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Show ' Pollution , there NO end of problems to avoid? poverty , war, radsm-- is DESERET NEWS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SS Opposes Vietnam War Cc. u.iurtcn Or Tre Ur. ed Breuss Having Been D:vir,e!y Insoired cr e a: i r e 2C A EDITORIAL PAGE MONDAY, ihmii stii.ijtiitiu uiiiiimai'i'miihiiiiHttHniuiiiiiii'inhi'niMiiMiimnii'.iiiii; SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH NOVEmSER 17, Lips, ite Mr. Nixon s speech to tr.e atior, the elite: night, the time ha- - ccme mr tae Americas lo-the peonle to face a sitrp'e fait. We are no we vill then ii aa. o is wrt. If the war goe' end up with just another Kotea. iitueed. qa.tp eneitively Mr. Nixon ha- -, ' rut one ?pre."ed tne "gteat. silent mo toruy. - Wat the majority most people d int mmoiny has doing the lighTing. A very sm-tlto d" the fightirg ar.d tl.e dyir.2 wr. Ie tn.e "great, as silent majority back home gos aiUt 1 1V6? iK-hz- l Why Prison Reform Can Be A Bargain ha-ire- s- Usual. How coalj any Arret i an buy a t.ew hou-- e 01 a ti'at lie Ls c.,r or eat a -- teak dtitner -t i the oi alxtut ItJO at such enjuVing Aireiiian live- - a week? Uhtip youte sitting in your ea-- y chair watching your color TA . r.t; American soldier is 'ying on a hn'side bteat'mng his last breath of air. American deaths in Vietnam now total about 40.1-while many thousand mete ate horribly maimed for lire. Ale can't do anything about Tire-- e thc-is y men. they ate lo-- t. but wt earth thousa-ii- mote. killing by If we wete to withdraw all Anittcan Uocus item Vietnam tomurriM. we could wp many of American lives. Tine, jier.vp- - ail of vv ill become Communist. But ot.e Amencaa hie is wotth a tliouand Vietnamese live- -. -- T. J. SK' iLLINGSBEKG 2T"-Lake St, new It is hard'tu believe, with all the strides America has made in juisoii reform, that prisoners anywhere in this country can tliil bo ti eated like wild animals. Or that young boyr, some no more than 14, ate thrown into the sanu- prison farms with vicious and emotionally deranged ft Ions. Or that prisoners are tortured and even murdered by - het-na- Lebanon: Tragedy For U.S.? tem. and he should know. It is precisely this grisly state of affairs that led President Nixon to outline a program the other clay to reform prisons and overhaul correctional procedures. In a directive to Attorney General Mitchell, President Nixon said he proposes to make the federal correction system a prototype for the overhaul of our generally achair slate and local corrections institutions." This page has previously ci iticized correctional institutions that do not coirect. A correctional system in which 10 per cent of those released from confinement are later returned to prison just isnt satisfactory. Many of the reforms proposed by the President are stands id procedure by many progressive prisons such as expanded training programs for correctional personnel, and providing new vocational, educational, and employment opportunities for persons in prison or on parole or probation. But in some other areas, notably psychiatric care for mentally disturbed and vickr.t prisoners, progress has been painfully slow. President Nixon asks that special emphasis be placed on the use of alternatives to traditional institutionaliz- juvenile and women ation for the mentally disturbed, as is new And a he psychiatric study seeking prisoners. and treatment facility to hasten rehabilitation of such prisoners. Also impoitant in the President's proposals is new legislation to revise federal handling of the mentally incompetent who have brushes with the law. For ytais the philosophy that ignorance of the law is no excuse has been a cornet stone of American jurisprudence. But applying it to these who cannot understand the law in the first place is a travesty.-- . No doubt the reforms envisioned by President Nixon will be costly, and alternatives and methods must be carefully weighed to produce the desired result for the least v..oney. But crime also is vastly expensive, and new programs that prove effective can be economical in the long run. 13-poi- nt EVANS and By ROAL.WD I NS! D E REPORT tain Lebanese tt-- polity, but not Lf.j.eion e ha-re- .ii Having iu- emerged from the most serious tttsi- - sirce the L.S. landed ticop- - here in HGS. Lebanon could beinvasion come a Target for of it- - inability to control comniar.-operation- along its border with -i ael. The tenuous agreement between the Lebanese army and commando leader Yasir Arafat worked out by Egyptian President Nasser last week is regarded here - having little more substance than air. Thus the Lebanese government expects an invasion by Israel, he said. ha- - no The record is clear that si ritpie- - about invasion. Furthermore, there - no guarantee that the Lebanese aimy, width acted with murage and control n hurdling the fedaveen commandos tv o wees- - ago. can alway- - be counted on lo fue at lellow Arab- -. As President Helou told -. at my versus a.i ui3, 8 n -t -- o, States." o his first ta.K wim interview with any foreign and reporter Helou spolie with Imtenie-- s about v nat he regard- - as ti e policy of he L'.S. implacable It was, he said, slowly Killing off any chance That traditional U.S. friends in the Arab world can maintain that special relationship. Even if arracks Lebanon arro-- s it- - souther n border, a prospect regarded here a- - no threat, the L'.S. will find some way to blame Lebanon, he s.ud (a conelu-io- n sharply disputed ny .s. A istar.t Secretary of State S', co i. ar In exelu-iv- e u- -. l- ii r- a- nt .b.-c- L -- istari attains me country." ile.ou tnd 'Ail! u tf iir ' . rd: r her fripnd Lebanon bur the E S - no: arraiking intain that .I tl Lebanese people but - attacking instead the fedayeen commardos or attacking the Syrians or attacking a eer- If tf? . - -- ver-arm- v U- q will be verv cion thu! i.u THp i rri ip r is nemi-int- raiHK onH pnihrar. more and more vounjrer Arabs. the uv .crab nationalism. Its target is the territories raptured in the war and its emotional force is the vast seething sea of Pales- - taea of anti-kioni- six-da- v Unsafe Busing hone. T! - idea is infecting an ever huger riPiber of Arab- -. President Helou and vnat pro.f - there that it won't -omedny intent the army itsell? Accordingly. Heioa. a large and witty man vvhn-- e dominant feature - a De Gaulie-ltk- e nose. smells stul greate- - tragedy lust ahead ami the virtual end of all L.S, refugees who u,,r.t i.i r. BEP,T N. iVAK P. BEIRUT. LEBANON Tup rapid rie-- i loraiioi. oi relation- - treiween the U.S. .a i L1mi on. for decades tfp clo-p- -i I'S. freed in the Arab wot id. Led o mtietil a poirt that Lebanese President Charles Helou now predict-I.et to the I lined men "n.ay -- non iin much-neede- d to go I would like to know why tire - .ool who ate paving rax money to chaite'- city buses to children t'i and !. m the various schools, the-- e buses to lie -- chreuied (at.d it ts my Uudet'ta.iuir.g they ;.ie not actually scliedued, tirey tun at random) in such a manner as to allovy o! m to lie delayed in ihre n,otnings due s. to I would ni'O iiae to know are why the-- e bu--. being allow eu. apparently by the school ii leave small children standing cold in tire morning due to lack of -- ciieirilirg. I realize that the City Bus Lines is having but I also realize, a- - a taxpayer, it funos to perform a service it is falling very -- hott in doing. I have also observed, on several occasion.-- , ihe children standing In tire fiont window by the bus driver and not -- eated as they should be. I have seen the buses barely come to a stop and. a' the child's foot hits the bottom step, be on their The same Las been obseived a- - the ch'ri departs from the bus. My tore- - hive cut led on severe! OCl.islOII' fol ti i a iuol WOUhl slip Oh a iaK :tid. tii.,; UC a Iur. and baia.,Ce Woh.u P Is tr.ei? not sum. one we patents caa tat., to 'ran-iKi- i- influence in the .Arab Middle anti-knoc- Other people, in other countries, always seem more "monolithic" than our own peop'? seem to us. Living in the L'.S.. we van easily see the vast divet-it- y of , citizen-- e- di-u- "Within the limitation- - of their policy." he told us. "the L'.S. tries to keep some Arab friend- - to stop from going too far. but those Arab friends of the U.S. may soon be lost to the L'.S. They are becoming suspicious and their own peoples do not like their governments to be friendly with the L'.S. "Your country leave- - a very small margin fur the Arabs to be their we kr-- w that under your policy you cannot at the same time be both for and for the Arabs and your choice ha- - long been clear." Of all the Arab state- - surrounding only Lebanon. Jordan ar.d Saudi Arabia have governments -- till vvantitg triend-lii- p vutn the L'.S. A- - Helou vivdty st te- -. that desire - in deepening i,,n-fiiwith Arab nationalism directed friend-becau- -e . 1 io-- T -- MRS. GALLON V. PIERCE lii.y S. West Temple i- again-- t Israel, universally regained in No Pay For Signs of the the Arab wot Id a- - an exten-io- n United Stares. Thus the L.S. may soon find itself shut out of the entire Arab world. am concerned that the state government making a paymert of Sl.l million to and Snarr advertising to compen-at- a Snare Doug for the removal of bi'.irxiaid advertising along our highvv ays. First. Mr. Snarr is certainly intelligent enough to have seen the risk in put suing a policy of continued highway advertising when public policy was Th-isuch advertising a nui-aconsideting being the case, he certainly should have made adequate personal and business ptepaiations for phas-. ing our this aspect of hi- - busine-.I -, attitudes, - Ru-.-ia- ab-tra- d: a" a- tvar-hatm- g :.-- ist.-. And mere is evety reason to believe that, despite government repre ion. they are as diversified a- - we are. Some fear us, some hate u- -. and some admire us. SAArfi, m -- teiompcr.-i-manufacture- itu ua- H'llltf fUtU UL could go on and on. I think the taxpayers and otner concerned parties should mak their feeling known and th, the government should renounce the use of state or fedeial fund' to pay iur tiie removal of these sign-- . Tire money would be better spent for more justified puilie needs, eg., nredhal assistant e to some of out needy. The stare i.,n't even jiiovnle t lapse netwi' ;t' it -. -- AN Hit NY R. TEMPLE. M P. ifu s; rreo F.,-- r Pies, dent he jn.iSOn-to-p- f i !- mathineiy when the market? Ti e h- from be to removed have they of i- When thfll IMP I.i ri, .pj V I Hri'InT - considered a public nn.-at- re Shottkl lire geveinment jay tire dtug vvh.it - they havp temoved ftom the market? The inconvenience to tiie iocd ard beverage manufacture!-- ? Should we One of the main reasons that enmitie-ar-e perpetuated by governments - their way of wanting us to look at other naso that tions in terms of solid blocks we react to the French" or the "Russian- a- - if they were some unified piece of machinery, instead of a collection cf individuals of varying attitude- -, idea- -, and beliefs, with the -- a. re vague good will ar.d the same nagging tear- - that we have. Met! t ate htrn for - ridiculous. turn.- - for the cyclatnue- 'Oil which was at the time merely aboitive and sentimental: but the phrase is a good and necessary one. tor it we are ever to resolve national diifei-encw ithout armed conflict, it vv ill hav e to come about on a basis, not government to government. movement, Lack History Lessons oi synpa,i " ten hatdly summon up wee tio-for our idealistic youth who have been ignoied i " a:,'1 their parents, propagandized by ltberali-who see no purpose in fighting for other's rigl.'s unie-- s they are minority Americans. These are ycutn who were born after or were too young to the terrible slaughter.! committed by th" Communists of Russia. China and the other sate.-litnations and who have not studied history ot, having studied it. refu-- e to believe the facts. I cannot, however, ascribe much virtue of nescience to men like Senators Moss. Church. Mv G vern and many othrs who have lived thioug: those times of horrible political slaughter to "tut off" the facts and advocate that we pull out : Vietnam "forthwith." They say nothing of the ptob-abl- e Communist milbary takeover and the subs"-queslaughter of countie- -' innocent people who-- " only crime would be a belief in fhp free agency o individuals. tins temb' Then these -- ante men could pa resjion'ibiluy on to th" administration and hopeful-iplat', to reap tire jtoiitKal Irenent ftom tiie upI. tire Yiei.iame-- e vv.r,: coming youlg romn,ur.tsm. let'- - 't thrm moose ti m wide opr i tin tens ..ml not hy nuIk--oftoni ',e ec no i.i.imi.er juliiv BRACKEN' -D- AVAIN'T I e- e- ni person-to-perso- Fitzgeralds Economic Blunder 1 flU. Maybe so. Even the most attractive police uniform can adlv be called preUy. But the uniform dot s have advantage-- , the main being that it is a symbol of authonty. It will bo atln r hard to toiuh the children that twiy n tii m a biaxer is their friend. Soon' ft How in a spoit coat tiirit ting traffic will hardly msonv prompt actum to his he'd s gi.aSs. How coidd the driver know he was directing traffic and not just a pedestrian yyaving to friends? me t estimated was moaned to sytt rret.o nit Ettget aid's post i nit! until I Lean! tne A.r Eorre's side of the soty. ! lave a friend at tne Pentagon said everyone missed the point. I can always see darmg coops arid winning that the ilaytis cannot see: this is not because he is riuiwefy a bitter or mure je retentive placer, but because he !s "t chi'Ct.'- I'.coiv ! ,;i the game and is under no pressure to Will. kio Etc: strategic.- - - ' Nothing is fdSier. cr more perilous, in i.fe than hi an In the wrong way. for the wrong reasons, with feekr.g and a deficiency of understanding; such "love'' always an extension and perversion of self love. e, uea . g w it'-- was to redare ir. Per.; ..got iots ar.d putiiiM'- - supjiosed to stuy lomiacts. see that the military iud.gats ,nt vej'i hatgoil As Inrg as f P did w up vv;!' .,uy 'nregu-..M e w. i ,n; Bit' tre He as ti..- - Vv Vi,; i' t::-- i ivvg ua !f. I f v P 0- - uisioveieu ht- - ug it i "We had to go to great expense having charts trade, position papet- - printed and pres.-- releases nitmeogiapited. We were forced to hire public relations experts to keep the name of the Air Force from being sulked by avvvieldtrg sena- i ; i ie oat v. grass Us M ri ' U" f'tre la -- a Cu FiZget aal IPvevaHd Wr.i tlur.k we should sn :f ii "And Fitzgerald was responsible of it ? e i. " up!'. at ;:e h1 11 on : fii'-iie.- '-. GUEST CARTOON n p Nepi Hurrah For Spiro nt i.'ub're-rouser- tnngue-hisiim- ; for r i Tertamiy he .'.a- -. Had he rot come . tire i'h di'iiosure-the secretary of up defense and the deputy spirrr.tiy wouldn't h.ve had To hare a big auvci'ts-,rt' e ian'.pa,g:t orov.rg t,,e v.ic.e ("i.A. All in all v p e'i.n.,tte tiial witi; r e i Fi've-a- ! niatt hour- - ard other io-i- s, ins; us over a mtih'in doliat' to do. end k ..e plane. So when tire sniort-aie- i we're trying tn save SdS.liMi, o py don't know what they'ie talkif'g aiioiu. vv Le ' r e f i is beionung incie',ngiv evican that tie eiiete corps of impi den 'tub-- " ot winch Yu " President Agnevv -- jreak' -- i hat'hly aie in lavur of the right to dt ent tidy win they agree :rh fie c mot among t! or per-ot- i' per-o- n dissenting. Sen. itigs IVouk. ", orps" slii h l'i:mi.mes McGovern. Siott ;c.d ot'rei- - ut th.it ilk in It"'", partie- - who feil it their duty to t ike Mr. Agnew to t.i'k fur hts tecem ot the (not to lie confuse,-- v. n'i leg'. mate jieate seeker-- ) who seem to find -- u. i gie.,t de!:g!:t m undermining our tepuiiLc i Tiie vn p:esi ie"i has g. i i.., to siie.ik las i ,,n, ,, tun s tn diss".-yen will, against t!e uig.ir pn pononN of :ip,c.,s' nietit ard ariaiihy !' Uumg so. he j.uhlii tv .c i v. it h mu, h f.oi jii.i , a.v e' s Ti" i rhr js If t e uv e- it 1 "The entire deter.se budget was in jeopardy, and we had to spend thousands of dollars lobbying on the Hill. It was a s il at "Fitzgerald meant well, but !e jii't didn't unrrerstar.d Iiow cosily hs disch'-Mtte- s would be. He didn't see the lug picture. 1'e didn't understand that with the At Forte, a- - with all the military set-vps. it's much more expensive to detprd a mist.,ke ycu matie man to let the mi'takp go by unnoticed " "It's obvious from what you've told nre. I sa,d. "that he didn't have the taxinterests at h.eatt " payer-' "We hope tt notitng eLe that tht- - will be a lesson to our other cost managt-me(eopie." tors;. jue--su- st "I don't that." I frightening experience for everyone. in.-- "V ell. hts j ib a l"Vt ? vino "We didn't eliminate Fitzgeralds job to sue SJS.900. he said. "We eliminated t..e yob lei a use Ft'zgerald wa- - costing u m.lliors " "Low s "We had to take five get.eia'.- - a- - well - hundred- - of eivilM"- - off or,:er proj- ect:' to develop testimony justifying the S2 billion overt un. We had to fly up Lockheed execut.ves frem Marietta. Ga.. for lotuerenre- - on the best way of explaining the added oo'is. 1 t i i Hospitals should screen visitors not by the degree of consanguinity to the patients but by the temperaments of those the visitors: arid both extremes should be forbidden who are idiotically cheerful and those who are irritatingly melancholy m a sickroom. a- Ei'z-gernl- V . . . t';e piatte would be $2 Lilhon mote than originally anticipated, tl.e Air Force had to go inm i.igh gear to derend its procurement methods. ear job The week. said it Pentagon w a eliminating t li e a- an position ecormrev nie.i-u- te ar.d nor in retaliation bereu-- e 'old Toneless tap plane would test $J hd-an me Lo kheed Cotp. had SkVVO-a-- y l.st e Getfttig rid o: Fitzgerald's job saved the American taxpayer a million dollar?.' ART BUCHWALD A. Ernest FitzgerWASHINGTON on the overrald. who blew the whi-tl- e un- mr tie An Ferre's C5A airplane. ua- - tired from ins y -- n t n: tne U.S., Germany what it has in common - a and Rus-i- a. ha id refusal to bo manipulated by the people in power. ditterently it.-e-lf t- e Until recently policemen could be clearly identified by the uniform they wore. Only detectives and special officers wore w hat is known as "plain clothes. or a business suit. Now theie is a quiet movement in this country- to dress the iHiliee in uniforms that don't look like police uniforms. Several police departments on the West Coast have put their patrolmen in blazers yvith slacks, white shirt and tie. The only symbol of authority is a crest-likaffair embroidered on the breast pocket. Results, according to one police chief, have bier. greed. lie says the people in his small community have commented trivorably on the idea and much prefer the new d;ess to the A habit- paoi-ti.-ti- ideas and beliefs, it would be hard, if not to define the American." impos-ibi- f. Yet we ascribe to other peoples a uniformity we know does not exist among our own. We speak of the Briti-- h or rthe French" or the as if they were some huge robot with interchangeable pail.- -. This is one of the great danger- - in what the social psychologist- - call "ido Theie is no -- u h entity - "Rr-.-im the there ate Kuioii v and fautiuns, and and workers, and outh, Ihhpju. intcilei tuals. and farmers, and scient- Keep The Uniforms Afterthoughts their in Some are belligerent, and some ate Moreover, the Establishment figure- itt Russia are going to have a- - hard a tune keeping their young people in line a- - we are no matter how much having "Party discipline is exercised at trie top. No government or system has ever conformibeen able to clamp a cast-iroty on its people in the face of changing times and need- -. In point of fact, the more tightly any regime trie- - to apply such a clamp, the more severe and prolonged becomes the reaction. Hitler indoctrinated a whole generation of Herman youth into milita-iisbut young people and chauvinism ill Geioicitn today are aiuoiig the r.iGSt international-mindein and tiie world. This - fiecause Germany lost the war. ymi might say. but we won the war, and our youth are repudiating ail the old shibboleths j"'t as vehemently. There - a new spirit abroad, and while it may manifest bu-e- g E.i-- t. Bv SYDNEY J. HARRIS When a motorist drives into a gas station and tells the attendant to fill her up, hes entitled to know exactly what hes getting. What he's getting all too often is confusion at the pump. An average of 29 different brands of gasoline are being sold in every state. In some states the number of brands goes as high as 47. Each brand has its own particular make-u- p in k qualities, hydrocarbon cuts, additives, and the like. As a result, there are places where gasoline sold as regular has a lower octane rating than the average acceptable range of brands sold by that description. Moreover, many motorists buy premium gasoline at premium prices even though their cars would run just as well on regular gas. A yeat ago Consumers Union suggested that gas stations post octane ratings on their pumps to help the car owner do a better job of deciding what his car needs. Now the Federal Trade Commission is considering a federal regulation to accomplish just that. The motorist ought to be able to shop for octanes, which means the gasoline industry- - should stop confusing him and start informing him. tt ate aliuvving The Dangers Of 'Block Thinking' Post Those Octanes on-dut- lo-- r tlteu--ar.- this year by a former superintendent of Arkansas state prisons in testimony before a Senate subcommittee about the Arkansas sys- v.-- o- ju-ul- their guards and other inmates. Yet all these charges were made eailier kno-ur.- jito-;)e:i- ty |