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Show Lee Discusses Sin, Crime, Tuition By J. BAUMAN Chronicle Editorial Assistant Mayor J. Bracken Lee said Friday crime and sin are not the same thing. Speaking with the Chronicle on crime in Salt Lake City, Lee 'responded to a charge from his opponent, op-ponent, D. James Cannon, that he was confused over the relationship of crime and sin. "In my definition, if an individual doesn't harm anybody but himself it's not a crime the same is true for two people. Crimes are things that harm other people or innocent people. As an illustration, if I decided I wanted to smoke and didn't blow it in somebody else's face I see no crime in it," said Lee. Prostitution Always Here When asked about prostitution, Lee said we will always have it just "like all other faults of mankind." "As long as God has given men and women these strong drives, I don't see how you can avoid it," he said. Of course, if it's too obvious, offenseive to other people, then that's harming someone. That's a different dif-ferent case." Lee added he doesn't know enough about marijuana mari-juana to say if it would be harmful. As an example of a drug case he said his wife was given morphine after an operation. This time drugs were beneficial. He said there are two sides to every issue. Worse Things Than Dope "I think there are people who do contend marijuana mari-juana doesn't harm anyone. I'm always a little troubled troub-led in my mind. I have a feeling there are bad enough things in this world without legalization of dope," said Lee. The legalization of gambling would be detrimental because it would hurt more than one individual, he said. "I think there is a necessity for some restrictions," restric-tions," he said, "Society must make some rules." Discussing the proposed tuition hike at the University, Uni-versity, Lee said the existing rate is high enough. Tuition Too High Now "I think tuition is high enough, maybe too high now. I don't like the attitude of the colleges today anymore than I like the attitude of Salt Lake City government. They always want more money. It's amazing how alike we humans are. The more we get the more we want; the more we want, the more we waste," he said. There are some things the University could do without raising tuition. The departments could "tighten their belts," he said. Parents of the college . students not only have to pay taxes, but would have a "terrible burden" with a tuition increase. Cut Administrative Salaries "Why up at the University you have a lot of people with really big salaries. In the interest of their desire to keep people in school they should say 'Let's each of us take a cut in our pay for a few months,' " said Lee. "I'd like to see those administrators prove their hearts with the students," continued Lee, "not just their pocketbooks." Lee said every department at the University knows what it could do without but instead they want students to pay. If the administrators would lower their own salaries and cut a few programs, me prooiem wouia De cleared up in no time. "I've proved I'm willing to do it. When I was governor the Legislature Leg-islature raised the governor's pay twenty-five thousand dollars, I vetoed it. I abolished a two thousand thous-and dollar per year mayor's expense ex-pense account just as an example. I practice what I preach," said Lee. |