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Show waft a,. SALT LAICS MKWa 'Okay, We've Found It, Now Let's See You Tams DESERET NEWS 4 Q turn It' LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CITY, UTAH iiuifiiiiiiiiiiiuuii;iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;iiiiiiii:iiiiiiiii'iiiin ieSx.T JCaoS Missing Man Sought We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 16 A EDITORIAL PAGE TUESDAY, OCTOBER Recently in Letters to The Editor there a well written and understanding contrihu- - T tion concerning a tragic event and some of the problems surrounding it at the State Hospital. This is a hopeful sign that citizens are becoming aware of a state institution which they have been m at pains to forget since eaiiy statehood. Perhaps -this increasing awareness might be exploited to alert the populace to the plight of a man who wandered away front the hospital one. . month ago. He has still not been found. The purpose of. this letter is, then, to ask all hunters to be watchful for this old man along rail- -' road rights of way, highways and roads; through fields and along the mountains and creeks between Provo and Logan, his home. The probabilities are that only his remains will be found. But he was resourceful, strong and well conditioned for his, age, and there is a chance that he is still living. He is just under six feet tall, weighs about 195 pounds, has white hair, has a missing little finger on his right hand. He was wearing a dark blue-greshirt, striped, blue and white bib overalls, brown work shoes. All items of clothing were marked with his name. If a person is found answering the description given, please contact the superintendent, Utah extension State Hospital, Provo, phone 7, 1969 With Drug Study In, Now Let's Get Action When Gov. Rampton named the Drug Abuse Evaluation Committee six months ago, there was no little disappointment it was designed for study instead of action. But this approach was wise, it became clear, to determine the extent of drug abuse, help heal the breach between those h insisting on leniency and those demanding a concern and to and support. generate public help approach, We knew, for example, that the drug abuse problem bridges the generation gap and is found in small as well as large communities. But it was hard to be sure whether Utah had one of the worst drug abuse problems in the nation, as some authorities charged, or whether other qualified observers were right when they said Utahs problem had been grossly exaggerated. We knew that, as California had demonstrated, excessivelaws dont work because judges are understandably harsh ly offenders with a prison record, reluctant to saddle first-tim- e particularly when they are young people. But because Utah doesnt have enough probation officers, leniency isnt without its problems either. Moreover, it was becoming increasingly clear that young people knew much more about drug use than their elders, who needed to get more facts if they were to come to grips with the drug abuse problem. For such reasons the Deseret News urged that the governors advisory committee be formed, in line with our Goals for Utah program which includes controlling drug abuse as a major objective. With the issuance this week of the committees findings and recommendations, the groundwork has been laid for constructive action. Some of it is action that could and should have been taken long ago. The committees call for prescriptions in triplicate, for example, ought to have been authorized by the Legislature to help authorities check on forged prescriptions and determine whether or not any doctor is issuing an unusual number of prescriptions for dangerous drugs. Some of it is action that requires' further study and discussion before it becomes practical. We have in mind particularly the committees suggestion that the courts be provided with more avenues to distinguish between drug users who need to be punished and those who need counseling and therapeutic assistance. In any event, the findings of the committee certainly leave no room for complacency. Not when there has been a 300 per cent increase in drug case admissions at the State Hospital the past two years. Not when the state chemist is handling 54 per cent more drug cases today than a year ago. Not when the Salt Lake County Sheriffs Office has seen the number of drug cases it handles more than double in a year. Since drug abusera tend to recruit others to do the same, Utah had better face up to the fact that it has a real fight on its hands if it is to keep drug abuse from, inching down into lower and lower age groups and to prevent it from reaching out into ever more bizarre and dangerous experiments. The matter is so urgent that the legislative recommendations of the Drug Abuse Evaluation Committee should be put before the very next session of the Legislature in January and acted upon. This is one study that should not be allowed to gather dust. get-toug- Unreliable Russia Over the years, Russian leaders have clearly demonstrated that their word, whether tied to a treaty or a contract, can be relied uopn only so long as it suits them. The most recent example of this is a huge Canadian wheat surplus which directly resulted from the Russians failure to meet the full terms of a contract they had signed. The contract, to buy 336 million bushels of wheat over a three-yea- r period, was signed in 19C6 when it seemed apparent that bad weather and low projections for crops would leave Russia with inadequate wheat supply. With a market for about a sixth of its annual wheat production thus assured, Canada proceeded to plant heavier than usual. But when good weather brought forth better than expected wheat crops in Russia, the Russians simply reneged on their contract, and accepted delivery' of only 58 per cent of the wheat they ordered. The result is not only a huge surplus of wheat with no ready market, but a potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to Canada. Canada now knows, as the United States and so many other countries have learned in the past, that protests, requests for talks and even requests for explanations go unheeded unless Russian whim dictates otherwise. Mets Come Of Age Tulips are blooming in October, Merlin is playing his magic tricks, and the sky really is falling down. The New York Mets are in the World Series. Only baseball lovers will fully appreciate the confounding of the fates by which the Mcts hav scrambled from oblivion to stardom. For seven long years they were the whipping boy for every baseball team in the National League and finished no mean feat in a league ninth twice and 10th five times that had only 10 teams at the time. There was only one redeeming feature for the Mets fan loyalty. For reasons unknown to mortal man outside the environs of New York, a love affair sprang up between the fans and their beloved Mets that made the baseball team a financial box office success and a gargantuan flop at the plate. But like Horatio at the bridge, the Mets have suddenly come to life this year. Monday they whipped the Atlanta e for their third straight victory in a Braves, series to win a spot in the Series opposite the Baltimore Ort winner over Minnesota, 11-ioles, another The Mets moment of truth, of course, may come during the World Series. But for some reason, that doesnt seem to bother the Met fans, who already have known more joy than Mudvi'le ever knew before mighty Casey struck out. 4 ? three-of-fiv- 7-- 4, three-straigh- 1 en 373-440- Surtax Is Fast Losing Grip By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK The herrifying WASHINGTON probability, just becoming evident to the Nixon administration and still ignored by the business community, is that the 10 per cent surtax will expire Jan. 1 at precisely the worst possible moment. - The unscheduled disappearance of the surtax would, if just temporarily, funnel money back into the pockets of the personal and corporate taxpayers at a rate of $10 billion a year. That would be pouring buckets of fuel on an inflationary fire now roaring out of control without it. Federal spending, which is slowly getting out of the Nixon administrations control, and higher private corporate spending plans for next year combine for a most pessimistic private view here about inflation. That private gloom contrasts vividly with the public optimism of President Nixon at his Sept. 29 press conference. In truth, the Administrations working-leve- l officials concerned with the problem disagree profoundly with the assessment by William McChesney Martin, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, that the inflation may be slowing down. The disappearing surtax is one reason for their disagreement. Even if Mr. Nixon got exactly what he wanted, the 10 percent surtax would be reduced to 5 per cent on Jan. 1. This reduction, equivalent to pumping five billion dollars a year back into the economy, is based on a premature .appraisal by the Administration earlier this year that the inflation INSIDE REPORT would surely be under control by Jan. 1. Now, Administration officials admit, even halving the surtax is exactly the opposite of what should be done. But the situation Is likely to be much worse. The extension of the surtax at the 5 per cent level for another six months beginning Jan 1 is part of the overall tax reform bill. That bill, passed by the House, is now undergoing the purgatory of the business-orienteSenate Finance Committee. Even if it clears the Finance Committee by the scheduled Oct. 31 deadline, no realist can expect final approval by Congress before the end of 1969. Thus, the surtax expires completely on New Years Eve. The alternative of Treasury strategists is to bring up a separate temporary extension of the 5 per cent surtax which is very nearly impossible. Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, Senate majority leader, has no intention of bringing up the surtax while the tax reform d remains unpassed and vulnerable. Be- sides, it is doubtful a surtax extension by itself could clear the House today as relationships between the White House and the Democratic-contrclleCongress steadily deteriorate. Of course, a tax relief bill passed finally in March of 1970 m.ght well contain a provision extending the 5 per cent surtax retroactive to Jan. 1. But the damage will have been done. Besides replenishing inflationary expectations, the end of the surtax even if transistory d 320. -H- 1456 will enrich consumer spending through reduced payroll withholding. The money will go rushing into the economic bloodstream on the first payday of 1970. The dangers posed to the surtax accompany defeats on all fronts in the war against inflation. Although kept quiet, federal spending is on the climb (reducing the optimistically estimated budget surpluses). The Congressional stampede for Social Security benefits, joined by President Nixon, is inflationary on its face. In the private sector, there is nothing in sight but higher prices and wages, higher investment in plant and equipment, and higher interest rates. The least the Administration can do, its economists feel, is preserve the 5 per cent remnant of the surtax politically unpopular though it is. There are thoughts in the Administration that Mr. Nixon should have a talk with Mansfield about a separate surtax extension in the nations interest. Apart from the surtax, some Nixon advisers believe the time is overdue for him tc admonish against wage and price increases the despised jawboning of Kernedy-Johnso- n days. But such advice is intended mainly to give the President a protective shield against partisan Democratic criticism, not really to stem inflation. For that matter, retention of half the surtax for six months more, though essential, would not itself reverse the boundless inflationary surge. The sad truth is that the Administration is in headlong retreat in the war against inflation with only such rearguard actions contemplated. heart-to-hea- rt Goodness Comes In Many Forms By SYDNEY J. HARRIS It is easy to see that people have many kinds of badness; it is much harder to see that there are just as many kinds of goodness. The mistake of the bad person lies in convincing himself that goodness does not really exist; the mistake of the good perjon lies in believing that there is only one kind of goodness his kind. This is why so many virtuous, sober, prudent, honest, respectable men and women cannot make their husbands or wives or children happy. They think that the virtues they possess are the only virtues and they want everybody to be good in the same way. But everybody cannot be good in the came way, just as everybody is not bad in the same way. The wife, for instance, is loyal and dutiful and may at the same time be lacking in the virtues of humQr, magnanimity, and tolerance. who Children most often are made to feel guilty because they are unlike their parents. They are accused of being negligent or wild or lazy vices which the parents do not possess. These same children, however, may have virtues which the parents do not possess. They may have a more flexible attitude toward society; they may be more charitable toward their inferiors; they may be bluntly honest in their judgments, while the parents are sanctimoniously hypocritical. It i the outstanding vice of good ORACE If the bad person tries to play the Devil, the good person often commits the greater sin of trying to play God. The Students And The President ; Your editorial on the signing of the Kaiparowits Coal Project amazes me. In it, you give great credit and kudoes to Governor Calvin Rampton and the Utah congressio il delegation for finally achieving the signing. You neglected to mention that Gover- nor Rampton and Senator Moss tried for at least six years to get the Democrats in Washington to approve the project. They failed. Now, in just nine months, Senator Bennett and Congressman Burton have convinced the Nixon Administration of the value of this project. It was the Republicans who delivered and the Democrats who failed and I think you have a duty to inform your readers of this. - 1355 j 3 j; I ? ' f -R- OYCE LEE E. South Temple ; i Justice to Israel appears to be differen. than that to any other nation or people. Since the day of its charter as a nation, the Arab world has contin- ually tried to destroy it. The world that kept silent "nder Arab attacks, , has waxed indignant when Israel began to retal- iate. Israel has carved an oasis out of the desert and treated even enemies within its borders with scrupulous fairness, while the Arabs ran but one course: falsely maligning and continuously attacking like mad dogs. Yet most world sympathy ha . , . been with them, not Israel. war of 1967, drummed up In the seven-da- y entirely by the Arabs, tiny Israel won and, in the doing, won the areas used as launching pads for the Arab attacks. At once the demand arose, Give ? them back, give them back. The Arabs deserved much worse by their repeated intransigence, but the world, curiously, goes along with their demand., , Moscow continuously supplies, trains and nrms " the Arab hordes. America hopes merely to supply Israel with enough arms to protect itself. Yet most world opinion is for cutting off even that. Typical of this attitude, was the recent letter in. the Deseret News from the chairman of the Ameri- - can Committee for Justice in the Middle East. The -Arabs would be left to do as they please and the , Russians to arm and train them as they please, ' - Israels j ' Justice For Israel I I I j J jj I I - life line is cut. -- GOMER CASEMAN East Mill Creek people that they are smug about the virtues they do possess, while ignoring those they lack. Apart from the psychological narrowness of this viewpoint, there is a deep moral danger. God did not mean all people to be alike, or He would have made them alike; and it is our task to find the special goodness residing in each person, not to try to make him over into our image. W. DOTY 3010 South 'GOP Delivers' while They construct a moral edifice for humanity, with their own virtues at the and they want every building very top to resemble their own. E. . Cowardly Act This letter is in reference to the recent story about the beating and robbing of a man by eight juveniles, near 15th South and 6th East. The story explained how many of the citizens in this area looked on, but chose not to get involved. Where I moved from, we had a more appropriate citizens. It is decent name for these and believe me this name fits spelled the kind of people who can stand by and watch their fello v man be beaten by a bunch of teen-ag- e bums. In the time I have lived ir. Utah, it has become increasingly evident to me that the old love thy' neighbor philosophy simply has no meaning. I could perhaps understand this animalistic attitude in Chicago, New York or other uncivilized areas, but there is no excuse for such behavior Inf an area where brotherhood is supposed to be such a strong factor. I have come to one conclusion: I am ashamed of Utah and am ashajned to be one of its residents, I certainly would never blame the beating vicafter all, if tim for feeling the same way friends wont help to and who will? protect your safety rs - NEW HAVEN, CONN. The gap between the President and the students on Vietnam has certainly not been narrowed his declaration j' by of disinterest in the campus pro-- t e s t which is planned for Why did he say it? the v's'or is asked by Yalies who smell a challenge in Mr. N i x o ns avowal that he will not be Mr. Bartlett moved by whatever they may do to demonstrate discontent with the persistence of the war. mid-Octob- 5 No possible answer softens the Presidents provocation. Whether he meant to minimize the protest, play the strong leader, or signal to Hanoi that American policy will not be set by the campuses, the President still seems to have delivered an insensitive jab at the students frustration ov. their impotence to influence events that involve them deeply. The provocation is untimely because the mood has clearly turned with the President's policy of withdrawal. Students here predict their participation in the October 15 class boycott may be almost total. But a day of cuts in the curriculum with unlimited cuts is rot a big deal and the anticipations of the event are surprisingly uncharged with passion. We students gave up on the war, writes Jonathan Lear m The New Jourbecause after a few earnest nal, attempts it bored us. More calming even than the diversionary impact of 588 new students who hap- ( CHARLES BARTLETT pen to be women is the knowledge that the war and the draft calls are on the wane. The military service which once loomed as a certainty is now less inevitable and the young feel vindicated by the swing their way in public sentiment so the alienating split in attitudes over Asian involvement has been softened. How then should the President handle the student protest? He has asked for national unity but he is determined not to plead for it because he learned from Lyndon Johnson that such pleas are fruitless. There is no possible tack by which he can enlist wide enthusiasm on the campuses for any step short of immediate withdrawal. The Yalies do not seem particularly enthused by the sponsorship their protest is promised by the doves in Congress. This is a politicians intrusion upon their thing and they cannot help recalling that several of the sponsors, including Sens. Fred Harris, Edmund Muskie, and Walter Mondale, resisted the peace resolutions at the Democratic Convention last year. It was a matter of tactics then. Is it a matter of tactics now? Harris means to dispel the skepticism by making the sponsorship as bipartisan as possible. The Democrats recognize that they are still dealing with Johnson's War, and that any clumsy, premature attempt to hang it on the Republicans will go down badly, particularly among students. The obvious danger to the students, as well as the sponsors, is that a sober beginning may mushroom Into an emoticn- - al outrage. This is clearly not a prevailing mood or intention but it is a possibility for which agitators are certain to work and against which rational precautions need to be taken. Sponsorship is not a rational alternative for the President but he cannot expect to defuse student impatience with war by professing tc ignore it. While he plays out his hand in Vietnam he has no real choice except to live as generously and sensitively as he can with this hardened opposition. GUEST CARTOON --KYLE 1091-4t- h SMITH1 East' t Beauties Of Season 7 I liked very much the inspirational writings and October. The seasons mate-onSeptember conscious of the universe, the changing seasons, the beauties of both winter and summer, spring and fall. The world will always be a place of peace andThis war, love and hate, egotism, wild winds tear up and exists even in nature gentle breezes caress. We see the progressive go- getter and the gentle person who can lift the heavy heart of another simply by sincere expression in empathy. t In all nature we see the hand of God, blessing the earth. It is good to read October In the Des- eret News. --MRS. C. STARKE Evanston, Wyo. 1 I 1 I I J I I 1 Burke Misquoted On Oct. 1 the Deseret News published a letter to the editor captioned Statesmen And Peddlers, In which Edmund Burke was quoted in order to emphasize the failure of President Nixons administration. However, the eminent statesman was misprinted, edited, and his brilliance lost in your column. He referred not to salesmen but statesmen, and pedlar was correct E lglish spelling and usage In the 18th century; until replaced by the American Somehow feel contributing more to your security than the nation's." I I'm variant peddler 100 years later. History and biographies record the Burke aphorism thusly: I have known merchants with the sentiments and the abilities of great statesmen; and I have seen persons in the rank of statesmen with the conceptions and character of pedlars. -H- i UBERT GRIZZELL 535-2n- d St. Louis I East I I i I |