Show r - : q " r ":171) rage 22 - ' 2alt faVt Saturday Morning April 1 :Me Saturday Mominger cg'ritibultr 8 1967 - Talented Couple Pair of Covers ' ' Politics Give Urgency to Panama Talks Officials should heed a warning given portray the United States as an joint—deelaration—ofvveelay a panel of experts of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic - Catholic bishops there protested US sov' Studies that basic agreements should be ereignty in the Canal Zone In a joint statement in September Fpeeded up on a new canaltreaty with the 1965 Presidents Johnson and Robles Republic of Panama agreed that the Republic of Panama has The majority of the panel headed by sovereignty over the Canal Zone This would abrogate the 1903 treaty Joseph Farland' US ambassador to Panama from 1960 to 1963 urges that Recently on this page Carl T Rowan sources of friction be relieved before poreported that the new treaty would provide for flying the Panamanian flag over litical pressures explode again into vioUS bases there and put a Pknamanian runis time warns that lence The report in' nominal command an arrangement differenthat out for demonstrating ning similar to that existing in Spain and Thainational The Panama are ces negotiable elections campaign will get under way land Second only to demands to bolster their national pride the Panamanians are next month for the May 196& voting And as the campaign heats up political accenting more income from the canal opponents of President Marco A Robles The republic received an annuity of $1- seize on the emotional 'canal are surt-to- 930000 under the 1903 treaty but now issue to discredit his moderate coalition wants upwards of 80 million dollars a year administration even though Robles cannot No doubt this as well as the disagreements succeed himself over US bases and the status of US milforon basic is a to The problem agree itary forces irt Panama can be comprom- neither mula that the political opposition ised While this country cannot abandon nor fir left agitators can use to bring defense kesponsibilities hemispheric about another outburst of violence in the Panamanian sovereignty can be recogstreets high 'schools and universities The nized current negotiations between US and President Johnson may have some poPanamanian commissions are mainly a litical problems with the treaty however result of the 1964 riots in which 20 Pana'Two members of the Georgetown panel ma natives and four US soldiers were issued a minority report urging that the killed The violence grew out of incidents United States terminate present negotiaover which flag if any should be flown at tions withdraw any arrangements for Balboa High School in the Canal' Zone of the Panama shared management One negotiator has called for approval Canal reassert US sovereignty and of the essentials of the new treaty by fall abandon plans for a new canal even if engineering and economic details Alternate canal plans have occupied are incomplete Between 50 and 100 Commuch time and energy of the US communist organizers are busy in Panama mission headed by former Treasury Sec- but the Georgetown panel says their conretary Robert B Anderson It seems liketribution to present tensions is less impor-ly today that the present canal will be tant than historical distrust and general widened and improved in the foreseeable future rather than creating an entirely opposition to the United States in Panama Panamanian textbooks for example new canal Live a little Another week before tbe tax— deadline — time to get the goods on a neighbor or friend and earn a little "squear money -- to make up the deficit ' oppres-Void—a—re- ---- -this cent- Imagine all the families who are about to learn the art of conversation and see what each other looks like away from the toob Wipe ' One housewife says she didn't-thindaytime TV could get any worse and it didn't It couldn't ft a Mrs Allred swears that not only ara Vint saucers real but they are being11- naneed by the CIA : Straight Narrow— ' - sea-lev- 'New Breed' Proves Its Worth at U of U There is a foolish belief abroad in this country that university students are a bunch of beatniks who devote all their time to rioting protesting and taking LSD "trips" And those who are loudest in denouncing the students are also those who pay the least attention to what is really going on Indeed they seem to prefer to concentrate on the misdeeds of a tiny minority to the exclusion of everything else Anyone interested in fact instead of fancy had only to visit the campus on the hill during the past five days while Chat- lenge Week sponsored annually by the :Associated Students of the University of :Utah was in full swing : The theme this year was "Why am I?" :which well sums up the crisis of identity :plaguing today's young people But not :every speaker was directly concerned with the theme though every discussion had some bearing on American life and thought in the last third of the 20th cen civil rights foreign policy the viability of law even flying saucers And time and again the speakers attracted overflow crowds of students obviously searching for answers The "new breed" of young Americans the Rev Dr Andrew M Greeley president of the Catholic Sociological Society told one session is rebellious and selfish looking for faith but skeptical of all faiths anxious to serve but fearful of the commitment that service requires Yet in seeming paradox Father Greeley believes that in the end this new breed "will lead the world to new safe paths through its social quagmires" We salute the new breed not for what It is now but for what it can do A great potential exists And as a highly successful Challenge Week demonstrates young people want to find the way As for a handful of beatniks—should an older generation with more than its share of extremists cast the first stone? tury Face Problem of Police Personnel Erosion The annual report of the Salt Lake City Civil Service Commission reveals some interesting — and disturbing 2— contrasts between the Police and Fire Departments in regard to personnel Out of 247 total Fire Department personnel listed at the end of 1966 only two firemen had resigned during the year But out of a total 301 personnel listed in the police Department 28 resigned The greater longevity of Fire Department employment thus indicated was confirmed by the annual award of tins for service of 20 years or longer Despite more personnel only eight and one pins were awarded to members of the Police Department whereas 16 service four for pins for service and two for 35 years were awarded to members of the Fire Department Clearly this means more policemen than firemen must be employed each year and the record shows 11 new firemen and 31 new policemen during 1965 20-ye- ar 40-ye- ar 20-ye- ar 25-ye- ar Considering the Police Department's greater need for men it is therefore disturbing to note that only 33 were on the civil service's eligible list for policemen compared to 23 eligible for employment as firemen The situation has not improved since the first of the year Chief of Police Dewey J Finis noted just the other day resignations of 37 police officers so far this year bringing the force to a 10-ye- ar low of 287 Chief Finis blames low salaries which encourage men to take police jobs elsewhere at higher pay While this may be part of the answer to the discrepency it unlikely is the whole answer because policemen and firemen in Salt Lake City have the same pay scales Maybe the City Commission should study the situation in depth and seek a solution to Police Department personnel erosion before the force is reduced to the point where it will be unable to fulfill its responsibilities Other Viewpoints Should We 'Subsidize' the Family Farm? From the L 1Ange1es Times milk strike is really a The er And more fundamentynibol of a much tal problem: the Increasing inability of small farmers to stay solvent — What the country must decide Is whether a largely urban population Is willing Indefinitely to subsidize the existence and prosperifarm ty of the Farm costs have gone up 2 per cent in the last year while prices have dropped 7 per cent in the same period The list of products hit by the sagging prices include wheat corn cattle hogseggs chickens and oranges Large farm operators are doing well enough because they are able to hold unit costs down through investments in more efficient machinery and fertilizers But the lam! br farmer cannot afford the capital outlays violence-t- 'I h Some midwestern wheat farmers are threatening to plow under a large portion of their 1967 wheat crops — unless the government guarantees them higher prices Members of the National Farmers Union threaten to stop buying farm equipment in protest against high price tags What the protests add up to are demands that Washington provide whatever backing is necessary to keep the family farmer In business The family-owne- d farm has contributed much to the American spirit of individualism and enterprise and there Is a reluctance to see the little farmer give way to the corporate agro7business But the clock cannot be turned back for the family farmer any more thah for the corner grocer or the Ma and Pa gasoline stations which used to be so common deep-seate- d - rt 'How many hats do yott need?' The Public Forum Hatt Wonderful Easter - - - The road To success is Paved With yesses —Ethel Jacobson Wall Street Journal 41 el -- - Borrowed and Othenvise Congressmen maki a big deal of their seniority while the rest of us would like to The government is conit cerned about the population explosion and the population is concerned about the government explosion Ruth Rankin Pepper & Salt Despite what the fashion designers say you need more than legs for the mini-skiYou need a lot of nerve Arnold Glascow - - - Editor Tribune: How sad that Keith (Forum April 3) could not have spent Easter with us Our Easter observance started with lessons my five children had in Primary and brought home to us It continued with a Satuiday Easter egg hunt in which they were reminded how Jesus loved little children and went on to the Easter reminder that the resurrectibn was the beginning of life after death for all Sunday morning my daughter and I decked out in new dresses and the boys in new shirts to remind U3 that Easter and Spring is a good time for something new and clean in our lives We went to Sunday School and after that to a family hour with friends Moore By Our Readers doesn't have the time t6 drive 10 or 15 miles to the dumps The last time I tried to burn trash in my yard somebody called the Fire Department If the City and County Commissions would have the garbage men pick up all the trash each garbage day it would be much simpler A READER Honor Other Utahns Editor Tribune: I am anewspaper man from Madison Wisconsin and pause in Salt Lake City to pay tribute to a beautiful city and its fine people Tourists like myself are always eager to learn more about this city where we talked over the meaning of some of the hymns that were sung All in all we had a w4pderfu1 Easter here in Utah our home of six years and look forward to many more I think Easter is what you yourself make it MRS MARSHA BERGESON St George Utah H : oo: Borders on Insanity Editor Tribune: Why are we fighting the Communists in Vietnam and helping them everywhere else? The administration is doing everything possible to bring about more trade With Soviet Russia and her satellites President Johnson sends wheat to the Soviets to feed those who are making the guns and bullets that are killing our sons! This borders on insanity Why do we not cut off the supplies to the enemy and fight this war as if we intended to win it? (AIRS) JEAN IL PEARCE Nampa Idaho Monster on Our Backs Editor Tribune: At a time meant for the joy of a world reawakening my thoughts go instead to the perennial heist made by your government and mine The opportunity to help keep our land free and to oil the wheels of liberty by giving of our money freely has soured The private hospitals of Salt Lake City as well as elsewhere go to great trouble and expense to train nursesYour government's local hospital takes them away at salaries private hospitals would go broke paying You know of far more instances of government waste and extravagance And yet the squeezed private business must support the monster on our backs In our private hospitals patients have pkndectomies and go home in two to five days They have a hernia repaired and go home in four to seven days' Many stays in government hospitals take weeks to months "keeping the beds filled!" PRESTON J BURNIIAM MD Murray Utah Easter Was Observed Editor Tribune: I wish to answer the April 3 Forum letter by Keith Moore On Easter Sunday in the Provo Fourth Ward the opening exercises Were on the crudfixion and resurrection I was one of the speakers Also at the evening service there was a musical "Victory Cantata" by Rene Bronner sung by the choir Please Mr Moore write about something you are informed on EDrrit Y BOOTH Provo Utah Won't Pick Up Trash Editor Tribune: This letter is in response to the article regarding dumping trash in the Jordan River We have to leave our trash in vacant lots or throw it in the river The garbage men refuse to pick up anything that won't fit in a small garbage can an the working man -- 1 Ur - - 1440 and appreciate the warmth and helpfulness of Salt Lakers in making one feel at home while here But one thing is noticeable — Salt Lake City is stingy in honoring some of its great men of the past beyond a chosen few The architect who designed the great Salt Lake Temple and the Beehive House left the Imprint of a great man for generations to follow and visitors to see With some effort I learned that Truman O Angell was the arch!-te- st He was in the first party of pioneers and spent his life in the service of his church-Ther- e are other hardy souls now forgotten Honor should be given where honor is due JOHN BRILLIIART Consideration for Elderly Editor Tribune: I want to praise Mary Welch's protest on imposing such a big increase in fishing licenses on old folks Legislators should know that the retired elderly have a third or more less income than the average wage earner Many do not have enough to live on The elderly deserve some consider ation Brodies on the Omer Instances of an accomplished author being married to a successful writer are not unknown It taxes- - the memory however to recall when one member of a married literary team followed the other within weeks as author of the over (lead) article in a national magazine This has been achieved by Dr and Mrs Bernard Brodie of Pacific Palisades Calif occasional visitors in Utah and the publication was The Reporter "the magazine of facts and ideas" "Ronald Reagan Plays Surgeon" is the title of an article in the current (April 6) Re-porter by Fawn M Brodie native of Ogden and alumna of the University of Utah In it she reviews the first months in office of Cali- fornia's movie idol executive and suggests' potent political implications for the whole country 'How Not to Lead' Dr Brodie is the author of "How Not to Lead ati Alliance" which was featured in The Reporter March 9 It is a scholarly examination of the erosion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization how the failure in US leadership may have contributed to the alliance's loss of De Gaulle's France American public servants may be indiyidually as modest and engaging as those of any other nationality the author says In their roles as representatives of the United States however they tend to become doctrinaire and "pushy" insensitive to European touchiness about status and unable to accept the merits of ideas other than American Not only that we often change our line without acknowledging it "It is time we let things loosen up and doing so would win a new kind of respect for " says Dr Brodie who Is our leadership now political science professor at UCLA after serving for years as senior research specialist for the Rand Corporation "thinking arm" of the US Air ForceiHe is the author of an impressive series of books on US strategy r What Makes Reagan Tick? Fawn M Brodie is best known as a biogra- pher ("No Man Knows My History" and "Thaddeus Stevens Scourge of the South") W W Norton & Co will bring out her latest "The Devil Drives: a Life of Sir Richard Burton" in June Mrs Brodie effectively uses the 1965 autobiography of Ronald Reagan "Where's the Rest of Me?" as a frame for a critique of the Republican governor's axing of funds for California higher education conservation mental health program and other government responsibilities Ike Likes Ronald "The' Speech" essentially the same one that Reagan gave regularly while a public relations man for General Electric has become his catechism "the warp and woof of his philosophy the refuge to which he returns whenever someone tosses him a tough question" "Reagan" says Mrs Brodie "appeals to a tradition in America which includes hostility to universities a belief that the Inexperienced good is better than the professional politician guy " at running the government deep-seate- 3V Cities Pay Double Tax Editor Tribune: May I comment on your editorial of March 28th regarding the city's financial problem You allude to several areas of possible relief with no specific recommendations This I understand and appreciate There is one area and this I have commented on before wherein the city cpuld find some relief Possibly not enough to erase the apparent deficit but certainly one that would alleviate part of the dilemma I refer to the fact that Salt Lake City and I would like to include Ogden is saddled with a double tax over which they don't have much control But these cities are paying 100 per cent of the cost of all municipal services their respective cities provide as they should but In addition they are taxed by the county to provide similar services for the area outside their corporate limits for which they get little or nothing in return True some incorporated communities outside the two mentioned cities provide for themselves almost entirely but many do not and are being subsidized by the county The county derives from 50 per cent to 65 per cent of its entire tax revenue from these two cities My contention is that the county should not under any circumstances subsidize an incorporated community GEORGE T FROST IP d al In a blockbuster windup she quotes General Eisenhower as telling reporters in California last month "Governor Reagan is one of the men I admire most in this world"--Ern- e Linford I |