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Show t ... V v ..i ' in m ,....) '": .. f7I "It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in if. And it isn't enough to believe m it. Onemust I WOrkat-BeamrRoo- America firstlady(m4-l2- sevelt, v. ""b - ) n Vp 1 1 j JJ jj mi. mm .l..,.. .in. j 1 I 1 . ji, w. LI 1,1 n mi .. ' - rx 2 f f J1 mum - i' i ' r ,,- w--- .bi,. .n -i- & - Winn " ,r ... T.i nl.ti ... .art in i1nw mi , mtifflu y ' 11 r 1 f CM f- - 1L- - IjjJ fj Q fj) 4 Sunday, April 5, 1S92 The Daily Herald Why do we squander the extra hour of sunlight early in the morning when it could be tacked on to the end of the day? Benjamin Franklin first posed this question in 1784. He reckoned the young republic could save millions of candles each year by observing time t-saving Two centuries later, a coalition of advocates daylight-savin- g sporting goods manufacturers, amusement park operators, nurserymen, hotel proprietestified to tors, barbecue salesmen month of additional an that Congress would g time daylight-savinprovide a econonation's the to boost $4 billion my. The sunlight in early March roughly equals that of late October, when the nation already enjoys the benefits of time. If an extra hour daylight-savin- g is of daylight good at the end of the day in October, it should be good in March. There are other potential benefits of time. For inextended daylight-savin- g the a Department of stance, study by The arguments mustered against extra daylight-savin- g time are dun. Some opponents fear children would be forced to wait for school buses in darkness, placing them at a greater d safety risk. But a study of daylight-savin- g time in 1974 showed no additional deaths. In fact, the study found that the most dangerous time for children to be on the street in darkness was the early time evening. Thus, daylight-savin- g actually might be safer. There is also the argument that an additional month of daylight-savin- g time would be onerous to dairy farmers, who milk their cows by the dawn's early light. Yet, don't farmers already adjust their milking schedules twice a year to conform to the time change? Besides, should the interests of a tiny that estimated longer fraction of the population deprive the Transportation time would save 100,-00- 0 rest of us of an extra measure of usable daylight-savin- g barrels of oil a day and reduce the daylight? number of traffic accidents. On the Congress should advance the start of time from the first humanitarian side, extended daylight-savin- g daylight-savin- g time would help the 400,000 Sunday in April to the first Sunday in Americans who suffer from retinitis March. That would be one of the few pigmentosa, commonly referred to as instances in which lawmakers actually add a little sunshine to our lives. night blindness. dayligh- year-roun- d. year-roun- Clinton should lift a finqer for New York If I were Bill Clinton's political adviser, I might offer him this strategy to use in the remaining days before New York's primary. He would call a press conference and when the from the tabloids had gathered and the cameras were rolling, Clinton would say: "I have a very brief statement to make to the New York media and to the voters of this state, particularly this city . " Then he would jerk his arm upward with the middle finger extended. And with a smile, he would say: "In case you miss the message, up yours. So farewell, New York, New York. I'm gone." That might cost him one primary, although you never know. It might be something New Yorkers would understand and appreciate. But even if he lost, so what? The gesture would enhance his standing in every other part of the country. Fun is fun. And beating up on politicians has now supplanted baseball as America's favorite pastime. But in New York, they've turned it into a journalistic flesh-eate- Making a mistake evicted to relieve themselves on public Editor: I believe you are making a serious mistake when you encourage politicians who are pandering to the majority vote to change it forbids governour Utah Constitution "if government-pai- d ment-sponsored, pray- ers. It most certainly does, as the judge correctly ruled. Please think more seriously what you are really recommending. If there was ever a state which needed a law clearly mandating "no church shall dominate" the political system, it is ours. Even Governor Bangerter was embarrassed d interference this year. at the Does anybody seriously doubt how badly Jefferson's "wall of separation" is breached in Utah? A minority of us feel the tyranny; people in the majority of course do not, as heavy-hande- they are exercising it. Your claims for government prayer can readily be compared to the claims made for slavery. It, too, was sanctioned in the name of holy tradition and state's rights. Slavery was an evil then, and government-sponsore- d religion is an evil now, no matter how lon it has gone on and how much Utah wants its streets. Sadly, some of the owners leave their dogs chained outside to bark at everything that moves while they go to work or attend religious services. Some have two dogs in duet to add to the around-the-cloc- k cacophony. Ironically included among the indirect contributors to such stress from noise are those whose professions are to help serve the law or broker real estate for others in otherwise model neighborhoods. Efforts to inform owners of poodle and other pet polluters through phone calls, notes or requests sometimes appear to irritate those who feel their pets have natural rights to intrude on the and quiet as well as privacy of others. peace the animals are essential for believe They security and that those who reluctandy complain are "oversensitive" to the unwanted sounds the owners ipore or are oblivious to. As a dog lover and former dog owner, I appreciate the difficulty of keeping control of pets at all times. It's not easy. It means cultivating courtesy as well as care. It takes discipline. Sometimes both the owner and face-to-fa- ce 24-ho- ur gang-rap- e. God-giv- en te public-trans- marijuana cigarette. Oh, wow, what a shocker. Somebody s once tried the who is now in his weed? Who would have thunk it? But as the New York press explained, the significance of this disclosure was not merely that he had once tried marijuana. It was that he has been asked about marijuana use hundreds of times, but he never came clean. So this proves he is a slippery character. t mid-40- rs And they're proud of it. Columnists have been thumping their chests about how their professional mission is to mug Clinton. One of them wrote that it is "our right to spend two weeks torturing candidates to the best of our ability. ' ' "rights." Nah, God doesn't read New York tabThat right was bestowed by the large loids. Children obedience need training. When you piously call for a "variety" of pet that owns your newspaper. should have an example set for them. corporation prayers at government meetings, you are Another wrote: "It is my stated purpose still ignoring a minority who practice no Leash laws and other ordinances aimed at in this primary to run Bill Clinton back to a religion. If I go to a city council meeting to health and quiet are only the litter of the law golf course. ' ' segregated protest sewer rates, do you have the right to and not the spirit of the law needed to That, coming from a city where one of coerce me into a religious practice whether I encourage peace and quiet for those who the favorite pastimes of young men is combow down to your superstition or not? I pay may be sick an need rest, or just ordinary mitting racial mayhem. Clinton may have taxes; do you have the right to pay for a folks who don't appreciate the second hand nine holes at an played country religious practice with some of the money, sounds of pesky pets. but he didn't bash anyone in the head club, minisculeornot? with his putter. But a more quiet neighborhood and comThe editor of one of the tabloids said In Pallak and again in Lehman the U.S. munity can be achieved by those who really for and the and care discussed the Court respect rights privacy right Supreme of their neighbors. Thanks again to not to be a captive listener, viewer or reader The Herald for the reminder about courtesy vehicles. Are our governin ment meetings any less public? In Engel v. in the community. AlfPratte Vitale they clearly stated, "Each separate WASHINGTON George Bush does Provo busishould the of out ... stay government a Willie Horton in this summon need not to ness of ... sanctioning official prayers." election campaign. The political ad that Can you read their lips? wins votes in 1992 is more likely to be a n takeoff on the Search your heart carefully and ask yourIn hog prices on a litany of how the radio Midwestern wish self exactly why you prayers to be Editor: Democratically controlled Congress has given at government meetings. I understand I agree completely with David Taylor squandered precious tax dollars on communication a to as your prayer basically Herald Mar. 22, 1992). "These projects. deity, which he may hear whether it is (Daily of This is worse than the Pentagon's $600 organizations (ACLU) will be fortypes the silent. Then why forcing of spoken or because they stand for nothing they toilet seat. It is the $200,000 Vidalia onion public prayers? Honestly, isn't the reason a gotten g consume themselves in their blend of power and fear? Power expressed project, the $100,000 blackbird preservato destroy the ideals that form the tion project, the $100,000 mechanical toby believers who really know what's good quest foundation of every successful civilization. mato harvester project, the $100,000 for for all of us, and fear, among other irrational is the Until are it swine disease research. In each congresforgotten, they however, secular of a society? concerns, sional district, the tax money of the many duty of every Christian to contain and resist Do you really want Utah to once again their influence." I extend the call to the has been spent on the needs of a few to become a laughing stock and embarrass- Jewish people and all others who have a satisfy the lust of one. a pretty great belief in God. ment in this country? "Utah 'President Bush has a list of 1,391 such This issue with the ACLU is not a prayer state, so great that the First Amendment projects that he intends to ask does not apply." issue, it is a religious freedom issue, the Congress to cancel one by one. Since ConAdrienne Morris ACLU has made it clear they don't want to veto to gress won't give Bush the Springville just get prayer out of the government they excise pork projects before they are fundwant to get God out of the country. They ed, his next tool is "rescission," or asking support pornography as free speech but utCongress to go back and rescind individual tering a prayer is against the Constitution. A appropriations. When Bush proposes a list of cuts that religious teacher cannot interject some values in the state's sex education program but includes $100,000 for swine disease rethe students for whom the program was search, the clear message to Democrats is Editor: and projects will not stand. your intended, can come to school dressed in the that Many thanks to Omar Green most the swine project behideous that mind with obscene Frank columnist Seelcy "I garbs gestures (Never spunky Object" a to Rep. Vin Weber for daring to discuss one of Utah Valley's printed all over the front of them. Republican, longed It's will most persistent and growing problems: pet very apparent to me the ACLU of Minnesota.) interpret the constitution to fit its own agenSince 1974, presidents have sent Conpollution. For reasons unknown, normally nice, da. It is interesting that the farther we allow gress 947 proposals for spending cuts the American Civil Liberties Union to go the adding up to $63.5 billion. Congress has caring and responsible neighbors think nothing of permitting pets to wander at will or fewer freedoms we will have and America agreed in 675 cases, with some adjusreturn to their atavistic nature by barking will become more rotten. tments. But seldom has a president used P. Peterson much of the evening, throughout the night or rescission as a campaign sledgehammer. Phyllis in the morning hours when the animals are Lindon Last month Bush sent his first 68 proposed well-bei- y f Hiko Royko V'- - V Syndicated Columnist that the New York press is simply making up for the soft time Clinton has had elsewhere. Until he got to New York, this editor said, Clinton hadn't really been scrutinized. Let's see: There was the sleazy business about the blond floozie, which was carried live on TV and appeared in every paper in America. Plus the hooker who said he fathered her child. Plus the Miss America contestant who hinted, then denied, that she was bedded by him. There were the thousands of questions about his marriage questions that if asked in a Chicago bar, would get a reporter a broken nose. Then there was the whole flap about his looking for a way to avoid getting himself killed in Vietnam, which a goodly number of practicing New York journalists also did. Teams of investigative reporters have been up one side of Arkansas and down the other, looking for any kind of misconduct on his part. All of this before he came to New York and without guidance from the New York tabloids, which were busy exploring the sex habits of the New York Mets. Actually, the biggest contribution made by the New York media to our understanding of the life and times of Bill Clinton has been to finally drag from him the confession that, yes, when he was a student in England, he did take a few puffs on a No, ell this proves is that the same pointless question about marijuana was asked hundreds of times by reporters who were too dumb or lazy to ask about something more relevant. Who cares if he took a few hits on a joint in an era when everybody his age was trying the drug of their choice? It's not as if tipsters have been calling newspapers and saying that they were at a dozen parties with Clinton where he was popping pills, smoking doobies, snorting coke and bouncing off the ceiling. As some New York editors and reporters hav6 been known to do. The problem here isn't that Clinton is as slick and devious as the New York press is trying to prove. The problem is that the New York press reflects the rest of New York. And it is the nature of New Yorkers to be miserable and to want everybody else to share their misery. Consider this: Woody Allen is considered to be the funniest person in New York. So he makes movie after movie about how unhappy he is. It was best summed up by the character who played the mayor of New York in the movie "Ghostbusters n," when he was told that a river of evil glop flowed beneath the city and it was energized by the mean spirits of New Yorkers. He said: "Being miserable and treating people like dirt is every New Yorker's right." God-give- n So give them the finger, Clinton, and tell them to check out their sewers. ng lush picks a fight over it agreement Jack Anderson pre-daw- pork-barr- el A L- -A el line-ite- Pet pollution pork-barr- el m jM A Syndicated Columnist never-endin- pork-barr- A. projects pork-barr- el youth, is about to carve a roast out of the Republicans' hide. As early as this week he may begin a counterattack in the pork battle that some on Capitol Hill are calling "mutually assured destruction. " As soon as the White House unveiled its proposed cuts, Byrd, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, convened a meeting of his subcommittee chairmen to formulate a battle plan. He is considering slicing the fat out of the White House budget, including level limo service and executive branch And, there are a slew of projects on the rescission list that are imr portant to Republicans. Sen. John McCain, sponsored Bush's rescission bill, but could scare up only 17 Republican "Byrd is going to load this up with things that are painful to Bush and Repub; lican members," said one Republican strategist. The result could be a tortured compromise list of cuts that Bush would have to veto, and then who looks like the bad guy? Byrd is also likely to use this opportunity to settle some scores. For example, Sen!. Slade Gorton, voted against clean-ai-r a on that act Byrd feared Byrd would hurt his coal mining constituents. R won't be hard for Byrd to find some ob scure budget cut that would hurt Gorton's constituents. ; For Byrd, the line between principle and pork is Slurred. spending is a but dirty phrase, Byrd lives and dies by it;. He represents one of the poorest states', and his constituents have grown accuse sub-Cabi- g. cuts to Congress. They are worth $3.6 billion and range in size from $39,000 to $20 million. The word is, Bush will keep pelting Congress with requests for cuts unul the lawmakers have been forced to vote on the entire list of 1 ,39 1 . "The longer (the list) the better for z., Bush," explained one Democratic Senate insider. "They're looking for metaphors for problems rather than root causes. They have 68 little Willie Hortons they've economic Willie Hortrooped up there tons." Bush's strategy is long on symbolism and short on substance. His list of cuts sent to Congress wouldn't even add up to 1 percent of the $400 billion deficit. "Let's be honest with each other. It's not going to cure the budget deficit," conceded one Republican supporter of the rescissions. "The only thing that's going to cure the ' budget deficit is when we put a cap on mandated spending." Bush has picked this fight, but he may not be able to finish it. Sen. Robert Byrd, who worked as a butcher in his tomedtoadietofpork. Pork-barr- a., el J |
