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Show the i ROAD TO GOLGOTHA DESERET NEWS A 23 Friday, Infants Slain; Jesus Survives Tt'S is tt ar's 'i'T o insa ev"t viss of tn C Hccst r He-o- "a vl a ro Pea Soup Bowl Of sasffl tv Jenisa-Foundatio- , er ' J , un-ow- r, dagger-wieldin- The Wailing Wall was built by Herod as a retaining wall for rebuilt temple on Temple Mount. The town, of about 5.000 stood on a ridge, 2.350 feet above sea level. In Jewish lore, it was the place where the Mohabiie girl, Ruth, pledged her loyalty to her native husband. Boaz; where the shepherd, David, tended his sheep, and where Samuel annointed him king. It was a history-lade- n place for these sons of David. They were a peculiar people, overrun and dominated successively by Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Macedonians and now Romans, yet still with an implacable passion for liberty and their comprehensive God of justice. They remained stubbornly convinced that the righteous would at length inherit the earth. But it didn't appear so at this point Off to tlie side of the town stood one of Herods impressive fortresses, a Hero-diubuilt on a breast-shape- d prominence, encircled by round towers, it's massive portcullis approached by a gleaming stairway of 200 polished stone steps. To the east a broad gentle hillside sloped down into Shepherd's field, where sheepskin-cloake-d herdsmen, armed with their rods and slings, watched over their flocks by day and night. In the stillness, the trioune could hear the high, sweet notes of their reed pipes. It was told that these shepherds themselves first circulated word of the birth of this child of hope that frightens the king. Curiously, there at the crossroads, also stood a stone pillar, marking the tomb of Rachel, the beloved wife of the Jewish patriarch Jacob. Site died in the birth of their longed-fo- r son, Benjamin. The tribune summoned his officers and gave them their final orders. The .cohort would split into three sections two centuries in each, moving L from three sides of the town, spearmen in advance. The cavalrymen and charioteers would remain in reserve. The mission was specific and restrictive to destroy only males under two. The men must judge the ages themselves, but let none escape. Heed no pleas or tears. There will be no spoils, no looting. i W- Ev HARRY JONES I . v 'i David s Tower near Jaffa Gate entrance to old walled city of Jerusalem dales to days of Herod. Attend only to the limited objective for speedily, decisively, professionally the glory of Caesar. Shall we decapitate thorn or dash them to pieces ?" a centurian asked. Whichever is most expedient, or simply run them through. That should be sufficient But make certain they're dead. If you encouter troublesome opposition, have a bowman put up a fireball I'll be there." He pointed to a nearby hilltop. The officers returned to their units,' deployed toward their separaie sectors as tne column moved up the slope. The tribune, with the horsemen and chariots, headed to tneir vantage point on a hilL He planted the ensign there and watched, the silence heavy as the three wings closed on on the town, then the faint desperate screams borne on the breeze, swelling to a steady, piercing which waiL It was almost as if those haunting words attributed by the natives to one of their prophets echoed from that tomb down there at the crossroads. A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they were no more." d When it w;is finished, and the trooiis returned, they brought word of a couple that had fled the town the night before for Egypt, a carpenter and his wife, with a small child named Yeshua" or Jesus, meaning the Salvation of God." The information was relayed to the dying Herod, rapidly disintegrating now from the ravaging intestinal ulcere be- come cancerous, the edema drowning his flesh in purulent matter, his maniacal delusions of persecution. I shall die without being lamented," he groaned. The Jews will make a festival upon my death, but I have the power to compel them to mourn at it, on whatever account, as befits a king. To insure it, he ordered the city's chief Jewish noblemen, already confined in the hippodrome, slain by arrows from blood-smeare- New Wrinkle In Education: Empty Rooms THEY'RE YOUR SCHOOLS Some school districts may be like the family man whos finally acquired a house large enough to hold his children only to find the children departing and leaving empty rooms. Salt Lake City D i s which trict, was in a crash construction program in the 50s and major remodeling project in the 60s, row has more ehool buildings than it needs. Economic factors alone will force the I:trict to abandon some of its schools, nobably some of the extensively remod-.e- d ones. The public cannot afford to pay the upkeep on empty rooms. YOUR HEALTH Dickens Gold Treatment By PETER J. STEINCROHN. M.D. For Mrs. U.: It's true that gold treatment is used, and Is often effective, in rheumatoid arthritis. But it be given by an expert. There are limits to how much the atient can take. Skin eruptions, kidney nd blood complications are occasional de effects. For this reason the doctor reps careful scrutiny on the patient's taction to gold therapy. Dear Dr. Steincrohn: Can you please rip me solve a problem? I am 43 id the mother of eight. I have a nice ame, wonderful husband and children et have become an ice addict I can eat 2 to 3 trays of ice every day. love it My doctor ran a blood sugar "st and found nothing wrong with it I ive had this longing for ice the past few ears. Can you find an answer and get me off this ice kick? Mrs. C. Comment: Undoubtedly you have Issed the previous columns in which I wussed this habit In mot cases, poo-- e w ho have the ice kick" are anemic. ftcr a few weeks of taking iron d by the doctor, the craving disap-aras if by magic. Look into it 'managing must pre-Tihe- e Trwjtol Dr. Stemcnjairt boe- -. brMitting ' How To Liv W.m it - Snd 31 itt O! com end m swnpod. nvoc him. of Dourot Nm, P.O. Bo IK.. It Loko City, UtM Mlid. Erwim,: cn summer. It might have been smaller (it could accommodate 2.600 or more students), it might have been in a different location, or it might even have been two smaller schools, one located on each side of the district The problem of inflated enrollment projections is not confined to Utah. It has become a national fact School planners, acutely aware of the enrollment pressures brought on by the war babies of the late 1940s, predicted an even greater surge in the inis. By that time, they said, the war babies children will be flooding tlie d schools. Demographers note, however, that up to this time the war babies are not producing children in the number expected. There likely will not be as great an in 'Carol'-Wii- h By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor For Arthritis , Even Granite District, which grew like the fabled bean stalk in both the 50s and 60s, may have some extra space in another decade. Back in 1965 when Cottonwood High School was being planned, the district had been growing at the rate of nearly 10 per cent per year. Neither a California consulting firm which helped plan the facility nor district officials expected die enrollment spiral to slow down so dramatically. This years increase in time district's enrollment was less than .3 (eight-tenthof one per cent Enrollment is expectid to peak next year and to start dedining thereafter. Had planners been able to predict the enrollment pattern more accurately. Cottonwood High might look quite different than it will w!en it is completed next Where could one ever go and find more exciting and impressive Christmas Season activities than right here? For example? crease as projected. The increase may, In fact, turn out to be a decrease. In the 60s, Utah school districts along the Wasatch Front had to contend with unprecedented expanion. In the 70s they may have a problem of contraction such as Salt Lake City and Ogden districts already are experiencing. Even the colleges and universities ought to look a bit farther into the future. They still are looking at the increasing size erf Utahs annual crop of high school graduates. They also should look at the decreasing side of the states e enrollment. Education planners have been so accustomed to enrollment increases theyve almost forgotten that enrollment also can decrease Like the man frantically adding to his house to accommodate his children, school planners should stop building before they have to start boarding up surplus classrooms. first-grad- Strings Attached MUSICAL WHIRL marionette class, under the general direction of Mrs. Arthur L. (Glenn) Beel-eand its special instructors, Richard For example! Canady, Craig Ban, and Steven Winget. The Christmas There will be the old miser. Ebenezer Amahl Jacob Marley Ghost. Bob opera, Scrooge,, and the Night VisCratchit who is Scrooge clerk; Cratch-it'- s itors," by Menotti, lame son Tiny Tim, Scrooges nephhas just finished ew, Cratchit's wife, Martha, and their Its fifth annual other children. and most successThe marionettes were first made by ful run in the Mrs. Beeley and other Pioneer Craft Tabernacle. House instructors and the Granite Junior Sunday, the High puppetry students in 1947. The first Salt Lake Oratorio production was given in Auerbach's Store Society wilt present its 54th annual proauditorium. It next appeared on KSL duction of Handel's oratorio, Die radio and television, at the Veterans Messiah," in the Tabernacle at 2 p.m. Hospital, and in the Granite Junior Next week on Friday (26), Ballet West High Auditorium. begins Its 15th season of "The NutcrackSince 1950, the annual Christmas proer Ballet in Kingsbury Hall. duction has been given on one of the In the meantime, Saturday (20) at Pioneer Craft Houses several portable 10:30 a.m., another traditional activity puppet stages at 3760 South 9th East. will be presented that isnt as well The original script was prepared by known, perhaps, as these others, but it Mrs. Shirley P. (Sereta) Jones, who should be. served as costumer for the University of The Pioneer Craft House will present Utah Theatre for many rears. its 22nd annual puppet production of A Christmas Carol One year, was A Christmas cirol. Dickens In the presented in an unusual puppet theatre of the the term, strict sense production is in tlie round so that the audience could the puppets are see the a marionette show puppeteers as well as the puppets manipulated by strings as opposed to ei- in action. ther hand" puppets or stick puppets. Another year, a puppet festival was In any event, the production Is by the for the children in the community, and v, their own puppets were entertained by Scrooge as host and the cast of the Christmas Card. This year, in addition to the marionette production of Dickens Christmas Season Classic, there will be two other puppet shows. One will be (Unde) Ros-co- e Grovers hand puppet class that will give a variety show; and the other will be a special Christmas show by Elliot Airmet, who is also one of Utah's outstanding puppeteers. There will also be a magic show, staged by the dass for magicians. In the event that Saturday mornings audience is too large to be accommodated in one puppet theater, the audience will be divided and tlie shows w ill be put on twice, running concurrently so that everyone will see all the productions. Because of the popularity cl puppetry at the Pioneer Graft House, a project is being initiated to build a completely separate puppet theater. And already one donor has given S2.000 anonymous toward the erection of the proposed theater. Just as it was said of Old Scrooge after he reverted from his life of being a miser to one of generosity that he truly knew how to keep Christmas well." so it can also be said of every child who will be fortunate enough to see the 22r.d annual production of the Pioneer Craft House's 1969 production of A Christmas Carol be knows how to keep Christmas well" America! - s.i vm j ' J plume-creste- By LAVOR K. CHAFFIN Deseret News Education Editor 19, 1969 sun f.iAH i mins keep their insurgent Judean territory under control. occurreo ) wtrkl m 'o rww: TV Strtic 9 SVoo-The natives turned their backs and spat whenever a legionnaire went by. By GEORGE W. CORNELL They were an unsubmissive lot. these AP Religion Writer Jews, refusing to venerate the Roman n The pale riders swung out of ensign, or the imperial gods, resenting the law that permitted any Roman soli-dgate at daybreak and k the road south descending along the to impress them into portage duty, iron Valley aw then winding back up on any occasion. heights again toward Bethlehem. But refusal meant death or torture. armor rattled. Hoofbeats There had to be strict measures, the xnimed a rough tattoo. The trar p of tribune assumed, to keep a subject race t.v boots on the chalky stone stirred responsive to its masters As a member of Rome's equestrian class, he judged that an ashen pall of dust rank must always enfoiee its preroga-ti- v d A tribune in helmet es. at the head of a company of caval-irefollow ed by three chariots mcunt-- i It was about 50 standia (six miles) with scythes and a cohort of 600 foot from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, situated on a rise just off the main highway leadIniers, equipped for combat. Bat there were muttered oaths and ing to Hebron farther to the south. As the chohort progressed, the tribmmbling among them. They beaded on to massacre the male une left his forward post and rode back vile mission fants of a legend-steepe- d Jewish town along the line of march, checking it, takth of the Judean capitaL ing the salutes of the centurions in their orange sagums. The tribune kriew the object of King cape-lik- e an unidentified toddler prod's fury Swinging their virus" staffs of comnder two who was rumored as a prom--e- d mand, one strode alongside each of the divine champion of mankind, an six centuries of footmen. T.ancipator of the fallen, the broken and The tribune reached the rear echelon, . e lost. and spun about, galloping back to his poCertainly this oppressed land and sition. The outfit seemed in order and her conquered provinces of the empire ready, though a bit sullen. He wondered. varmed with the victims of defeat and The assignment wouldn't take long, nor involve any real danger. leak, despair, the beggars and bloated hildren wailing on the wayside, the Yet it would be an unpleasant affair, lanacled slave caravans, the tyrannbriefly. He didn't want the use of the ized, trampled populace. on customary punishments inflicted the pillaging, the taking But the king, a truckling cats paw of invaded cities Augustus Caesar, would have his further of captives, the mutilation of male citn izens, the impaling of heads or disemto eliminate this argo of flesh boweling of pregnant women. child, this whispered savior of the The orders imply were to exterminate arid. male youngsters, and he would limit the It was a messy business, this hard it to that. It wouldnt make much of a disciplining of the hoi polloi, in order to splash in the chronicles of Roman uphold the Pax Romana. And the despotic triumphs. No historian likely would even Herod went at it with a vengeance. mention it The tribune's grip tightened on his There were mere spectacular bloodlance, held erect in its fitting. Beside him rode the standard-bearewith the lettings to record in this recalcitrant Eagle emblem, and the trumpeter. He province, particularly under the ruthless Herod. And Jews themselves were a glanced back at the rest of his troops. strange people, insisting on one Their bronze helmets, with the elaboGod, spurning any others. rate cheek pieces, and the polished strips As for the tribunes men, most of the of their vest-lik- e cruirasses glittered in Roman legionaries the the sun. They also wore metal greaves worshipped g sun god, Miihra, Sol fastened to their legs with thongs. Leather shields, affixed to wooden frames, Invictus, a cult for men whose weekly Sun Day" rituals were observed in swung from their shoulders. The detachment included archers, javunderground chapels. elin throwers and swordsmen, also carryiThe god's legendary birthday, Dec. 25, ng battleaxes, in addition to he horse- was celebrated in the annual Saturnalia, men, with their thrusting lances. a gaudy, ribald extravaganza in Rome and much of the empire. (That same They were part of the 12th legion, garrisoned at Fort Antony, hard by the Jes-is- h feast later would be taken over and obTemple. I. was one of 28 legions of served as the birthday of the child whom 168.000 men, mostly assorted mercenarithe followers of Mithra marched to kill.) At a three-wa- y es, that policed the empire's 30 provincrossroads, where a ces from Spain to the Arabian Sea. branch cut westward to Tekoa, another Herod had 'our Roman legions of contnued south and a lesser road would 24.000 men, the third, sixth, 10th and up the bill to Bethlehem, the tribune 12th. made up largely of Germans, halted, planning the disposition of his Gauls, Thracians and Samaritans, to troops for the advance. $rs prMCt w December archers stationed around the arena immediately upen notice of his death, and also that his legions kill one member of each native family. Then all Judea, and every family of them, will weep at my death, whether they will or not." he said panting for breath, his eyes opaqua and stai mg. He died in screams in 4 B.C. at the age of 70 at his winter palace in Jericho, tlie hounds that pursued him still at his bedside. A man he was of great barbarity to all men equally,'' wrote the historiHe stole tlie an Flavius J'isephus. throne like a fox, ruled like a tiger and died like a dog." His will bestowed 10 million drachmae and vessels of gold and silver on Augustus Caeser, and divided his kingdom among three sons, Antipas, Fhilip and Archelaus, survivors among the 10 sons and five daughters of his 10 wives. He had slain five sons, including those of his only rove, Mariamne, whom he also killed. His body, arrayed in purple, the diadem on his head, his scepter in his hand, was la 1 on a goidr i bier, embroidered with precious stones, and borne 30 miles from Jericho, through Jerusalem, to his fortified citadel, Herodium, overlooking Bethlehem, for his buriaL But his final orders for more carnage were ignored. He was not even mourned by Augustus, who once called him confederate, and friend," but who in the end remarked, Better to. have been Herod's hogs than his sons. The king, the empire, the domain of mighty legions and the glories and gods erf the world had sought to of sheer goodness that E,amP entered into the night of that age, but the light burned on, greater than all the panoplies of Caesar, wading ever stronger anid the dangers of earth, freeing, healing and unafraid, despite unending onslaughts against it tlie place where And Bethlehem, Herod die Great first tried in vain to extinguish that Christmas light, marks his own grave. d We've gvt to do something about our beautiful Valley of Salt becoming tagged as the pea soup bol of America . . . fog! It's bad for our image . . . loudspeakers at airports across the land announcing that flights to Salt I,ake International Airport are either canceled or delayed . . . delayed meaning check back sorr.. tunc if you find tlie time. I heard the announcement of the airport at Salt Lake being fogged in while I was at the Denver Airport. It seemed to amuse the man at the mike to give out the announcement. He had a wouldn't you know it" ring In his voice as though it was tlie vv ay we lived in Salt Lake that fogged up the valley. It was bad news for some of us homing pigeons waiting to get back to the home roou Airlines very careful not to into throw you shock. They kill you a little bit at a time. The baggage are man never mentions the fog . . . decks year ticket as though everything is fir.e . . . g;res you confir- onrs dence walking the mile and a half to the loading area. The loading area is where you are told that there will be a slight delay. A slight delay in airport jargon means 15 minutes or 15 days. They are seeding the fog above the Salt Lake Airport, the ticket man says with the same authority in his voice as Bob Welti Then he spends a few minutes trying to explain to an older passenger that seeding doesn't mean growing fog. After another wait . . . don't leave the concourse . . . they announce that the seeding had failed. Denver's answer to Welti seemed to exude a bit of enthusiasm like the Denver Broncos had just it seemed to scored a touchdown tickle him that our valley was fogged in. After that things go from, bad to ... worse. At first the airline people are encouraging about the chances of getting into our valley. They gradually become less and less encouraging. It must be the hundreds of questions. By the time the last flight of the day is scheduled and canceled, these same airline people won't even admit there is such a place as Salt Lake City. Thats the first day. Denver's airport is nice. I wouldn't want to live there longer than necessary, MERRY-GO-ROUN- D but it is a nice place to visit for a few minutes. But you hate to leave and go back uptown with your baggage and all, so you find a place nearby. The next day, the airline people go tor any through the same routine Salt Lake newcomers, I presume. Only this time, they have you ready to go. Your bags are checked and some people board the plane. That's when they announce that Salt Lake has been canceled out of the Denver-Sa- n Francisco flight. By JACK ANDERSON So the Salt Lake passengers get off. WASHEJGTON Korean troops The part they dont tell you is that your Vietnam, famous for their ferocity baggage isn't getting off. combat, are just as audacious apparently So now you are right back where you about acquiring American PX goods. started two days ago, minus the things that keep you kissing sweet and unofenJune Collins, the platinum-hairesometertainer wiio told a Senate committee of fensive. They are in your baggage San in Francisco. where GI dub scandals, disclosed to this colThat, too, can give Salt Lake Gty a umn shocking new stories of PX misuse so please, some of you bad image and official American negligence. scientists get working on a solution! The stunning Miss Collins, head of June Collins Promotions, said that in batEnd tlefield visits during her three years in KoreVietnam, she heard high praise for The one section of Denver where I an bravery"- - As courageous allies, they got stayed wasn't what you would call a TX privileges. swinging place . . . even the But the Koreans took their battlefield store closed at 8 p.m.! tactics into the FXs. They posted lookouts at tlie merchandise bays, sometimes cniiiinuiiminimnnnnnninmiiiiiimiiiniiummimuiiiiiiiniiiim in radio jeeps, as if they were getting ready for a Viet Cong skirmish. Korean Troops ... Use Battlefield Tactics At PX d ... ... Wit's BIG TALK When a fat load of radios. TV sets, Seiko watches, or tape recorders reached the TX. tlie Korean sentinel radioed Korean units, and tlie troops poured out of their barracks to the FX. In minutes they would swarm over the loot and make off with the luxury items, to the sorrow of less quick-footeAmerican GIs. The old Ladies on the sidewalks of the "Street of Flow ers in Saigon were by the Koreans, and other Asian allies, with black market luxuries at 100 SL tr Ml d well-stock- W- - per cent markups. Miss Collins, whose GI club testimony was carefully checked out and confirmed told by Sen. Abraham Rihicoff, this column of Koreans sputtering up to a TX on tlie backs of Hondas driven by black marketeers. The Koreans would load up at tlie PX, pile the goods aboard the black marketeers cycles and wheel off to complete the exchange beyona the eyes of American MPs. At an American division camp rot far from Saigon, a Korean helicopter clattered down, an uncommon sight since r.o Korean troops were stationed there. Tlie il e curious American commander fag'nt crew what they were doing at his base and learned that high Korean oncers aboard were already buying out his od bounteous PX. The Korean bigwigs re- turned. loaded up the whirlybird and whiffled off, mission accomplished. & ' He told me he was going to buy dinner . . . end me a seven-cours- e it turned out to be three root beers and four hot dogs." tke Prm tt? ftw-n- tor totor- - VI |
