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Show DESERET NEWS Say If With T Hanks-Livin- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ve S'Qpd irunon Of Tne United Stales As Having Eeen Divire! Insuired Sa For Tre Cc. EDITORIAL PAGE cun filAEi g! Turkey Day s WEDNESDAY, Original Site Bj HARRY JO.NEb The new US. policy on chemical and biological weapons, announced this wcfk by President Nixon, was a step toward ending an insane world arms race in such weapons. Piesident Nixon .said that America will never be first to use lethal chemical weapons or incapacitating chemicals, and that m the future the U S would confine its biological waifate lesearch to defensive measures such as immunization and safety. It will, moreover, renounce the use of lethal biological agents and weapons and all other methods of biological warfare and seek immediate i ecommendations on disposal of existing stocks of such weapons Underscoring his sincerity in the matter, Mr. Nixon said he will submit the 1925 Geneva Pietoeol to the Senate for ratification. The Protocol prohibits the first use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases and bacteriological methods of war fare. Though the U S. has never formally ratified the Protocol, it has, nonetheless, supported its principles and objectives for manv years The new policy can be traced back to the death of several thousand sheep in Mairh 1968 following the accidental elease of nerve gas after a test at Dugway Proving Ground. This episode touched off a .searching reappraisal of America's CBW program Adinittedlj. the dianiauc l ever sal of CB weapomy will not be undertaken without some risks But can these risks be more serious than those presented by an endless sophistication and accumulation of such weaponry the woild over? Already the power of CB weapons is almost beyond comprehension. For example, scientists early this year estimated that the U.S has enc gh of one type of nerve gas alone to wipe out the entire world population more than 30 times. has pointed out, despite And, as Rep. Robert L. Sikes, the enormous capabilities of Americas CB arms, the effectiveness of those developed by the Russians is seven to eight times greater. Wisely, President Nixon didnt ignore the need for o Americans, emphasizing that the U.S. has no intention of becoming another nation's victim of CB warfare Neither our association with the convention, nor the hunting of our program research will leave us vulnerable to surprise by an enemy who does not observe these rational restraints. U.S. intelligence, the President warned, will continue to watch carefully the nature and extent of the biological programs of others. Continued surveillance, as Mr. Nixon must have assumed is necessary not only to prevent iolations among Protocol ratifiers, but also to assure that no small and aspiring nation, incapable of having costly atomic armaments, chooses to make itself a sudden world power by amassing an armory of cheaply produceable CB weapons. But by taking the stand he has. Mi. Nixon not only a great fear on the home front of lethal accidents in the production, transpoitation and storage of such agents, but also has contributed immeasurably to an atmosphere of peace and understanding throughout the world. Yoi re pj't not gomg to believe ttu- -. that even one is pianmug to celebrate tne Pilgrim Thanksgiving bn. Congressman On the eve much-neede- d r D-Fl- In Military's Defense In all the current criticism of Americas aimed forces, one fact needs to be kept firmly in mind: The military has and is doing a very creditable job in its worldwide commitments. That is no small feat, either. For never have American forces been called upon for such tasks m attempting to pi eserve w oi Id order. Thus when a US lieutenant in Vietnam is accused m the slaying of 109 civihans When eight Green Berets aie accused of murdering a g piu-poit- double agent; When a submarine sinks at its mootings because of a while being outfitted: when master seigeants aie gtof-ufor shady dealings in post exchange operations; when a general is found guilty of accepting rifles and shotguns for personal use and sale under false pretenses, rt is cause for alarm but not for blanket mdietments of the p court-martiale- ' At The Old NOVEMBER 26, 1969 U.S Sets Example In Ending CB Race far-flun- JONES d mrli-tar- y. Laurence Burton comes up with the Berkelej Plantation. Tarry bkes to get back home to Ltah for celeThanksgiving, but can't this jear. So he will Plantation, dinner with Berkelej a' brate the day it's the site ot America's first and get this Thanksgiving. It seems, accoidirg o Liny, tnat the Berketwo ley Plantation folks celebrated Thanksgiving their with came the up before Pilgrims years three-da- y speaking. dining and Berkeley Plantation is up the James River from Jamestown and was the site of the first Thanksgiving 350 years ago, savs Lany. after-dinn- It wasn't a smorgasbord type celebration, but was a brief religious ore. There were 38 colonists and the Thanksgiving day was to be a yearly affair kept hoh. But the colony and the celebration got wiped cut when the Indians did a dress reheareal for the Battle of Bull Run and Col Custer. Onl" a 14 j ear-ol- d boy survi.ed The idea of Thanksgiving isn't by any means an American m"ention. Mr. Burton tells me Now I guess the Russians will claim that it was invented somewhere in their country. I imagine there are some people m Russia who have something to be Thankful about Thanksgiving celebrations were obrerved In China three or four thousand years ago probably pressed duck and rice stuffing. The Romans worshipped a gal called Ceres. She was the goddess of the harvest. Each year the Romans celebrated the harvest. Tre had great feasts . . . grapps and the whole bit There There's plenty to be thankful for, this family agrees parents Ross and Margene McDonald down at tne Colossewas usually a double-heade- r um. and children Kaylene, Kathy, and Gordon In Norway, Thanksgiving falls on the Monday of the week in whicn November 11 falls And they around the w orld. Mavbe you feel you havent ten. much to live it up be thankful for this y ear when The Lithuanians celebrate Nubaigai find Belief in most people everywhere, vho know don't I is done. work exactly the harvest V.hat with the war. the riots, the corruption happiness m kindness, reward m helping and I don't know how to pronounce what do, they of the others. in high places, couth, thoughtlessness it the Hippie protests, the moral decline . . . Belief in jour own community, the beauty But tiiev kick up their Ireels. and taxes, taxes, taxes. tnat surrounds vou. the pride that But membets of the chamber of eommeice at the xurreliree Bui, take another look progress toward better living for all. there apparently have put the celebration back have You clouds. set vou the the the m belief still And ourself, example dispelling on the Thanksgiving calender and cater to a lot for others, the confidence you show in greatest gift of all to be thankful for. of famished people. You still have belief . . . Tomorrow, the rich inner Me you find In But thats not all. Another thing jou might not Faith. Belief in God. who created the light, so you know about is that old bird you are going to could see the wrong and do something Yes, the good still overpowers the bad in gobble tomorrow. Fe is a domestic turkey deworld of ours. You can this wonder-filleabout it. scended from a variety tnat lived south of the at jour give thanks . . . with Thanks-Livmg- , down Mexico way. border holds toich which the still Behef in America, church and in jour home this week. The of freedom high and carries it proudly tuikey was herded and domesticated by the Indians long before white men set foot on North America. When Juan Grijalva discovered Mexico in 1518 he found tame turkeys in great numbers owned by the Aztecs. So maybe historiahs are wrong about tire Pilgrim fathers going out on a turkey shoot. Maybe they were skunked and did what a lot of fishermen do now. They may have bought the fowl from an Indian who peddled such goodies. Turkeys back in thore days were all the regular tuikey colors . . . browns, reds blacks But T. e Bu-lThank jou for good food, kittens and Thank jou for everything jou made teachev that little children taieful and breeding turkey thiough for me. tor I LLe them verj much. ciien have a peual rapport wuh God. mv trienQs re have developed a white turkey. Thank jou for the birds and fish, for me, I am tharkful for ice cream music, Ceitumly tlere is a 'implicit and And the big reason is the pm feathers do not about their cats, dogs, daj, night, trees, flowers, and the earth stiaight - forwardness look so bad because they are white. Other than Thank jou for everything I have like alive, sun and ram prajers from which most adults could bem.,Thark that, the taste is about the same And a white turmy biejele, brother and medicine learn a lot jou for this daj key has lots of dark meat I am thankful for all my tojs, for Thank you for all the children in our Here is a Thanksgiving prajer comUtah is up among the leaders in tuikey proswimming, leaves and fall. I am so glad and Sunday school, for communion, posed by third grade children in the Sunduction to be here. , . . around 11th breakfast and apples and cheese. dae School of St John's Episcopal Thank jou so much for the thirgs Growers have not only developed a white turThank you for pretty colors and Church Bethesda. Md Them teacher, key, but a broad breasted bird that can be sent JuLe Morris, wisely reframed from add- jou gave me I am glad for what I have. paintings and music and friends and dinI have so many things to play with and I ners g to market when only three months old and we sure adult but made touches, together. ing any seven around ti at each child s special contribution was will share with others. pounds We thank God for all things that we Thank jou for our hands, five sensim mded And on the other hand, there is a trend to delove, all our celebrations and all anies. our minds and all the wonderful If jou're looking for a mals. Thank you for our relatives. velop monsters. Breeders foresee the day when prajer of things of life to at read e We thankful for familj turkeys will grow to 50, 75. 100 pounds. Thiik'giung nature and are jour Thark j'ou for Thanksgiving, O table Thursdaj, jou are no' likely to fmd thank and moonlight and most of all Breeders aie also looking to the day when turjou that is more s.ntere and key steaks, turkey chops and roasts will appear Thank jou for the monej to buj the love than this ore: .on America's tables tne year around turkej, thank jou for my hands and legs, Dear God, mv mind and the sun and the rain to Perhaps one adult porscript may be But no turkey chop o sreak will ever replace Thank jou for school, lovirg care, make to flowers grow. permitted. a whole bird roasted succulently on ThanksgivI thank God for hamsters and sisThank God for little children, and for church, and for clothing, for mother ard ing Day. father. ters Sunday school teachers like Julie Morris. And have a good one! ... ... as d A Child's Prayer For Thanksgiving -- cn gn-m- Whrle such incidents are deplorable, nevertheless they should be balanced against the great good accomplished by the services as a whole. Just as in civilian life it's the rioters who grab the headlines, in the service it's the manipulator, the murderer and the unpnncipled who make the news Little is said, for instance, of the GIs who built a hospital and school for the South Vietnamese at their own expense. Or of the thousands of GIs everywhere who share their rations with and even adopt the starving war orphans. these are not the polCorruption, murder, inefficiency icies of the military. And the feelings aroused by such incidents could cause incalculable harm to this country 's preparedness unless the are put mto context something a Congressional investigation wisely pursued could anti-militar- sun-shir- c down-to-eait- h y Wit's End Followers Of The Sfar Of Trufh well do. Tt re column re beirg written at 35 Hf) eei u lie living over tne desert between Teran and Baghdad it was across tbpre Share The Bounty mrerminable sand' There aie several was of doing t!v- - from opening homes to bofh the mug and old who hue no f. lends or relatives to le v ith. to umtibut ng to such oig ,t at.ons as the Save the Childten FeJeiat'on, Norwalk, Conn. The Fede.ation wdl be helping to pronde Thanksgiving d.nneis and other meals to many needy Americans, as well as distributing aid to the poor of developing countries who hate revtr known anvthirg like traditional American p Thanksgiving food. In its community prog: am, the Federation has more than 17.000 sponsorships m effect m America and in nearly a dozen other countries. child-famil- y -- f that the Wise Thanksgiving will not be a least of stuffed and tnmmir.gs for even one, mote fortunate Utahns tuikey thi3 year should make the holiday a time for sharing as well as a dav for peisonal enjoyment Because self-hel- followed a 'tar to Bethlehem in the long ago. Men There w ere tiuth seekers tlen, i. rare part of the w ond. and 9 c e . i re trii n uv reekei an eia ah'1!', w Ip i ac i nal 'tine a - of I t in tne inner life will we finally attain the ability to love, the universal only ,, ''7 1 J L4! gV - t f yh I Sk, I principle We then entered upon a discussion of the principles and practice of meditation in which self might be bypassed and outgoing lore for men be realized Fmal-l- v I asked hum his religion and found he v a Hindu Yith a plea'am snrv-mure tie realization that a Hindu and a Christian were m accord, brothers of the spun, common seekers after truth It sometimes seems that in the Western world, particularly m America, an activistic type of religious approach is emphasized. Social servee, which of course is of vital importance, would appear to be the prevailing religious manifestation of our time. But the ancient springs of motivation which originally gave rree to the religions of the Uef ere stldom in evidence Eut in the Kc Ri' cd As. a thoughts! men of t a v n.d are exploring 'trece, 1. ii e or a - cove, y m i re rot i i v c people m the n a" hut inr burner being-- - as individual' H Bombay I adures-p- d tie Rotaiv Club, which is composed of Fading business and professional men of the great city on the Arab.an Sea. Subsequent pub jr hatred, there are high minded men of all religion' and in all land' who are seeking mrer peace, love and brotherhood. Thev are followers of tre star of truth. I had some curious and deeply rrov-ir- g experiences m India which orders 're this quest for truth. The first was w ,n hr.sk modern lc'k'"g reporter for a New IMh rev'prper He 'marked o' 'op.i ' i tcx M i'n Ac cue n vie of ' 1 B such action, Utahns will rut or iv be kttmg othe s know the joy of plenty , but will be adexeicising the age-ol- d vice that giving is more blessed than receiving. iuh. Trough meditanon I i "pe to fine e"encp, the true meaning of lire Up must divest ourselves of all unclean and unclear dunking, he declared, for i ir- - k . f i NORMAN V. PEALE 'r lr-p- - licity brought an avalanche of telephore cal' fiom men wanting a personal interview. Not having time for so many, we conceived the idea of having all come at one time and meet in a pm ate parlor of the hotel. The room w as packed. I a'ked each man to state his name and business connections. They proved to be manufacturers. industrialists, lawyers, professors, a group truly representative of the Indian leaderh.p of the city. Finally the conversation got away from amenities to the basic interest of there men The question was how to find life, how to improve the world, how to raise human standards. By common consensus the answer agreed upon was love But it was pointed out that love could grow only in an inner spirit where self was minimized. Tins chance meeting in With Thanksgiving and the Christmas bumpi lg. tomorrow iirst try thanking, and then do some giving GUEST CARTOON Bombay turned out to be one of tne deepest spiritual moments of my for torieptn tf common thought that tused ire into erre ru- - hro herhond d to nre ii oi i .v o , k the religion i f e e u r t i (i! croup Ml i lit two were p,u- - s ot Hi i uu'. Tlere two vveie the onh (irretiiis and thre However, prerent panic explained the spiritual depth of tms ve-I sensed a Presence nrely felt in a Christian gathering in th West. experience, gether we seemed to touih a ' -- expe-nenr- y e, "Come now, the tack carefully sit on Chrlitim ver-r- y taenct mac. CM |