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Show ' That's DESERET NEWS All A Local Bus .5 Will Be Along Later' CONFIDENT LIVING SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH I Why Hurt Yourself? 1 ' We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 20 A EDITORIAL PAGE ; THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, I try so hard, she wrote, but the world comes crashing in on us even so. Nowhere have we been able to Time For Utahns To Speak Up On Taxes j i find Ordinarily, such hearings al Our debts have accumulated because seven people are living on a salary hardly adequate fra- two. The children are all in their teens and all attending school, which is expensive business. And we have to eat and pay utili- ! ;and. t7 a Snowstorms have a knack of bringing out the best and in people, as this weeks storms proved. There are the honkers and the cursers and the guy -- who gets out of his car to help get a stalled car started again, -'There are the pessimists who see only snarled traffic, storm damage, and inconvenience and the optimists who. Tike Oliver Wendell Holmes, see The fairest meadow white with snow. There are those who only suffer through the winter, or south with the birds to escape it and there are those fly who take winter in full stride with skiing, snowmobiling, and jqst plain love of winters wonders. Adversity, declared Seneca, is the test of strong men. .And what brings out , character better than a snowstorm? T the worst i Give Us The Facts . Just one year ago today, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong began their Tet offensive. The results of that battle are still being hotly debated. 'And the answers gleaned so far will have an important effect on President Nixon and U.S. reaction if another fourth offensive is launched when this years lunar New Year begins on Feb. 17. Captured enemy documents indicate such a i On Clobbering The High Court When Justice Black teed off on his colleagues in the Akron case last week, he was engaging in one of the grandest body contact exercises in the land. For sheer artistic pummeling, nothing matches the clobbering of judges by fellow judges. Outside critics are not in their class. The Akron case involved a fair housing ordinance adopted by the City people. Democracy works only when the people are given the facts on which to base an intelligent decision. This lesson should be a ground rule for the new administration, and Presi- lent Nixon appears off on the right foot with his press conference this week. r. ; Crack Down On Bail How do you punish the criminal who, while out on bail bond, commits another crime to raise the bond money or to v pay off his lawyer? That problem is facing judges all across the country. It is court calendars increasingly complicated by which stretch thd time out to months between the preliminary hearing and actual trial. Salt Lake City Police Chief Dewey Fillis has suggested doubling the bail bond for the first offense when a man already is out on bond, tripling it for the second offense, and so forth. Repeat offenders should also forfeit bond. Whether such bond would constitute cruel and unusual punishment and be unconstitutional is a matter for the courts to decide. Certainly it would make a suspect think twice before committing another crime while already out on bond. Council in months later, opponents of the ordinance suc-jj- T ceeded in forcing I a referendum on an amendment to the city charter. Mr. Kilpatrick This amendment, approved by Akron voters themselves, did two things: (1) it repealed the 1964 ordinance, and (2) it provided that no such law could become effective in Akron again unless it were first approved by the people in a direct referen1964. Some dum. The Supreme Court last week ruled in a hoity-toit- y opinion by Justice White, that the people of Akron were powerless thus to manage their own affairs. By a process of acrobatic reasoning, characteristic of the tortured positions the Court falls into in these racial cases, the majority found that Akrons procedure discriminates against minori8-- ties, and constitutes a real, substantial and insidious denial of the equal' protection of the laws. as bad, in It was a bad opinion every way, as the Courts opinion of went to President Nixon's first press conference Monday morning. A Presidents first press conference is as important to the press as it is to the President. The entire country is watching to see if the WASHINGTON case-clogg- JAMES J. KILPATRICK May, 1967, which invalidated Californias effort to restore property rights by amending the state constitution. Come to think of it. White wrote that opinion, too. You might think that the people of Akron should have the right to reserve final decision to themselves, by direct referendum, on any proposed city ordinance. Not so. In this case, to require a referendum might make it more difficult to get a fair housing law on the books, and the high court is enchanted with fair housLng laws. It thinks every city should have one. So Akrons ordinance, which the people themselves sought to repeal, remains in effect. The Court needs to control itself, snapped Blade. The rebuke was richly deserved. Black is perhaps the most accomplished of the nine justices in denouncing his erring brothers. He goes after them with the jugular instincts of an old tennis player killing a mushy lob. A little more than a year ago, in Katz v. U.S., he put on a virtuoso performance. The Katz case involved a gambler who had been convicted on evidence obtained from a bugged telephone booth. A majority of the court reversed the conviction. Black roared his dissent His colleagues had applied the Fourth Amendment to eavesdropping, but the Fourth Amendment simply does not apply to His brothers were eavesdropping. ge-stretching judges. Their aim was the Constitution. They to rewrite lacked scholarship, common sense and langua- ART BUCHWALD 1 White House cor- respondents are up to questioning their leader. About 500 ctf us were crouched at Mr. Buchwald the West Wing starting line 30 minutes before the conference began. At the signal from the Secret Service, we made the outdoor dash for the White House portico. Running and jogging are not permitted, but the pace is fast. The reason for speed is that there are only 300 seats in the East Room, and if you're not quick enough, a woman reporter will beat you to a seat. The idea of covering a televised presidential press conference is to gpt on TV, so your family as well as your bosses back home will see you. The best v,ay to do this is to ask a question, preferably a long one, so the came: a will stay on you, instead of the President. - v ,The word resentment derives from to feel Latin roots meaning to or obstructs or Someone wrongs again. wounds you. In resenting It you the injury. You yourself. The Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand. The best way to avoid this suffering is to apply what I Call spiritual iodine the moment anybody hurts you. Get your resentment healed at once, before it starts to fester. Psychiatrist Smiley Blanton used to say, Practice being dispassionate. When sosMone does something mean, be scientific. Think, Now, why would he act that way? There must be a cause. I wilHryto find and remove it, so that there cahbe good rapport between us. Once you have permitted resentment toward someone to embitter you, hewing comes harder. In that case you. (bay have to drain the wound. Pour out jour grievance to a counselor. Or express it freely in a letter, then tear the letterup. Having done this, you are ready tor --the cure. It consists in completely forgiving the offending person. Only then, of course, is resentment really ended-- .: re-fe- ed J LETTERS TO THE EDITOR iiuiiiiiiHiniiinniinuiniitinniiuuiiiininiitiummiiiiiiituinnuuiiHifDHumw candor. They were engaged in clever In effect, they were sitting not as a court, but as a continuously functioning constitutional convention. It was a splendid, spread-eagle- d excotradition. riation, born of The Court insults itself, like Touchstone and his friends, in terms of the Reply Churlish, the Reproof Valiant, and the Countercheck Quarrelsome. Consider, if you please, what some of the Justices said last term about the opinions of their brother justices. They found each other to be: , Protests Bucher Trial word-jugglin- I am not in the habit of writing letters to newspapers, but this is one time I am going to speak up for what I feel is a travesty of justice. I speak up against the inhuman inquest being conducted in Coronado, Calif., prying into the conditions surrounding the capture of the ship Pueblo, and the sufferings of the crew and captain. My family and I feel deeply chagrined to hear of the way these men are being treated in their own country, after the terrible sufferings they endured for the long months of their incarceration in the North Koreans hands as prisoners. Why is this being carried on? Why are they not being given honor; kindness, respect such as they deserve just for having endured these things? We all know of the tortures perpetrated on Communist prisoners. I see no reason for these inquests. This is a waste of our hard earned tax money, and is an unnecessary abuse of these men. The ship Pueblo was not sent help when signals were sent to those in command responsible for its safety. They were deserted by our own U.S: Air Force at the time they were desperately signaling for help. I read in the column next to this story that three star general Seth J. McKee refused to go to their aid when the Pueblo asked for help. Why is he not on trial, answering why he did net send his airplanes to their rescue? I should like to know. This man has been exonerated of the responsibility of going to the aid of the vessel. Why? Why has he received a promotion to file Pentagon? Why does Captain Bucher have to suffer over and over again the degradation and humiliation he received at the hands of the Communists? Obscure, precarious,. , Pickwickian, inconsistent, fantastic and confusing, who).., illogical. They were overly simple, mechanical, misleading, mistaken, unreasoned, 'unwarranted, very ambiguous and totally inaccurate. They went treating the Constitution as a word game played by. secret rules. They were straining the outer limits of judicial authority. They were trespassing upon the powers of Congress. They were taking a long step down the totalitarian path. They were afflicted with fuzzy ideology. They were going in circles. They were preposterous. Their pronouncements were also unjust, unreasoning, extravagant, indefensible, cavalier, bewildering, chaotic and little less than farcical. These' compliments, mind you, were from last May and June alone. It is a humbling experience to read such judicial reproaches. What good is it for a layman to belabor the judges? Their Honors have so refined the art of insult that nothing new the remains to be said. The Court needs to control its elf! Black said it, not L --MRS. The next best thing to asking a question is to sit behind someone who you are sure will ask one. During President Kennedys Adminis1 always tried to get ,i seat behind May Craig. It was a sure way of getting on TV. Unfortunately, other reporters knew this, too, and there vas always a fight for seats behind where May Craig placed herself. tration In the .ohnson Administration used to gravitate behind Sarah we all McClcn- - don, who writes for a string of Texas newspapers. Unfortunately, it was too early in the Nixon Administration to know whom to sit behind, though after this first press conference the smart money is now on Clark Mollenhoff of the Cowles newspapers. The ground rule for asking questions at a White House press conference is to jump up from your chair and hope the President will recognize you. That is why its so important to have a seat. If youre already standing, the President doesnt know whether you want to ask a question or whether you were just unlucky not to get a chair. The only thing standees can do is crouch while the President is speaking and then straighten up when he's ready to take a question and shout Mr. President. But it rarely works in the East J. CHRISTENSEN E. Students Law-Abidi- ng I was sorry to see the typical news photo on Fri24) paper, of the police subduing demonstrators. This time the place was San Francisco State College. Those who read the article found reason enough for the demonstrators to be subdue! They also found, tucked in the story, two paragraphs telling how students who oppose the strike were chased across campus by demonstrators because they (the students) were trying to restore an American flag which had been cut down from a days (Jan. gan, the TV and radio commentator. As luck would have it, f made the right decision, because Miss McClendon was never recognized And Mr. Morgan not only got the nod from President Nixon, but asked the longest question of the press conference. By sticking my head around Mr. Morgans elbow I must have been on TV for at least a minute. I thought my father would be very with the exposure, but when I happy ' called him that night his only comment was, I liked you better when you sat behind Sarah McClendon. Everyone who watches TV is a critic. GUEST CARTOON flagpole. Where were the photographers when Bill Barrett, of the Committee for an Academic Environment, climbed a human ladder to tape the flag back to the pole protected, while so doing, by ten policemen on horseback? - . . ( Lets start giving our police credit and support and publicize our decent, students. Lets begin to show it how it is. law-abidi- ' SUNNIE THOMPSON Richfield , ' f Abortion Bill's Aim V - I note with interest the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints statement concerning the proposed law ou abortion and sterilization. This' proposal is designed to reduce pain and suffering,' both physical and mental; reduce the incidence of deformed children, and prevent birth when it would do irreparable harm. Since the Church opposes it, one must conclude that it favors these things for whatever reasons. It seems that this posture is out of character for an organization dedicated to the uplift of mankind. What benefit can be had by forcing a rape victim to bear the child that results? What good can come from knowingly producing a deformed human vegetable? Why should husbands and wives live In constant terror of a pregnancy that is sure to bring death? It seems that of this position js in order before it is taken seriously by the Legislature. y . Room. Since the President of the United States cannot bestow knighthood on reporters. the next best thing is for him to a newspaper reporter by recognize name. This is comparable to Queen Elizabeth giving someone the Order of the Garter. If the President not only recognizes someone by name, but refers to something he has written, as he did in the case of Mr. Mollenhoff, the reporter has nothing to look forward to except to be asked to leave his footprints in cement in Lyn Nugent's Childrens Garden. This was President Nixons first press conference and I didn't know what to do. I was tempted to sit behind Sarah McClendon on the off chance that the change in administrations would have no effect on her being recognized. But at the last minute I decided to take a calcula, ed risk and sit behind Edward P, Mor ERMA 1840 S. 16 That First Press Conference ' n. i iniiiiiiiiintiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinuiutniiiitqmiinn possi-.bilit- y. President Nixon certainly should note the lessons of the Johnson administration in regard to the Tet offensive. For, perhaps more than any other single incident, that battle raised the spectre that perhaps the administration was not exa condition de- actly leveling with the American public scribed as the credibility gap. President Johnson told a news conference Feb. 2 that the Communists had suffered a complete failure militarily in its r, attacks on 30 of South Vietnams 44 provincial capitals and its two national capitals, Saigon and the ancient imperial city of Hue. On Feb. 4, Senator Eugene McCarthy charged that reports of the wars progress were products of their (the administrations) own Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton also scored the administration on the same day for its unwillingness to level with the American 1 ra-hu- rt ties and rent. I used to like people and practice good will toward all, but I have lost that clean way of thinking about others. I feel very resentful. Our situation is so bad that hope is gone. In replying to this hopeless person I rules for handling gave some time-trie- d acute money problems and also ventured a few thoughts on the effects of resentment, with suggestions for overcoming it. . Some months later she wroto again. I guess you can say I really believe now. Your kind letter gave the word I needed to understand myself and my problem. The word is resentment. I see what the stumbling block has been. While priding myself on not being envious of other peoples good fortune, I was resentful that it couldnt be mine, too. So now I have a place to start, A mountain to remove, and I can and will do it! Later I heard from her once more: are sparsely ) re-fe- el - attended but not this one. With a record high budget in the effing, taxpayers jammed the hearing to overflowing and ; Were so outspoken in their opposition that tempers got out of Snowstorms And Men to solve need. . For another thing, take the resistance to higher tax bills that was manifested all across the nation in last Novembers Ordinarily, American voters approve between 73 and cent of the bond issues put before them but this time per rat' least 42 per cent were rejected. While these episodes no doubt are subject to more than one interpretation, isnt it possible that taxpayers are learning that there isnt a government budget that cant be cut somewhere . . . that instead of tares being tailored to fit a budget, ' .budgets should be tailored to fit what the taxpayers can afford . . . that while a growing economy creates the need for more governmental services it tlso should generate the revenue to pay for them without imposing outrageous new burdens on taxpayers? Certainly theres a limit to which taxes can be increased without stifling economic incentives. Certainly Utah has rea-- ; son to be more aware of this hazard than most states, since ; we rank ninth among the 50 states in the proportion of personal income going for state and local taxes. Whatever Utahns think about the proposed state budget and the taxes it involves, now h the time to make themselves - heard. With only 42 days left in the session, time is rapidly in which the Legislature can learn how wide- -' out 'running and the ouly is demand for more state services the spread . ones who can let it know are those who foot the bill. help i along fine. Do you have any resentments? Do you know that by harboring resentment you damage yourself? Resentful feelings complicate problems and impair effectiveness. They affect health, too. Physicians assert that many ailments appear to stem from rankling animosities which the patients have kept bottled up. our or troubles even to get relief from them. We are in desperate finan-ci- When Gov. Rampton presented his proposed budget to the Utah Legislature a week ago today, this page asked if the demand for more state services were really widespread enough to warrant all the higher taxes being requested. That this question still bears looking into should be apparent from the group of about 150 Utahns who turned up at the Legislature Tuesday to demand that the line be held on higher taxes of any type. In the absence of i poll, theres no telling whether or not such sentiments represent the feelings of most Utahns. But there are a few signs that a taxpayers revolt may be in the making, and the 38th Legislature should be aware of them. For one thing, take the budget hearing that the Salt Lake County Commission held last month before adopting the countys new budget. At leng last 1 am gaining a greater unof life derstanding of people and indeed itself. The older children have jobs after school now, and we all feel part of a team. It is wonderful. I just had to let you know that we really are coming By NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Life is cruel, a Canadian woman wrote. Problems and misery surround and almost choke me. T69 i i j s i j i t i MARK V. CHATFIELD 971 W. 11th North Utah's 'Square Dance' I The state of Utah Square Dance: The callers state politicians and state legislators. The dance song Taxes, taxes and more taxes. The dangers: Overburdened Utah taxpayers. MRS. CLIFFORD J. ANDERSON swear it's bottomless! St. Louis I r ( |