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Show THURSDAY, Paul Harvey President A By PAUL HARVEY Of course it's important who's elected the next President but the most important consideration is not mentioned in the campaign oratory. A President is just a man but the Supreme Court is the law. President Nixon has said that the greatest impact his Administration will have on our nation's history will reflect his choices for the Supreme Court. He hopes to turn the court from left to right, to shift the balance from liberal activism to judicial conservatism. He hasn't yet. The four Nixon appointees to the high court have influenced recent decisions enhancing the g citizens. rights of Where the Earl Warren court was preoccupied with the rights of wrongdoers, the Nixon court if we can call it that has extended consideration to lawmen and prosecutors. There are two holdovers on the Supreme Court Byron White and Potter Stewart who can still shift the balance in either direction, so it's not really, Nixon's court," at least not yet. Mr. Nixon says, "I feel at the present time that the court is as balanced as I have had an opportunity to make it. He failed, as you know, to get some of his first choices seated. He did supplant liberals with constitutional construct o however, and it's almost certain that age and infirmity will vacate at least one more seat during the next four years. Almost everything you read y in the platforms is eyewash. Democrats say they want to two-part- Sociable Citizen Mr. and Mrs. Owen Gibson went to Springville Saturday to the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Hyrum Greenhalgh where they met with Mrs. Gibson's seven brothers and a sister. They came from Tacoma, Wash.; San Mateo, Calif.; Riverton, Nephi, Provo and Springville. They enjoyed a family get together. Before returning home they stopped in Nephi to call on relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hawkes and their daughter and son-in-la- Mr. and Mrs. Ray Croshaw of Bountiful were here Friday attending the fair and visiting with friends and their son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Claire Croshaw. Miss Phyllis Davis returned home Saturday from a months visit in San Diego with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Reed Davis and family. Democratic-controlle- d Con-gres- has voted consistently the contrary. DAILY FOR REUNIONS OPEN DAILY 11 p.m. 10 a.m. DOWNATA HOT SPRINGS MILES SOUTH OF DOWNEY 191 Democrats say if elected they reduce Pentagon spending but they were and they didn't. Democrats in control of Congress could have done everything they now promise to do and they didn't. So what they say is not necessarily what you gel. But this does not diminish the importance of your November decision because the thrust id the person of the President is reflected in the philosophical emphasis he gives to appointments particularly in his appointments to the Supreme Court. In the final weeks of the Supreme Courts most recent term, 18 cases were decided 5 to will DATE OUR HAVE BEEN PRESS IN CITY LAKE ORIGINAL ESTIMATE 400 PICTURES. most against are in Recently, you and I considered the cases for and against capital punishment. Even our Supreme Courts last word on the subject included equivocation. I mentioned that the Bible says, Thou shalt not kill . . .," But . . . Then cited examples where capital punishment is a fact condoned by Scripture. A host of Biblical scholars have been prompt to explain that there is no contradiction in Scripture; that in translation the Sixth Commandment is misquoted. Those opposed to capital punishment frequently cite the Sixth Commandment given to Moses: Thou shalt not kill." But when the Bible was first translated to English, the trans- la tors had many options. There are seven Greek words and 11 Hebrew words for kill. But the specific Greek work and the specific Hebrew word in the original documents is their word ' for the English word HAS BEEN SET AT NOVEMBER THE A YEAR AGO demons- in the fact that the prominent crusaders taking a human life favor of abortion. By JOHN I'OHLKTT Statesman Political Editor MIAMI BEACH One thing about the Idaho delegation to the 1972 Republican national convention: not even a vestige remains of the right wing which had dominated the state's GOP politics for so long. The right wing held a death grip on the 1964 Republican delegation at San Francisco. The right wing had almost a half grip on the 1968 delegation here at Miami Beach. No member of the delegation here for the 1972 convention has been associated with the right wing. James Judge of Sand-poin- t, an alternate, was a conservative delegate to the 1964 convention, but his views have moderated somewhat. In truth, the Idaho delegation assembled here has more moderates and liberals (Republican variety as distinguished from the Democratic type) than any Gem State Republican delegation since 1952. There may be an argument there. The 1952 delegation was pledged to the late Sen. Robert Taft, but the youngsters of those days Bill Jonasson, Bill Eberle (former American Standard president and now Nixon's chief foreign trade negotiator) and Ted Hoff kept that delegation "honest." Undoubtedly, the 1972 delegation selected at the GOP state convention in June is a moderate reaction to the demise of the last right wing leader of the GOP central committee Chairman Roland Wilber of Lewiston, who was forced to step aside earlier this year. He was succeeded by Mrs. Marjorie Miner of Silverton, a conservative but considerably to the left of Wilbur. When Wilber stepped aside it marked the end of the reign of the duo of Wilber and former national committecw o m a n Gwen Barnett, who now resides in Oregon. She bowed out a year ago and Wilber's days grew shorter. Age makes a tremendous difference on the 1972 Idaho delegation. The young and the (up to age 45) are the moderates. One delegate (female) considers herself liberal. With only one or two exceptions, the young never had a chance to be delegates in 1964 and 1968. One young 1964 delegate swiftly had a change of heart and worked for Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller in 1968. Some young moderates were alarmed at the extra conservative pronouncements of Gov. Ronald Reagan and Sen. Barry Goldwater Monday night, but they are wise enough to realize that the two speakers appealed to the right wing. The next night it was Rocke- - The Idaho Democrats had hoped to take advantage of the divided GOP. But the Republicans, given two sliots in the arm, one by Mr. Nixons surging strength, and the other by primary election results which showed a strong conservatism still existed, ought to be able to revitalize the party structure. Although there was carping among some members of the delegation here over the adopted platform, the document stands up well. It mirrors the accomplishments of the Nixon administration and they arc legion. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Nelson and family of six daughters and one son from Archer, Ida., spent the weekend with her brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Myron Evans. A daughter, Lynda Nelson, spoke at the Preston Third ward sacrament meeting and another daughter, Marsha, will teach the second grade class at the Preston elementary school this fall. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Merrill of Sun Valley spent some time at the home of Mrs. Merrill's parents Friday. They- - also visited with other relatives and friends. Mrs. Merrill's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Johnson. 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HOMETOWN ALBUM . s to If your instinctive reaction to theology is one of impatience and resentment, sos mine, but the absolutes of Scripture must not be misused to our misguidance. In the Old Testament, God let Cain get away with murder and he spated Lantech from capital but for murder punishment things got worse. So after purging everything with the Flood, God told Noah to crack down on murderers: Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Indeed, in the very next chapter following the frequently misquoted Commandment we have this instruction: He that smiteth a man so that he die shall surely be put to death." Campus Opinion Poll finds that 67 percent of all college-ager-s would abolish the death penalty. And the percentage is much greater in church schools. This suggests that many base their judgment on Scripture so what Scripture says must be WARM WATER HIGHWAY THE 1972 hair-slplittin- g BALL PARK 3 31. murder." SHADY PICNIC AREA FACILITIES Israel. Democrats insist they want to curtail inflation yet the kept in proper focus or it becomes an elastic yardstick. Others opposed to the death penalty cite the pyramiding increase of crime recent years, saying, "See, it's not a deterrent anyway. When the fact is that nobody in the United States has been executed for any crime in the past five years. Thus its effectiveness as a deterrent has been obscured by official reluctance to carry out the sentence. I remention this subject today whatever the only because validity of the arguments pro and con the Sixth Commandment does not provide escape for murderers. And our confusion is nowhere Had the King James version been translated literally, the should have Commandment read, Thou shalt not commit SWIM & PICNIC AT DOWNATA FREE end the war. The Democratic majority in Congress could have ended the war by withholding money for it years ago but didn't. Democrats say Come home, America, we've been too long too involved overseas , . . 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