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Show Letters To The Editor Review Editorials NUTSHELL POLITICS Advice To Lucas, One Man, One Vote Aput 19, 1965 Page 4 ONE MAN, ONE VOTE bv Rep. Roland G. Kaiser With the defeat of the Dirk-se- n amendment in the U. S. 14 Kt Computer A at the Senate, the matter Supreme Court's decision on. reapportionment is likely to. stand tor some considerable! time. If the battle is not lost, ; it has been long delayed and, in the meantime, ve must, live eath the "one man one vote dictum which in effect says that as urban majority will completely dominate a helpless rural minority, or a strong economic minority. This situation makes it im- - For Everybody The Salt Lake City Police need their own automatic data processing system like a hole in the bead Fortunately the city commission recognised this Tuesday morning and vetoed the request. The Little Hoover Commission uncovered one case of a public body whose eyes were bigger than their adding machines last month. Let's not let another similar situation start without a good look at public needs for computers in the entire valley. ' Certainly automatic processing of information consideration - for virtually every department and county government. merits of city Vm - One Last Word By Lowell Durham The Holywood BTOs who are calling the surprisingly naive shots at Valley Music Hall have you guessed it -said if you want to see it, buy your own tickets. All other media get them gratis. I assume they have also cut off VMH AU this Hollywood -- cops -advertising. and robbers stuff has nothing to do with g, sinRuss Ballard and his cere local VMH staff. It is the tomfoolery of HBTOs (holywood Big Time Operators) whom I have never met and about whom I could care less. The RMR has never said a discouraging word (although the skies are cloudy aa day) concerning the impressive physical facility that has reared its head off the North Salt Lake freeway. We have made no mean criticism of the one show we caught on gala grand opening night. We did call attention to some physical limitations of stage, entrances, musical direction. True we did not join the Big Rave Parade of local dallies for whom it is ct as perdifficult to retain forming arts reviewers. But SLC must It poneeds grow up. criticism-wis- e. ssesses one of the most enviable Performing Arts establishments and potential in western America. Its principal lack; knowledgable, honest, constructive - published criticism. This is the history of the cultural rise of our land. We couldnt care less about missing "Kiss Me, Kate except that it is Porters best, and his best is the greatest. But weve seen it with the original Broadway cast and a national touring The Piasta -- Wright team may company. have thrilled the BRP(Blg Rave parade) but both are Piasta never but never, and my source is one of Americas most distinguished conductors been a legitimate Met star as her advertising invariably headlines. Wright sells tobacco well as know. Both (at least piasxa) are grandmls-ca- st as young lovers. parents But this is part of the BTO assembly line. I had opportunity to visit similar facilities during the past two week Rockefeller grant survey of music criticism on the West Coast in my capacity as immediate past president of the MCA (Music Crtics Assn) First I saw Most Happy Fella in the Circle Arts theatre 8 miles out of hard-workin- Other activites have been consolidated with success. Hand- -. -ling data in a modern fashion offers the same potential cloud don't and if departmental jealousies political fog the vision. All That Fuss Over A Little Criticism : i 1 Callers to the Review often found the lines busy this past week. The hubbub was over Lowell Durham's column of the last issue about Valley Music Hall. I Dr. Durham is performing arts critic for the Review because he is knowledgable and a competent authority in the field. His writing - like all bylined columns in the j Review an expression of this thought and is printed is ( ! v without censorship by the publishers or any attempted by pressure of advertisers or readers. This expresses our l understanding of a free press and a newspaper's respon-- 3 sibility to its readers. t . self-respe- nd has-bee- perative that Utah take a long hard look at our present legislative system. A change is inevitable for the reason that the old system is gone. Utah will now elect the members of both houses by exactly the same method, the only difference being that the Senate requires about the population of the times House per member. In the last session of die legislature, as in previous sessions, a single conference of committee (composed members of both houses) exercised full control over some of the most Important legislation, such as revenue and appropriations. Under the current system, the conference committee can override the decision of 80 or 90. The fate of every bill Is in the hands of a simple majority of the Senate the smaller of the two chambers. Today, most of our legislators lack direct responsibility to the people who elect them; some of them can (and do) dodge the Issues or just pass the buck. . Utah must not rest on the theory that there is no alternative to this situation; it is one thing to condemn quite another to evolve a new theory. Under the courts recent ruling, our greatest hope may jest with what is known as the UNICAMERAL (one house) system. Let us assume that Utah had an Assembly of 90 members in one body, then with this tentative hypothesis, we could assume: First: We would have no conference committees. Second: Legislative costs would be cut almost 50. It would require Third: 46 votes every time a bill was passed or killed. Fourth: Each member would then be directly responsible to the people who elected him. Fifth: Every action of every member would be a matter of great public benefit. Sixth: This would bring legislative problems closer to the people. This is another reason why Utah should consider a Convention. ever else it may be the Review sees the Valley Music Hall as an attempt to enhance the cultural climate of Salt Lake and as an asset in Utah's effort to make the tourist stay one more night... .we wish it success and longevity, , i. i Kildare Or Casey ? downtown San Diego off U.S. 395. I went to high school with Art Lund who sings the role of Joey. Hes a hometown boy who made good in the Big city. I spent intermission and with him. This was a Thursday night ... the theatre ds was about full (drawing from an area of over one million in San Diego alone which is becoming Californias principal beach tourist attraction since the completion of the Mission Bay Park multi-milliafter-the-sh- two-thir- We Never Know on -- ' , - An article on page one ox this issue about emergency treatment in Salt Lake attempts to shed some light cm a very perplexing subject. The average family today has about six doctors - one for the insides, one for the bones, another for the kids, one for the parents teeth and another for the kids teeth, one for the skin and another for the foot. Soon there may be one for each nostril. Specialiiation is allright - but whatliappens when junior manages to lodge a piece of broken glass between the large and second toe? Most people call their family physician. It always happens on a Saturday afternoon. The family doctor is in Bear Lake for the weekend. His substitute is about to take on 18 holes on the golf course - and the poor ha r rased parent has just destroyed the equilibrium of the entire Western Hemisphere by asking him to take a look at it please. In desparation some families resort to the emergency room of the nearest hospital. Understandable for theyre emergencies, and in this kind of situation a long wait is not only expected, but perhaps reasonable t t : : Yet somewhere in all the melee, there must be a better answer. If the medical profession doesnt find one, the public might - and perhaps one that will please neither group. two most delicate relationships in the world are those between star-cross- ed young lovers, and those pre- scribed by the ethics of the medical profession. The ; We have absolutely no comment on the first predicament -where does the average guy fit in? as to the second dollar development. Both Met Baritone Robert a , and Art complained of the adjustment from conventional stage to die round. Chief problem: getting cm and off quickly and effectively. This was true, as well, at Anaheim and San Francisco Installations, although I saw no productions there. We did , however, visit the Tartana plant in San Fernando Valiev where Gig Young (of TV Rouges fame) was doing "Music Man. It was the second night. The theatre was 30 percent full. And It was a good show, production-wis- e althn -Gig Is not Big as a song-an- d dance man in the Robert Preston Broadway and screen but hes suave and stage-craft- y. Middle -- aged women behave like teenagers watching Hullabaloo. The Music Hall circuit is Hollywood based. Lets face it. And theres nothing wrong with that per se. Its casts are either Hollywood -- wonders of bygone eras or ingenues on the make, artistically speaking. This is evident in the three local VMH productions to date. Peter Palmer was great. So was his talented - but unkown - opposite. Nuf said already about Piaxia -- Wright. The current production has the noted who has yet singing star Hugh to open his mouth in song on either TV or movie except in a MAD .bath-tu- b scene, put the MADs (middle age dollies)swoon at his face and form, and what entertainment cash there is in MAD s budgets will be VMH's So what has-bePitty poor radio-T- V Dorthy (hit parade) Collins (LSMFT) who must e-re re the marvelous Sound of Music role next at VMH. She simply cannot sing a la Mary Martin or Julie Andrews; she was never an actress on radio or TV .... nor yet Holywood. Which isnt even good cold business Fuss should cuss and fuss VMH's real problem; its vastness, 3,000 - capacity mitigates against the round's pnnciapl attraction - Intimacy By contrast California music halls I visited were (still not fvtfl) infcmacy was approximated.., entrances and wr half as long still hope Puss makes It, sans BTOs. en -r- -create 1850-capac- ity ets The Days of '47 parade may have been and lacking somewhat in pioneer spirit some in quite instances, have been, may commercialued. However, as I recall the lovely blue handcart float, and the float depicting a pioneer camp with the danger of Indians near by, and others along this theme, I cannot agree that the parade held no no purpose . . . nothing identity as stated by Mr. Will Lucas on July 29 in the Rocky Mountain Review. criticism of this parade His wide-ranfinally settled on a specific, though somewhat unrelated, attack of die John Birch Society. Mr. Lucas apparently felt that the float entered by this organization was not in keeping with the pioneer spirit and I respect his views on this point. But does he really expect the public to believe his implications concerning the John Birch Society? Can Mr. Lucas honetly tell us that the John Birch Society wants to hang Earl Warren as he implied? Does he mean to tell us that his organization displays signs proclaiming Eisenhower is acom-sym- p? Has Mr. Lucas ever read any literature put out by the John Birch Society that our lata President Kennedy was a Communist conspirator? I question that Mr. Lucas has sincerely studied or read the history and current events about which this organization is concerned. I am not a member of the Society myself, but rather than let or John Birch members alone form an opinion for me, 1 shall glean my information from responsible sources...includwg books offered by the Society. Mr. Lucas may be interested to know the on the top of the Birch "huge vulture Societys float represented an eagle. The eagle has been adopted as a symbol of our country. Tbe float depicted this great bird Constitution. protecting our Although this may not have been in the "pioneer spirit it was certainly in a patriotic spirit; and for its purpose, it was quite complete. Perhaps some day Mr. Lucas who will would like to look back in anger learn to look ahead In temperance. Perhaps some day.... I hope so. ge anti-Birch- God-inspi- Dear Sir: I appreciate very much the extreme compliment you paid me, and the work in which I am engaged, by printing die article, about me and about civil rights work, and I pledge to continue to do whatever I can to improve conditions for our minority citizens. I am proud that our community has a weekly newspaper dedicated to such courageous examination of our local social problems. Very truly yours, Adam M. Duncan Continued from page Lake. Recent dissenting voices have been beard, however. John L. Bowden, administrator of Valley West Hospital, 4160 West 3400 South, claims a three fold Increase in emergency cases for that institution. Valley West now handles about 350 emergency cases per month. University Hospital claims an emergency load of 70 per day. Jack G. Olpin, administrator of Cottonwood Hospital, at 5770 South 3rd East says, We are experiencing an Increase and a change in the type of emergency treatment we have to provide. Were getting more serious auto and industrial accident cases now than we were before. Mr. Olpin says die problem is not so much treating the emergency cases, as putting them someplace after treatment. "We haven't had to transfer them so far, but It's going to have to come to that. Administrators of LDS, Holy Cross and St. Marks hospitals reported no marked Increases In emergency cases. TREATMENT STANDARDS The new University Hospital has com- plete treatment facilities, and Is equipped to handle any kind of situation. At its inception, the Salt Lake County Medical Assocations, a group of doctors associated with the Utah Medical Association, put out a report - approved in July, concerning the standards which they felt a hospital must meet to have an adequate emergency ward. Although the report has been approved and published, two of the administrators of the city largest hospitals had not seen it as of last week, but the Review was assured these hospitals meet tbe standards outlined. The report was issued by the society's committee on inter-hospirelationships, chaired by Dr. Lawrence E. Stevens, assistant professor of surgery, in charge of the emergency service at the University Hosp.tal. tal It states that "prompt and excellent emergency medical care for the people of this community is an important objective of the Salt Lake County Medical Society, but it admits that "ambiguity and variability In administrative procedures in die emergency care of patients In the community has led to confusion and misunderstanding. Part of the problem at the change of hospitals was the proposal from certain groups that emergency treatment facilities be retained at the old County General Hospital. This idea has been dropped in most quarters -- because emergency treat M GERARD F. DEVLIN WASHINGTON - Occasionally tourists in the United States Capitol are shocked when they sit in the gallery watching two Senators hurling angry investive at one another and then moments later see the same two bitter enemies laughing and joking together in the subway car that links the Capitol with the Senate Office building. The John Birchites and others along . the kook front art sometimes disappointed at the essential lack of personal partisanship among House and Senate members. Perhaps die reason that our democratic system works ami that others have faltered is that we are, above all, a reasonable people firmly dedicated to the concept that there Is a middle road. There is never going to be total agreement In politics. There never can be so long as the clash of economic interests lasts, and when agreement becomes all pervading, we then have real cause to worry. Our legislators in Washington take a steady beating from columnists and others for all sorts of shortcomings, real and imagined, but there are times when we can be proud of our lawmakers. Tbe Utah delegations reaction to the Presidents firm stand in Southeast Asia is a time when we can legitimately be proud of our lawmakers. This week, Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, Utahs senior United States Senator, and a frequent critic of the Johnson Administration, reitereated his support of the Administrations policies in Vietnam. In unequivocal language, Bennett said we must convince the Viet Cong that and the Communists in Peking and Hanoi that we will not be driven from Vietnam. Last week, a dirty and disheveled group of peaceniks invaded die grounds of the Capitol, violating a Federal statute forbidding demonstrations on said Capitol grounds. Led by a Yale professor, who certainly should know better, certain at the demon-strate- rs were taken to die District of Columbia hoosegow by a mixed force of Capitol and District of Columbia Metropolitan police officers. In sharp contrast to these dubiously loyal Americans, Bennett pointed out: We are the leader of the free world and despite the views of a small minority most Americans are convinced that United States interests definitely are involved In that far away war. Concern Hospitals taps patients have come from tbe area north of 13th South and east of Redwood Rond. The new hospital is as conveniently located to serve this area as the old one, and it Is closer to downtown Salt Washington ... County Move, Misuse ns. ers By Dr. Durham's wish his remarks about Valley Music Hall this week will be the last on the subject itself. What- -, Temperance! 1 ment is much more than mere first aid. Tbe medical society lists the criteria as follows: 1.) Adequate, accessible space provided specifically for the care of emergency problems. 2.- ) Physician (s) and nurse (s) present at all times to receive and care for emergency patients. 3.- ) Blood clinical laborabank, tory and operating room facilities situated within the same building. 4.- ) Adequate professional personnel organized to augment the staff on duty If the need arises. According to their administrators all hospitals in Salt Lake meet these requirements, with the exception that during the late night and early morning hours Valley West doesnt always have a physician on the premises. There a registered nurse is on duty at all times, and a physician is on immediate call, according to Mr. Bowden. WHERE TO, SIR? Where does the ambulance take an emergency case? Tbe report deals with this subject with some thoroughness Basically the patient selects the hospital, and the report advises, Members of the Salt Lake County Medical Society instruct their patients as to which emergency ward to select if the need should arise. The report doesnt state what happens when the patient cant answer, or the situation is critical. Presumably the closest hospital is used. The delicate questions of what doctor to use for care, and how the care will be paid for are handled quite neatly by tbe societys report. A prompt but discrete screening should be made by administrative personnel of those patients presenting without a private physician. The patient is then asked what doctor be wants. If he doesnt have a private doctor, a staff doctor at the hospital in question may be utilized. tremHmimA os nan D REVIEW 1 Three weeks ago, Rep. David S. King series of speeches in die Salt Lake City area called for Americans to stand firm in support of the Presidents position. In a The independent -- minded Congressman wondered aloud if we Americans have the will to stand up to the Communists over a long period of time. This week, Sen.Bennett echoed the King view. "We have the means. The difficult months ahead will determine if we have the will, Bennett stated. Tom Paine, writing during the darkest days of the American Revolution said: 'These are the times that try mens This is no time for summer souls. soldiers or sunshine patriots, Perhaps, never since 1776 have these words rung truer than this month. During the weeks that lie ahead, we will by our own force of character either stand up to or reteat before the Communists in Asia. It sounds almost too solemn and sonorous to say it, but this may be one of those great turning points in history. It Is rare to find Ted Moss and Wallace Bennett on the same side of an issue. Probably, they represent divergent views on most of the soc ailed Important issues of the day. Yet, Senator Moss' view on our Vietnamese policy is a solid American one and he has chosen to ignore the false prophets in the President's own party who would have us abandon Southeast Asia to its own Communist destiny. "The basis for our presence in South Vietnam is to preserve to that nation die right of self determination and to oppose overt aggression from outside its borders, was Moss view cm Vietnam. When you consider the issue of freedom versus Communist slavery, issues like 14 (b) and the farm program and the amount of silver In our coins become rather trifling. And it is reassuring to know that when it comes time to take a stand, Utah lawmakers stand tall, it Is along way from Danang Airbase to Salt Lake but it makes us all proud to know that Wallace Bennett, Ted Moss and Dave King are standing firm UJt City. Utah Stat Pr-- M 4117. Fhoi Member of Utj Association Itak City. Utah. tha uojrPubact of March cv v Thucvtav SUBSCRIPTION RATS out-SITCARRIER DELIVERY AREA on p y T ir with Lyndon B Johnson. The situation in Southeast Asia is at best critical and may soon become y but, knowing full well the political risks involved when the war in Asia bogs down as it will, the men Salt Lake has sent to represent them In Washington are not running for cover or playing politics catas-tropfc- |