Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 21

J6-IDAHO STATE JOURNAL Thursday, December 18, 1958 EDITORIAL Joyful Tidings It's official now: World War III definitely would be fatal to mankind. Not that we didn't have a gnawing awareness of it before, but it's been officially proclaimed by a nationwide organization of some 2,200 scientists and engineers of all fields. This organization, the Federation of American Scientists, says that the United States, Russia and Great Britain now have enough nuclear bombs in their'assorted stockpiles to wipe out every person in the world. This, of course, would not be from the explosive effects of atomic bombs alone. We have already been informed that only a paltry 80 or 100 million persons in this country would be killed immediately by an all-out nuclear attack.

It is the radiation from these explosions that would really clean up the place. If the aforementioned sundry stockpiles were all set say the scientists, they would cover the earth with a blanket of radiation intense enough to wipe out all human beings on land. This nation has just celebrated its traditional Thanksgiving. The fact that we were around to celebrate it was reason enough to observe it. BUZZ OF THE BURG By ING THERE IS a lot of talk those days about the Wilderness Bill.

In an earlier column we printed a letter by Howard Zahniser, executive secretary of The Wilderness Society, which iras on the cover of a four-page leaflet eniitled "Our Wilderness System," published by the National Wildlife Federation, Washington. D.C. The federation said the leaflet was financed with funds contributed by users of Wildlife Conservation Stamps. The rest of the leaflet under the main heading of "Facts About the National Wilderness follows: N'OT ALL of the United Stales that is still wilderness is federally owned or controlled. Some is in private ownership and might possibly be handled and bequeathed from generation to generation so as to be preserved.

Some is in state ownership, and certain areas are preserver as wilderness. But most of the areas that are still wilderness in this country--and are available for preservation as such--are in federal ownership or control, They constitute an important part of our public- land heritage. WILDERNESS PROTECTED BY STATES-The oldest and largest area in the United States preserved as wilderness is the Adirondack Forest Preserve. About half of the 5-niillion-acre Adirondack Park is state-owned forest acres to be exact--and is preservec "forever wild." New York's Catskill Park contains 23M14 such acres Nearly 2.5 million acres are thus being protected by New York Stale in accordance with an article i into the stale constitution in 1594. In the Katahdin area in Maine there are 193,254 acres in Baxter Stale Park, a wilderness park.

Michigan has preserved wilderness in the Porcupine Mountains Slate Park. California has close to half a million acres in wilderness stretches within a half dozen ol Its state parks. There are other slates too that have some areas which still preserve wilderness conditions, llasca in Minnesota and Custer in South Dakota are outstanding examples. In the aggregate some 3 million acres of wilderness in a dozen or so separate areas are being pre- jerved by our States. WILDERNESS AND OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT-In fcdera: ownership or control there are 163 areas with some 55 million acres in the aggregate that are already classified as.wilderness so that they can in a wilderness preservation program for the map of "Our Wilderness Preservation System," a copy of which can be obtained from the National Wildlife Federation, shows 48 areas in the National Park System, 80 within the national forests.

20 on national wildlife refuges and ranges, and 15 wildernesses within the reservations that belong to the Indians. All together, these units in this wilder- Permanent File Man-Wife Separation Is One Of Red China's Big Headaches WCTOR RIESEL SAYS Millions Don't Grow on Trees, Not Even for a Jimmy Hoffa WITH THE touch of the poseur and the gesture of the austere, Jim Hoffa and his high command are now meeting in last year's ho- lel Miami Beach's Eden Roc. It isn't that the Teamsters are running out of cash. It's just that they are running their giant union at a deficit. If It weren't for the interest from some $34,000,000 in long term securities, Jim Hoffa would have the woes of any businessman.

He'd have to dig into capital. At the last count Hoffa's union was spending about half a million dollars more than it was taking in. This is the high cost of living aggressively. Few have noted it. But in order to keep the reputation inside labor circles of being the willing hanker of smaller unions and of being the one union which has continued to add members, the ness system make up less than two and a half percent of our land.

NATIONAL PARK WILDERNESS Our national parks have been called reservoirs of wilderness. Strictly speaking, they were not established as wilderness areas, but their purpose as defined in the National end figures are available, Hoffa Park Act of 1916 is consistent with and includes wilderness. Teamsters are spending at the rate of some SS.000,000 a year. Few have been in his counting hnuse, but based on what year and his colleagues have This purpose has been described as dual. On one hand it is "to jsome $4,000,000 for organizing and conserve the scenery, the natural and historic objects and the wildlife." On the other hand it is "to provide for the enjoyment of the tame in such manner and by such moans as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." In carrying out this purpose (he National Park Service has so far iucceeded in preserving most of the wilderness in its custody.

Less than a tenth of the total area of national-park wilderness has been used for roads and the accommodations and installations that sacrifice wilderness but "provide for the enjoyment." Wilderness preservation is also a double undertaking. It calls for the protection of the National Park System from threats to lake over Its areas for dams or lumbering or other commercial purpose. But it calls for a thoughtful handling of the increasing pressures for recreational uses that are excellent in Iheir place but destructive of wilderness. Without deducting the percentage devoted to roads and other visitor accommodations we can put the total acreage of these 48 National Park System areas at about 22 million, nearly 15 million in the United States proper and more than 7 million in Alaska and Hawaii. Most of this wilderness is in parks.

Two of (he naiional parks are without wilderness, but 26 have been described by the National Parks Association as "national primeval parks." They include 13,136,091 in the United States, 246,743 in Hawaii, and 1,539,493 In Alaska. Twenty of our 83 national monuments also belong in our wilderness system on the same basis as the 26 national parks. These 20 monuments include 18 in the United States with an aggregate acreage of 3,865,534 and 1 exceptionally large ones in Alaska with 4,972,185 acres. The Cape HatEeras National Seashore Recreational Area with 28,500 acres and the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park in North Dakota with its 71,191 acres are other National Park System areas that belong in our wilderness system loo. WILDERNESS IN THE NATIONAL FORESTS Our 149 national forests with their 181 million acres include a great resource wilderness.

National forest purposes, of course, include limber harvesting and other enterprises that devote about 92 percent of the national for- esls to important uses that inevitably destroy wilderness. That leaves about 8 percent, or around 14 million acres, that can be preserved as national forest wilderness. National forests are multiple-use areas. That means that each area yields the combination of uses best suited to public needs. On areas to be saved as wilderness il means a combination of uses including watershed protection, recreation, scientific research, and others that are consistent with wilderness preservation.

Fishing and big-game hunting are important parts of the recreation use of national-forest wilderness, as also are pack trips, hiking, and camping. Timber cutting and road building, as contrary examples, do not fit into such a combination and are excluded from areas set aside as wilderness. The 8 percent of the national forests preserved as wilderness has been set aside by the Forest Service, in four kinds of designation: primitive, wilderness, wild, and roadless. There are 80 such areas-with a total acreage of 14,395.971. The Forest Service policy for designating some of its lands for wilderness preservation started--as far as actual designations have been made--more than a third of a century ago, in 1924.

Then the Gila Wilderness Area was established in New Mexico by the regions forester. Later the Chief of the Forest Service designated a scries ol such areas and called them "primitive." Still later improved regulations for such areas were adopted and the names changed to "wilderness" for those containing more than 100,000 acres and to "wild" for the others. It was the intention not only to give new areas the newer names but also to reclassify all the older primitive areas. There are.now 44 primitive areas, with a total of acre An even doyen wilderness areas comprise 4,725,077 acres and 21 wild have 726.J6S acres. In the wilderness canoe country of (fie Superior National Forest in Minnesota there arc 3 special areas called roadless that together comprise 1,033,743 acres.

(To bo continued at later date) mid-year however, national union books disclosed a $29,282.01 was spent for "public relations." NATURALLY much of this went offset, if possible; the public's, reaction to (he exposures of the McClellan Committee. What added insutt to this inrjiiiry, as far as the Teamster leadership is concerned, is the high cost of legal defense since Hoffa took office. In the first six months of this year the union spent some S213.717.S6 on their lawyers, court appearances and appeals. IT IS, if course, startling ia think of the giant 140,000,001) Teamsters Union operating in the red but iis operating income runs to some 57,500.000 annually. That's a giant figure- but even that'doesn'l go far in the kind of whirlwind spending compelled by Hoffa's strategy.

Believe il or not, Hoffa's union stays out of the red because of the financial wizardry of its old chief, one Dave Beck. He put millions of union dollars in veterans' housing- and some choice securities. Today Ibis brings the Teamsters well over $1.200.000 a year in interest. When the Teamsters out of dues money and assessments they merely use the interest payments on all the "paper" ment it seems that only the U.S Supreme Court can do that i il so decides. And it will have to ecitie.

WHERE THERE is a clash pinion belween two Federal Judg s. the case goes i to the Cour Appeals and finally to the Su reme Court. This may take a ear, perhaps more. In the meanwhile, the Teamsters have to pay heavy legal fees, te cost of the monitors and spe- ial national audits and the price a continued counter offensive. trikes.

This includes "donations allied organizations" and "sub- irdinate" ones, too. There is i data on the dollar; pent in the terrific public rela- connter offensive of the 'eamslers the cost of chartered planes and scores of halls for de- cnse rallies, their heavy political and the financing of intricate publicity set-up. At'monitors off his back. At this mo- old Beck slocked up. But even this may not help, The Teamsters fight appears to be just beginning.

Before Hoffa can swing into the clear, he must get the Space Agency To Ask Added $45 Million WASHINGTON (UPI) National Space Administration has indicated it plans to ask the icw Congress for at least another 45 million dollars to help speed nation's space programs during the current fiscal year. A space administration spokesman told United Press Inlcrna- ional that the gency's officials lave had no apparent change of icart about the 45 million dollars hat Congress shaved from their irst budget to make it about 300 million. However, he declined to give any hint of whether the space administration's budget request for iiscal 1960 would match the more ban 500 million dollars called for Thursday night by i counsel George J. Feldman the House Space Commitee. Feldman noted in a radio interview the space committee recom- ince last summer leads to the thai we need more than 500 million dollars for the coming iis al year," he said.

Feldman said ihe U. race to explore space "is the challenge mankind has ever faced" dwarfing "in signifi cance the discovery of America Columbus." last summer that Ihe administration's budget mended a should be about a half-billion dollars (he first year and rise to billion dollars in two to three years. "Nothing has happened since to lower this estimate and I think personally that I a learncc REGULAR Deli'cioui-- Keady-lo-lall AT YOU! A I FOOD STOJtl MEN'S WESTERN SHIRTS While, blue, turquoise, gold j- Reg. 7.95. For Christmas J.UU Open Evtningi Until Christmas WESTERN i WEAR SPORTING GOODS I 3 2 0 (Editor's Note: Earnest Holwr- echt, United Press International vice president and general manager for Asia, has jus I completed a five-week tour of southeast Asia.) 'ournal Classified Ads Get Results By EARNEST HOBERECHT TOKYO (UPI) There is cvi- dence that Corhmunist China is leaded for trouble.

Competent students of Chinese affairs in Manila, Singapore, Bang- lok, Taipei, Macao and Hong Kong old me these troubles could even nclude open revolt on a scale much larger than the small uprisings the Communists obviously are experiencing and putting down with force right now. Here is what has happened. Last year chairman Mao Tseung and his comrades fell they iiad the situation so well under control that they announced a program- permitting freedom to ex- Dress views, to criticize the party and the government. The result obviously astonished and shocked the Communist dictators. The criticism came and it came in such force that the Red government could not tolerate it It came from the common man and from the intellectuals.

In China, the people always lave had tremendous respect for the scholar. The position of the soldier always has been low. So when intellectuals starter criticizing the Chinese Communisl regime, held in power by the force of arms of the soldiers, the masses were impressed. Quick Retaliation Some of the intellectuals who took Chairman Mao at his won and criticized things, suddenly found themselves out of jobs anc banished to distant places. When the intellectuals got to the rural areas, they Sound willing lis teners.

Here the intellectuals were ahli to find supporters among the mas ses --the peasants --who coulc bad a real revolt against th Peiping regime. With their system of spies, th leaders of the Communist govern ment realized something had be done. It was then, some stu dents of Chinese affairs believe that Peiping decided on the se verest of all control measures -the unprecedented communes. The communes provide effective control of the population. The voices of the Intellectuals no longer can be heard in the villages and the home, normal family fe 'Is wiped out by this latest Chinese Communist instrument.

But in hushing the voices of the ntellectuals and in breaking up Ke families, what have the Communists done? There is a feeling many really competent quarters hat Communist China may have made a fatal mistake. The communes help to increase iroduction. They strengthen con- rol of the workers. They he cause of pure communism. But what else? Since the communes destroy the amily system, each man is more or less on his own.

If he is separated from his family and made i mere unit in a machine, his 'amily no longer is a "hostage" and He has nothing to lose if he revolts to throw off his chains. Since husband and wife are separated and can be alone together perhaps only once every two veeks, the commune system is not to be voted the most popular of lite, however much it may appeal to the political bosses of Population Problejn In this connection, it is noteworthy that China's reputation is increasing at a rate of about 15 million persons per year. Some quarters on the outside are speculating I hat the love- every-two-weeks policy established within the communes actually may be a birth control technique conceived by Peiping to halt population growth. is certain that Peiping is concerned about feeding i ts more than 650 million mouths. To control and push their, millions of commune workers, tha Communists are reported to be sending more and more arms to distant areas.

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She has her (roubles and they are beginning to multiply. WASHINGTON (UPI) President Eisenhower has suggeslcd a one or two more vcars Mao as lender of Communist Chi- should be added to the present public high school term because life now is "complicated" and modern-day youngsters are so "sophisticated." "I really believe we could do well by including what we call junior college, or certainly something near it, so (hat 'hey (pupils) can enlarge themselves to the extent of their capabiliev in a good high school system even if they never have the urge or opportunity to go to college," Eisenhower said. The President spoke briefly to members of the National Committee for tfie 1960 White House Conference on i and Youth. Our New Phone Number CE 2-1272 ZUNDEL'S EXPERT TV REPAIR 344 Yellowstone Ave. Afameda Journal Classified AUs Get Results I Proof Straight Bourbsn SlUzel-WeUer Distillery Fitzgerald Distilled jnd Bnllted Solely b.

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