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2 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada Friday, August 7, 1992 iarbwire f- vada Department of Wildlife. The desolate acreage stands in stark contrast to the lush meadows of neighboring private ranch land. Willy might be inept at promoting wildlife, but at least he knows how to make kindling. I Interestingly enough, Synar comes from a ranching family in Oklahoma, where private citizens were allowed to buy and cultivate federal land. Shortly after the West was settled, the government stopped the practice of selling public land and local ranchers are forced to lease federal range for grazing.

Synar's efforts to drive his western competition out of business is a blatant conflict of interest. few Joseph Sobran Excesses A story this week in the Wall Street Journal says Rep. Mike Synar, is locked in a tough re-election race; and that's good news for the West. Synar is the Number One enemy of the western cattle industry because of his efforts to drive ranchers in these parts out of business by raising the federal grazing fees to exorbitant levels. The Journal story provided a key piece of background information on the left-wing congressman that sheds quiet a bit of light on the reason his thinking is so skewed.

The 41-year-old troublemaker has spent his entire adult life at the public trough. Rather than send Synar back to Washington for an eighth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, we hope Oklahomans vote him out of office. The move would offer Synar an opportunity to try and earn a living under the oppressive conditions he and his elitist friends in Congress have foisted upon the rest of us. "Bureaucrat" is defined by Webster as: "A government official who follows a narrow, rigid formal routine or who is established with great authority in his own department." The same word is defined by a friend-who-will-remain-anonymous as: "Shut up, peasant, and get back in line." City planning commission member Ester Quilici lives up to both definitions beautifully.

When the rest of the planning commission this week voted to grant a permit despite the petitioner's absence from the meeting, the budding bureaucrat petulantly voted to deny. The applicant, she explained, was not there to seek her favor in person. When her peers on the board pointed out ample precedent exists for granting a request in the absence of the petitioner, Quilici was unmoved. A citizen who makes a request of the planning commission, to her mind, had better be prepared to appear before her and be humble or just forget the whole idea. This particular request was before the commission earlier, at the board's July meeting, and the petitioner was present on that occasion.

But Quilici apparently had no way of knowing that, because she wasn't. -r-H Congratulations to the Silver State Stampede Rodeo Committee for a job well done. Record crowds attended last weekend's show and stayed until the last bull had bucked. The committee has worked hard over the past several years in efforts to re- enthusiasm for the old Elko tradition. Judging by the attendance and reactions at.

this year's rodo, committee, members have finally hit on the right formula. Good luck on future efforts. A vicious rumor is circulating that we find hard to believe. During a steak dinner in honor of Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan, it was revealed that the ultimate lord over the livestock industry (by virtue of his control of all public lands), is a vegetarian. 1 k-- We were amused to read that our neighbors in Winnemucca are anxiously awaiting the results of an investigation into the Nixon Opera House fire by the State Fire Marshal's office.

Our amusement stems from the assignment of deputy smoke detector Bryon C. Slobe to the case. Slobe is the same rube who claimed to have investigated the gas explosion and fire that leveled an Elko law fice one year ago next Wednesday. Eight months after the Elko fire, Slobe released a simplistic report that offered no insight into the mysterious causes of the accident. Slobe's report didn't bother addressing the roles of a sewer contractor working in front of the building or Southwest Gas Company, which removed a nearby gas valve before the state fire boys could examine it.

Slobe concluded his report by saying he felt the explosion was "accidental in nature." there are too many rules, logically unrelated Tto each other, the players will start demanding special rules in their own favor. Each of these special rules will be called a "right," and it will impinge on the freedom of the other players. Eventually the game will get so complicated, so congested with rules, as to be almost unplayable. In fact, the focus of interest and activity will shift from playing the game to making the rules. And the people who just want to play the game will start dropping out in disgust This pretty well sums up the condition of a society in which too many things have become politicized.

It happens in large part because people use words loosely, especially the words in which rule-making is transacted. As the real players quit, the operators politicians and lawyers take over. The funny thing is that though many politicians are at least as famous as Nolan Ryan, nobody would describe them as "superstars." Universal Press Syndicate too many rules. The two excesses go together, and they mean that neither the rights nor the rules are genuine. They are misconceived and badly formulated.

When I was about 10 and a fanatic on baseball, I used to study the rule book. I kept finding that I already knew the rules, in a certain way. By grasping the logic of the game through its most basic rules, I could intuit most of the other rules. The coherence of the system was lovely. This is true of most sports and games.

There is a logical and imaginative "tightness" about a game that tends to keep its rules to a minimum. The players' "rights" are inherent in the rules, and don't have to be listed separately. We don't say that a batter has a "right" to three strikes. That's implicit in the rule that three strikes make an out When the same rules apply to everyone, it's extraneou to describe them in terms of "rights." The trouble with law, in contrast to sports, is that so many laws are superfluous. It's as if the rule committee has run amok.

And when With the election season upon us, we advance a proposal to help Nevada's school system. The various politicians can donate all the campaign contributions they receive from the teachers' union and the school administrators to the schools. Then reject any proposals from the above mentioned special interest groups, thereby providing even more money toward the education of our children, as opposed to the fattening of the bureaucrats. i Letters to the Editor WASHINGTON Have you noticed how badly the word "superstar" is being abused? When I was a kid and everything was just right and the English language was used properly, giants like Ted Williams and Stan Musial were only called "stars." In the '60s the word "superstar" gained currency for Hall of Fame-scale players like Sandy Koufax and Willie Mays, who were still active. But nowadays a "superstar" can be a temperamental guy who bats .265 and has a three-year, $5 million contract, or any rock star who has been on the cover of Roiling Stone.

I don't mind the word "superstar" as such, but it ought to be restricted. To my mind, a superstar is a player or performer of such distinction that his name is familiar to people who don't even follow the sport (or entertainment genre) he excels in as opposed to a mere star, who commands the respect of specialized fans. Cal Ripken is a star, because every baseball fan knows who he is. But Nolan Ryan is a superstar, because every sentient human being knows who he is. You see the distinction I'm trying to make.

The news that Bobby Fischer is coming out of seclusion to play chess again interests even people who don't play chess or know who the current champion is. It was reported in the news section, not the chess or sports section, of the New York Times. Bobby Fischer is a symbol of chess to the general public in the same way Babe Ruth was a symbol of baseball. Twenty years after his abrupt retirement he is chess's only superstar. We live in an age when everyone exaggerates about everything.

Pretty soon a superstar will be any player who usually makes the starting lineup. "Superstar" is only one example. "Rights" is another one. The word now means whatever any political group demands, even at the expense of prerogatives previously enjoyed by others. People claim rights that cut into others' discretion to associate and do business with anyone they choose.

Some claim rights on behalf of animals. The profusion of alleged rights creates a tangle of new legal restrictions and inhibitions. It's as if the bishops on the chess board were given the right to move vertically and horizontally as well as diagonally. That would make a bishop "equal" to a queen, which some people would no doubt think highly progressive. But it would also turn chess into a radically different game.

The word "chess" would no longer mean chess. We have too many rights as well as Gov. Bob has declared the Jarbidge area a disaster due to the brush fire, which also consumed some trees. It's sad to see the area temporarily blackened, sure, but a disaster? No. Fires are a natural, necessary element in our environment.

If it's disasters Miller wants, he need look no further than his budget. Or his wildlife department. Or the attorney general's office. Or his nuclear waste RS.DS,ME. Staff investigators have uncovered a move to rename the Jarbidge fire "Molini's Inferno." Our detectives suspect the move stems from unfounded rumors that the blaze originated in the vicinity of the dry, unirri-gated fields of the former Howard Ranch, which recently was swallowed up by the Ne Success of private industry is key to protecting planet taxpayers a trillion dollars.

Simply put, it will cost taxpayers $166,600 for every dollar Congress was paid to look the other way. Harry Reid's $4,000 share will cost around $666 million. His $2.6 million special interest campaign fund could similarly cost $400 billion. To pay for his malfeasance and midnight pay raises, Harry Reid sends out swarms of ges-tapo IRS agents to steal tips, paychecks, bank accounts, cars and homes from productive Nevadans, some of whom lose jobs and go on food stamps and welfare. Guess who pays and pays? Dont worry about Harry he just got another pay raise and our formerly great nation plunges further into an abyss of debt at $15,000 per second.

Fed-up with Congressional blasphemy and corruption, Nevada citizens can give God their apology and vote of confidence in the coming elections. If voters do this, I promise to deliver their message of repentance to the Washington wastrels with vigor! God Almighty Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Editor's Note: Opinions expressed in the letters used by the Free Press are those of the writers and do not reflect opinions held by members of the newspaper staff. Only signed letters will be printed; and lengthy offerings (more than 300 words) are discouraged. Editor Why did I borrow God's name and put it on the upcoming ballot? Because we owe God an apology for Senator Reid's spending public funds on anti-Christ "art" like a $15,000 photo of a crucifix in a jar of urine.

Nevada citizens now have an opportunity to declare on their ballots whether they support God and decency or if they support the continuing abominations of a corrupt Congress. Long ago, God sent Jonah to Nineveh to preach repentance. Could Nineveh have needed repentance more than Washington, D.C.? People may think that Charles and Mary bailout) Keating gave Harry Reid $4,000 for being a nice guy. They should ask themselves why they didnt get their $4,000 for being equally nice. crooks bought Harry Reid and the rest of Congress for a paltry $6 million, while costing knows why: Only in wealthier countries do people have the luxury of worrying about the environment: only developed countries have the political will and the money to fight pollution.

By contrast, political tyranny, heavy handed government regulation, and self-induced poverty continue to wreak the worst havoc on the environment. As the various treaties signed at Rio are examined and implemented, President Bush and other Western leaders would do well to remember that free, industrialized economies are the best champions of a clean and safe environment. Feulner is president of The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based public policy research institute. velopment are major culprits in the global crimes against the environment. In the poorest countries, people cut down trees for fuel and cooking, using the inefficiency of wood-burning to create the hazard of deforestation.

"Poverty itself is a toxic force," says World Bank President Barber Conable. Ah, yes, you say, industrialized economies make better use of resources but at the price of air-polluted cities. True, studies show that urban air pollution gets worse as national income rises to about $5,000 per year. But pollution subsides as income rises beyond that, dropping at least one-third in countries with per capita incomes of 515,000. Even the most rabid tree-hugger Berry's World ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS 3720 Idaho Street Phone 738 3118 Edwin Feulner Climb aboard a plane and fly over Africa's Sahel desert and you'll come upon a strange sight indeed: A 400-square mile dark-green patch, rich with vegetation, nestled comfortably within a horrid wasteland stretching thousands of square miles.

How do we explain it? The desert region is commonly held tribal land, abused by overgrazing; the inner region is the only privately held land in the area, and its owner carefully restricts grazing. It serves as a graphic lesson of the role of private property rights in preserving the environment Unfortunately, this lesson was ignored by many of the politicians and environmental activists at the recent "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro. Instead, officials at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) did their darnedest to ignore property rights and impose a new array of global regulations on businesses and industry all in the name of environmental protection. Now let me set the record straight on conservatives and conservation: We conservatives like to breathe clean air and enjoy the rest of the Earth's natural resources as much as any other creature on the planet But the best way to protect resources is not to cripple businesses with burdensome regulations, but to make it profitable for people to act responsibly. All the talk about "sustainable development" is so much alfalfa if it fails to truly balance environmental concerns with economic growth.

Remember, the pollution still devastating much of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union was not caused by the industrialized machines of a capitalist economy, but by state-controlled industries that lacked accountability. Private property either did not exist or could not be protected in the former communist states leaving government-owned enterprises free to pollute the environment The answer is not to roll back economic growth. Poverty and underde Nevada's Public Servants Senator Harry Reid U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202-224-3542 Senator Richard Bryan U.S.

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