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Show Y V Review Editorial July 28, 1966 DOUBLE TAKE A4 by Jim Baldwin For You, Crow Ive been cn a diet these past couple of weeks...knocked off 15 blubbery pounds, leaving only a skimpy 210 blubbery pounds to go. Such austerity notwithstanding I may be putting on weight again lathe next few days. Fve been eating "humble pie. Humble pie is the most fattening kind., if you gorge yourself with it This humble pie was thrust upon - Mines Humble Pie problems ami I kept the car well supplied with gas and oll..jnd I refunded a chunk of that $500. Marv has a county car. He pays $50 (as do each of the others) as total fees for the county officials convention. He took his wile, but he apparently didnt try taking any of the others In Me back seat to cut down expenses. Each of the delegates could have bought a round trip railroad ticket with roomette for $169.50. That would have left Marv $270 and the others $330 for meals and room for one week. I wonder! Do the Federal Revenooers check into the spendings of county executives as closely as they do business executlves...and if so, will Marv, Tom, Roscoe, Hazel and Sid have to account in detail for all that county money they spent in New Orleans? And does a county official 'ever turn any of that money back into county coffers? s I still think we need a travel agent to keep tabs on travel spending in our state, our county and our city. me by Theresa Corak, secretary to Marv Jenson. She told me I lied . . , a sort of blunt way of calling a guy a liar. . Three Bars Of A in terms of reality... because growh number of us exist in an unreal work There are Albee, Genet, Ionesco a: others because western culture is d veloping on such fraudulent premia that writers with a message can be unde Hjmn Theyre humming three bars of the Air Force Hymn up an Utahs Capitol Hm ah effort to overlook ownership of materials of the Utah National Guard. Fellow was talking the other day about low our state executives utilize the aeroplanes of the National Guard to transport folks to such functions as the governors conference In Los Angeles. Someone suggested that there was a bit of hanky-pan- ky in the governors office in getting Cal Ramptons official party and the press aboard the Guard aircraft. An order came filtering out of the Guards Little Pentagon advising that wives were to be excluded. Absolutely No Wives and No Exceptions . . . and that included the governors administrative assistant, Allan Howe. Allan hasnt come to understand yet that toe press, more so even than TV stars and Congressional delegations, are very thinskinned. They can be hurt almost as easily as they inflict hurt Agony burst through whoa Allan Howe gave his wife the title rf governors press representative and took her along with all those sensitive Journalistic stags on the flight to L.A. That plcyunlsh incident makes us wonder if another report we heard from the same source should be given credence. Could it be that Utah state hanky-pan- ky with National Guard aircraft is a matter of bad habit? The fellow told us that our Utah officials ignored at least three letters !n non-milit- What happened was I took the word a countv executive who should know ind reported that Marv collected $540 to pay his way to Hew Orleans. That said Theresa vehemently, Is ft lie. Not in error, you understand - a downright, vicious lie. Until now, I didnt realize how limited the vocabulary of a secretary could be. The truth, had I been inclined to write he truth, said Theresa, Is only $490. That; too, could be an error, but I must rely more heavily on Theresa than I did on that other usually reliable source.) Said Theresa further, Marv is not provided with a county credit card ( and I think thats bed, cause then wed know Just how much was spent on gas and we wouldnt have to carry around all that of . Youth Riots A re Made cash.) Marv, said Theresa, is paying for the gasoline to drive the county car all out of his to New Orleans mink-line- d pockets. (That, too, may be an erroneous statement; and all due respect to secretaries, Im inclined to think it is . . . especially on the full tank Marv started out with.) ... i Did you this month observe the renewed faith in local youth as expressed by the success of the Fillis Administration of the Salt Lake City Police Department? ' There was the biggest-ev- er weekend with July 4th holiday celebration - a three-di- y crowds in parks, dancing at Sugar House Park, at fireworks displays. Last week there was the big congregation of some 4,000 youths cavorting in modern' dance9 ion the Downtown1 Mafi.w'Thers was the big street dance in the Central City Poveity Area. There was the long and hectic July 24 holiday weekend. The long, session of intense heat notwithstanding, there was missing from the tradition of recent past summers the perennial journalistic howl of rowdyism and riot. at For some time we have insisted that much, if not all, of the problem was created by application of a police policy in which young officers were encouraged to enter the midst of wholesome youth with teeth clenched, with hot eyes burning and defiant, with night sticks emphasizing a dare for the young to revolt. Chief Dewey Fillis has shared with us the conviction that when one approach to law enforcement fills, we should try another. Chief Fillis tried another approach to riot and rowdyism control... and it worked. On one weekend a nervy bunch of young local motorcyclists, who visited in Liberty Park, could taxe no offense (but they got the message) when a packet of Deweys 9 Dawgs were taken, on leash, for a routine exercise stroll across the road from the cyclist group. On that same weekend... a dance shindig at Sugar House Park. As usual, the trouble makers - the alcoholic dropouts - showed up. In the past police have dispersed 500 wholesome youth to get at a dozen or less of such trouble-maker- s. This time, the hoodlums were accosted and removed without a ripple of a riot. GItci half a chance and a fair share of intelligent leadership, Salt Lake City has as fine a group of policemen as are to be found In America. The Review commends these officers for the manner in which they have cooperated with their chief to assure peaceful assembly as a Constitutional right of the youth of t Marv got $490 (according to Theresa) , 1 riot-thre- en-ga- ng as ' K-- our community. for the trip. He also got a county car. He also took Ms wife. Tom Rees, an up-am- i coming fighter out of Marv' a polit- i$550 for the same trip. Roscoe Boden, who drops out of office Dec. 31 and cant do us an awM lcit of good in New Orleans, got $550. Hazel Taggart Chase got $550. Sid Lambourne got $550. All together, thats $2,690 and a county car for a convention vacation In New Orleans. But, says Tess, Marv win buy gasoline out of his own pockets. Rubbish! Tessyl Rubbish! In recent years I took a trip for one of Americas "greatest newspapers and started outwitha check for $500. I drove through Idaho, Oregon, most of the depth and toe full width of Washington, back through part of the width and the full depth of Oregon, through most of the length of California: sliced off a big corner of Arizona and the full length of Utah. I drove for most of two full weeks. I drove most of the streets of the 11 cities I visited. I ate and lay down my fat head in the finest motels. I treated my hosts --guests to cocktails and a few dinners. 1 sent my sMrts and unmentionables to laundry service. I had a few mechanical cal camp, got ed 12-h- .v peop it impossible to communicate with a stood only if their messages are wov into toe unreal.,.into the big games peof play with their lives. more direct example A simple, existence in unreality is found, surpri ingly enough, in the price of eg For centuries now, there have been u welcome spring frosts in the deep sot in our land. From the time citrus o chards first became a ma Jor factor in t nations agricultural -economy, the have continued those historic kill! spring frosts, each year claiming a lax portion of toe maximum potential citi crop. In the last 10 years or so, it necessary to rely upon tl frosts to justify an annual increase the cost of citrus products. (Noth housewives, that though our popul tions mushroom, and the frosts ki and the farm acreage diminishes, i the price that changes . . the supj we-foun- is d always there.) Utah generally Is laggard in adoptii national trends (good and bad ones to Only last year, Utah became aware wax every spring we have an early then spell to bring on fruit blossoms; killing frost to diminish the maximu potential. Last year, for the first tim the mung spring frost was blamed f the increased cost of Utah fruit. This past spring, according to t anoth papers and the price-setter- s; mung frost, not so severe as Is out, resulted in anoth years it turnedIncrease. . need for price Weve caught on. AH over toe wests world, even In Utah, frost Is accept as .the annual basis for Increasing t cost of orchard and truck farming pr ' duce. Last week Utah looked at toe otb end of the thermometer to' indulge in t cult of the fantastic. In Utah, whe st sees temperatur every gi near, at, or well above the July-Augu- 100-de- mark... trom the Guards Little Pentagon, warning that the State of Utah and the PRIV ATE agency jknown as OUI could not lawfully or within moral restrictions of the Guard, use a National Guard plane to fly the OUI delegation from Utah to New York. Fooey on you NG1 They did it anyway. Maybe this Is part of the reason MaJ. Gen. Maurice L. Watts rebels at paying $40,000 per year to Salt Lake City for parking fees for the Guard plane at the airport. And, come to think of it, what happened to that more expensive model airplane we bought Just a short time back for the Utah Highway Patrol on the flimsy pretext that we needed toe classier Job to haul the governor and his staff about the country? From Tiny Eggs How many of those who saw toe Vir- ginia Woolf Saga got the message Ed- -, ward Albee was putting across? How many know that Albee found it necessary -because of the way society has grown -to weave a social message on a phoney premise? How many know that modern playwrights in western civilization find ....tols year, for the first time in hot history, our hens have demanded : conditioning. Because of temperatui tols month, were told, hens have sto ped laying big eggs. .They lay only Ut eggs. Theyll lay only little eggs cold weather, when they wont lay at s The price of eggs goes up dozen.. .and toe shelves will be stacked toe ceilings with Extra Large Grade t Eggs selling at increasing prices... 1 . . , and I am Napoleon . . . and hold my hand in my coat this w because that kind of snow job giv me a stonfach ache. CHALLENGE Barker Sees High Court Encroachment political comment Challenge is a new Review feature, wMch explores our times and our community through the views of citizens living here. Its purpose is to stimulate thought - and, hopefully, action cm vital issues. The views expressed may or may not be those of toe editors of toe Review. This weeks contributor Is Salt Lake City Commissioner by James L. Barker Jr. How Not To Be A Utah Senator by Norman Rosenblatt 'Picture, if you will, the plush offices of a Utah political 'Kingmaker. There's a large; very old, well polished desk-an- d an heirloom of a chair in which 'the man Mmself sits. On the lee-.waide of the desk is a younger man-n- ot Immature; but almost boyishby comparison. He must balance his mood between confidence and the deepest respect in the presence of. the seasoned veteran. The scene probably wont ever take place, Just like this, but It could. The dean starts off: So youd like to run for toe Senate... hop oft to Washington, eh? Well, quite confidentially now, I would If I thought there were a chance of some good support. Youve got to be known in the party, and liked., ind then youve rot to have an image with the people. Thats Important these days, you blow, image. 'Well perhaps I should take a term in Congress first -- or how about Governor. stop toe scene right there -Stop! the younger man has Just spoken the doomed words. For a politically ambitious man - or woman - in the state of Utah there are usually three goals, three political promised lands: The two senate seats or toe Governor's chair. There are no doubt several politically ambitious young men sitting in law offices - lesser political positions or industrial offices at this very moment dreaming of toe far off prestige of toe title - Senator. There are some (Phil Hansen? John Creer? Larry Bur- ton? Hughes Brockbank?..,ma7be even Governor Ramptoo???) for whom toe idea might not even be so remote. ard For these men Ive taken the trouble to do a bit - Just a bit- - of Mstorical research - The states executive office Is Mstorically a lousy place to become qualified for the U. S. Senate -and Congress Is almost as bad. Utah has had 12 senators since statehood in 1896. Of these 12 only three had come from toe U. S. House of Representatives. Since toe election of 1916 only one Senator in Utah has had previous experience In the House. Of these 12 senators not one has had previous experience in the elected offices of state government, let alone the Governors chair. The three who came from Congress were George Sutherland, who spent two years there from 1901 to 1903, then went on to the Senate for 13 years in 1905. William H. King spent four years In toe House prior to going on to a 24 year Senatorial stint in 1917. The tbrd senator to come from Congress had considerable experience there first - Abe Murdock, a one term senator spent nine years first In toe house from 1933 to 1941. Of toe other nine senators it Is almost possible to Imagine that some of toe earlier ones were born In toe Senate. Nine senators have held office in this century - of those six were lawyers, three were from business. Arthur V. Watkins and Frank Moss both had ex perience on the bench prior to going to the Senate. -Governors and Congressmen have run for the senate - with success in only toe three cases mentioned, Two more incidental statistics -- a ver- - age age of senators at election (recent years) 49 years 9 months - average term of office 11.6 years. History isnt necessarily toe final arbiter of future courses but it ought to provide some few warnings to toe political-aspiran- t. The Governors chair in past years has been a political dead end, a Congressional seat has practically been a political dead end. Why? Maybe its Just chance - but maybe on toe other hand Utah politics are somewhat like TV or toe movies -we select the actors to play toe parts and they become perhaps they suffer from Those who come home too often or stay home seem to have little ctonce of getting away. Case in point: David King's and Laur- ence Burtons home exposure has been , x much greater to recent months than . either Moss or Bennetts - because the Congressmen feel they need it Maybe staying away for a while would be better (though Sherm Lloyd wouldnt agree after the 1964 primary). - we Maybe we have "statesmanltis dont have enough respect for politics to believe that a politician could be a statesman - and we feel we must send statesmen to the Senate - but we see enough of Governors and Congressmen realize that theyre politicians. AU . to of which means we need to raise our own evaluation of politics and politicians, and not discount governmental experience as a basis for qualification to toe two number one spots. type-cast...- or over-exposu- re. The government of the United States of America was designed to permit the greatest possible development of all of its people and to protect toe right of individuals and minority groups. One of the basic features of its structure was the principle of the "separation of powers. The Constitution contemplates that our national laws are to be enacted by representatives of toe people whose Judgment is subject to constant review through the electoral procedure. Section 1 of Article 1 provides: 'All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States... Articles H and in provide that toe executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States, and that "the Judicial power of the United States sted to one Supreme Court, and to such Inferior Courts as toe Con gress may from time to time ordain While there are some and establish. grey areas where toe same branch of exercises to some extent government more than one of these powers, substantial separation was maintained until the 1930s. Since that time there has been some erosion of this principle. The separation of the legislative and Judicial functions rests on a sound basis. In order to preserve the rights of individuals and minorities rapid changes to basic law must be discouraged. In a system where a bare majority can do as it wills no freedoms as we know them exist. Changes to basic law should come only after study by many people and public debate so that they truly reflect the public will. Jr., 45, graduate of toe OMoStai University School of Law. He previously served Salt Lai City as city Judge for 10 months and as city attorney ft 12 years. A native of Utah, he resides with his wfc and three children at 1346 Laird Ave. James L. Barker 2-- The Constitution Is designed to prohibit rapid or arbitrary change to the basic law. Amendment to toe Constitution is a tedious process. It can be ac- complished only upon recommendation of of toe members of both houses of Congress, or a constitutional convention. and ratification by 34 of toe sev- 23 en! states. years a body of constitutional law w developed. Inherent to this law was t theory that prior decisions of toe Cm would be honored unless they we patently to error. During toe first 1 years or so of our history cases whl had toe effect of reversing prior d Cisions Of the COUrt or changing t basic concept of constitutional law we The general laws of toe land must be relatively few. approved Ity a majority of both houses Starting with toe 1930s there has b of Congress and toe President. A majora growing tendency to change basic of ' Congress ity of 23 of both houses judicial decree of toe Supreme Coi by is necessary to override a presidenIn my personal opinion some of to tial veto. changes have been good, some bad. At toe present time there are 100 toe assumption by toe Supreme Cc toe to Senators and 438 Representatives of toe right to change basic and 1 Congress of toe United States. Any law standing legal concepts without eitoe: scrutinized has been by every they pass vote of the pec sector of the nation. If toe people do not act of Congress or a a dangerous departure from com like toe laws that are passed, they elect is tutional principles. different officials and toe laws - within If 5 men (only a majority of to the limitations of toe Constitution are Justices is necessary to make a d changed. Is 1cm binding) holding lifetime jobs The Supreme Court is to a very difchange basic law to meet their c Su9 ferent position. There are only particular political pMlosopMes, toe i preme Court Justices. They are apof toe Country has no protection. toe ratified toe by President, pointed by Judges should raider their declsi or lifetime their Senate, and serve during without regard to politics or polit until they voluntarily retire. They can be philosophy. The political hue erf a Ju removed from office only by Impeachshould not In any way Influence his ment. icial acts. Decisions should be ba toe Nevertheless, the Constitution of cm established concepts of law. Chao United States and toe laws enacted by should come through amendments to toe what mean Just Supreme Congress or act! of Congress. Constitution Court says they mean. The decisions of an arbitrary : In determining the meaning of toe itical body of 5 Judges may be good various provisions of toe Constitution, tomorrow they may be diss , day on not relied only toe Supreme Court has We should stick to toe p: rous. that document but also on toe journals ciple of separation o! powers. and writings of its framers. Over toe i |