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Show Review Editorials Page 4 February 18, 1965 A Tender Topic: (Continued from Page state well r And so, while the 1966 election will not have the excitement of the 1964 contests for or President, United States Governor, the proposals to change the State Constitution will be the substitute in full dress debate Planning Board Sen-ator- TAYLOR S VICDOUG TORY OVER FRUSTRATION Appointments On Monday, the Salt Lake County Commission appointed a new member He is John Price, a contractor and of the county planning commission. land developer, who lives in Salt Lake City. We do not question for a moment Mr. Prices personal qualifications as a member of that txxiy. We do believe his appointment deserves examination as a question of the county commissions policy in naming members to this highly sensitive board. The planning commission is composed of six members besides Commissioner William G. Larson, who serves io. The body is currently manned by one land developer, one investor, one contractor, one secretary, one radio newscaster and one drug executive. Two of the members live in Salt Lake City, two in die area, one in Kearns and one in Granger. East Mill Creek Although the planning commissioner can be overruled by the county commisswhich ion, the ordinary course has been reliance on its recommendations is as it should be. The planning board is thus a powerful body dealing in a delicate area. It behooves the county commissioners to exercise extreme care and caution in selecting its membership. The public Interest is the only valid criteria for decisions on this commission. Personal qualifications and merit should be the prime consideration but, in order to serve the public best, we believe a balance of geographic and professional interests is necessary. We naturally assume that the members of the present planning commission are men and women of integrity, who would not allow personal to interfere with public duty. But in appointing individuals whose businesses are Involved to some degree in planning commission decisions, we believe the county commission is edging toward a policy which may be unwise. self-inter- est Policy is also worth examining when all members of the planning commisswith no representation from agriculture or are drawn from business the professions, ' ion t-- We also question the wisdom of the present geographic distribution of the planning commission. We believe that some representation from the growing H oil aday --Cottonwood or Cottonwood Heights areas as well as Sandy and in would be order. Draper Planning commission members should place the interest of the entire county they naturally have greater familiarity with their own neighborhood. first but for various reasons District commissioners do exist but has hardly been overwhelming in the past. their influence In its overall study of county planning in 1963, the Salt Lake Valley Citizen's Council did not set down any general guidelines for membership on the planning commission. This would have been a worthy subject for analysis at that time. And perhaps it still is. bvjBerxTbrgey The show oo J an u ary 25 was much in a minor flayed pretty King and Republican Tom Curtis as first night principals and House Majority Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma in a walk-o- n part. The show didn't attract much attention, and it closed after the opening night But it had, as a sequel, South Dakota Republican E Y Berry as a knight in shining armor, spraying buckshot King opened with an attack on this statement, attributed to Goldwater in his curious, defensively aggressive address to the Republican National Committee on January 22: ' wasn t dishonest enough last campaign to win. In order to win campaigns one must be dishonest or a little bit dishonest " The Utah Democrat then went on to say that, ' if this statement means what it purports to mean, then Mr Goldwater is accusing every duly elected official in the United States of Dishonesty When King had finished Albert popped up for his brief I in the role: Mr Speaker, he said, pertly, " if the statement attributed to Mr Goldwater is true as it has been reported it is certainly one of the most amazing statements that have ever read coming from a man who has not only run and lost an election but who has run for office and won elections " Enter Curtis, an eight term Republican from Missouri who 1 -- woo even though be supported Goldwater in November. Let's he had a tough Job, face it defending that statement. But be did.' be said, Mr Speaker, I interpret Senator Gold- - "as, (Continued from Page the people what he thinks did exist I am not entirely sure but what he was right Reading the record in re- trospect, touch of there seems to be a fate of serio-com- ic desbny, in all the argument. King attacking, Curtis defending Or perhaps it was Just Goldwater, hovering in the wings arrived the next day, with Berry as its improbable carrier, a Destiny self-satisfi- ed knight According to the text of his speech read into the record, Goldwater was indeed misquoted Referring to books written about the campaign, Goldwater said: ' In fact, what they boil down to mosHy. is that I wasn t dishonestenough in this last campaign to win It s a little distract.ng to Lnd writers feeling that in order to win an election one must be dishonest or a little dishonest ." Destiny tnmphed, and E Y Berry crowed about the "radical left press King and Albert salvaged some pride King prefaced his remarks by saying, "Mr Goldwater is quoted by the national press as having said . Albert included an if clause So the press is the culprit, but is it left wing' Th fact that Goldwater was misquoted is deplorable, but it doesn't add up to that conspiracy that the E Y Berry's of America seem to see The fart is that what the right wing savs about the press never makes sense just betrays a kind of seething frustration with modernity that makes a complicated Me a lot more complicated and unpleasant Few most Senators and Con - 1) ltion, is a traveling, talking month Over the past weekend there was the annual Lincoln's and then Birthday recess Monday is George Washington's Birthday. Lincoln's birthday is a Republican day, traditionally speaking, that is But then Lincoln belongs to America and speech making is a politician s birthright doubt if there was much when Democratic Congressman King, staging a So 1 surprise minor play inone-upsmansh- ip on Republicans, appeared in Salt Lake County to give two speeches last Friday, Lincoln s birthday of Utah's Republicans, not idle were course, Congressman Burton addressed the Republican 500Clubin Ogden, and Senator Bennett was in Salt Lake City before leaving for La Paz, in Baha California, Mexico, to attend an 1) interparliamentary confer- ence Senator Moss spent Friday in Washington, having just returned from a trip to Ind.an-apol- is for subcommittee hearings but this week end he'll be in Ltah for a series of ribbon-cubin- g cornerstone laving ceremonies On Monday he 11 be present when the ribbon is cut for the new ski area near Cedar City, on Saturday at the opening of a new post office and of the new Forestry Science Laboratory, both in Logan, and Friday in Santa-qui- n for a post office opening The Democratic Senator runs away with the award for the most bizarre trip of a traveling month however Actually, it started in January, and it was to Antartica, with the Navy The second proposal to be placed on the 1966 ballot is to amend the Constitution. This proposal has an interesting with a moral It history would allow metropolitan government Many new members erf the legislature report they feel frustrated during their first session. Perhaps this is so because as private citizens, the answers seemed so easy and exciting but once inside the legislature, the problems became so perplexing and the answers so elusive. Or perhaps it is that they did not realize they would be assigned to work with dozens, even hundreds of stand bills and resolutions in which they had no personal interest. Thus, rather than being stimulated by accomplishment in their fa.orite legislative interests, they become trapped by routines outside these hard-to-und- er interests. This is quite a switch from of many the citizens that legislators sit in Judgment on great issues of their own choosing, spending the evenings dining by candlelight as they resolutely reas every statesman sist must the blandishments of lobbyists who drip with money and gifts with which to buy votes for special interests. It can be frustrating for a new legislator, who during the campaign has made great statements on how to solve the problem of education, to find that he has but little influence in making the final decision, is seldom called on for advice or comment, and that his wisdom in the matter is almost totally ignored. But the frustration nearly always turns into increased admiration for the demorcra-ti- c process and pride in being able to participate; because those moments of excitement and personal participation do come, and when they do they are remembered and appreciated as having a greater value because they are rare rather than common A shining example is the rather memorable passage during the fourth week of Senator G Douglas Taylor's (Rep Salt Lake) "Metropolitan Government bill This is Doug Taylor's seventh regular legislative ses TXe Many t sion, stretching back nearly fourteen years of uninterrupted service. He has also carried heavy responsibility on the Utah Legislative Council. It was 10 years ago, while a member of the House, that he first started working on ways to improve the economy efficiency, and performance of local government. At that time, he introduced a bill to set up a local government survey commission with a $25,000 appropriation and two years' duration. The bill was signed by Govenor J. Bracken Lee, but not until after the $25,000 appropriation had been subjected to a long sertreaties of Lee-sty- le ments. The commission worked for two years with the legislative council Doug Taylor was the It recommended twenty -- two bill's to the ay 1957 Legislature. Doug Tay- lor introduced and handled them all Eight passed. The rest failed, principally due to legislative exhaustion. The Metropolitan Government Bill was one that failed, but only by one vote. Opposition came principally from municipal jobholders who felt their Jobs were in danger. Taylor introduced the bill into the House again in 1959. It died in sifting committee. He introduced it again in 1961. Again it died in sifting committee. By the 1963 session. Representative Taylor had become Senator Taylor He took a private poll of the Senators and found half the horses. This year, the bill received a new champion in the new Governor, Calvin L. Rampton who used part of his inaugural speech to support Doug Taylor's Bill. The bill has now passed. It was unanimous in the Senate, and had only five dissenting votes in the House The Utah Municipal League which once opposed the bill on general principles of fright at anything which might disturb a municipal job, took an objective attitude this year. There Is a moral to the story When a new legislator, or even an experienced legislator feels frustration, he can think of the patience of Senator G. Douglas Taylor whoperserveredfor ten years before he was rewarded with and even then it is success just the beginning. Slightly less than three weeks remain of the session All the big issues are coming to a head, as would be expected, and now there is a more informed mix ot education appropriations, abroad, be prepared with local funds when you arrive in faraway places . . . for taxi drivers, bellboys and others. And TIP PACKS are great as Bon Voyage remembrances. 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Service Another Tracy-Collin- s 4 to 1 I by fTill Lucas jgf Last week as you avid readers will recall, I launched a plan for the first piece of legislation Utah has ever seen to curb the alarming use of ice cream As a result of my enlightened proposal, 1 have received hundreds of nasty phone calls and dozens of "hate letters Most were signed anonymously as "An Ice Cream User. Well, little did I know what effect my honest and forthAnother supporter simply right proposal to control the quoted from the pen of Sir of ice cream Kinston Churchill ...A popconsumption would have on the populous of ular vote in favor of intoxithe state cants would not Justify me, if A letter from a worried parI were an American citizen, ent in Park City, on the other m pouring whiskey down the stated that her two hand, throats of the stalwarts of the children were constantly being Anti -- Saloon League: Neither does a vote in the other direcexposed to the menace of ice cream eaters It was a most tion entitle them to make me drink lemonade" (Or ice encouraging letter one of the few truly enlightened ones cream, for that matter ) You The woman stated, "I should And the phone calls' like to congratulate you, Mr just wouldn't believe it On Lucas, for your courage in hearing that the Silver Anndealing w ith the problem of iversary Ball of the Utah ire cream in Utah I have Symphony Orchestra was tried to protect my children gonna have a social hour, a but you can imagine how furor was stirred when one the problem is when gentleman callec to say he neighbors shamelessly flaunt objected to a planned "social hour at which various flavors seemingly limitless quantities of ice cream of ice cream in Dixie cups They have do would be served openly at about inviting compunction our children in for a spot that' Shameful' of ice cream and it is very The tragedy of the icecream menace is of course, the d.ff.cult to maintain our own little children who unwittingly high moral standards in such an environment become hooked by the habit I want you, Mr Lucas, to On any given day, especially know that we are behind this in the summer, one can hear the ominous tinkling of ice proposed legislation 130 percent My heartfelt thanks for cream bells heralding the your fine public stand approaching of the supplier we gonna Are let that Getting a leter l.ke this just makes you warm all over, you continue' n 1 leave it to you ng d.f-fic- ,yA ..'S , No one can judge an automatic clothes dryer like a woman And last year, records show that flameless electric dryers outsold gas models for home use over 4 to in the territory served by the Power Company 1 Thores a reason - many ' reasons. 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