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Deseret News from Salt Lake City, Utah • 18

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"Out!" DESERET NEWS SAIT LAKE CITY, UTAH Stond For The Cowttitution OfThe jlfiitcd Stotei As Having Been Divinely Inspired. I 4 FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1966 18-A EDITORIAL PAGE Unions Are Restless THE QUIP, The natives are restless tonight, could easily be reworded to The unions are restless these days. At least some of them are. Only when applied to unions, the 'quip isnt funny. Members of four separate unions; are on strike in Utah, and a fifth is, actively campaigning for representation.

The unions are striking Greyhound Bus Lines, Continental Baking Interstate Brick and Pyke Manufacturing Co. Only the walkout against Greyhound reaches beyond Salt Lake City. The others are local. The issues in the Greyhound dispute are clouded and involve ah Aggressive union leader who has made demands on the national' bus firm which have been rejected as totally unacceptable. But in the local disputes, the issues, interestingly enough, are not wages, but fringe benefits, including seniority rights, the right of management to hire and assign its employes.

In fact, those on strike at Interstate Brick are listed among the highest paid workers not just in Utah, bujf in the nation. Those out at Pykfe considered among the highest paid factory workers in Utah. And Continentals walkout is over the hiring of an extra driver, the length of the work 1 week and holidays first, and wages 2 second. Complaints of harassment and coercion by a local -contractor were made Thursday against one the unions after the contractors work era local school building was vandalized to the tune of $7,000. Union officials denied the charge.

The complaint is a serious one, and if true, deserves vig-a orous prosecution. This community is largely free of physical harassment in Tabor disputes. It must remain that way. In a labor -disagreement, nothing was ever gained permanently through force or coercion that couldnt have been achieved through bargaining and negotiation. YES, the unions are restless at least some of them are.

Perhaps its spring fever or spring tonic. It also just might be unbounded ambition. Medicare: The Avoidable Crisis McNAMARA'S NEWSPEAK Proposes A Draft For Anything? that is the same as traditionally on-military projects? Why should civic action be a semantic puzzle? Or did McNamara mean that military civifl action is a semantic puzzle? Mr. McNamara weighed in, as usual, with his statistics, and it transpires that during the past four years United States- -niinmiimuiiuniniaiiifiimimiiiiiimiiiiimniiHiiiininiiimniminmmiiiiniiiiiR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR imiimuiiiuumiiiiiiiimiiiniiiiiiiiiiimmimuiumiiiiiiiimiiniimiiiiimmmunnt Willing To Fight The war in Viet Nam is seemingly becoming a political scapegoat and it is costing much more than our country can afford. It is the opinion of a large minority group in Utah, that we should either fight to win or get out.

It is said that we are fighting Communism there, but Communism has spread in our country to the point that it is slowly engulfing us. The thing that bothers us most is that our government has taken this attitude, and seemingly, the idea that the people either like it, or they think weve all been buffaloed. Well, if the administration feels this way, they have another think coming, because the minority of the people of this country, ho havent been rioting and are -asred--blooded Americans as Patrick Henry and our other forefathers. We believe that the people of our country will fight to the death if necessary to keep this country free. f' K.

H. KAMBOURIS 1361 E. 13th South Commends Air Crew I would like to commend the aircraft crew of the Boeing Jet 727 United Airlines Flight 222 of May 15, 1966, for their emotional stability dnd quick perser verance under extreme duress. Considering the tender young age of thej stewardesses Jean, Tellula, and Lorey, they performed their duties admirably well with everyone aboard when a pressure seal gave way while flying at an altitude of 33,000 feet over the Rocky Mountains and depress ur-1 izing the interior of the plane of our life line oxygen. This emergency necessitated action of all concerned during our forced return to Salt Lake Airport 'for repairs.

J. MORGAN BUCKLEY 1869 S. 500 East Utah One Of Few On Saturday, May 21 1966, you published a declaration headed: Why Is the Union Afraid of a Free Election? and signed by Mr. Maurice Warshaw. This declaration deals with the situation presently faced by the Warshaw Giant Food Stores and brought upon this business enterprise by the unions.

I do not know Mr. Warshaw and I am not connected with his business either, but I support his effort not to keep the union out but to win his struggle to protect the right of his employees to choose for themselves in a free election if they want a union to represent them. Utah is still one of the few states in the. Union where it is possible to work as a free man. Please let it stay this way.

HORST SCHWERMER 3445 Del Verde Ave. We Must Not Condone In todays society, in which every effort is made to protect the rights of the criminal and the pervert, and nothing is done to help their innocent victims, we are constantly pressured to understand and help murderers, rapists, thieves and now the poor, sick, misunderstood homosexual. The believers of the Bible know what the Bible has to say of homosexuals, and that it states the penalty is death for this act. Atheists claim to believe in decency, kindliness, adherence to the laws of the land, the human dignities, which include brotherly love and Im sure the majority of atheists do not believe that brotherly love constitutes homosexuality. Those who believe only in evolution, theorize that man evolved to a higher plane than animals in intelligence and emotions.

Now, if any of these groups actually believe what they preach, they could not condone homosexuality in either man or woman. Homosexuals violate tiie laws of God, laws of the land, laws of the family, laws of human dignity, and they put themselves right back on the level of the lowest animals from which Darwin claims they evolved to begin with. This is evolution in reverse. This is degeneration which we must not condone, legalize, or learn to jive with. MRS.

CORA ISBELL 160 W. 27th South Where Did Money Go? I read Joanne Cassitys letter In the paper and have decided to speak my mind openly on the same subject. 'Not long ago, your paper ran some pictures on the front page of our Capitol Building grounds. I was-ashamed that the people in this state could let one of 'the great tourist attractions go so unatttended. In the same issue, Governor Rampton told of the millions to be on the Canyonlands area, and at Midway for tourist and recreational sports.

I say, let Mother Nature take care of the Canyon-lands area for awhile longer, shes done a pretty good job so far, and try and fix some nice looking grounds on Capitol Hill. Id rather my share of taxes be spent where it could serve more people. By the way, Secretary of State Miller says there is no money to keep up the grounds. I wonder what he did with it? Maybe the Little Hoover Commission could tell us R. W.

HANCOCK Riverton WHEN A NEWSPAPER which fought as long and as hard for Medicare as the New York Times did starts warning that the program will overburden present medical facilities and personnel, its time for a thorough reappraisal. Yet, when the Times insists that the full impact of Medicare is only "suddenly and belatedly being realized," it is either badly mis-stating the facts or indulging in the kind of self-delusion that produced the anticipated crisis in medical care. There is nothing new about the fact that Medicare is expected to glut hospitals and doctors offices across the country; opponents of the program have been sounding precisely that warning all along. For example, they warned specifically that the estimated, financial impact of Medicare was unrealistically light, since the estimates were based on figures that were 10 years old. They warned that even with more up-to-date estimates, Medicare was likely to become bigger and more burdensome, since that is the history of most government programs.

The accuracy of that warning was demon-'strated only recently when President Johnson announced he would seek to expand Medicare by proposing free dental care for children. Moreover, they warned that experience with govemmentally operated medical programs had made malin-geering a national problem in West Germany, and had so overburdened the medical profession in Britain that physicians were leaving the country in droves. MTHI THE INAUGURATION of Medicare only five weeks off, theres no point in indulging in recriminations. But when will this nation learn not to let its zeal for reform overcome the Common sense which tells it to go slow in making far-reaching changes? By WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.

SECRETARY McNamaras use of English is odd. It certainly isnt idiomatic, and yet it isnt by any means Bureaucratic-Exact, or even Just Plain FunctionaL I fear there is a trace of Newspeak in it Consider a paragraph or two from his address to the newspaper editors in Montreal a week ago. The Secretary is talkihg about the two'senses in which the United States military can help the rest of the world, the first and obvious being direct military assistance. The second and perhaps less understood category of military assistance in a modernizing nation is training in civic action. Civic Mr.

McNamara paused to explain, is one of those semantic puzzles. Too few Americans and too few officials in developing nations really comprehend what military civic action means. Essentially, it means using indigenous military forces for non-traditional military projects projects that are useful to the local population in fields such as education, public works, health, sanitation, agriculture indeed, anything connected with economic or social progress. THE ABOVE passage is by no means easy to understand. What is non-traditional military Does he think exclusively with the national defense.

The whole of the military tradition is not otherwise bearable in a free society. The discipline, the automatic obedience, the rigid hierarchies: these are the paraphernalia of the battlefield, not of the schoolroom, or highway constructiorr company, or dentists office. IF A country's soldiers haven't enough to do to keep them profitably engaged, let them imitate the Swiss system which circulates its citizens back and forth from farm to barracks with very little confusion, but with never any ambiguity: the man is a soldier, or a civilian. Secretary McNamara went on to urge that all American youth give two years of their life to service to the country. McNamara called on those who do not qualify for service in the military to join the peace corps, or participate in the poverty program.

Now one wonders whether the instinct to duty which all Americans feel, or should feel, will evolve into what Secretary McNamara would then call military civic duty. McNAMARA, using the language of Orwell, seemSto be troducing into respectability the idea that Americans should be drafted to perform anything connected with economic or social progress. Angels Of What? Secy. McNamara a semantic puzzle assisted civic action programs have provided dental care to approximately four million 1 e. And McNamaras clincher: What is important is that all this was done by indigenous men in uniform.

There is a terrible congestion of nonsense in the sentences herein quoted, and the implications are enough to take ones breath away. A countrys military should concern itself ASK ANY little girl who wants to be a nurse when she grows up why she has chosen that profession, and the odds are she will answer, So I can help people. Ask any of the New York City public health nurses why they went on strike this week and the answer has got to be different. 'The mass resignation wasnt actually called a strike, but the result was the same. Not only were health stations and clipics closed, but medi cal services for more than a million school children were hard hit as well.

Only emergency services were available even from doctors because of the nurse walkout. FORTUNATELY for strike-and-disaster-riddled New York, the walkout lasted only three days, so the potential damage was minimized. But what has been done the image of the nurse as an angel of mercy who puts above all else the need of her fel-lowmen in time of stress? Getting Rid Of Resentment Gen. Franklin Riter -By NORMAN VINCENT PEALE- IS IT possible to believe in and practice Americanism fervently without becoming an "extremist or "radical? Brig. Gen.

Franklin Riter, U.S. Army, Ret, did. Those who knew him best and will remember him most know that he was passionately devoted to America and her ideals, that he worked long and energetically as a patriot, that he loved his country and served her faithfully and fully without losing his sense of perspective. No one championed the cause of the Boy Scouts of America more than did Gen. Riter.

He loved American history and worked for the preserva tion and observance of historic events. He headed up numerous groups who espoused the ideals pf the American Founding Fathers. Yet there was more to Gen. Riter than 'just an outward show of patriotic zeal He also was a successful businessman and attorney in Salt Lake City, and an enthusiastic civic worker, taking part in many affairs of the community. Business and civic leaders were still seeking his wisdom and counsel frequently, when he died this week at 79.

His advice and warm friendliness will be missed. TO HIS family and friends the Deseret News extends sympathy at his death. in and I could see as plain as day what the difficulty really was. You see, a while back I had a big fight with a man in our company. We got mean: tried to undercut the others reputation, traded insults and called each other names.

From then on, we hated each other like poison. And as I see it now, most of my troubles seemed to have developed after this personal feud began. I knew that I must get that hate out of me because it had me completely disorgan- T1 jI'm glad to say Im now completely rid of it. I really have good will for that guy, and we seem to be getting A man once cornered me. Im in terrible shape and want five minutes of your time, he said It turned out to be a long five minutes.

Finally, I interrupted the tale of woe. Now look, I said. Probably there is some one thing that is the crux of your troubles. Determine what that is and deal with it. Then your difficulties will probably resolve themselves.

A few weeks lata: the man called me. Ive got to admit that when I talked with you I was kidding myself about a lot of things. When you told me about the key log the log jam I felt a sneaking suspicion what the key log was in me I took a rational look at the mess I was It is indeed a fact that reseht-, ment can be the real root of many problems. Long-harbored resentment can gradually give rise to unhappiness. The main steps in ridding oneself of the log jam of resentment are: 1.

Stop deluding yourself that your resentment is justified. 2. Try praying the resentment out, affirming that you forgive the person who caused your resentment. 3. Think of the person's good points everybody has them and sincerely practice good will toward him.

4. Keep working on eliminating your resentment until it has wholly passed away. (C) I9M (Etfl tor-i not: Tho Doiorot Nm wotcomot lotion from Ho nadon. Lofton must includo a signature and an address. Short lattan art proftmd and all lattan art subnet to candonilno.) uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiaiiiiiiiiiyjiiiiiiiHiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiinmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH GUEST CARTOON CONGRESSIONAL PANELS: They're Misbehaving ngressional com- Isnt it time for these mittees to grow up? All the congressmen woud be themselves.

Individually they pretty good human beings. But come together in committee, they to do is to nearly all hen they to take testing and got sarcastically scolded' by Mr. Fulbright. What happened? Secretary Rusk had begun his testimony by stating in detail why the U.S. is fighting in Viet Nam.

He had not gone far before Sen. Morse lashed out at him as though he were a criminal in the dock. He accused him By ROSCOE DRUMMOND Its about time that members of congressional committees hearing top administration officials showed them the same courtesy and respect they usually show each other. They havent been doing so recently. Mr.

Drummond The recurring attitude of some committees is: let tear em apail. And then they go about it with a bludgeon, as though the' toy of defense or the secretary of state were an intruder of dubious intention antd guilty of everything in tiie book until proven Innocent. It -asnt good enough It isnt worthy-of -a mature democracy. Chairman Fulbright had raised two questions about Viet Nam and had said to Rusk, Our time is running out and I just raise these so the secretary can be thinking about them for the next time? And when he came next time Mr. Rusk was so abused by committee members for trying to answer these questions first that Sen.

McGee, distressed by this unfairness, said: I think it is time we quit throwing bean-balls every-other pitch. 1 I have the feeling we start In these ings with the assumption that the secretary of state and the secretary of defense are guilty and they had better well be able to prove themselves innocent or they are in trrfuble. think we ought to go at it constructively and not in this tear them apart SEN. MrGEE is right and Congress would do its work better if members of its committees heeded his plea. ici 1M on a rasping, irascible mood which serves no good purpose.

ONE OF the worst offenders is the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under the guidance of Chairman J. William Fulbright. It is possible that The veteran members of the Fulbright committee have become so used to this sort of thing that they are hardly aware of it and certainly not shocked by it. Only a new member could feel fhe impact of the discourtesy and disdain recently shown See- JI agree Vith rxcellenT suggeonT It retary Rusk. It hit Sen.

Gale McGee, was true. so sharply that he just couldnt keep from pro- Wasnt it true that at its previous session of misusing the Hearing, of dragging in propaganda on Viet Nam when the committee wanted to hear about something else. The secretary was accused of trickery. MR. RUSK had to sit impugned and impaled by the onslaught until Sen.

McGee began to raise some questions. "Wasn't it true that the last committee meeting, 'Sen. Case had asked Rusk to give a statement the next time the committee met on why we are in Viet Nam? It was true. Wasnt it true that Fulbright had said, "All right men1 who's going to throw himself on 1ft" Francisco Chron.

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