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Show Bye Line by Jensen 111 Ire Problems In Renting A Bed ta h PregreM And Growth of Control Utah Ddieo!4 Pzge HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, Jan iary 27, 38-T- HE Defensively Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko has called for increased military spending by the Kremlin. "As a whole, the conditions of the international situation demand thai the Soviet people preserve high vigilance and launched World War II in "defense" of Germany's national interests. Ditto for always game been the problem of the ages, the solution to which continues to elude the peacemakers even as the weapons of "defense" become more and more truly offensive to mankind. con- armed themselves for defense, never for offense. Even Hitler m. stimm ill' Nitributarf replaced history and political science as the most popular courses. At Boston University, a student - taught "radical critique" course that once flourished as an example of students taking control of the States is like the weather in Cleveland: If you don't like it, stick around; it'll change in a minute. College students are reportedly going back to the days of the 1950r by swinging away from theoretical studies a toward "new vocationalism." Enrollments are up in such programs as curricula Js "withering on the vine." One major reason for the shift, the survey found, is the desire for financial security in an premed, prelaw, business, nursing, agriculture and the era of economic uncertainty. Another is apparent disenchantment with sciences and down in courses the radical causes that characterized the student dealing in dialetics and political and social causes, according to the survey by the New York Times. At Stanford, for example, psychology and biology have rebellion of the 1960s. Still another, is the mounting cost of education, which has led colleges to stress the practical in their course offerings. State legislatures are urging that what money there is be devoted to studies that turn out men and women able to do the jobs that most need to be done. In response, colleges are So They Say Today many people, substitute anthropology for theology. They do not see the Divine truth that gives" this human value its reason for being and its infinite worth." -P- ope Paul VI, in a Christmas message to the courses like homesteading and eliminating organic weaving. World. Li 1 By ROBERT S. ALLEN WASH'NGTON Times really must be tough! The 600 federal judges are joining the clamor for a hefty pay raise. Apparently they a.e finding it hard to get along on salaries ranging from for life. (District $40,000 to 580,000 judges J40.000; circuit court judges $42,500; Supreme Court justices 560,000). ' It's their contention those scales should be hiked to at least 548,500; 0 and 565,000. That's what was recommended by the federal salary commission in 1969. But President Johnson trimmed them to current pay scales on the ground they - Richard Wilson WASHINGTON. DC. -Kicking the oil barons around the Capitol is great sport for vote hungry politicians, and it won't hurt to know if the statistics have been fudged on current oil and gas supplies. -- No doubt the Arab oil producers will soon raent, as Secretary of State Kissinger expects, and lift the oil embargo. Between chastizing the oil companies and ending the embargo it will seem we are returning to normal. Far nightmare-pron- it. from The can foresee a e world - wide depression, national bankruptcies and even from the prohibitive prices of oil arbitrarily created by the Arab producers during the embargo. This is to say nothing of fanciful accounts of how America's jugular has been cut and drained of so much of its life blood that it will lose its position as a world power. revolutions resulting - $50,-00- would be more likely to win congressional approval. the federal jurists' Spearheading agitation is their unofficial organization the American Judicature Society. Its publication, Judicature, in a ringing front - page editorial captioned "Raise Federal Judicial Salaries Now," proclaims: "All persons interested in the federal courts and the quality of justice they dispense should be aware of the urgent need for public support for federal judicial salary increases in 1974." Vigorously stressed is ..jeral judges have not had a pay boost since 1969 while "The consumer advanced 25 price Index has per cent, federal cost living annuities , tt. 26 - of per cent and aggregate pay increases for U.S. civil service grade GS-1- 8 have totaled 42.2 per cent." This is grossly unfair, argues Judicature, because "lawyers ot the caliber, we want and expect to find on the federal trial end appellate bench are earning from 550,000 to 580,000 and up in the practice of law." Significantly unmentioued in the editorial is that lawyers in private practice don't get full salaries for Hfe even after they r.tire at 65 or 70, without contributing a cent to such pensions. (Federal judges can retire at 65 after 15 years on the bench; at 70 alter 10 years). The magazine makes no bones about obbying for a judicial pay hike. Spelled cut in detail is exactly what f . Adding from 550 - $68 billion to "Organizations and individuals desiring to help should do two things as soon as possible: (1) Tell the President you want federal judges adequately paid and will support whatever pay scale the salary commission recommends. (2) Ask your Congressman to support those recommendations." Prospects of a pay boost for federal judges are directly related to what happens on a salary hike for members of Congress. Recommendations on both, plus cabinet members and other executive branch officials, will be made by the nine member federal salary commission whose report will be to Congress with President Nixon's budget message early next month. That is required by the 1909 Federal Salary Act. Last summer, as previously reported in this column, a canny attempt was made to short circuit this requirement by directing the President to send the commission's report to Congress immediately in a non - election year. The Senate approved this scheme sub-'milt- unanimously. But in the House, it fell afoul of Rep. H. R. Gross, militant economy battler and adamant opponent of a congressional pay hike. He created such a furore that the House decisively killed the Senate measure 237 to 156. Gross, who last week announced he is retiring with this term, is lying in wait a, ready to pounce on the salary commission's pay hiking recommendations. The stern Iowan will show no favoritism He is against them all- Congress, judges, officials. Says Gross pugnaciously: Is authoritatively reported that the 'It President will recommend a pay increase for members of Congress amounting to 21 per cent over a three year period. The federal judiciary jui top echelon bureaucrats would reportedly receive similar raises. In light of the sorry state of the economy and the inflation wrecking the country, such increases are preposterous and should be rejected out of hand." Heard Swen Nielsen talk at Rotary last week and I must Police say, Provo City has got them another first-clas- s Chief. I'm, really impressed. Not only does he know his job, he has a good sense of humor. I like that! The Big Hassle Over Oil nations. should be done to drum up pressure on the President and Congress, as follows: there are times when I'm not so happy living in Yep "Happy Valley." . . . own antidote, and should not be permitted to dampen off sober concern for the seriousness of the new conditions which have been created by tripling the cost of oil to the principal industrialized Federal Judges Lobby For $7500 Pay Hike win. V b t A TiiMt Srndlcati This kind of hysteria carries its Inside Washington t Last week I mentioned how nice it ws to live in "Happy Valley." I still feel that vay but I must confess, there are times I wouldn't admit it. Last week would be one of those 'times' when we had a new emplovee starting to work here at The Herald. Because he'is a family man and wants to buy a home, he thought he would rent a room for a while ttn J start looking at homes in different areas. He had no problems in finding rooms for rent as there are a lot of 'em in the ol' Daily Bugle want - ad section. The problem came when he called to find out if they were still available. Without exception, the six calls he made, he found the rooms were available. And without exception, before any of them would rent or even talk to this young man, they wanted to know if he was LDS. Again without exception, he was refused rental because he was not LDS. Somehow this strikes ... ; as a minority attitude in spite of the fact this is predominately an LDS community. At least I hope that's the case. If these people want to rent rooms and advertise as such, why don't they advertise that you must be LDS before you can rent. I'll tell you why they don't advertise that way. They're and afraid they might be violating the civil rights act they are probably right too. v Education Goes Back to School Education in the United t ere are just some days you can Boy "offense" in the eyes of its distrustful neighbor. That has gressional committee. Throughout history, men have When he arrived for his dental appointment, he was told the football his dentist was in Columbus, Ohio, watching as the runner-u- p winner of the contest. country is threatening Defense of fs CRISIS profession" is the Strategic Air Command. The funny thing is that if the nations of the world really needed armies and bombers and missiles just fcr defense, then no nation would need any armies or bombers or missiles at all. The trouble is that what is legitimate' defense" to one Change a couple of words and it could have been the U.S. testifying before a life is our Japan. "Peacemottc of the tirelessly strengthen the Secretary difficult it is to get an appointment Everyrie knows bow know if it s due to a shortage of I doa't with a dentist. dentists or not enough people use Crest. But whatever, it most generally takes weeks and sometimes months to get folks are an appointment. Now I can understand why one. cancel to . reluctant highly Consider the plight of the poor guy in Spokane, to Columbus for the Washington that had won a trip Washington' State - Ohio State football game. He had a dental appointment the same day the trip was scheduled the trip to the and not wanting to cancel it, he surrendered . contest runner-up- 1974 More Arms defense capacity of the Soviet state," he said in a speech the other day which was probably directed as much for Western consumption as for Russian. , , the cost of oil in the Western industrial nations and Japan can have devastating consequences. Today In History By United Press International of and that is the ultimate fall-ou- t the war and its settlement. It will take much more than restored oil shipments from the Persian Gulf to balance the burden which the Arab states have imposed on the Western world. The United States is relatively well off, but it would be the acme of folly to take assurance from this when Western Europe and Japan, without the possibility of self making themselves sufficient, 10 years from now or ever, could stagger into serious economic decline which would upset the whole world. Some very large thinking is required, thinking on the scale of the Marshall Plan which saved Western Europe from collapse into political disorder following World War II and laid the basis -for its subsequent prosperity. Is the government of the U.S. any longer capable of such large undertakings? Is the West so divided that it can no longer unite in its own interest? Are the people of this country so disillusioned and cynical over America's world role that they will not support international action which involves domestic sacrifice? These are not rhetorical questions. They will be very real when representatives of the oil Arab-Israe- li -- producing and consuming nations meet here February 11 at President Nixon's call. For it is as clear as anything can be that the U.S., given a little time, can and undoubtedly will make itself independent of foreign energy supplies, and that most of the other nations of the West, and Japan, cannot and will not. Familiar arguments will surface. Why should the U.S. motorist stint himself on gas so And now for a coupie of gems of wisdom. Didja know in Rome in the year 61 that air pollution was a complaint A.D.? (I wonder if that was the year Nero was doing all that fiddling.) Didja know that one ounce of gold can be drawn into a wire 43 miles long? And didja knew that the same ounce of gold can be flattened into 1400 square feet of gold leaf? And now that I've enlightened you with those 'beauties' do you feel any smarter? that a Japanese factory can turn out TV sets which drive American sets out of the market? Why should we do anything to help France pursue ' Far from ultimately hurting America, according to one account, the crisis will cause America to create a surplus of energy from its resources and gain a strangle hold on the rest of the West by supplying its essential needs. Once again the Western world would be made subservient to American policy. Such suspicions Have a nice day and keep smilin'. RayCromley Clay Feet Into Metal Wings or recriminations merely underline the urgency of collective trust when the main industrialized an ominous challenge to their stability. Telling that to the French nations face government is probably a useless exercise, but surely the rest cf Western Europe and Japan can see the reason for mutual policies which may require sacrifices on all sides. The potentials are disturbing and have been no better stated than by Lee Conn in the Washington "Star-News- "Roaring inflation. Trade wars. financial markets. Worldwide depression." Absurd or real, Cohn continues, such fears reflect the severe strains of an Arab gouge which has created an intense world problem. And that's entirely aside from whether or not American oil companies are profiteering or falsifying statistics. Maybe they are, but an even more important problem is how to avoid the world-wid- e consequences of an Chaotic oil gouge which could bring widespread unemployment, economic warfare, frantic competition and political turmoil. Today is Sunday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 1974 with 338 to follow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. Technically there is no morning star. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sigr of Aquarius. American pioneer labor organizer Samuel Gompers was bom Jan. 27, 1850. On this day in history: In 1880, a patent for an electric incandescent lamp was granted to Thomas Edison. In 1943, the U.S. 8th Air Force staged the first allAmerican air aid on Germany, bombing Wilheln. shaven in broad daylight. In 1964, Maine Sen. Margaret Smith announced her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. She was the first woman to seek the presidential nomination of a major American politic?! party. In 1973, the United States and North Vietnam signeJ a ceasefire agreement. Also that day, an end of the U.S. military draft was If bothered you're by skyrocketing petroleum prices, consider the case of aluminum, more widely used in this country than any metal except steel. It's essential in aircraft, motor vehicles, electrical equipinent, machinery, household products essential to our standard of living and a strategic commodity for military defense. As with oil, a major rise in aluminum prices would have ripple effects,, causing price increases in much of what we buy. The United States produces less than an eighth of its needs from domestic raw materials. Jamaica and Surinam are the original raw material sources of about two thirds of our aluminum. One country, Guinea, owns a third of the known reserves of the world's e bauxite, primarily commercial source of the metal. high-grad- Now Guinea has called a February meeting of the major aluminum countries ore1 producing including Australia, Jamaica, Guyana, Surinam and Yugoslavia. The belief here is that these countries (or those which attend) will discuss the formation of a cartel to increase sharply what the U.S. and other countries will pay. The United States will be caught in a bind. Our commercial quality bauxite reserves are 40 million tons a tiny fraction of the world reserve of 12 to 15 billion tons and less than what the U.S. would require to fill all its needs for Jie next three years if there were no imports of bauxite or alumina. It is unlikely that new large deposits "f metallurgical grade BARBS by PHIL PASTORET Apple-polishe- usually wind up with a serving of sour jrapes from the boss Where are the snows of yesteryear? They're still on our neighbor s walk. deposits. Today, bauxite is almost the sole source of aluminum. It is not the only potential source. What's A 1974 by NEA. Inc e "Harold is a prophet ol gloom and doom, and he's really come into his the long-tim- own-sinc-e Add to your dictionary of co.lective nouns a heel of See a pin and pick it up -.the day you'll have a crick n your back. all are needed technological to breakthroughs bauxite - aluminum profitable. make low-gra- and other bearing ores The United States has almost million tons of low grade bauxite waiting for new techniques. Germany and Japan used high alumina clays, consisting mainly of kaolinite, as a source of akiminum in World War II. Poland, the U.S.S.R. and South Africa have been investigating the possibility of this source. The U.S. Geological Survey considers those clays to be the most favorable potential source of aluminum from nonbauxite rocks in the U.S. The total high alumina clay in the U.S. (containing 25 per cent or more alumina) may be in the neighborhood of 10 billion tons, though even with major technical advances considerable amounts of this resource could not be prof itably mined. 300 The Soviet' Union uses the mineral alunite as a source for aluminum, though it is not clear how costly this operation may be. Reportedly, an alunite processing plant is being built in Mexico. The U.S. built a pilot plant for alunite in World War II as an emergency source of aluminum. As found in altered volcanic rocks, the mineral has a potential value as a source of potash and sulfur as well as aluminum. Indications are that the U.S. has considerable reserves, once the technical and cost problems can be solved. There are a fist full of other potential ores. Mineral analysts say that if we would concentrate on the- - technical problems of reducing announced. thought for the day,: President Abraham Lincoln said, "I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly thit events have controlled me." bauxite will be discovered in this though there are large areas in South unexplored Africa and Ame.ica, Asia, Australia that seem favorable for discovery of major new country, costs, potential aluminum resources in the United States would be virtually inexhaustible. The problem is, imported bauxite and alumina have been so cheap there has not been sufficient incentive to spend the funds to make these resources of practical profitable use. The problem can be solved. But it will take time. Meanwhile, we may be in for an aluminum price squeeze. |