed no new American initiative . . . preferring instead to reiterate the American position in terms reminiscent of those used by President Johnson and Secretary (Dean) Rusk. The President in effect committed this nation to defend the present government of South Vietnam until it can defend itself. This is at best a remote prospect judging by the record of the past 15 years. ... Geveland Plain Dealer: No one who listened to Mr. Nixon's speech could fail to realize his intent to withdraw- Ameri-i.i- r. combat troops from Vietnam. The arguments will concern the length of time he takes to do it. Now the President should make every effort to adhere to his private timetable. It is true that it should be flexible. But the United States' goal should be to Vietnamize the war as quickly as possible so that not a single American ground combat soldier is left in Vietnam. The Minneapolis Tribune: "In appealing to the American people for their trust as he seeks a way out of Vietnam. President Nixon did little last night to dispel the doubts many Americans have about the war What Mr. Nixon did not do. l.Gaivei. uas to level w.th tie people on how Fi g America'' military involvement ,n Vietnam would continue after combat ti'iops return home What Mi. Xuoe also did r.ot da wa to explain why the Souh Vietnamese, lifter 15 year of American assistance and nearly 40,000 American battle deaths, still seem so far away from taking on the burden of the war that American troops cant be brought home more rapidly now. Boston Herald Traveler, in a rare front page editorial: "President Nixon last night offered the United States the leadership which Americans elected him to provide. There can be no question but that the nation will respond with the strength and support Mr. Nixon clearly needs and merits. Newark (X.J.) . . . Tne course Mr. Nixon has chosen is to shirt the burden to the South Vietnamese . . . Perhaps Mr. Nixon feels he has no ofher "honorable course, but the regime in Saigon appears to be a flimsy reed on which to rest the future of the U.S. Star-Ledge- Speaking Of Doctors When someone attempts to inform knows little about. I record straight. He . . . Kenneth J. Hoffman the public on a subject he think someone needs to set the says most doctors he knows learned their trade in schools at a cost of 30 percent less to the student. t helped a doctor tnrough medical school at in Washington, George Washington University D.C.. and if the tuition we dug up was only 30 per cent, it should be one of the richest schools in the world, vhat he received while working was earned while Kenneth J. Hoffman slept. I'll bet. Mr. Hoffman says no one need apologize for protesting the high cost of doctors services. Experience tells me that doctors would be happy indeed if protest was all some patients did; some never intend to pay for doctors services until sued. As for the welfare patients, I know a doctor who has worked on a good many welfare patients all summer and his bill amounts to thousands of dollars. Doctors fees for welfare patients, in most cases, are less than regular fees. When he asks for his money he is told to be patient because the Welfare Office has its troubles, too. Bv the way. would it not be something if doctors answ ere their calls for service with the same nthusiasm that some people pay their speed docto. . HYRl'M GIBBONS Logan like Man And His Machine CHrut.aa Scnc Mont'ef- I c 5 V t b c a r c i r a a I Ti n h t c Vocational Classes On a recent vsit to the Cache Area Vocational School at Smithfield, I saw approximately 50 people cf all ages and from all walks of life totally engrossed in what they were doing. It was immediately evident that these people were studying in earnest They were working in the areas of air conbusiness and electronics, ditioning, mechanics, building. This area vocational center stands ready to teach classes in any subject or skill desired by the people in the area. We have facilities in all parts of tne county and will even teach classes in your home if you can get 10 people to sign up. We encourage businesses to organize classes for their employees or women's clubs to organize to study philosophy or anything in between those two areas. When you decide that you or your associates or your employees have a need for some kind of training. remember that Cache Area School stands ready to organize and offer the instruction. Call the principaL His number is --C. BRYCE DRAPER Superintendent, Cache County School District 563-626- Adult ti t: s t IF P H P a u Drop-O- ut .1 L We aciults sometimes wonder why young persons are against the establishment. There is a partial answer to this question. A recent event brought this vividly to my attention on Oct. 30. Explorer Post 113 in Bountiful decided to organize and sponsor a meet your candidate rally. The boys had over 4,000 flyers printed up by a professional printer and the flyers were placed in all local grocery stores for "stuffere. The Explorers spent two evenings out in the cold weather passing The press was notified the handbills and it was announced on two radio stations. This event was to take place at 8 p.m. on the 30 It. At 8 p.m., the candidates were ready for the meeting to start, but there was only a handiu! of most of whom were either parents of the people boys or members of the sponsoring institution of Post 113. There was no one present representing the press. The boys had put mum effort into preparing for this occasion as a civic project. Needless to say, they were very disappointed with the lade of support and interest in the rally. If the press had been notified that Explorer Tot 113 decided to protest the war by marching down Main Street in Bountiful, in all probability the pres would have their news wagon on the scene and there would he 4 ffiO prospective voters as spectators. How do ve. as adults and supposedly leaders of the community, expect the youth to respect us if we do not show by example our thankfulness for lieing able to live in a free country and being allowed a free choire of our elected officials? -- BRENT H FROST door-to-doo- r. GUEST CARTOON t Euntiful V ! r & |