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Show ' When DESERET NEWS I grow up, I want to he just like Pop, there-- or is it Mom?' LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH uiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:i!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!ii:iiiniui!iiiiii!!iitiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiuiiiiiniiii We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States Questions Nance 'Facts' As Having Been Divinely Inspired 18 A EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY, OCTOBER Responsible questioning of foreign policy decisions, using factual evidence with apparent casual relationships, is one of the liberties, if not the bulwark, of our free society. However, A. H. "Bob Nance has seemingly turned his liberty into license as he salaciouslv and speciously illustrated in his article in Sundays paer (Oct. 4). Totally without a shred of credible proof other than vague references to a highly respected Swiss newspaper and certain stories in a petroleum journal, Mr. Nance blatantly accused our last three Presidents of fighting in South Asia purely to preserve American drilling rights to a 15, 1970 N The Other Driver May Be Watching a demonstrated fact that motorists drive more careobserve the laws more scrupulously when an officer and fully of the law is in sight. But there arent nearly enough lawmen to go around. A carefully selected group of citizens around the state could, not in making however, act as the laws eyes and ears arrests but in calling traffic violations to the attention of the proper authorities. The Deseret News advocated just such a plan a few years ago. Its gratifying that Salt Lake City Judge Paul G. Grant proposed such a plan again this week in a meeting he called and to learn that in an effort to reduce traffic accidents a similiar plan is said to have met with great success in El Paso, Texas. Heres how such a plan might be set up in Utah. From among only the most responsible citizens in this state, a number of them could be named to observe other drivers and report violators to the authorities. For this purpose, a standard form might be provided on which the traffic observers could write the license number of the offending vehicle, the time, place, and nature of the traffic offense. No arrests would be made by the traffic observers, and po arrests would be made even on the basis of their reports. The reports would, however, result in a friendly warning from law enforcement authorities. Moreover, when several different traffic observers reported the same driver to be violating the traffic laws repeatedly, lawmen would bo alerted that here is a chronic offender whom officers themselves should be watching. and likely can be improved, While the plan is no cure-athe objections that have been voiced to it just dont stand up. One objection is that the registered owner may not be the one driving his car when an offense is committed. True enough. But the registered owner no doubt knows who was driving the vehicle at the time and can himself put pressure on the offender to shape up. - Another objection is that the public resents anyone without authority meddling in their business. But the chronic bad driver is everyones business since hes a threat to everyone else' on the road. Moreover, experience in Connecticut and elsewhere demonstrates that when authorities crack down on bad drivers, the public firmly supports the crackdown. Judge Grant i3 to be congratulated for stimulating fresh thinking on highway safety, and for seeking to promote safety by placing a social stigma on dangerous drivers Whatever. Utahns think of bad drivers, all of us likely would drive more if we as we do when a police, car is in sight cautiously next auto be a in traffic the observer. man the knew that might little-know- n Its ll To Reform Government Do Women Want Equal Rights? One thing that becomes increasingly clear, as the Senate unhappily debates the matter of equal rights for women, is that nothing in this field is JAMES j. the Senate reports that as of December, 196o, some 26 states had laws prohibiting certain employment by women. Ohio is here cited as the horrible example. The Ohio . statute, we are told, prevents women from working as crossing watchman, section hand, express driver, metal moulder, bellhop, meter reader; in shoe-shiparlors, bowling alleys, and in driving certain heavy trucks, operating certain elevators, and handling certain freight. KILPATRICK Jewish Women, and the National Council of Catholic Women. increasingly clear. The more the pending resolution is debated, the the more issue gets confused. Some of the senators are unhappy because they agreed long ago to sponsor this proposed amendment to the Constitution. They assumed, with some reason, that the resolution would quietly drown in one of the swamps of Senate Judiciary, never to surface again. It has proved to be the cat that came back. And while 82 senators may have chivalrously backed the proposal in May, it is by no means clear that 82 senators still love it in October. Who really supports the amendment? Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Women has circulated a list of organizations that endorse it. Among the proponents, according to this memorandum, are such groups as the National Association of Colored Women, the Bnal Brith Women, and the St. Joans Alliance of Catholic Women. Very well. But opponents have circulated their own list of organizations that The oppose the amendment; and among them are such groups as the National Council of Negro Women, the National Council of Some labor unions, notably the auto workers, reportedly support the proposition. Other labor unions, notably the communications workers, reportedly do not. Such socially uptight outfits as Americans for Democratic Action are for it. The National Association of Social Workers is listed on the opposition side. What is a poor senator to do? There is more. In the blizzard of leaflets, speeches, statements, and memoranda supporting the resolution, two paramount questions have been lost in the snow. One question is: What would the proposed amendment accomplish? And a second is: Could these purposes, assuming their desirability, be accomplished without the serious step of amending the Constitution? ne pool-room- s; Another memorandum advises that Ohio has suspended prosecutions under its law because of uncertainty as to the effect of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, which already prohibits discrimination in employment by reason of sex. Some of the proponents appear to be arguing that a vast number of federal, shite and local laws discriminate against women. This is the argument they make when they want to illustrate the magnitude of the problem. But other proponents appear to saying that, the number of such laws is few and getting fewer all the time. This is the argument they make when they want to show that the amendment would not be so drastic after all. One of the memoranda floating about Proponents of the resolution cite instances of discrimination in criminal law. Arkansas, Senator Birch Bayh remarked, sends women to prison for up to three years for habitual intoxication. The maximum in Arkansas for men is 30 days for drunkenness. Opponents reply that if such invidious discrimination actually exists, surely it would be prohibited by a proper defense under the Fourteenth Amendment, which requires that all persons have equal protection of the laws. Proponents seem to agree that some progress is being made under this existing provision of the Constitution. So it goes. The girls may be able to make a good case for a carefully drawn amendment, but this much is clear from the mass of conflicting documentation: They havent made it yet. mysteriously heretofore unheard of undersea lake of' oil off the coast of South Asia. Ending with a phrase smelling heavily of William Jennings Bryan (and just as quixotic), he charges President Nixon with sacrificing our young men on an altar of black gold. Not once did he quote directly from any reputable source nor qualified experts; not once did Mr. Nance show a direct link between this mysterious petroleum paradise and our foreign policy in Indochina. Perhaps Mr. Nance has forgotten that our involvement in Vietnam was a direct corollary to the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization signed in 1954. Was Mr. Nances petroleum cabal in existence then? If it was, why is it only after 16 years that we find out about such a vast plot by the oil and only then from a relatively unindustry known congressional candidate from Utah with no political science or foreign policy credentials? I hope 2nd District voters will remember this scare tactics when little exercise in weakly-basenot us elect a iruckraker to Let the polls. they go to the distinguished halls of the Congress of the United States. --A. ROBERT THORUP 1669 Blaine Ave, d Smut Report Fallacious Reviewing the recent decision made by the on Pornography and Obscenity: How can a group of individuals sitting on the periphery of understanding come to the conclusion that pornographic and obscene- - literature has no effect upon the mind and subsequent action of a person? No matter how strong the moral fiber of an individual may be, erotic and explicit material is going to burrow its way into the susceptible mind. Whether or not the person will do anything tangible about these feelings will depend largely upon his upbringing, moral standards, respect for himself, etc. If a wrongful act is committed against another mortal, this can be weighed and measured subjectively, but if an immoral thought or act is perpetrated within the mind, or an unwholesome attitude is allowed to fester and perhaps give root in the marital reationship, how can this be judged? If we are to teach our children the beauty and sacredness of the human relationship and the meaningful eternal significance of sex within marriage, how can this be accomplished if our minds are filled with the gross and ludicrous examples of the base animal instincts? -C- HRISTINE R. BURTON 994 Military Drive Commission free-thinki- ng Dairy Letter Misleading Recently an article was written to mislead the as to the reasons behind the foul play of the large dairies. This letter from Mr. Vear L. Jenson was inaccurate. It is a fact that Utah doesnt produce twice as much milk as it can use. Quite the opposite, milk is brought in from Idaho, resulting in a lower base price for the Utah producers. Dairy producers are paid 50 per cent of their base, compared to 95 per cent of the total production paid before the Marketing Order came into being in Utah. The Marketing Order doesnt stabilize milk prices. Price fixing by the large dairies violates the Anti-TruAct. As for the surplus fluid milk that supposedly exists, it is easily preserved without loss to the big dairies. In reality, they make even a larger margin of profit from these products. This profit is kept within these large companies, and not passed on to the producer. If there were no competition from the small dairies, how much would we be paying per pound for our milk? --MARLYN OLEARY public An important milestone in the campaign to streamline local government was passed Wednesday when Utahns for Effective Government approved .a proposed constitutional amendment. The proposed amendment, which would eliminate the requirement that all Utah counties have the same type of government, is not to be confused with UTEGOs plan for Salt Lake consolidation, and the public should assess two the. proposals separately. The constitutional amendment, if approved by the Legislature and later by the voters, would not itself change local government. Rather, it simply provides the opportunity for change if citizens want a change. Nor should the amendment be viewed as being of concern only to Salt Lake Valley. While the need for governmental streamlining is most urgent in the Salt Lake area, other parts of the state particularly along the Wasatch Front will need to consider consolidation as they become more heavily urbanized. The amendment would not authorize the Legislature to make sweeping changes in local government except as part of an optional plan which must secure approval of local voters. Nor would it tie the Legislatures hands in making changes in local government matters by the normal process of amendments to existing laws or by passing new laws. By eliminating the requirement that county government be uniform, the amendment would permit greater flexibility in providing simpler county governmental arrangements in smaller counties than in large ones. rwith consolidation, there can be less duplication of effort, less double taxation, and more efficiency in local government. To attain these benefits, the constitution will have to be amended. City-Coun- ty city-coun- city-coun- ty In a world with so much and so few its refreshing to read about such deeds as these: A Georgia man ran to a burning car after it had hit a tractor-traile- r and pulled the driver to safety despite the intense heat. An Oregon man, dragged from a burning truck by heard his companions call for help and went back passers-by- , to the vehicle to save him. The two men were on their way to work when their truck ran out of control, overturned and caught fire. .These were only two of 22 persons awarded bronze medals and $9,000 recently by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for outstanding displays of heroism. Six medals were awarded posthumously to persons who lost their lives while trying to rescue others from drowning. In an era when apathy and indifference to the other fellows plight abound, its encouraging to learn there are still Americans who consider themselves their brothers keeper and act accordingly. heroes, t By SYDNEY The right wants more individualism doesnt accept the social responsibility for curbing the selfishness that results from it. The left wants more collectivism but rejects the safeguards that would prevent collective measures from degenerating into tyranny. The center just wants to be left alone but doesnt recognize that passivity and inertia are greater enemies of mankind than extremist ideologies. The young want to be allowed to do but those lacking a true their thing sense of the past cannot create a viable future. The old want to preserve what they have become used to but those who fail to understand our changing needs have nothing to offer but nostalgia. The urbanites want a safe and -- - but J. HARRIS clean city but they refuse to rebuild and rehabilitate the contaminated areas that are slowly but surely infecting all the rest. The suburbanites want to escape from urban threats and problems but the more of them that escape, the more they carry those threats and problems with them in to the new environment. The police, and all officialdom, want law and order but they are willing to break or bend the law themselves to get the kind of order they want. The dissenters want a better society, more responsive to human needs but too often confuse mere hooliganism with the nobility of civil disobedience. The factory owner wants an honest days work for an honest days pay but thinks nothing of laying off workers when expediency dictates. to be The factory worker wants but acts like a treated like a person recalcitrant child in his frequent absenteeisms, goofing off at work, and sloppy craftsmanship. The college trustees and administrators and faculties want respect for the educational process but the educational process is too often the least important thing going on in the college. The students want more freedom but they fail utterly to comprehend Whiteheads magnificent description of learning as a system by which the mind moves from freedom through discipline back to freedom again. We are so mixed up because everybody wants what he wants without understanding the opposite wants, and without seeing that if his own wants alone were fully satisfied, both he and society would collapse. Every Wife Needs A Degree ty Their Brother's Keeper ! Why Are We So Mixed Up? There are some girls in colleges today Why? Why should I struggle through a college education when I will end up bagging garbage and desegregating laundry? Why indeed! Frankly, I dont know how I could who say, have 20come through years of marriage without a rich and varied background of college lum. For curricu- example: Business Mathematics 305: No housewife can have too much mathematics. Remember that. Without it I would never have known why, when I measured our bathroom for carpeting, I covered the the small society ERMA BOMBECK registers and had enough left over to carpet the General Assembly of the United Nations. English Usage 402: Education shows. Not only do I speak English like a native, but at a party the other night I was the only woman in the room who could pronounce the secret ingredient that stops perspiration wetness: Aluminum chlorhy-dratSee? Freshman Anatomy: I derive some comfort in knowing that on an Racquel Welch and I bear a strong likeness to one another. Writing Fiction for Fun and Profit: This course gave me the courage to submit my checkbook to a publisher. Art Appreciation 202: This seemed e. X-R- like a waste of time at the time, but it has given me depth and creativity I need to first say, Thats wonderful before I give the baby a rap, take the crayons away from him and then wash down the wall. Economics: I know that when a husband makes $12,000 a year, a wife cannot spend more than $15,000 a year or they are in big trouble. Criminology: This has been an absolute must in child raising. Psychology: A housewife leans heavily on this training. Two children and one piece of leftover pie could spell World War III. Using a little psychology, let one child divide it and the other one have first choice. Hah! And my parents thought all I did for four years was sit by a window and get a tan. bv Brickman st 4394 S. 2990 East Moss' Voting Record The audacity of Sen. Moss is unbelievable. We are now being told via radio advertisements that Moss has the same ideas as President Nixon about how to end the war in Vietnam. This is the same man who voted for every proposal put forth in the Senate to tie the hands of our commander-in-chie- f in his efforts to end that awful conflict. If Moss and his cohorts in the Senate had their way there would now be no hope at all for a just settlement of the Vietnam war. We dont need representation in Washington. We do need a senator who will vote as a representative of the citizens of Utah and then have courage enough to truthfully present his voting record when he comes home to meet his constituents. Laurence Burtori has been that kind of congressman and he will be that kind of senator. -L- OWELL S. PETERSON Roy two-face- d X, R Ad Ban Bigotry By refusing to advertise certain movies, you have eliminated most of societys difficulties. By eliminating the description of R- - and movies, problems such as racism, poverty, war, will disappear pollution just to mention a few overnight. After all, such movies are the cause of all the troubles we face . . . arent they? It is repulsive to learn that you have decided to determine the morality of the entire population of Salt Lake City. But perhaps you are more enlightened than most of us in this endeavor; however, this hardly appears to be the case. Quite to the contrary, by your action you have shown yourselves to be the perpetrators of soma of the basest bigotry to be found anywhere. STEVE CRAMER Boulder, Colo Ban Courageous Move Afterthought . . . the greatest perils of population growth is that privacy is essential for community peace; violence erupts in slum areas not so much because the people are poor (so ara rural people) as because their lives have little margin of privacy in any aspect. ..One of t V Regarding your policy to not accept advertisements for X- - and motion pictures after October 15: I want to commend you for your decision and to congratulate you for taking this stand. It is unfortunate that other newspapers are not brave enough to follow. --MRS. J. L. HEALY Colorado Springs, Colo. k ' |