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Show yyryi WTBh nywy "Ul T;irniTy rWrilf y 1 'No, I DON'T Want To Drag t :nt!:!!l!!liril!l!MI!l!.!H!MIMn:'l!iniimiUllll!!ll!:ill,IfMm!l!l!lllil!lllllli:irM ' LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH iiininiitiimiBimtiiiiiimintiimmHmiiHiiHiiniiiiiisiiitiiiiniimiiitiiiiuiiiiimii Encourage Talent We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired WEDNESDAY, T I DESERET NEWS IB A EDITORIAL PAGE Bjl NOVEMBER 5, t w- - I cant resist taking up the gauntlet Rung down last week by Jack Oison of the Utah taxpayer 196? Association. Perhaps many charges he made in the news release of Oct. 31 were we'l taken. But frankly nrt every new department is a waste of money or a needless proliferation cf county government. The personnel department itself will cost money but should really save money. Turnover in county government is too high. Incompetence is wasteful. Both of these should be ameliorated by a S.L. Votes Not To Rock The Boat I l , fa top-flig- 4 personnel office and procedure. e If the County Attorney hires attorneys, it will cost tens of thousands a year more. But it will truthfully save money by eliminating backlogs in justice, indifferent legal advice to county depart- ments, turnover, and so forth. None of us supports waste, padding, or empire building. But it is the height of folly to recruit mediocre men and to discourage talent from entering county government. As with consumer goods, we get about what we pay for. Frankly with starting salaries for brand-neB. S. graduates this year ranging from $600 to $800 a month, I am shocked that Olson feels $10,500 a year is too much to pay department head3 who administer payrolls and operations in the millions of dollars. We won't be able to fulfill the expectations we all had for a merit system if we can't buy talent and that is what we are really doing. WILLIAM M. TIMMINS Chairman, County Merit Council full-tim- The people of Salt Lake City, while recognizing there are till important ehallengea to be met, are generally satisfied with the way the community is being run. That seems clear enough from the outcome of Tuesday's municipal election after a mild campaign marked by relatively little controversy and hardly any political issues worthy of the name. The victories of incumbent city commissioners James L. Barker and Conrad B. Harrison were a triumph of experience and maturity over youth. The results were also a triumph of records over untested premises. But at 33 years of age, both challengers Clark Ronnow and Christian P. Beck may be heard from again. Since the public safety post is deemed perhaps the most difficult job on the city commission, one which is often avoided as being highly sensitive, Commissioner Barkers is a tribute to his leadership and his willingness to accept public service.. In winning his third term on the commission and leading the four-ma- n field, Mr. Harrison won a clear vote of confidence in the job he has been doing as commissioner of parks and public property. Personalities aside, the voters acted responsibly Tuesday, voting with their minds instead of their emotions. It would have been easy to vote for repeal of the controversial aewer tax simply to register a protest against tha high and rising level of taxes in general. But that would have solved nothing. In defeating repeal, the citizens were not voting so much for keeping the sewer tax as they were voting against replacing it with a more unsatisfactory tax or cutting municipal services. Nor does the defeat of the repealer relieve the city commission from the obligation to seek financial relief from the Legislature, as promised when the sewer levy was first imposed. There are, cf course, claims that the voters didnt understand the sewer tax initiative because of th way it was worded. But these claims look weak not only because of the decisive 2 margin against repeal, but also because the voters sustained the incumbent commissioners, who went along with the sewer tax when it was adopted. As for the public transit district, the 1 margin by which it was approved by Salt Lake City voters reflects not only the lack of organized opposition, but also the absence of any other practical alternative in maintaining bus service. The challenge now is to move aggressively ahead to improve bus service, not just limp along with subsidized mediocrity. Under the circumstances, the relatively light turnout represents constituting some 42 rr of the registered voters rot apathy but the conviction that Salt Lake City is generally on the right course in meeting its problems. The challenge now Is to follow through on the governmental reforms, stiff law enforcement, and other civic improvements needed to make good government better. well-know- n 3-- 9-- Cooperate For Water Although share and share alike is a sentiment rarely water users anywhere these days, the time is quickly approaching when accepting such philosophy may not only be desirable but imperative. The meetirg this week in Washington of the National V ater Commission whose goal by 1973 is to examine the water problems and make recommendations country's major e to Congress on should use of all U.S. water help focus for ail Americans the enormity of the problem and the need for a cooperative approach. With U.S. population burgeoning there will be an esti100 million here more inhabitants mated by the end of the now U.S. water conis out. The than time century running is the populathan faster sumption rate, moreover, growing tion. Already, squabbling between areas over water diversion has, in effect, put the National Water Commission two years behind in its quest for a U.S. water policy. President Johnson first proposed such a commission in 1966. but was unable to sign a federal law allowing it until September, 1963. With the need for water so urgent, water-ricstates should put national interest ahead of their own narrow interests and cooperate in formulating a U.S. water policy fair to all. voiced by long-rang- Bail Reform: Everyone's Right - the ABM, or against it. You are for Although the European Free Trade Association whose demise seems imminent may not have made world impact, It has clearly demonstrated the advantages of free trade. In the little more than a decade since it was formed, w ho hoped to prove 'The Outer Seven" EFTA members themselves to be a counterweight to the Common Market, accomplished these achievements: eliminated tariffs n imports of industrial goods originating in the area, and did so three years ahead of their schedule; abolished quntita-tiv- e restriction on import of goods, and expanded trade within the group from $39 billion in 1959 to well over $70 billion in 1968. Despite its apparent successes, hopes for EFTA's becoming a "single market with 100 million people." as well as a counterweight to the Common Market, have been crushed g geographic by unexpected Common Market growth, as well as political distances between such member countries as Portugal and Sweden, agitation over Britain's application for Common Market entry, and other frustrating conditions. Face to face with the Common Market. EFTA was forced to become what the London Times has described is a frustrating waiting room for countries seeking entry, or at least closer economic association, with the European Economic Community." But as others have indicated. FIFTA, had it been set up anywhere else in the world, and without surh formidable competition, would have been hailed as an outstanding success. six-natio- far-flun- Haynsworth, o r against him. You line up like football teams on gun control, open housing, and the transsuper-soni- c port plane. This is the way the game is played, and a no-bo- Mr. Kilpatrick middle-roade- loves r. Yet an issue is developing these days on Capitol Hill that requires a suspension of the rules. On the question of further bail reform more specifically, on the tough question of "preventive detention the merits are so divided, airl the opposing arguments so highly persuasive, that usually decisive men are beset by doubts. The issue may sound legalistic. It isn't. We are concerned here with certain rights of the individual that go back r.t least to Magna Carta; and we are equally concerned with certain rights of society that go back to the dawn of man. TV? misty concepts come down to the point of a pistol, every night in Washington. when a man who is free on bail commits a new crime of murder, robbery, or rape. The question is. What should be done about it? Two c? the most respected conservatives in Washington, Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, and Attorney General John Mitchell, have taken positions diametrically opposed. Mitchell is dead set on a new plan of preventive detention in particular cases; he regards it as "the heart of bail reform. Ervin is just as dead set against the pian; he regards preventive detention as a "flagrant violation of due process that smacks of a police state rather than a democracy under law. Ervin attempts to minimize the seriousness of the problem by citing figures tc show that "only about 4 per cent of those released on bail actually commit crimes while awaiting trial. The figures. based on total offenses, are misleading. In the category of serious the piccrimes of violence crimes ture is alarming. Of 335 persons indicted for robbery in Washington last year, and released on bail prior to trial, 242 were rearrested while on bail. Mitchell is on sound ground when he insists that society has a right to be protected from professional criminals who treat thei- - bail with contempt. The Attorney General is pressing hard for amendments to the 1966 Bail Reform Act that would protect persons from at least some of the savages who have made of this town a jungle. His plan would apply principally to persons arrested for robbery, burglary, rape, arson, and drug sales, especially if they were out on bail when arrested or had g The Whimsies been convicted of such an offense within the past ten years. In such cases, a Federal judge could entertain a motion for preventive detention pending trial. A evidentiary and adversary proceeding would be held. And if the judge found "a substantial probability of the defendants ultimate conviction, bail would be denied and the defendant would be locked up for My colleague, Art Buchwald. had an amusing piece a few weeks ago about the Nehru suit. Like me, Art bought a Nehru suit a couple of years ago, at the prod- at least 69 days. The prospect horrifies Senator Ervin. libThe North Carolinian is no weep-easeral; he is a conservative's conservative, a former judge, a dedicated constitutionalist. He makes the counter-argumethat Mitchell's plan violates the most fundamental precepts of our system of justice, that a man is presumed innocent until proved guilty. What becomes of due process when a human being can be imprisoned on a finding of "substantial y probability? Ervin makes other solid points. The greatest single defect in our system of criminal justice today is delay. Court dockets are clogged, penal facilities Ts sdd the b,2def? of scale evidentiary proceedings on motions for pre-tridetention could serve only to make the delays more prolonged. Every serious case would demand not one trial, but two. Who has the better argument? Tentatively. uncertainly, I incline toward Ervin's side. But here in Washington, crimes of violence have reached appallIn this critical situation, ing levels. Mitchell may be right It's not easy, fhis time, to take sides. over-croi"d?-d. Of High Fashion ding of his wife twice. and. like me, wore it Just as suddenly a it came In, it went Out. And there we were, stuck for a hundred bucks, with this dreary costume in the closet, too new to throw out, and too passe to wear with any Now, I am all for the fashion revolution in men's clothes, and I have publicly applauded the color, the boldness, the flair of modern male attire, as contrasted with the dull conformity of the recent past. But, psychologically, the style manip- ulators cannot handle men with the same arrogant impunity they handle women. Men are willing, even eager, to try something new, something that makes them feel more virile and dashing. They are not willing to change fashions evpry befew months, or even every year cause they are the ones who pay the bills, and not the ones who carry the charge-plate- s. It hits a husband right in the soiar plexus to buy a piece of clothing that will be obsolescent as soon as the wind changes. Women, over the years, have learned to accept the weather-van- e nature of fashion with a philosophical shrug. They throw away perfectly good shoes and skirts and coats that are only a season or two old, because they have been conditioned to do this from birth. I dont believe that men can he conditioned in the same wav. We are willing to change our image, as the phrase goes, but not to enter an Annual Style Derby, in the not, competitive spirit of women. Last year, for instance. I bought a pairs of dress slacks that were neatly tapered down. n a peg bottom, because they look sleeker than the old fat pants men used to wear. This year, the "elephant leg is being shown for men, with a flair; but if anyone thinks I'm going to donate my tapered slacks to Goodwill, they don't realize the vast amount of ill will this fashion change has generated on my part. And its not just the principle of the thing. It's the money. Few families can afford to support two adults in the style to which the manipulators want us to become accustomed. And if only one of us can keep up with the whirligig of fashion, you know dam well which one in the family it's going to be. half-doze- n - ART BUCHWALD "Dick, I want to make this perfectly clear. No one respects your point of view more than I do." the New Nixon said. New Nixon demanded. "Everything I am or ever hope to be I "I thought you owe 1o you. But we have to face the me that realities. If you start attacking the stupromised dents and the professors and the news when the mud slinging started. I could media, it will reflect on me. Youre too do it, the Ola Nixon closely associated with my Administration. Im now a world leader, a statessaid. "I know I pror.v man, the President of all the people. I to give Spiro Agnew have to stay above the battle, and so do Now n what? the Philosophical Fence. Could Agnew come up with hyperbole like that?" Get up. Dick. Look. I'll tell you what I'll do. I can't let you make the speeches, but I'll talk to Spiro about putting you on team " his speech-writinTne Old Nixon shrugged. "I guess anything's better than hanging around in g that closet. within our society, and the firet chance 1 get. you turn the iob over to someone whose only claim to fame is that he' a household word. ''Dick." the New Nixon said, "at the time I told you to wait in the closet. I you. But it would be thought I could wrong for the President of the United States to say the things I really believe. That' why I decided to use Spiro. That's just hne." tne Old Nixon said bitterly. But I have feelings, too. Ive ben in that closet for ID months rehearsing what I was going to say. I had some swell speeches about armict elements who disdain mixing with th working and liberals who ride around in limoumes and how a few rotten apples spoil the barrel and . . ue r!aes And let Agnew grab all the headlines? the Old Nixon jelled. "Dick, remember when we were Vice President together, and you did all the talking for us? Eisenhower d'dn't get mad. He pretended he didn't know what we were saying. And that's what I'm doing. I'm letting Agnew spout off at the mouth. Ill gain the people who agree with what Agnew has to say, and Ill avoid the animosity of those who get sore. But it will only work if you stay in the closet." The Old Nixon pointed his finger at the New Nixon. "I'm not going to Mke it much longer. You're going to have to choose between Spiro or me. Don't get tricky with me, Dick," the New Nixon said firmly. Th Old Nixon dropped to his koes. Ail right, so Im begging for c chance. Look at this stuff I wrote in the closet Merchants of Hate. 'Parasites of Passion, ' 'Ideological Eunuchs Straddling the d A Misunderstanding The present furor concerning the dismissal of dissenting athletes in the University of Wyoming is a most misunderstood incident. It demonstrates what and how much confrontation can be brought about by mere lack of knowledge of certain regulations. These are often caused by b'ind jealousy or hate or both. For instance, it is very doubtful whether there dissenters know or realize what "Priesthood as evaluated by the Mormon Church really means, or whether they would conduct their lives in accordance with the Church regulations regarding it. First, they would have to recognize the existence of a living God, believe in modern-dareve- lation. live clean moral and spiritual lives, support the Constitution of the United States of America as being divinely inspired, be willing to fight for its aims and principles and believe in modem revelation. that we have in this day and age a living prophet who has divine power to advise and lead people. To perform the duties of the Priesthood they would have to pattern their lives after the works and admonitions of Christ, the head of the Church. MRS. CANDACE J. HUNT 167 S. Main St, y . Heartless Driver I don't know his name, his address, or what he looks like, but a heartless motorist killed a dog a large, yellow mult crossing 8th West, today that he hit in the head with his bumper. I didn't see him, as I arrived after he sped away, but about 100 little children from Riley Elementary School did. I don't suppose hed care, but the dog didn't die right away. It lingered on just long enough for its young mistress to kneel beside it and watch it wretch in pain, her tears spilling down to mix with its blood. Oh. I know the dog should have been tied up, but big dogs tend to roam. Of course the motorist may have been in a hurry. The only thing is, the dog war hit in a school zone, right at the height of the lunch hour. If he couldnt avoid killing a big. yellow dog. on a bright sunny afternoon, one questions whether he was going a little too fast to stop for a child, had it been the unfortunate creature in his w ay. Children ran Eet new dogs, but how do you explain something like this to a sobbing little girl? How do you tearh compassion and decency to a crowd o? children who just saw a man mow down a nice old dog. without stopping? -- MRS. RAY M. HARDY 1159 Fremont Ave. ... . i I f T f . f 2 GUEST CARTOON you. "Promises, promise--- , " the Old Nixon sneered. I've been hanging around for 10 months writing to sock it to the snobs and the effete intellectuals and the arrogant. reckless, inexperienced elements Fears ? Concerning Carl J. Meilors statement at the . UEA convention Oct. 9 on sex education, I wonder what he actually meant by "respect when he discussed sex education and said "the big Issue is not related to sex, but to respect respect for the school and respect for the teachers. I think re- spect is something that is individually earned and is already enjoyed by many, many teachers. Or does he mean that parents should be subser- - ' vient and over-aweby the school? The school is an appendage of the home and the home is not an appendage of the school. The educators are hired by, paid by and wc-- for the parents and taxpayers. Mellor's statement that the public should react . to teachers only on actual happenings, not on tne basis of assumed fears is interesting. Have all the charges against teachers concerning sex education been unfair? Have these charges only been by "agents of the John Birch Society? My, the John Birch Society must be large. -L- YMAN KUNZ Montpelier, Idaho bell-botto- Give The Old Nixon A Chance The Old Nixon WASHINGTON came out of the closet in thp White Hcue on Halloween just as the New Nixon was going to bed. 'Assumed ' r 1 i fuI-scal- e By SYDNEY J. HARRIS h Free Trade Works JAMES J. KILPATRICK WASHINGTON Ordinarily in this town, a man takes sides instantly, as a matter of partisan instincts. You are for tP 4 ' Understand System i We were greatly concerned when we read in the press that the UEA featured as a speaker at its recent convention James Farmer, former Congress On Racial Equality (CORE) leader, now in War on Poverty, and suspected of using government funds to finance Black Power projects. We feel, as did the late Stephen L. Richards, our citizens tnust themselves be educated to understand the system under which they live and work. They must know enough to establish the proper education for themselves and their children, and reach conclusions for themselves. It is noithcr wise nor safe to leave the determination of our educational systems and policies exclusively to the professional educators. Ludwig Yon Mise in "Planning for Freedom acsays: "What is unsatisfactory with prevent-lanot only in this country bur .in ademic conditions is not the fact that many most foreign nations teachers are blindly committed to Vebleman, Marxian and Keynesian fallacies. aild trv to convince their students that no tenable ohiections can be raised against what they call progressive policies. The is ralher to he seen in the (art that the statements of tb'-steachers are not rhaF legend any critnism in the arademir sphere AND MRS. MELVIN C GH BERT Lewiston, Ufa5 i I I S i I ? y s a mi-chi- ef e Ho Chi Minh's TroiJ MR. i 9 |