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Show Paul Harvey V- - Thursday, October 12. 1978. Utah-Pa- 57 ge New Low in Voting? Don't Let It Happen on Nov. 7th Election experts are predicting that voting in November may fall to a new national low in the percentage of eligible voters who trek to the polls. Let's hope that doesn't happen and especially here in Utah a state which has taken pride through the years in respectable voter turnouts. President Carter, noting "an alarming and unprecedented reduction" in voting by Americans, tried this week to prod reluctant voters with an appeal from the nation's capital. The President said that of all the nations that permit voting, the United States is No. 1 in "nonvoting." That's a sad indictment. It's sad that a people endowed with the privilege and responsibility by wise Founding Fathers show such little appreciation for their rights. Pres. Carter said the lag in voter interest and in participation in government processes has been especially noticeable in the last 20 years. He said that in 1950 two-thirof the people voted. Forecasts indicate the present-da- y figure could drop to Why the voter apathy? Here are results of a quiz announced ds one-thir- recently by d. Newspaper Enterprise Association, York-base- d New feature syndicate: terested, 37.4 percent; recently moved, have not registered, 10.7 4.8 percent; did not know how or where to register, 4.4 percent; did not meet residence requirements, 4.3 percent; illness, disability, 3.6 percent; registration 3 in- convenient, percent; did not 2.7 percent; candidate, prefer any 29.1 other, percent. If communists have any good ideas let's steal 'em Th..t's what they do with our good ideas What about "farmunism "" There are crops rotting in farm fields in the United States. There are no crops going to waste in communist China For what I am about to report 1 would not trust just one set of ears and eyes not even my own. These evaluations are gleaned from e inspection by several professional observers including U.S. Agricultural attache William Davis, President Allan Grant of the Farm Bureau. Ambassador Leonard Woodcock and professional farmers from South The second question: "Why don't registered voters go to the polls?" And the answers: Not 18.5 percent; illness, family emergency. 17.5 percent; could not get off work, could not get to polls. 13.6 percent; away from home. 13.3 percent; did not prefer any candidate. 8,7 percent; other. 28.4 percent. In answers to both questions, we suspect the legitimate reasons are strongly counter-balanceby weak excuses. There will be 1555.5 million persons old enough to vote Nov. 7 in the United States, but if recent trends persist only about a third of them will show up at the polls in this year, the bureau forecasts. In the 1976 presidential election on-sit- Dakota and California If you think only in terms of mechanization. China's farmers d when Jimmy Carter beat Gerald Ford 40.6 percent of voters cast ballots. While eligible this was down from other recent presidential elections, it substantially topped the 36.1 percent in the 1974 elections. In 1974 only six states saw more than half of their voting-ag- e population arrive at the polls: Utah, Wyoming, Connecticut, Montana, North Dakota, and South Daota. There's a many-side- d message in all of this which we hope will help to build a fire under apathetic voters between now and off-ye- make the effort; get your name on the rolls; Don't neglect a duty and privilege on election day because election. All elecit's an off-yetions are important. The right to vote is sacred ; so is your privilege as a citizen. The list could go on. Election day is only four weeks away. Now is the time to study the issues and candidates and to make up your mind to vote. ar Bushy Beards Blossom; Hairy Hunters Hassled Y fvf M. YOUNG You don't need to check the football schedules. You don't even need to notice the trucks and campers being dusted off and flexing their ball joints. All you need to notice is the number of men around town who have started growing beards. The beard has to be considered as another fling at nostalgia. Remember the old pictures of the bearded father seated with his wife standing beside him and the kids around? Then there is the traditional picture of the bearded nimrods with several deer carcasses hanging from the trees. Weren't they tough? Now that's really what hunting is all about. So beginning at various stages throughout the late summer and early fall men start showing up at offices having stood some distance back from their razors. One good thing for outdoorsman Darrell Berkheimer, Herald wire editor, is that he won't be growing a beard this year. He never did shave off the one he grew last year. He goes up in the mountains so often the beard is not so much to disguise him from the game as much as it is to help him blend in. Lew Koefed of the advertising department is another one who left his beard on overnight many nights. He shaved it off some time ago then said he had so many complaints that he grew it back. Every sales executive has to have something different in his line. Steve McAffee, press foreman at The Herald played the game in reverse this year. For months he looked more like a cough drop manufacturer than a human being. But just in time for the elk hunt when others were pulling at the ends of their beards to make them he shaved his off. longer moustache Of course, he left his and so we still recognize him. This last summer growing beards in the press room has been a kind of disease. Randy Reid, assistant press foreman, caught it and is waiting to get better when he bags his big buck. I wonder if that's the same thing Santa Claus did. if one were available But the trophy for the best bush in the press room should go to apprentice John Zumwalt. Of course he might be disqualified. There's a rumor that his follicles, were actually seeded in the shadow pf an Oregon Douglas Fir forest. Gary Smith, assistant foreman of the backshop, has had his beard on and off for a long time. His has to be the ideal beard, especially when it's just been trimmed by his Best friend, Chris the barber. When liis colorful beard is in full bloom you can iust hear the Valkyrie maidesn swoon can just hear the Valkyrie maidens swoon bv L A l inm Svdcat U Capital Pigskin Binge By Martha Angle and Robert Walters WASHINGTON (NEA) Who says the nation's capital is divorced from the real world? What is going on in Washington these days conclusively refutes such rubbish. -- If you're not registeied, Off the Beat proaching. DimibutwJ In Washington Jimmy Carter is acting presidential, Congress is churning out legislation, the elections are less than a and nobody in month away the entire metropolitan area gives a hoot, including, if the truth be told, the participants. Like any other American community. in the fall of 78 Washington has gone on a football binge. The entire town is on a Redskins trip, riding an emotional skyrocket that is By JERRY Herald City Editor You don't need to feel the crispness of fall in the air to know that deer season is ap- mm 1 ar Nov. 7: To the question, "Why don't Americans register to vote?" the replies ranged as follows: Not in- percent; dislike politics, What About 'Farmunism'? io THE HERALD. Provo. and the echo pf Eric the Red shouting to Odin. Jack Emmerson, Herald newsman covering Provo, is the only one on the entire staff with any kind of justification for having a beard out of season. He began growing his beard a neat Van Dyke when it's trimmed years ago. His kids the oldest one having seen 10 deer seasons have never see him without a beard. "If I ever came home with a beard they would all go screaming to mama 'There's a strange man in the house!'" he says. halfway to the stratosphere already and picking up velocity with each passing week. Who cares about Carter's s record as long as the 'Skins are number one? What tax cut could possibly be as sweet as the Monday night victory over the hated Dallas Cowboys? Let someone else worry about a SALT II treaty; Washington is thinking Super Bowl. Any other city would do the same, which just goes to prove we're not so different after all. There have been those, in the past, who claimed that Washington is not a good win-los- bone-crunchi- sports town, that because most of the people who live here come from somewhere else, it is impossible to generate the kind of hometown spirit needed to support a professional team. Robert Short, who sold the Washington Senators out from under us some years back in an act of infamy which rankles to this day, leaps immediately to mind. If should elect him to the Senate this year, he may need bodyguards to make it to the Capitol. Washingtonians are like anyone else. Give us a winning team baseball, football, basketball, you name it and we go stark raving berserk. It is true that the Redskins have been a winning team for the better part of a decade now, regularly making the playoffs and even reaching the Super Bowl following the 1972 season. You'd think the thrill might have worn a bit thin, but nothing could be further from the truth. This Redskins team, under the inspired leadership of Coach Jack Pardee, is as different from the "Over-the-Hi- ll Gang" of George Allen's tenure as Affirmed is from a champion draft horse. It's not just a matter of per- sonnel changes, though Pardee has made some crucial ones, as much as it is a change of attitude, of spirit. With George Allen's Redskins, you could leave a p call for the final two minutes and seldom miss a thing. The team won. all right, but it was boring to watch. Two downs on the ground, a quick pass to the sidelines and punt. Yawn. Rely on the defense to force a turnover, then do it again. Effective, yes. Exciting, no. wake-u- Never in a million years would Allen have permitted his Redskins to try that spectacular old chestnut, the flea flicker. (If you don't know, don't ask.) Pardee's troops have used it twice already once successfully, once not. The execution matters less than the fact it was tried at all. The Redskins have lost none of their old skills. Their stands astonishing goal-lin- e against the Cowboys proved they still have a defense that can match any in football. But thanks to Joe Theisman, the scrambling young quarterback Allen kept on the bench, ofthey now have a dynamite fense as well. In Washington, even football gets viewed through a political prism. And a lot of people right now would tell you that the new Redskins are to the old bunch what Ted Kennedy is to Jimmy Carter. They've got more than a solid game plan; they've got pizazz. In Washington, as in Manchester. N.H., that will win the fans every time. Kirk Parkinson, display advertising manager, is getting ready for the deer season. The first day or so those in the office wondered if he just forgot to shave. Then it became clear he was at it again you see, he's had a beard before. But his kind doesn't need to worry about offending a better half. He's a bachelor. Those who know him can kid around and that's as far as the whole thing goes. The worst time in growing a beard, so Jack Emmerson says, is for the first few weeks. Through that time it's like having some kind of disease nothing like morning sickness, of course just something that reminds you to think about whether you really wanted to cultivate the hair follicles on your chin or not. Where a guy can get into trouble is when a wife doesn't like seeing the handsome brute she thought she married turn into a fuzzy-face- d monster right before her very eyes. When Patrick Christian and Meb Anderson hiked up to the snow pack on Mt. Timpanogos recently, Pat came back with a sunburn. It was so bad he was beyond looking embarrassed. He looked like a lobster. Even under the forest of hairs on the top of his head in the clearings you could see the sun had tinted his epidermal soil. It was the perfect time for him to accomplish two things in one. First, he could avoid the pain of logging hairs on that now tender gardenspot. Second, he could do what he has always wanted to do grow a beard. Unfortunately for him, the sunburn began to wear off and it was clear to his wife, Sonia that the whiskers were not wearing off. Cut that darned thing off, she reportedly ordered. Those who heard Patrick complain about it could hardly believe that slightly built, always smiling Chilean beauty could ever say such a hard thing in such a harsh way. From the look on Pat's face it's possible he might be staring at a lot of sleeping on the couch. What bothers this writer is the problem of categorizing people into groups. One charming Latin American lady I knew lived by a different set of standards than Sonia Christian. She said to me one day, "Un beso sin bigote es como caldo sin sal." Translated meaning, "A kiss without a moustache is like soup without salt " are desperately "backward." Yet how can you use that word to describe a system of agriculture which is doing an adequate job of feeding a fourth of the world's people on only eight percent of the world's arabic land'' How do they do it? Hand labor. Yet the way in which they double and triple crop on the same piece of land, there may be no other way to do the job. South of Peking, for example, they tie the heads of wheat together and then transplant cotton between the bound plants. Of course you could not drive a combine through the wheat without destroying the cotton; it has to be hand harvested. But China has lots of "hands." This does not mean there is no "modernization." If we can accept their figures (and we can't always) since 1975 in Shantung Province. China's most populous province, acres plowed by machine rose from 28 to 48 percent, fields under irrigation rose from 48 to 60 percent, fertilizer application is up 27.6 percent. Farmunism does not increase the production of beef. Poor transportation, poorer these roads and very little refrigeration factors limit beef production and marketing. China does produce port exports 8,500 live hogs through Hong Kong every day. But under farmunism, most agricultural production is consumed within 25 to 30 miles of where it is grown. Again the deciding factor is transportation. In southern provinces lemons may be plentiful while in Peking, just 200 miles away, there will be few. China's farmers do envy Americans the bigger horsepower tractors, is planning to import some. China wants to send young farmers to America to study our technology. The American Farm Bureau in California is expanding its farmer trainee program to accommodate them. We need to know what they are up to because Asia someday could dominate the world food supply as Arabs now dominate the on seven perworld oil supply unless we cent of the earth's land manage to stay ahead. Hand planting and hand harvesting, they multiply their production of peanuts and sugar cane, jute and soybeans, vegetables and fruits. Lighter Side Businessman's Lunch... With Loopholes (UPI) - Freeloaders, all its By DICK WEST reWASHINGTON chillunch in joice! The three-martiled, dry piquancy has been preserved for at ni least another year. Efforts to repeal or reduce the tax deduction for business entertainment got nowhere in Congress, despite President Carter's urging. The final two moves against it failed in the Senate this week. One would have cut the deduction to 50 percent, thus making it a lunch. The other would have limited the deduction to $25, which might have forced some of the lunch bunch to switch to beer. So strong was senatorial support for the lunch, there was even talk of adding a tax credit for extra olives. Thus one of the main effects of this year's tax legislation is to make the world safe for expense account dining. Much credit for keeping the loophole open is being given to business lobbyists who insisted that entertaining customers and clients is a vital part of commerce. Credit also is being claimed by various restaurant associations whose members feared they would lose a lot of patrons if the lunch lost its deductibility. But I think at least equal credit should go to Freeloaders Anonymous, which represented consumer interests on this issue. Its stake in the tax bill was enormous. We sometimes forget that business entertainment is a triangular affair. Those who serve tax deductible meals and those who pick up the checks are important. But without guests the entire process would collapse. Freeloaders Anonymous was formed some years ago after the IRS ruled that anyone who lunch as a business writes off a expense must devote part of the conversation three-marti- Roscoe Drummond Peacemaker-Pacemake- r WASHINGTON - Un- questionably there is a new post-Cam- p David Jimmy Carter. It is visible in his vigorous manner on the campaign trail, in the way Democratic con- gressional candidates are rushing to be seen with him whenever and wherever he appears in their districts. The President is a far firmer demonstrating stance in dealing with Congress. It is obvious that Mr. Carter is casting aside his unreal role as a political outsider in Washington and is running the Establishment, net being run by it. Recently a number of political writers and columnists spent more than an hour in candid breakfast conversation with the President. The consensus was that we were witnessing a new level of poise, confidence and decisiveness flowing from Carter's consummate achievement in bringing peace within reach in the Middle East. No man could have done better. Few, if any, have done as well. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin have testified to that. I suspect that Mr. Carter brought into play at Camp David heretofore untapped resources and that we will be seeing them at work in a wider range of presidential in- fluence at home and abroad. All the polls show that the American people have responded instantly. The Harris Survey reports Carter's popularity up 12 ponits from August as a President doing a good job. An APNBC poll finds his standing leaping 16 points since the Camp David summit. A Washington Post telephone sirvey reports that in another trial match with former President Ford, Mr. Carter comes out on top 50 to 36 as compared with an even draw earlier. A single-hande- d performance in foreign and military policy has always been a significant factor in a President's popularity standing. President Truman's rating advanced by 7 points when he acted to counter the Communist invasion of South Korea. President Nixon's trip to China in 1972 raised his rating from 49 percent to 56 percent; President Kennedy's handling of the Soviet-Cuba- n missle crisis raised his standing with voters by 12 points. I am not suggesting that Jimmy Carter is about to become a Teddy Roosevelt, who relished the "bully pulpit" of the White House and used it to the fullest or an FDR, who so often held the nation spellbound when he delivered his fireside chats. Both were one of a kind. But it would be my guess that Congress and the country, opponents as well as supporters, will be experiencing a new level of leadership by the President not evident since he came to Washington. His legislative victories are picking up. And most of his prospective vetoes of wasteful and unneeded spending will prove popular. I venture the judgment that as 1980 approaches. Carter will face no serious challenge to his renomination, and that Republicans will be making a great mistake if they assume that he will be easy to defeat. He will be presenting himself as a Southern fiscal conservative, and he will have a good case provided his own Democratic Congress does not make him look unbelievable. The success of the Camp David summit has earned Carter the image of peacemaker. He is now setting out to establish his role as pacemaker. three-marti- three-marti- to business. Here's how the organization works: A stranger in town on an expense account unexpectedly finds himself without a lunch companion. He calls the local chapter of FA and they send over someone to talk business with him. Under the leadership of its Washington director. Nathan Cadgemaster. FA mounted cama vigorous, if at times paign against the proposed "reform." Asked to comment on the new tax bill, Cadgemaster said that without the deduction "most business meals would revert to the infamous Dutch Treat system, which certainly if not outright communistic." is "The right to be taken to lunch is one of our most precious freedoms. Don't let them take it awav," he urged. I asked Cadgemaster how that philosophy atsquared with the famous saying, variously tributed to Will Rogers, W. C. Fields, Calvin Coolidge and the Marquis de Sade, that "There's no such thing as a free lunch." "None of those guys ever had a Diners Club panic-stricke- card," he replied. |
