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Show Editorial Page Feafurt lb, No Trend Toward Lowering the Voting Age Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utoh TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1959 A Step Toward Equity .) has Rep. Ben Blackburn introduced a bill which would remove the limitation on earned incomes. Blackburn says: 41 feel strongiy that if a man during hii working years continually pays into social security, he should have the right to receive his benefits. If he wishes to work after 65, in effect he has paid for his insurance policy and should be allowed to receive the benefits." The Administration has asked Congress to raise the limitation to $1,860 a year and both Democrats and Republicans have suggested higher limitations or the removal of any limitation, which would be preferable because it would be fair and equitable. f Representatives The House (K-Ga- has an opportunity now to make the social security law more equitable as it studies its revision and higher benefits. This is to remove the limitation en earned income, now $1,680 a year, before cutting down benefits. This limitation does not apply to income from investments. The o or the wealthy may get full benefits although their income from investments may be considerable. Clearly, justice calls for an end to this discrimination. well-to-d- Recognition For Utah's Senators non-partis- an their worth. As Rep. Blackburn observes, the earnings limitation has no relationship to the recipient's economic status. It simply places a penalty on gainful employment, which is manifestly unfair. It should not be a policy of government to cause any discrimination on account of age or financial position, any more than on account of race, sex, color or creeo. es for the Aging's Award for Distinguished Service to the Aging. Sen. Moss is chairman of the subcommittee for Long Term Care of the Special Committee on Aging. Both men are to be commended for the efforts and performance that have earned them these new honors. Totem Poles, So They Say Oriental Style We may be witnessing in the Middle East something like the early stages of a new Hundred Years War. U.N. Secretary General U Thant Holmes Alexandei U.S. May Be Edging Close Crack-U- p, - pseudo-intellectual- s, It showed a letter count of the two weeks which followed his New Orleans 7. speech. The figures read He wasn't gloating; his mood was castigation. He next flipped a column by his visitor, and he zeroed in on the only derogatoiy phrase in it I had written that Agnew had "thin experience" at the time of his nomination. He disputed that He'd been top executive in his county and state. He'd dealt with governmental problems that legislators can hide from but which executives can't He said he'd never felt ny impediment on his experience to handle the job. In fact, I got the impression he believed himself better equipped than most of the 38 other vice presidents. that HuHe disliked the puppet-imag- e bert Humphrey had brought to the job. He liked Mr. Nixon's assumption that a vice president has sense enough to make his own speeches without clearance of UmI had flit final) nct, con-158- pro-712- pro-Agne- Wj In their recent decisions, unrest among the young has been counted a factor in the refusal of their elders to give them the vote. Agnew Fears ed with pugnacity, now lighted when he recalled how ihe President had praised him at the November 4 cabinet meeting, and that the entire cabinet had burst into applause. This is the man. He burns with patriotic concern over his country's internal plight He is resentful of petty criticism, enraged at his rotten treatment by the hostile press. He is proud of his success, and he's touched when his efforts are appreciated. We should tear up the book on Agnew. We should write the record clean. It must be a symptom of our social sickness that we don't honor him for what n Amerihe is. He's a can who has slugged his way to deserved prominence. How many who ridicule his ardor for the country have what it takes to make a combat company commander? Which of those who feel superior have put themselves through law school and been a law school teacher for seven years? Did those w ho treated him since the Miami convention as the upstart bother to acquaint from a mini-stat- e themselves with his gubernatorial record? It is one that jumped him into the top flight of the National Governors Conference. It got hin? an appointment by President Johnson on the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. None of these achievements are men's tioned in the typical coverage of activities. He is pictured as a montebank and a malaprop. If these descriptions can't be sustained in context, there are sure m be the snide flashbacks. Agnew once called a Japanese a Jap, and Pole Pollack; and fool ergo, he's a race-baitAny man of spirit would lash out at bis character-assassin- s. Apew loathes and distrusts, curses and bypasses those whose publications have done him wrong. The man's got intellectual muscle, and he's got the moxie, and we are lucky to have him around. He's going to make a target of opportunity whenever he sights an enemy of his country. And he'll do so, as he says, with total disregard for his own political self-ma- second-generatio- er The C3unc3 of state government repons that the issjt will came up in at least 10 stales in 1970. Proposals to set the minimum age at 20 will be on the ballot in Nebraska and Maine, at 19 in Minnesota, Massachusetts, Montana, Oregon and Wyoming, and at 18 in and Hawaii. If approved a second time by Alaska, Connecticut their legislature, the issue will come before tie voters of Delaware and Nevada in 1971 The 1S8 Democratic platform expressly declared support for a constitutional amendment to give the vote to in all states. The more qualified Republican platform plank said "lower age groups fchould be accorded the right to vote."' Rcy Cromley Students Now Take Colleges to Court -- 1 h The headlines go to student moratoriums, demonstrations and g in Chicago. marches and to But seme quiet new shifts in tactics now being instituted by student groups across the United States promise to be considerably more significant in charging the nation's universi.its. and. if successful there, in bringing student influence to bear on national and international problems. , Students are turning to the law to get college rules, regulations and administrative procedures changed. They're employing highly paid attorneys from some of the nation's largest and most prestigious firms. In a number of test cases, students are taking college authorities to court on student rights. Attorneys ay the young people are winning a majority of these cases. The college administrators, these students and their attorneys assert, over the years have grown so used to exercising power they have grown slack in their methods and make thei" decisions without due regard to common legal practices. Attorneys claim college officials are thus like sitting ducks when brought to court. Legal procedures these students are following now must not be confused with the circuslike stage show now going on in Chicago in which Black Panther chief Bcbby Seale, David Dellin-gand six others are on trial for their activities in Chicago during the Democratic national convention last year. The student cases this column refers to are straight legal cases fought according to established procedures. Studenth are using mediators usually skilled attorneys to negotiate with college officials in long sessions reminiscent of labor bargaining. These meetings are aimed at securing concessions on student rights. Students on a growing number cf university campuses thus are using the most effective techniques of the more successful labor unions bargaining, getting experts to do research and to tell them what their rights are, using the courts. The next step may well be that student associations or other student groups, like labor unions, may well ask for certification as bargaining agents for the undergraduate and graduate men and women on campus. Lobbying groups composed of paid professionals legal or may be sent to state legislatures and to Conpublicity experts gress to quietly work on the lawmakers in the traditional manner. These steps could be highly effective. The students and student groups involved in this new trend seem to have ample funds. They have a large constituency that has shown an ability to get involved emotionally. In maneuvering thus far, students have been fighting principally for a loosening of college regulations on how and where they shall live, on how they may be expelled, who shall deal with them and under what rules when accused of campus violations and for a larger student voice in college policy. In the background there is a strong movement against grades, against required class attendance, against the considerable number of required courses for graduation, against the way courses are taught and for the addition of some new courses. But with the growing student discussion of the Vietnam war, defense expenditures, race, the slums and state and national politics there is nothing to stop the students from foIlowig the lead of the nation's labor unions in using their influence on these major problems. judge-bailin- er 2r.K. && sr f -- Submarine Tanker For Arctic Trade Studied Manhattan from her epochal voyage through the Northwest Passage inevitably raises the question of wheCier a huge submarine could do it better. Chairman M. A. Wright of Humble Oil & Refining Co., which carried .out the $40 million ice breaking experiment alluded to that possibility at the press party for the Manhattan's victorious crew. Later, Wright told United Press International that a submarine wxrald have very few navigation problems in the Northwest Passage compared with an icebreaker. But the biggest submarines ever built are under 10.000 tons, and the arctic oil trade will require tankers of the order of 200,000 tons. "Ws feel it would take five years or longer to build a prototype submarine, and we have to start moving arctic oil from Alaska by late 1972 or early 1973," Wright said. Giant Craft General Dynamics Corp., whose Electric Boat Division at Groton, Conn, is the world's biggest builder of submarines, announced two months ago it is making feasibility studies of a nuclear powered submarine tanker for the arctic trade. General Dynamics won't say what size craft it has in mind, but marine trade papers have hinted that the electric boat designers are thinking of a craft over 900 feet long. It would need upwards of 80 feet of water underneath the arctic ice for operating space. High ranking Canadian and American Coast Guard officers amending the party for the Manhattan's crew in New York said navigating such a huge submarine under the ice of the Northwest Passage would be some job. :4A? Today In Business Today - Japan- - The last Ruswas Czar sian caught by surprise when the revolution broke out, and Vice President Agnew doesn't intend to let it happen here. Anarchy, says Agnew, Is not readily evaluated, and this country may be closer to a crackup than is generally known. The October moritorium and the November mobilization turned him on. He burst into whip-las- h speeches at New Orleans and Hatisburg. In public he inveighs against the impudent snobs, the political the hustlers who are leading American youth to its own destruction. In private he refers to them as miserable bastards, psychopaths, spastics, imbeciles who 20 years ago would have been captured in butterfly nets and would have had no more effect upon society than to increase the population of the insane asylums. "I just hope I didn't wait past the danger point," the vice president told me. "What's my grand design? It's to denounce what I believe to be an unhealthy philosophy and to strengthen the resolve of other national leaders to speak out" He flipped a leaf of paper on the desk. 1966. It's the Most Powerful Weopon We've Got! Sky piracy cannot be ended as By LEROY POPE long as the pirates receive asylum. UPl Business Writer President Nixon, in an appeal The NEW YORK (UPI) for U.N. action to discourage return of the icebreaking tanker airliner hijacking. The vanishing art of totem pole carving is being revived but not by the Indians, reports the National Geographic Society. Most miniature totem poles now gold at souvenir counters in British Columbia, birthplace of the craft, are made in you guessed WASHINGTON, D.C. torate voted to delete consideration of the issue from the agenda for a proposed constitutional convention. Michigan voters refused to lower tie minimum age to 18 in i ted without reducing benefits dates back to the depression, when jobs were so scarce it was felt that the elderly, once they started receiving benefits, should not hold jobs needed by others. That situation has changed as markedly as the economy has changed, along with rising inflation. The elderly, who have the health and desire to work, should be allowed to do so without penalty. Such employment would benefit them not only financially, but physically and mentally. The economy at large would benefit from their experience and desire to prove AmTrustees of the ericans for Constitutional Action. The award is presented every two years to legislators whose voting records in Congress support legislation which serve to strengthen and defend the spirit and principles of the Constitution. And in St Louis, Moss became the first public official to receive the American Association of Hom- To pronouncements from po'.it-caparties and presidents from both parties. This reluctance was underscored in state election! Nov. 4, when voters rejected proposals to lower the voting age to 18 in New Jersey and to 19 in Ohio. In 1968 "elections, Nebraska and North Dakota voted against cutting the voting age to 19 and Hawaii against the vote for The Tennessee elec Je$pt the major Restrictions on earnings permit- Congratulations are in order for Utah's two United States Senators. On two separate fronts, Republican Wallace F. Bennett and Democrat Frank E. Moss received awards Monday. In Washington, Sen. Bennett was presented the Distinguished Service Award by the Board of It Bv RAMOD LAHR WASHINGTON' -- If 1UPI1 rebellious youths in 46 state want the vole before they are 2!, they can easJy see that the outiook is bleak. They could move to Georgia er Kentucky, where the minimum age no is 18. to Aiaska, where it b 19. or to Hawaii, where it is 20 Elsewhere, there has been no trend toward giving the vote to the young History The Almanac By United Press International "A lot cf the route is easy, 350 fathoms of water," said one Today is Tuesday, Nov. 18, the 322nd day of 1969 with 43 to officer. "But there are places with only about 85 fathoms -- feet - and the ice can be as thick as 150 feet in these spots. That means threading a submarine, maybe 80 feet tall, in 120 feet of water between ice and the bottom." 270 Ballast Problems marine trade expert said a submarine tanker would have another problem. In addition to its cargo of oil, it would have to carry expendable ballast water in huge amounts in order to submerge and surface. Efficient operation would require putting ballast water in the oil tanks when they were empty. The submarine would be so big she probably could not come within 50 miles of land so there would be a problem of pumping her dirty ballast water many miles ashore, either by pipeline or auxiliary tanker, to avoid pollution of rich fishing follow. The moon is between its first quarter and full phase. The morning stars are Venus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn. On this day in history: A grounds. Ever since the Germans successfully hauled grain from the United States by submarine in the early years of World War I, shipping men have dreamed of a big, fast and practicable submersible cargo ship immune to gales and ice. The arctic oil trade just might make mat dream come true. In 1883, the United States adopted standard time and set the four time zones; up Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific. In 1903, Panama and the United States signed a treaty reaching agreement on the proposed Panama Canal. In 1967, Britain devalued the pound 14.3 per cent, to $2.40. In 1968, New York City school teachers agreed to end their third strike of the term. A for the day: Shaw said, Bernard George to is method take the "My utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity." BERRY'S WORLD thought The opinions and statements expressed by Herald columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of this news paper. BY JAMES O, BERRY Ihe Here' vtwam leners Mm rvlae: word. Signature Ltngti limit, nd ederese required. Hwnavar, V contributor request, enly Mtlal Mi carte need be swKlshed exceptions lnclunj letters political In natura or In wMdt accuaarlona ar In audi case, etiargta ara mad lull nam and aodraaa nwat Da use. Ho untuned (anonymous! Mtara will be considered. Prelarenca will be given letter 4i are ahort end Tr. Herald rsesreea tyaewnm. or reject letter, e tie rioM which are too tona, not la good teste, potent :ei!y uceiou. er emtcft csnie Sen. John McClellan .) has expressed anxiety about "What happens when the present batch of movies gets on TV? He says, "As movies they can be labeled 'for adults only' but as TV entertainment they invade the child's nursery." I appreciate the senator's concern and applaud his foresight, but if it's wrong for children what makes it right for adults? Recent generations have so frequently heard the admonition "Don't use language like that in front of the youngsters!" isn't it harmful at any age? Little wonder today's young are overly rebelling against a hypocritical double standard. Some movies get a church rating. "Adults only." If it's a dirty movie it's a dirty movie for men and women of any age. Entertainment media are admittedly less strict with what's allowable on late night projokes grams. Double-entendand bawdy expressions and sex subjects, taboo at prime time, are permissible "after the youngsters are in bed." No wonder the youngsters grow up equating maturity with smoking, drinking, lewd movies and dirty words. Thus has an indefensible double standard misled us all. What's the answer? Should we return to the Puritan "prudery" wilcn characterized" the "good re Wieae statements deinaataiy la an relgon ar creed. Problem of Dirty Movies and Kids Why? We were told "You're not old enough to smoke." What age is old enough? If it's harmful, FORUM RULES mdet. P;nn not 250 Paul Harvey 14 If HEA, Tats is a wee time of yearthe catalogues outnumber old days" or should we, as they do in Scandanivia, "let it all hangout?" Denmark, June 9, 1967, removed all restrications on the publication or sale of pornographic material July 1, this year, Denmark removed all restrictions on movies "for audiences over 16." Even Denmark, therefore, clings to the strange notion that dirt is for grownups. The Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornagraphy reports its biggest problem in defining smut is "the changing climate of public opinion." Jack ValenU president of the Motion Picture Assn. of America, says the climate varies within our nation. Midwestern-er- s, in his judgment, are more discriminating. More than 200 bills are presently pending in Congress, but a legal definition for what's obscene s definition which will stand up in court remains elusive. Presently, obscenity, according to the law, "'is in the eyes of the beholder." Some persons, I'm told, find the appearance of a sack of potatoes suggestive. This columnist will not attempt a definition when legal and legislative giants are confounded, but there is ty one inconsistency which surely translates like the hypocrisy which it is to our enlightened yottng. If we accept smut only after the age when we can be physically aroused by it shame on us. |