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Show ' Right DESERET NEWS ERMA DOMBSCII Down The Middle East An Incurable Saver SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Women generally fall into two basic classifications: the savers and the I am a saver, but my husband is bent on my conver-sio- Having Been Divinely inspired 18 A EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY, tos-ser- s. 30, 1969 OCTOBER n. Wildajean Nee- dy is on How Utah Can Stretch Its Building Dollars As the Utah Foundation outlined the problem this week, there can be little or no doubt where the major emphasis should be in meeting future state building needs. Although substantial sums have been spent for state building purposes in recent years, Utah still has large unmet building requests remaining. Just how large was indicated by the State Building Board last January when it assigned priorities to $86.7 million in current building requests and proe another $135.6 million in building for evaluation. future requests Since virtually all of the proceeds from the 1965 state building bond issue have been expended or committed, Utah will Tiave to stretch its resources to the limit, making sure that approval is given to only those projects for which there is a clear and undeniably urgent need. Since institutions of higher education account for 90 per cent of Utahs state building needs, no one can be in the dark about who will have to bear the brunt of the Moreover, the alternatives available to Utah make it clear g must take. form most of the which just The Legislature could, of course, try to increase the appropriations for buildings it makes from current revenues. But the prospects for substantial additional building allocations look dim in view of a recent projection by the Utah Foundation that if past revenue and expenditure trends continue, Utah will fall $317 million short of meeting operating expenses during the next deci. K Another alternative would be to increase taxe3 and earmark the funds for building purposes. But there is a growing resistance on the part of many Utahns to further tax hikes. Or, Utah could conceivably authorize another building bond issue as present debt is retired and new capacity is added by growth in the tax base. But soaring interest rates would make the cost of any bond now twice as great as the one issued in 1965. Moreover, there is said to be mounting concern over the growing indebtedness of Utahs governmental units. By the process of elimination, that leaves greater utilization of present and future buildings, particularly schools, on which the greatest emphasis should be placed in meeting Utahs building needs. How this can be accomplished was outlined by a 1969 space utilization report from the State Building Board which suggested: of buildings at 1. Reduce departmental ownership education. of institutions Utahs higher 2. Schedule classes more uniformly throughout the day regardless of the preferences of students or faculty. 3. Make greater use of Tuesdays and Thursdays in scheduling classes during the week. 4. If needed, make more use of the early morning hours and the noon hour in scheduling classes. 5. Encourage schools to design labs to a general laboratory scheme so that such facilities can be used by different science classes and also as general classrooms. 6. Make use of a recently completed inventory of institution space in the planning, scheduling, and use of facilities. 7. Program future building plans to coincide with expected enrollment growth. 8. Make scheduled room assignments compatible with class size. With pressure on our institutions of higher education increasing, Utah cant afford to neglect any possibility for getting the most and best use from its building facilities. grammed long-rang- Ive about the dollar-stretchin- Ordinarily when Arabs fall out with each other, its good news for beleaguered little Israel. But even the most partisan can take no joy from the bloody conflicts within neighboring Lebanon between guerrilla fighters and government forces. Half Moslem and half Christian, Lebanon has tried to avoid taking sides in the struggle, knowing that was essential to its continued prosperity. Sadly, however, Lebanon finds itself in an untenable position where no matter what it does it brings on attack either from within or from without. If Lebanon allows Arab guerrillas to use its territory for attacks on Israel, this invites retaliation from the Israelis on the Beirut government. But if Lebanon doesnt cooperate with the guerrillas, the guerrillas also attack Lebanon. Duiing the current conflict between the guerrillas and government forces in Lebanon, Israel would be well advised to lie low. Regardless of the provocation, an Israeli reprisal now sentiment in Lebanon and would only enflame could topple the Beir t government. Whatever Israel does, when Arab attacks Arab for not pursuing the holy war" against Israel avidly enough, it war in the reflects a fanaticism so strong that another Middle Ea. seems all but inevitable. pro-Israe- li Arab-Israe- li nt pro-guerril- la all-o- sound-proofin- g. catch-al- l drawer. Its gotten a little out of hand. If its the 15 bleach bottles that Im going to make piggy banks out of some day, Ill put them in the garage. && No. I know. Its the bag of keys that open anything? Or the straw hats from the Worlds Fair? dont , Will Russ , China Go To War? THE DRUMMONDS By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND - WASHINGTON Dont assume that the peril of war between Russia and China is fading away because they are now talking together in Peking. Obviously, war between the two Communist powers is not inevitable if there is an ounce of sanity in Moscow and Peking. But the world will not be saved from such a war, which would almost certainly be nuclear, by wishfully thinking that their latest attempt to settle the border dispute will indeed settle them. Both the Soviets and the Chinese may have decided to step back from the brink of conflict, but there is no evidence that they will step back very far or for very long. Too much has been at stake too long. Each brands the other its most predatory and implacable enemy, and neither is using words to say more than he needs. From the time when Josef Stalin viewed with no dissent Chiang massacre of thousands of Chinese Communists in 1927, Stalin and his successors have pursued a consistent goal with respect to China: They sought a weak China, just strong enough to be a counterweight to Japan, but always weak I try to throw things out. Its just that you never know when youre going to need a box of quilt patches or a box of dominos or a laundry bag of brackets. Remember the time you wanted a pair of tricycle wheels to attach to the garbage can and I had them right at my finger-tips? They weren't at your fingertips, he said with a sigh. I slept with them for eight years along with a punctured air mattress and 136 clay flower pots. Do you know what I want you to do? I want you to promise me mat every day youll throw away at least one thing. I dont . , , Kai-she- G. Drummond R. Drummond enough to pose no threat and no challenge to the Soviet leadership of the Communist world. Mao refuses to accept the Inferior role assigned to him by Moscow, and his successors will refuse to do so. Tse-tun- g The differences between the United States and Red China are puerile and puny compared to the differences between Russia and China. Even the border disputes, which constitute the only matter on the agenda for the Peking negotiators, are not ordinary. At the very least, they involve 900,000 square miles of strongly disputed territory and an additional 1.56 million square miles in the Eastern Soviet republics which Peking also claims. Peking contends that these vast territories were taken by the Russian czars by unequal treaties when China was weak and that the Soviet Communists deand nounced these unequal treaties promised to rectify them. China, whether Nationalist or Communist, has never ceased to claim the the czars took, and the Soviet Communists have never yielded an inch of territory which Russia, czarist or Communist, has acquired under any circumstances at any time. No area cf compromise is visible here. Quite a few people find it strange, bordering on the incomprehensible, that es Communists should fight Communists. How is it possible that two fraternal Communist nations can so viciously be at each others throat? The answer is not difficult. On the long record, it is that Communists just naturally fight Communists. Stalin was the worst slaughterer of Communists but by no means the only one. From Karl Marx to Leonid Brezhnev, Communists have fought Communists more than they have fought Because Russia and China are led by Communists, the danger of war is greater. Its Harry Byrd economizer, meaning me, to get worked up about the travails of Mrs. Betty Cameron. The lush job the lady held for nine days at the State Department last month is a plum that is ripe for the plucking. But the story has some political overtones that ought to be heard in the presidents office. M r s. Cameron was dumped largely, though not entirely, because it became known that five years ago she carried a sign at a rally. The story has its tragicomic aspects; and taking one thing with another, it offers a nice reflection of politics as seen through a cracked mirror, oddly. back to the beginning: Mrs. o n, an attractive widow, a onetime actress and former antiques dealer, is a right-winRepublican with solid party credentials. She was president of the Rock Creek Women Republicans. in suburban Bethesda; she served in 1953 on the inaugural committee ; last year she gave $1,000 to the GOP campaign and worked in the Washington To go C a m e Nixon-Agne- JAMES J. KILPATRICK Harry Flemming, the White House patronage boss, read about it in the papers and went off like Vesuvius. This was one of the really plush positions, but through a chain ol efforts her appointment never had been cleared with him or with Nixon. Yet apparently he was confronted with a fait accompli. On Wednesday, Mrs. Camerons dream house began to collapse. An old political enemy in Maryland, possessed of a long memory, recalled that in the spring of at the time the Democratic primary, a photograph had appeared in the 1964, of Montgomery Sentinel showing Mrs. Cameron with other demonstrators at a rally. She was carrying a banner with a strange device: They say integration. They mean miscegenation. Word of the unforgotten photo reached ' Yielding To Pressure Government control of prices and specifications in business seems to have eluded the food industry in that yielding to pressure groups, it sacrificed consumer welfare. When the government decides to act on something in the interest of the consumer, pressure groups like trade associations counter- act by applying political pressures. For example, until recently the consumer had no way of knowing what was contained in sausage products like frankfurters, bologna, minced lunch meat and sausage. There was no specification on the fat content allowed in sausage products. The producers just threw in anything they wanted to keep the cost down. Mrs. Knauer, President Nixons advisor on consumer welfare, proposed a 30 pet. as opposed to a 33 pet. fat content by USDA. As a result, Agri- culture Secretary Hardin ordered a 30 pet. maximum to be effective Oct. 23. This is just one ex- - . ample of how the consumer has been in danger for .. a considerable time before any action was taken, because in November, 1968, the IMPS (Institutional ! Meat Purchase Specifications) was set up by the USDA to identify these products precisely. Can government act where it feels it is necessary to protect consumer welfare? Can producers be allowed to produce whatever they want to get lower costs because of the time lag when govern- ment sets up a committee to investigate, discuss,' and propose controls? By the time controls are enacted, it may be too late because the political pressures exerted by trade associations are too great to allow action. E. OM WARREN 3360 South, Apt. 34 Needed: Skilled Workers Flemming. Then Vera Glaser and Malvina Stephenson, of the Knight newspapers, got onto the story. On Sunday the 7th, the story broke; and on Monday Mrs. Cameron was suspended. Mrs. Cameron describes the Wallace incident as no more than a lark: Some of the girls pushed her into it. She is tearfully sorry, but she wonders with some inciasperity why a single dent should work as a bill of attainder. After all, plenty of jobs have gone to such conspicuous political misfits as James Farmer, the former head of CORE. Is any identification with George Wallace to be seen as a kiss of death? Its a question that Flemming and his eminent boss would do well to ponder with care. Upwards of nine million persons voted last year for the Hon. George. If they have become untouchables, as the Cameron incident suggests, Nixon has bought himself a barrel of trouble. GUEST CARTOON The philosophy of only those who go to college can succeed is one of the big obstacles that is contributing to the short supply of skilled and semiskilled workers. Recent enrollments In colleges, junior colleges, and even high schools has reached new highs. Presently, inadequate apprenticeship programs and the lackluster look of technical schools are driving young people to seek higher education as a' means to find an end. Unfortunately, there is room' for only so many chiefs and so many Indians. This shortage has forced employers to be satisfied with poor workmanship. The end of the Vietnam War would probably take care of the current shortage, but what are we going to do about the future? Needed to be improved are the apprenticeship programs. Technical schools and the careers they offer need more promotion. Entrances into unions should be liberalized. This shortage is much more serious than the public seems to be aware of. Finding a solution to this problem needs more attention from everybody. --T. J. SWEENEY 2210 E. 3900 South . Competition, Please - In the past year, a struggle has gone on In Salt' Lake City over whether one private enterprise has the franchise to operate an ambulance service without competition. As w look to some types at business, we see a need, for example, for only' one power company or telephone line. But the question I raise is the justification for only one ambulance service. It seems that we are not given an alterna-- i tive usually typical of American business. . With competition between two businesses, the, public usually receives better service and greater stimulation on the part of each firm trying to better its operation. The next Legislature should not pass bills that are curbing the free enterprise system, and remove the statutes that are now taking business competition away. Salt Lake City needs more than one am- -' bulance service. ' ' NORMAN W. RICH office. So far, so good. Mrs. Cameron, a woman of vast energy, wanted a nice job in the Nixon Administrati- on. The Republican National Committee routed her in August to the State Department, and there, to her unbounded delight, she was offered what is known as the Nancy Kefauver slot. V. Ibis is a position created four or five years ago for the late widow of the Tennessee senator. It pays nearly $19,000 a year, plus travel expenses. The incumbent is expected to travel around the world, visiting U.S. embassies and advising our ambassadors on the expenditure of counterpart funds for local furnishings, It tests objects d'art, and the imagination to conceive a more useless job, especially at $19,000 a year, but She was sworn in on Tuesday, Sept. 2. 1 : 395 r this was the job Mrs. Cameron got. all drawer. But I cant. I use old light bulbs all the time. I darn socks with them. You havent darned a sock in 20 years. THROW IT OUT! Mark my word, I said, if Wilda-jea- n calls tomorrow and needs an bid light bulb, Ill never speak to you again. -T- The Taint Of Governor Wallace hard for an care if its only a gum wrapper. I want you to kick the savers habit. Here, start with this burnt-ou- t light bulb in the catch-- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR eni-tori- g g When a $31 million theater for the performing arts to be built entirely by private donations grows into a $66.4 million project which taps the taxpayer's till for S43.4 million, some questions are in order. Thats the situation with the National Cultural Center. first authorized by Congress in 1958 for construction in Washington. renamed for PresAfter more than 10 years, the center is still only half finished. ident Kennedy Where has all the money gone? Inflation, for one thing. Tragically poor planning, for another, as Senate debate on the issue brought out. For example, the cost of steel alone was underestimated by S2.7 mih.on. Someone also found the building was directly in the path of jet planes landing at National Airport, so more Otherwise, officials money was added for couldn't music. hear the explained, you Such a center is, of course, a considerable national asset and boost for the performing arts. But it is also a prime example of what happens when government gets mixed up in financing with the taxpayer's money what should be a private institution. been meaning to speak with you What about It? ut Culture And Congress cant I hung up the phone and faced my husband. That was a pretty mean thing for you to do. All those people out there. They depend on me. Remember two years ago when the PTA needed two dozen cardboard fans? I went right to the catch-al- l drawer and produced two dozen like new fans from the So Long Funeral Home. dollar-stretchin- Arab Against Arab the he yelled. phone, She wants to know if you have an , , eyewash cup. I told A her you had one 2 4 1 and just threw it out. You didnt! I shouted, grabbing the phone. What are you trying to do to my reputaiion? Hello, Wildajean? Of course I have an eyewash cup. Whos sick? You dont need a heating blanket with a short in it, do you? Or a hot water bottle that leeks? Or a pair of surgical gloves that have melted into mittens? Come on over and Ill dig out the eyewash cup for you. he said quietly. everything, go on saving every piece s string, foil, paper or bottle cap you get The other day I touched a door knob and a couple thousand rubber bands nearly flogged me to death. Its You ' 1349-5t- h East, r i Cure For Illegitimacy . "Some guarantee!" Mllwauk Sentinel interThe cure for illegitimacy, VD, and divorce is not' sex course, promiscuity education its chastity. CHARMAYNE KASPARIAN; Taylorsville |