The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 2

0 THE EDIT -Of K-fr? Mil Money From Parents OGDEN UTAH SATURDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 22 1969 Offers Comments Editor Standard-Examiner: In two recent issues of the Standard-Examiner an article Editor Standard-Examiner: After reading about the leach- orc nf Ronr Niah ask: EDITORIALS Washington: The Myth the Man Where did the children get the appeared in each that I am sure money to buv the beer and cig- caused little or no interest arettes found in their school These had to do with the countv it jet a if participating witn ine town ui Huntsville in providing police 3 i A i -i lockers? Not from the teachers have to moonlight to make a decent living for their family I am all for a new school and better education for my children I want the best for my children and they are not getting it by having to go to out- protection and with the city of Ogden in raising the old library building In the case of the former assuming that all the facts were tvM fio ill printed in the paper I am won- dated and firetraps of so-called dering why the county feels a schools pi 11 4i i 1 ffnwsf 'a pwa Mrs Shirley Parkinson No 'Family State' If responsibility in assisting the town of Huntsville with police protection Any incorporated town in Weber County by the same reasoning would be entitled to the same consideration Editor Standard-Examiner: I was shocked and dismayed utien tho cuhioM nf ahnrtinn was brought up for revision in the including Ogden City If this officer is merelv sta Utah Senate When the 1 1 bill was such a hot issue last fall I had three visits to my home by a Mormon neighbor complete with literature urging me to vote against liquor by the drink On the last visit I was actually asked how I was going to vote on the issue! Now that the issue of life and death is at stake not one person has showed his face at my door urging me to write my congress tioned in the Huntsville area as a deputy sheriff to assist the sheriff in that part of the county which includes the town then this is proper but if his responsibility is to the town alone then I question the right of the commissioners to make money available to the town to supplement his income The latter issue regarding the city and county sharing the cost his mouth making him reluctant to smile and causing him to appear sterner than he really was Yet he was capable of fierce rages He also knew despair During the British invasion of Manhattan in 1776 with his raw troops disintegrating around him ignoring his commands to stand and fight Washington was so disheartened and so lost his presence of mind that he would have been captured by the enemy had not an aide seized his horse's bridle and led him to safety We forget too that the common people of the day loved him A French visitor to the United States in 1793 wrote that everywhere he went he encountered expressions of the affection the people felt for the first president Washington also loved America or what was at the beginning of the Revolution only the idea of America an idea which many of his contemporaries lacked breadth of vision enough to share Lincoln had the common touch Washington was an aristocrat Yet as president Lincoln exercised an authoritarianism Washington never dreamed of: Lincoln searched three years for a general Washington was a general who for six years had constantly to try to patch together an army Lincoln preserved the Union but it was thanks to Washington hat there ever was a Union to be preserved Different men of different times but not so very different after all It is altogether fitting that we honor them both ir the same month Americans are hero-makers but not really herc-worshipers Like the Greeks we want our gods to be larger than life yet still life-sized with at least some of the faults and foibles of ordinary men That is why we love Lincoln not just because he saved the Union or freed the slaves but because of his humanness A man of the humblest beginnings a failure for much of his life Lincoln rose to greatness but was all the greater for remaining always one of the people That is why while we admire we do not love Washington the second greatest figure in the American pantheon Like Robert Lee he was perhaps too fine too noble too patrician for us to be able to identify with Patrician that is the word that describes Washington one as Webster defines it of high birth distinguished by superior breeding and a high degree of cultivation a finished gentleman If Amerca was ever to have had a no-bi'ity it would have begun with Washington Indeed there were some who wanted to confer the title of king upon him He would have none of it Nineteenth-century historians made a demieod of Washington and for good reasons but it was to the lasting detriment of Washington the man He was a big man six-feet-two and 210 pounds who enjoyed physical exertion He liked his cup of cheer and feminine company Bad teeth plagued him all his life The ill-fitting rhinoceros horn false teeth he had to put up with distorted urea ir zx a'-Tmiai man to plead the case for the innocent unborn Being an innoceni unuorn oeug of raising the old library build- 55 MrlS" i i-i bri intQ focus in the American citizen i the unborn rf Equity of the use of tax child has the right to counsel by 8 it maa tin r- idwvei dim uuj jui ib each was This has been condemned to die On the surface I am sure no 1 tx r33f one would detect any inequity in such a distribution of costs Let me expose the joker in it Oeden residents and property is his right- He cannot take a gun or knife and defend himself when the "surgeon" strikes The only tangible thing we take with us into Eternity is F-lSl: owners pay the cities share of THE POWER OF FAITH As Others Portray the Lenten 1 Jesus in the Wilderness China: "And there came a voice from heaven saying Thou art my beloved Son whom I am well pleased And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness and he was there in the wilderness 40 days tempted of Satan and was with wild teast St Mark 1:11 13 This we are told by Mark of Jesus' 40 days of fasting and being tempted which is commemorated by the 40 days of Lent The story has been interpreted by artists of many cultures using their heritage their lnter-nretation Luke Chen the prolific Chinese Christian artist who studied at the Catholic University in i has used the ancient rules of classic painting He has painted the wild beast for itself and also as a symbol of Satan and evil" making the meaning clearer to his people in its simplicity The painting can also sive us another concept of those 40 days This panel and the four succeeding panels have been produced i'jrough the cooperation of Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations of th3 United Presbyterian Church the United States i i utui nunc ti turns to dust as predicted-the count tQ big car the fancy home Eter- approximately 65 per cent mty is earned by our trials and Pf counties share (or a total hardships here on earth Ve Jeavi CQunt cannot play God and de: str oy our resentt0 pay onl responsibilities by such a he n- And wheniay Jcminty resi ous crime as murder The crip- everyone who pie and blind have been with us idg corpirate Um since the beginning of time even Ci for as Christ walked the earth The nasm as former county poor man with the large fam- commissioner pushed hard to ily will probably live the some Ub a county fa short 68 years given him with many hardships but what a paraphrase a quote world wealth he is bui dmg up from ft such as ours for his lifetime Eternity Hit- demanded that this condi-ler wanted a "pure" society too 5e stopped We keep hop-remember foat some day a public spir The State of Utah seems to count commissioner will broad outlines of his ideas Any SSS a- move to W-fhb tirirv riPtailii will be left for 'UIly03ri SS County in coooperaUon wito in- ueidiis wiu uc xU1 mUraer couia ue sucKy wnile perxius- ct- in rtHinn with the subordinates to work out sible if kept "sterile in 0frdpn r0ver rhe vears Don mention hon uracto this competition has been waste i is however one big operating room There DREW PEARSON in the President's trip "Family btate to me danger He could make the same mis ful expensive and completely unfair to the residents of Ogden" The only fair way tc distribute these costs is to consolidate take John Kennedy made by heating up the cold war at a Read Our History time when he very much needs Soviet support to help end the Editor Standard-Examiner: all these major services into a war in Vietnam settle problems Tragic it is We failed to read county wide service then the in the dangerous Near East and our history costs will be born fairly and hon- head off the missile and ABM with one arm tied behind their estly by all residents of the Vashington Diplomats Agree Upon Value of Nixon's Trip Election Changes We're delighted to read the recom-me ndations by President Nixon for changes in the obsolete Electoral College system of selecting a president of the United States There was a hue and cry during and after last fall's election campaign because of the obvious faults in the election machinery "When Congress convened last month several senators and representatives made speeches on the subject but it appeared the possibility of change would fall by the wayside because of lack of interest However with Mr Nixon's special message there should now be some form of long overdue action to bring the US presidential election system closer into tune with the times We agree with the President that there is not enough time between now and the 1972 campaign to get a constitutional amendment approved eliminating the Electoral College But Congress does have the power to adjust the votes in the Electoral College so that they will reflect the true popular vote instead of being awarded on a "winner take all" formula The process of democracy will be enhanced if Congress will make the change in time to apply on the next presidential election Sprinkler Irrigation With the fields and hills covered by snow it may seem to be pushing the season to be writing today about sprinkler irrigation But it soon will be spring So it's not too early to be thinking about ways of improving farm production That's just what members of the Sprinkler Irrigation Association will be doing later this month They will be conducting a National Conference on Water Conservation with Sprinkler Irrigation on Monday and Tuesday at the Sheridan-Park Hotel in Washington Utah agriculturists are more and more looking to sprinklers instead of the traditional ditches as an effective means of irrigation That's why many will be attending the Washington meeting Three of the speakers will be men well known in Utah Floyd Dominy commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation will deliver the Feb 24 keynote address He will be followed by Utah Rep Laurence Burton talking to the subject "A Congressman Looks at Water Conservation" The concluding talk on the opening day will be given by Lloyd Olsen Idaho District manager for the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co from Idaho Falls It should be an interesting session backs our valiant forces de- county such as the library is to- race Tn foot Mivnn mnv pvpn need rntn rJofootictc at hnmp An WASHINGTON For some and go through a minimum of a certain amount of Soviet co- have broken the back of the George Frost time members ot tne diplomatic official protocol anything worm- operation Latin America communistic front to take over Biggest Robbery corps have been aeDaung oacK- hil can be decided or import- where the Peruvian military the world stnerp whpthpr President Nixon's Viauo nnhpH tn rpsnmp Russian net ovonino was liftpri from unprecedented trip to Europe ant tes even Degm sucn a di lomatic reiations signed a my pessimism when I read the Editor Standard-Examiner: only one month after assuming whirlwind visit Soviet trade pact and are try- following quotation from a Reports indicate that our na-office will really accompUsh They also recall that Nixon as to infIame entire South heartsick soldier to his wife tional capitol has the highest anything They note that he will a private VIP has conferred American continent against the it had been penned in his tent rate of crime of any city in the be only half a day in Brussels with most of the European lead- United states at Battle of chickamauga nation People are buying guns the capital of NATO one day in ers before Russian policy is a global pol- The author Brigadier General by the thousands they are put-Bonn overnight only in Rome However the general conclus- Moscow is following a co- j0hn Beatty of the Ohio Volun- ting big locks on their doors and a little longer in London and ion is that the trip can be worth- operative line witn the United teers (who was cited on the field they are afraid to leave home at Paris while American interest in it extends from for gallantry) felt deeply for night In fact the biggest rob-They wonder how in view of Western Europe will be revived Vietnam to Cuba and Latin the welfare of the Union and bery of the year just occurred the time necessary to sleep eat The new President can sketch America js not cooperative abolition of slavery in "Memoirs there Several hundred men there can be obstruction all tne 0f a Volunteer" (Norton) maae a raia on ure uj i lee way from Cuba to the West juiy is 1863: urT and took bilhon Most of Bprlin autobahn "WhilP reading it (NewsDaper them came out with a gam of ALEXAKOS DANGEROUS DIPLOMACY Union Kegisten i reu aimoi 4 ANotKuui uiruuw-! home for Did you know that the sena- President Kennedy found 8 tlvSyun- tors get their hair cut free while this out when he spurned the table if compelled to lis- we pay a couple of bucks here? very warm message which Ni- to such treason Representatives have to pay 75c kita Khrushchev sent him on in- ftlir aims SI1 for their haircuts Senators get Americans by Nature Aren't Violent People auguration day and declined to ted though they be with seven free trips back home each With increasing frequency tional growth the expanding xi nt turxt mto frrmtiprs tn thp west and all the see Khrusncnev even uiougn me gvoocritical professions of de- year to see if anyone still has a then Soviet chairman offered to (llTninn thp mnsti- shirt on his back They get $3- see tner UllUll IW ll 11 WILLIAM BUCKLEY JR tution and the soldier ww cost ot living allowance ana "How wicked these men are $3000 for stationery with free who for their own personal ad- mailing privileges Then they vantage or for party success vote themselves a 41 per cent XmTrcians are a violent lot attendant obstacles which by come to int0 that mir historv is steeDed in the very nature were violent Later alter enneaj goi inio valence and lent themselves to violence hot water with the Cuban Bay of a and demanded violence to re- ffifflta nmcance Meaning comes only Perhaps an error is commit- Vienna where the Kussian eao- bring our eaders into disrespect payer is paying a 10 per cent tS ted when we are believed to be er was cold The meet ing asa ndwithhold from it what at surtax on top of an already bur- comparison is maue violent sinmlv because we do failure and USA-USSR re- creativ needs densome load of income tax Conversely it can be said and cSha this lations skidded downhill to near tiy suppoTol Tpeo- And for this enormous salary with enough evidence to make war over the Cuban missile TSmnBfart that abuse what do they do? One senator is uf i Eisenhower's Maneuverings Led Directly to Berlin Wall it stick that throughout our nis- wn vio- crisis nU nrtv in nnwPr Pnenu es trying to get some and put in l-i Mint thread ot re- 1 Tt was one of the most dis- "ry i thp national narks muher sen- straint an aversion '3 7 asterous chapters in recent on Vision in ihe ator is trying to me land violence As in the early days of ames American diplomacy them to taken oui of the national parks riSTSl total history of America does 4 Soviet relations wim Dd now toat the head of TCP JU11 uie wuiua M-rvjii me uiuto hpain tr annrnximate the siarieu uu uic ooure noii should Of ltselt me Aiana aiea yebweiuay fired upon but if they want egm approxinwte tne as witn Kennedy 0n the day of 3i VLS magazine gave the names and narr 1-4 IAn tun viuiciivc vnuiu nnnrqtinn tho rom- i Jear of Hmr-rSeany SU1- 'nT cordS pat rofc from using such picfures ofthe ringeaders who fn- Russia and Mao Tseng's an gtr lyuU fanguag may be found in sphor $3 hon of Ux ree V- tvt the ODDOSltlOn preSS piuma iiwm ma i TT our disinclination to initiate violence And for better or worse this has been our general altitude ever since Red China i an naipoiuu- blood of mar V- "The blood of many Vr Ypc there is violence in our thousand ana to mdMug ii uui yes mere is viuientc uui chmi1H he noted reDlied Ve 1 oo othJncr ahnnt it society and I do deplore Vniaiiv soldiers win resi upon me s-- mmdocm ctdpau rrr'rif 7 more cordially tnan am iven- prtninlv the blood Not yet yes than did Ken- East Germany which is to say the Soviet Union has declared that they may not convene in Berlin on the grounds that it is not truly a part of West Germany and although the nature of the retaliation has not been specified we know already that the Communists have been practicing the art of jamming airplane communications systems and may have attained the skill of making instrument flying impossible Then too there are overtones of something worse perhaps even an attempt physically to prevent the West German dignitaries from flying over to Berlin The threat is most directly posed against the 22 delegates of the National Democratic party led by Adolf von Thadden an ex-Nazi Interesting that the threat should come from people who have not yet attained the status of ex-Communists As usual what is being fought over is of purely symbolic value delegates could as well meet in Hiedelberg to select their next president But like the business about the shape of the negotiating table in Paris the question is deeply significant raising once again the eternal issue: who controls West Berlin? If not the West Germans then certainly the East Germans: and to yield now would be psychologically disastrous and would almost surely augur fresh Communist aggressiveness based on the strategic reckoning that President Nixon is too frightened of Herblock to lay it on the line But watch how Nixon will handle it This is an act of faith but I judge that he will come forward aided by Henry Kissinger and a few others with a 1 1-orchestrated response to Russian threats which will not resolve into the crashing stridency of: take it or take a world war TeM i lence" such as Se and nedy guided people at the Hospital room per titillate us with practically an campus uprisings have for the VETOED LBJ PLAN North may be charged the nreby tteSteand unbroken stream of violence most part been violence direct- But he had previously vetoed same account The draft note of adm mustered yet almost as a cardinal fori ed against property Injuries President Johnson's plan to go New York and elwhere these cSiS mu a the hero never draws his and deaths have played a rela- t0 Europe to meet Premier soakers and hbelers are alone astag Distol first Motion pictures too lively small part The violence Kosygin Johnson had even m- responsible for After the war anymmg aDout tne xcessiveiy Serous to count have as of individual crimes is a serious vited President-elect Nixon to has ended there will beabund- rising costs of medical care plot the story of a man phenomenon and must be dealt come along Nixon politely said ant time ctn7 costs of drugs is most pro- who shuns his guns in search with positively and firmly no also told the Russians pri- in which liiS of peace and is goaded insulted: And whi violence is evident vately he was against a John- Certainly requte druis in quariUfes point he needed to staunch the psychologically a rrassing and professionally i ling flow of refugees into West Berlin Hence the Wall which is the eternal symbol of communism triumphant and the perfect backdrop for the libertarian rhetoric of Western lead ers John Kennedy drove them mad with joy with his declamation rendered in German "I am a Berliner" It is good generic fare Obviously picking up the echoes of it Prime Minister Wilson said last week in Germany "We are all free Europeans" What will Nixon say? Such rhetoric does not of course necessarily mean anything President Kennedy left Cubans in Miami with the impression that he was going direct from their rally to Miami Beach to swim over to Cuba with a dagger clenched between his teeth and personally attend to the liberation of Cuba Instead he went back to the White House and forgot about Cuba apparently forever Nixon will almost certainly say something very pretty in West Berlin but w-hat matters is what he and other West European leaders do in the next 10 days because the danger point is March 5 when the West German delegates are supposed to meet in West Berlin to choose a president Although Mr Nixon has rejected what he called instant summitry he is in effect involving himself in summitry in his forthcoming trip Because he will be meeting for the first time as chief of government with the leaders of the western alliance and one must suppose that decisions will be made even if it is only rhetoric which is given out to the press and public (FDR used to specialize in this Ever' time he came back from meeting with Churchill to announce a New Freedom you could count on it it would cost us $25 billion and six divisions) And of course the first decision is how to handle the Berlin crisis It is widely assumed that Premier Khrushchev took the measure of President Kennedy at their meeting in Vienna in the spring of 1961 decided that Kennedy was at least at that staee an ambiguist and thereupon decided to proceed with the Berlin Wall By the same token Khrushchev is said to have become convinced that President Eisenhower intended to defend Berlin by war if necessary and that for thit reason as also because it haDoened that our missile superiority was ovenvh" 'minq during the period Khrushchev abandoned his announced intention of in effect incorporating West Berlin into East Germany But having given up on that humiliated and abused until to a growing aeg ee i tSu son-obginnuus Z' i nnr arms Has congress done anything to numinaiea anu auuscu uuu tu -t ra kara rf nnr arms finally unable to avoid violence eauaiiy manitesi mat 5 ine nuan hrHlv hear of oolitics help these people? Not yet any longer without sacrificing majority ui peuHc im th armv ReDublicans Dem- And you could go on for hours his most cherished values he to move against the minority with Nixon a fter heluritanj the a JJJ enumerating conditions and cir-dramatically straps on his six- committing violence This is n- to ge set led in Instead ocrats andev embody CT aramatieany straps on ms six- Woctom Fn nfnrlv alike here I know ot cum off to estern En- guns and comes out shooting dicative of the prevailing atti- he is rushing "SSize with the 8 Gary Cooper was Pchaps the tude of fte "njonty toto oyr rope after only monUi of none who JP It isuni- best interests of the multitude while special interests get the best whil breaks leading exponent of this sort 01 DacKwarus hui uw -v versallv damned for there is no tax hero Sie man who did what he lence to -cope widi vioknee mihtary alliance aimed at the he does to union What in God's name to para- This then lends credence boviet feel that this party phrase President Johnson does had to do and hated every mm- ute of it and did it only because my theme mat Americans uu ne -u "Awn nrofonzing the war by stimu- it take to make you taxpayers he knew the only ih Kmp pssarv and tnen oniy wim ereai uior ncinnallv nrocincn mhi Hif'fi iiiiis pvciv ojmh-i Although our historv is beaded rPUctance mnansiiwemner- Cw a serious tains prove it beyond a pre- er more special interest groups with inridents of violence this icans were indeed as violent as in that city A Jread a snous iamb advantages where will by itself does not necessarily we are credited we wouldn't f1 3 aSS let us read our history it stop? Vat are you going to stamp us as a violent people have so much of it access foBer- -ois ii too late? do about it? Nothing? Most ot it can De ac- least noi wiuuu uui uui- FranK rirowmng Anuwi lin counted for by the explosive na- ders.