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Show - v S tf "n ' A 1 i - "Y& v. iT PAYIU3 C UR CtUQMATlC YAY BBGnnnirlJBUi 7 10A . - I, PIt $ Salt LoU City, Utah. Tuaddy. January JBC Would JDignify Foreign Posis , 1WI "W- - IT ' 5a4 is something about a silk hat, striped pants, a boiled shirt and a formal morning TIERE ForHonest, Efficiant Service i siderations. so-call-ed . . -- two-fold:- -- ing operating franchises are these decisions should be subject to review by courts on the basis of legal considerations, not by Congress nor the l, -- , Tends to weaken the Presidents constitutional power to see that the laws an ' t 7- -, enforced. , -- regulatory functions without independent agencies. Is unnecessary because many regulatory laws, including the Meat Inspection Act and the Food and Drug Act, are enforced by bureaus operating under the jurisdiction of established departments. The problem is not subject to an easy, d solution. The goal to be achieved ' by any reform plans should be to insure that the regulatory agencies decisions will be Impartial and that all their dealings be honest j Til Just Go Afo-nCertainly. a searching look Js needed into the regulatory agencies to determine how they are being effected by the ex- KHRUSHCHEV'S TIME BOMB treme lobbying pressure that apparently is being put on them.. Yet the root of the problem would not be gotten at merely by adding to the bureaucratic superstructure by creating By ROSCOE DRUMMOND new offices to supervise the regulatory t Kennedy is PRESIDENT-elecagencies, as recommended by the Landis to a diplomatic report. For these new supervisory bodies bomb of Premier Khrushchevs also could go sour and then who would making. I hope he supervise the supervisors? is eyeing it suspi-- ' ciously. PERHAPS CHANGES in administrative At the moment form and procedure can encourage it looks innocent, more efficiency and honesty in governeven attractive, like ment, but they cannot guarantee it. No a preinaugural gift with red ribbon. agency can be more effective or more Mr. K. wrote a cozy scrupulous than the men who compose it. E note to Mr. Kennedy and now For-eig- n Minister An-- Mr. Drummond drei Gromyko has made a speech to the Supreme Soviet appealing to the new administration in Washington to abandon the war policies of Dwight Eisenhower and restore the good relations which prevailed under Franklin Roosevelt These are honeyed and deceptive and inaccurate words. President Roosevelt was no friend of Soviet imperialism, and since he died during World War n, he never had. to e deal with the spread of Soviet throughout Eastern Europe. The amiable phrases which are currently falling from the lips of Mr. Khrushchev and Mr. Gromyko simply do not square with the recent Moscow Manifesto signed by the Communist leaders from 81 countries, which was a 20,000-wordeclaration of cold war against every nation in the world. high-powere- track-master- Conservation Service (USSCS). Since modem irrigation was first begun in our Mountain West Valleys, men of the soil have had to gamble on the volume and duration of the water in their ditches and canals. Advance knowledge of this essential natural facility would Indicate for him, to some extent, how many acres and what crops to plant To supply this knowledge has been a prime objective of the USSCS since Governor Clyde initiated snow surveys back in 1923 when he was chief of irrigation research for the service. This agency has pushed the project as fast as funds have allowed, and it now has 138 snow courses throughout the state from which samples are taken and measurements made four times each water year. to 10 less than normal for a January 1 survey. Short of the average, as is this deposit, it is, nevertheless, good to report that it is considerably higher than at the same time last year. chiropractor. But what distinguishes these dedicated men and women a factor that Isnt apparent from the bare statistics is that they are definitely above Average when it comes to citizenship. The meager $500 salary they receive for two years service, and the long hours of hard work they give, certainly indicate that they are far above average in their sense of duty and in the sacrifices they make for their communities and state. Furthermore, most of them have been at their arduous legislative tasks from two to 28 years. IN A WORD, the composite picture of the average Utah legislator is that he is dedicated, hardworking, and unsung. We wish him luck as he begins his important work for us in the days ahead. il egre-gious- WHEN WE In 1956, 41 of committee meetings 1956, , 1957, 34; 36; and 1960, 30,This 35. 1958, 1955, 34; 36; 1959, .tabulation is important not just for statisticians and professional but has significance for all free citizens. It shows that progress toward the democratic ideal of open covenants openly arrived at In domestic matters as well aS foreign affairs is never uniformly steady; that Congress should be praised for its advances toward that ideal, and chided strongly whenever it back- -' nose-counte- rs slides. , - -t- ' To some degree, secret governmental meqfings can be necessary and even beneficial because t there are occasions when .secrecy, Is essential for our protection. ,Thi may be why meetings of the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relictions committees ranked second and third under-the-count- 1 4- - - er EFFICIENCY that is purchased at the price of our freedoms is tod costly a luxury for the UJS OUR SOULS By SYDNEY J. HARRIS N A RECENT. French book, the author remarks (with as much truth as wit) that the real tragedy of Faust is not recognized by most I In Its form made most famous by can-produ- - SELL ly people. in the percentage of secret sessions. Both committees handled classified aspects of U.S. foreign policy. But this is no excuse for the House Ways and Means Committee, whose 81 of closed sessions topped all other groups in secret meetings during 1960. What does the House Ways and Means Committee handle? Not military secrets or sensitive foreign policy issues that affect U.S. security. On the contrary, this committee handles all tax legislation, proposed tax exemptions, certain lobbying groups, and a proposed increase in the national debt limit all subjects demanding the fullest possible public scrutiny. The only reasonable excuse for holding secret meetings, aside from' the occasional need for security, is that closed sessions can be more efficient than open meetings. Secret meetings can be more efficient because the committee members need not take the time to explain and justify their decisions. By the same token, secret governmental meetings hasty, decisions and deals that work to the publics detriment. to afford. , rERE old-ag- p Faust Got Better Deal Than Most The Fight Against Secrecy THE FIGHT against secrecy in government must be constant and unending if the freedoms that Americans enjoy are to be prevented from eroding away. This message clearly emerges by reading between the lines of a recent report from Congressional Quarterly which shows that the rate of secrecy in Congress, after declining steadily in the past, increased sharply during 1960. Aid To Aged Means More Taxes THUS, WHILE MR. K. AVOWS with one voice that he so very much wants to renew amicable negotiations with the President of the United States, he avows through the Moscow Manifesto that the United States is the chief enemy of the peoples of the world, that the U.S. is the bulwark of imperialism, and that we are preparing a new war of aggression. - On the surface it must seem inconsistent for Mr. K to think that he can resolve any of the tensions of the cold &ar by increasing them or that he can promote a fruitful meeting with Mr. Kennedy by lacerating the climate under which such a. meeting might take place. lawyers, two are or were formerly publishers, one is a doctor, and another is a As the fiasco of last May dem- SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT INSURANCE onstrated, Jhe Soviets show no sign of wanting a summit conference to resolve Die tensions of the cold war, but, to intensify them. It seems to me that the Khrushchev-Gromykthe old folks get their checks froni By FRANK CHODOROV tactics add up to exactly this: Chodorov tho It author of (Mr. 1 To trap Mr. Kennedy, by "On It taxes levied on their offspring, not A Crowd "Thu Imamu Tax, Root of All from the taxes they were compelled either inveigling or coercing him, tvll," and Thu Rlto and fall of Socinfy.' into an early and unprepared sumto pay during their earning days. Ho It an ottotfato odltor of Human mit meeting. Ivtntt and a contributing odltor to t ho THERE IS ANOTHER feature of National Roviow.) 2 To generate the greatest possocial security that needs com, sible tension and uncertainty in is talk In political circles menting upon. That Is the tax levied every soft part of the e on the employer, equal to the putting the proposed world as a compulsive reason medical assistance under the amount taken out of the pay enfor acceding to an unprepared sumsocial security set-uIt might, velope. The receipts from this part mit conference. therefore, be useful to consider what of the tax also go into the general 3 To use these new tensions and this set-ufunds of the government and are-spereally is. new uncertainties as a means to exlike any other tax receipts. It It is called Old Age Security In--, act from the West not a mutually surance assumed that the conis on with the the generally emphasis advantageous solution, but a Westof the tribution comes This insurance. word employer costs the from ern capitulation on one or more isthe fact that the worker nothing. This, however, Is sues. not the case. For the employer insured have There is no spirit of negotiation simply adds the tax he pays to his been compelled other costs of doing business and reanywhere in the Moscow Manifesto, and if we dismiss it because we his outlay through the price during their coups shrink jfrom facing reality, we will to he charges for his commodities. He days working be making the same mistake we did pay taxes, some-time- s passes on the tax to the consumer, in dismissing Hitlers Mein Kampf called who, In most cares. Is the worker. on the ground that it was too imNow, insurance companies figure "premiums. The plausible. assumption, is their premiums on the basis of This does not mean that we that the benefits they receive when actuarial knowledge. They know should spurn any solid indication from experience what they will be the retirement age are dethey that Moscow is willing to resolve any rived hit taxes. In regular required to pay out in benefits, and from these negotiable aspect of the cold war. make their premium charges for insurance provided by private inIndeed, I think we should take the the such coverage accordingly. But, surance premiums companies initiative to press for real negotiapaid in by the insured are partly social security benefits are not based tion. The need is to discern the real set aside in a reserve fund, partly on actuarial knowledge; they are from the fake. based on political expedience. Invested in mortgages and industrial securities; the payments paid to the WHEN MOSCOW SETS off its SINCE THE ORIGINAL act was beneficiaries come from this reserve barrage of attacks against the passed, the terms of the insurfund or from the earnings on these U.S. and Britain and France, Gerhave been changed by several ance OAIS? true this of Is investment. many, and the UN. and then says, administrations; women have been Lets have a summit to improve Not a bit of it. made eligible for payments at the matters, we can be sure that this THE TAXES PAID by the insured age of 62, rather than the original tactic is aimed at waging the cpld under the Social Security Act go 65, and new groups of people not war, not resolving it to the Treasury of the United States covered in the original law have and are made available to the govbeen included, without increasing ernment That is, they go into the tax payments to cover these beneficiaries. As a fesult, during the past general till, like any other tax. retwo years the interest on the bonds ceipts, and are spent on whatever Congress appropriates money for. in reserve has not been enough None of these taxes are set aside to meet the payments and Congress for the payment of benefits, nor has had tQ make up the deficit are they invested. Then the governimpress tradesmen or obtain smirkIf medical aid for the old folks ment sets aside a number of its own is added to social security, more ing deference from doormen. bonds, to an. amount equal Jo what taxea will have to be levied on th-pNothing -l- ike Fausts bargain it has received in social security envelope. Will these additional awaits us. We are not given back taxes, into what is called a reserve. taxes. If and when they are Imand our efforts to seem youth Now, the interest on these reserve posed, be enough to cover the cost bonds is derived from new taxes, youthful only look greasily obscene of medical assistance? Nobod) to the young and beautiful. since the taxes paid in by the inknows. -sured have long been spent, and THERE IS NO MAGIC cloak that THE POINT is that social security these new taxes are paid by those taxes are just taxes. They art who are at work when the old folks will wrap us in Invisibility and not premiums on insurance." receive their benefits. Therefore, take us wherever we wish to go. o d THIS IS 5 WHEN THE LEGISLATURE convenes on January 9, the 89 men and women who are Utahs lawmakers will start the important task of allocating millions of dollars, passing laws, and otherwise setting the course of State Government for the next two years. Who are these men and women who play such an important part in our lives? What are they like? To answer these questions, the Deseret News is publishing a series of thumbnail sketches of Utahs legislators. In many respects, these lawmakers are much like the citizens who elected them. That is, they seem to be average people with average jobs, and probably average incomes, One partial count shows that 32 of them are businessmen, 20 are ranchers or are teachers, eight are farmers, do. rule-by-forc- Your Legislators and hearings were closed; In i Manifesto Makes For More Cold War Thus, -- with snowshoes and a , bright orange diesel snow hardy scientists survey our winter watersheds so that much of the guesswork may be taken out of farming. What to plant and how much, always has been one of the perplexities of soil cultivation. Meanwhile, if these surveyors, or anybody else could only figure a way whereby more of the white fluffy stuff that makes our mountains so beautiful could be deposited, that would also, be greatly small amounts gratefully appreciated received and larger ones in proportion. The newest USSCS readings on three typical courses, yielded measurements of from six to 44 inches, or 25 of the sea-- v sons full, normal snowpack. DREAM of every Utah farmer to know how much water he is going to have for his crops is becoming A reality, thanks to a project now being advanced by the United States Soil LONG-TIM- y. g Snow Surveys Aid Our Farmers A T nt off-han- THIS COMES CLOSE to" putting these agencies under direct presidential supervision, Which would weaken their inv dependent status. Another approach mlght be to absorb-t- he agencies into the governments regular departments, which was recommended by the Presidents Committee on Administrative Management in 1937. The argument for maintaining independent status for the regulatory agencies is mainly 1. That it helps keep them free from the influence of politics and other external pressure. (But the Landis Report has noted that some of these agencies are already in politics up to the hilt.) 2. That because the decisions these agencies make in setting rates and award- - 1 Is unnecessary because for exactly 100 years the UJS. Government performed members. - The President now has no power of removal of members of the , regulatory agencies. quasi-judicia- ' - dors have often turned in excellent s t and occasionally brilliant jobs. But, bluntly, it is an awful way to run a railroad! It has also been a system that has seen splendidly tagonism of - mil-- , lions of us Americans. ' qualified and experienced career; In my- - own, my diplomats denied promotion to the , native land, a silk top posts simply because they were-hats only excuse without a large private fortune to f for being, too often . ; meet the bills. . . , has been a snowMr. Kennedys Insistence that the ball. 1 Either con- Mr. LUlon -- United States Congress appropriate sciously qr. unconsciously, Presl-.desufficient funds to pay our diplo-Elsenhower expressed thi3 matic way will mean that Charles national distaste when he rejected -- E. (Chip) Bohlen,-- a career diplomat thp silk topper for a Homburg, a of the greatest distinction, can be ; shade more, respectable, as his in-- appointed ambassador to France, t . 1 1 augural chapeau. - That is one of the most expensive ' It Is just possible that our posts in' the diplomaticworld. refusal to support or pay the freight for our diplomatic corps ON THE VERY DAY Mr. Kennedy his determination to . announced stems from a subconscious convic-tion that only overalls or charcoal-gre- . get sufficient funds to run the diplo-- . flannel are respectable and matic corps as an agency of govern-- . .ment and not as an adjunct of pat-proper garb for the workingman. So I shall await with interest ronage, there appeared In newsthe Donnybrook on the New Fronpapers a shameful story illustrat--, tier and in the U.S. Congress over ing our stinginess In these matters. finder a Washington, D.C, datethe proposal (diplomatic term for . line, the story pointed out that DougKen"demand) of President-elec- t las Dillon, the Republican who will . nedy that at long last the United be the next Secretary of the Treas-- 1 States finally appropriate sufficient ury, had just paid out of his own funds to pay its diplomatic bills. pocket for 10 huge and costly crystal , THIS REFORM Is long overdue. chandeliers , to hang in the state , For generations the rich United dining room and the adjoining reStates has been running Its diploception rooms qf the new State DeWith You , Jack' matic services on the cheap. Such partment Building. . Vital . posts as thosein London, . ..,In its appropriation for the build--' Paris and Rome have always been lng, Congress did not ante up sufthe highly improper rewards be- ficient money tor the chandeliers. stowed upon wealthy contributors "U is one womans opinion that to the war chest of whatever party the American government and peohas happened to be in power. ple ought to be ashamed of dependThe handout of Important diploing on private charity, and good matic posts to rich partisans in will to run a great and vastly imporIn a word, while Mr. Khrushchev tant department of the governdeclares for 'peace, the Moscow the worlds very social capitals has been thC custom of both major ment manifesto declares for more cold political parties. It has crowned the war. I AM GRATEFUL to Mr. Dillon, career of many a businessman whose - currently Under Secretary of MY JUDGMENT is that the Incon- diplomatic experience had hitherto State and a former Ambassador to been to confined the not is annual office only apparent, sistency France, but it is to be hoped that real, and that Mr. Kennedy and us party. in the future Uncle Sam will foot his incoming Secretary of State, Dean LET IT BE SAID at once that the own bills. Rusk, will need to recognize this fact. United States has had, under this Otherwise, Happy New Year. There is good reason to think they . THE ARGUMENTS for abolishing the agencies, independent status also are atrongr Some.. public administration ex--' perts have long maintained that such status: Tends to destroy unity of policy- direction under the President by making file regulatory agencies areas 'of unless public. Indignation be the last becomes sufficient to arouse Congress and the President to act The latest move to improve the Independent" regulatory agencies comes from James M. Landis, former dean of the Harvard Law School, who has been named a presidential assistant to outline plans for revamping the agencies. Becauseof recent scandals in some of these agencies, he has recommended: That four different new offices 'be set tip under White House jurisdiction to oversee the agencies, and to develop and coordinate national policies on transportation, communications, and energy. That the President be empowered to appoint and remove the chairmen of six of the agencies, although he would not be .allowed to remove them as agency ambassa- - ground our that, too often rouses either the risibilities or the anCoat President on the basis of political con JL NEW REPORT calling for reform of i Federal regulatory agencies 1 far from the first of itsklnd. And it 'may not system, far mofe luck, than it has deserved Guided by devoted career diplomats in the back- Ey INEZ ROES Constitution of tbs United States of f having been divinely inspired.- - ' Goethe, Faust is the tale of an elder- ly scholar who makes a pact with the Devil. For selling his soul, he is given back his A Shoulder Of Stone HE WAS MISERABLE and remorseful when the delivery date came; but at least he had the memory of recaptured youth, of Gretchen, of power and vitality and good fellowship spurious though they were. WhatTare we offered when we make the same pact when we accept the Contpromlses, Invite the corruption, dull the moral sense, and pervert the right relation between man and man? VERY LITTLE, really. A bit more money, a temporary sense of status, the illusion of power or eml- nence.Jtbe ability to manipulate a few cowed of frightened people, to OTHERS, TOO, have come to know the sturdy features of the ders giant form. Chipmunks have raced from the Mr. turns revel in wine, women and song. The French author observes that in real life, nobody gets this much of a bargain. For all of us mortals, the Faustian tragedy lies in the fact, that we sell our souls for considerably-less -- We By LANSING CHRISTMAN WALKER knows intimately the great and massive boulder, partially Imbedded in the thin soil of the wild pasture slope that reaches out beyond the fields. . It stands in all the serenity of the ages of which it has been so long a part, close to a. grove of green and stately pines. One has spent hours in its quiet companion" ship. From the top of its giant form, he has rested in the sun, listening to the chords and songs that resounded from wood and pasture and field across the hills. He has looked down upon the familiar acres of his farm, and he has contemplated the worth of his long association with the soil qnd stone of his land. youth, provided with a magic cloak, and permitted to , carry ourselves with us at all times: the greedy eyes, the thinning lips, the sniffing nose, the brittle limbs. Selling ones soul not all at once, but piece by piece, as most of us do is not only immoral. It is also emotionally uneconomic; like most great bargains, it cheats us. than Faust ay A Senator Caucus did. Now that were Mood brothers, Senator, there are a few favors I would like to ask! . . . - wajl to dart over its rugged crevices. Birds have bathed in the hollows that have caught and hell the rain. Squirrels have been fa, miliar with its rounded surfaces. Its shaggy form has known the rain and the winds, and the sun and the snows of the centuries. Its lichened sides give certain evidence of its increasing age. Great chips have been cut or sliced away from, the boulder by the ice and the frost. The fingers of time have worked-sureland patlently upon its sldes. They have moulded it into a shoulder of reliance and sturdiness. It stands as a true and lasting symbol of steadfast friendliness. It puts out its Weathered hands to touch, a -- walkers heart. It. filla him with the kindest of thoughts of his enduring slopes. IT IS A SHOULDER of stone upon which he leans for comfort, and -- for reit. t 'i |
