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Show I)ail Sunday .Meriting, February 23, 1909 Section 1 Tage Congress Ignores o Some Conflicts 1 Cities Must Have Sales Tax Help Financially, Salt Lake City is uptight and only the Legislature can relieve its f agony. The means, an additional cent city sales tax, has been proposed in a bill already before the lawmakers. But its fate is in doubt. A cent increase would bring the total city sales tax to one cent on the dollar. It would be imposed in addition to now expected to be one any increase cent levied for badly needed state revenues. Total increase to a Salt Lake City resident would be l1 ' cents. That may seem like a hefty new tax bite. But the long-tercost of not providing it will be even greater. The facts are simple. Costs of basic government services, education, police and fire protection, welfare and the like, have increased. But government income, its traditional sources like the property tax now at the breaking point, has not kept up with the one-hal- one-ha- lf expense. There are but two alternatives. Either services are reduced to substandard or money is raised to pay for them. Its that frills and simple. Eliminating paring administrative costs are sensible adjuncts to stretching available money. lf '""I An Old Hand and Two Diplomatic Novices Because of the high personal cost of representing the United States as ambassador to Great Britain, it has long been the custom to select men of wealth for the position. President Nixon did just that when he appointed Walter H. Annenberg, Phila- delphia publisher. Annenberg has had no diplomatic experience, but neither had most of his predecessors. And until the United States raises salary and entertainment allowances, career diplomats arent going to be able to serve at the Court of St. James. Annenberg will have the help of a highly experienced staff, and as an active newspaper proprietor he undoubtedly knows much more about world affairs than most diplomatic novices. Jacob D. Beam, the new ambassador to the Soviet Union, is an old hand at dealing with Communists, with recent assignments in Moscow, Warsaw and Prague where he kept on top of the Russian-le- d invasion of Czechoslovakia. There is no substitute for experience for an ambassador to the USSR. Another ambassador - designate is John S. D. Eisenhower, Ikes son, who will of go to Belgium. He is the father-in-lathe Presidents daughter Julie. A 1944 West Point graduate, his military service included combat in the European theater of operations during the final stages of World War II and a tour of duty as an infantry operations officer in Korea. After retiring from the Army, he became a book editor and this month published one of his own. The Bitter Woods, a history of the Battle of the Bulge on the German - BelThe gian border in the winter of 1944-4should be to introduction a history good the Belgians. We congratulate Mr. Nixon on three good appointments. Visiting Cartoonist 5. him to negotiate for the GSA lands and Sen. Wallace F. Bennetts request to GSA for the land transfer has brought the promise that an investigator will be sent to Salt Lake City to study the matter. Since the agreed upon compromise rests upon acquisition by the state of the 156 acres of GSA land or at least the 40 acres that are flat the attention of all parties must be concentrated on swift acquisition of this key parcel. Most of the 156-acr- e tract is mountain- ous and of no particular value except as a natural backdrop to a park. We see no reason for GSA not letting it go. There appears to be sufficient historical significance to the property to justify its transfer to the state free of charge as a historic site. So much depends on obtaining the GSA lands the state should not rely on federal largesse but start rounding up the 8167,050 purchase price so it can move fast if GSA decides it will sell but not give. Only after this final piece of land has been fitted into the puzzle can the long awaited university research park and of Monument projected development State Park get off the drawing boards. pioneer-oriente- d Move Over. Lvmlon iar? "The level of violence in the country is wants peace. intolerable. Everybody Whatever I decide is for the good of the nation. I am not a potential candidate for the next election. This decision is final and irrevocable. They could almost be the phrases Lyndon B. Johnson used last spring to tell Americans that, for the sake of national unity, he would not seek reelection. But these words were uttered in Karachi, not in Washington. They were spoken by Ayub Khan, for the past 10 yea's piesi-de- nt fast-changi- certain defeat. Orbiting Parairruphs i The culinary art is m a strange siate. Mother rooks the plain food The gourmet s'.ulf comes out of a can. Of m S' leys Po t O uMi Ain't our elders ever going to learn?" labor's interests. luiiied husband lepoits that ho is he poker cards what his with to earn trying wife spends with the credit cards. A I The Public Forum an ice cube and patching these holes in the inter is a ' similar opei ation because the ground is frozen and most holes are either lull of water or ice. The Street Department crews have only had ten days since the sixth of November when they could patch holes under the most adverse conditions and many times they have The Real Issue w Editor, Tribune: Your editorials are usually very good. I was disappointed, however, in the Feb. 8 editorial on cigarette adertising. It showed a glaring blind spot in your reasoning. You argued that the issue is not whether cigarette smoking is good 01 bad, but whether a product legally manufactured and sold is denied the right to advertise on grounds that it can be injurious to the health of a cilien who knows the chances he is taking and still warns to take them. You missed the real issue. Young boys and girls are not mature citizens with mature judgment. They aie adventurimpressionable, popularity-seekinous people subject to being deceived and misled by deceptive appeals to these urges. The cigarette is not a nutritious food like milk, butter, hamburger. It is a victim-formin- g narcotic. Once a cigarette smoker, always a cigarette smoker. The tobacco trusts know this and they capitalize on it in their advertising to lure young people into their net. They' know that once they get a young person started he or she becomes hooked. a victim whose lue and behavior will henceforth be dominated by his master, the cigarette, despite the fact that every cigarette he smokes takes minutes off his life. The real issue is whether we as puents are going to continue to sit passively while the tobacco trusts exploit our young people with their deceptive commercials and ads. Let old victims have their cigarettes. It would be unwise and useless to try to prohibit the sale of cigarettes. This would only encourage bootlegging. But our young people should be protected from this avalanche of deceptive and unethical appeals to them through TV and magazine advertising. habit-formin- g, C. D. McBRIDK Hvrum Fair Share Editor, Tribune: Kudos to the state legislator or legislators who have introducted a bill to the State Legislatuie to put a one cent sales tax on every twelve ounces of bottled or k sold. What an untapped canned source of revenue this has been to date. A tax could bring mote money into on the state coffers than all the other six taxes combined. In this wav all the nonsinners (those who don't smoke or imbibe of alcoholic beverages) could carry their fair shaie of the tax load. MRS. CLIFFORD J. ANDERSON Murray Streets Answer Editor, Tribune: In answer to the letter of John II. Smith III (Forum, Feb. 8) criticizing me and the Street Department for the chuck holes on Main Street, I would like to thank Mr. Smith for his compliment that 1 was eloquent in my campaign oratoty. This, 1 do not believe myself. Mr. Smith say s that we have resurfaced this street for the umpteenth'' time. This is to inform him that Main Stieet has not been resurfaced between Second ami Thitd South during the five years that I have held office. He suggests that a content analysis of the asphalt used be made and compared with the recommended American Society for Testing Materials Standards. This is to infoim Mr. Smith that the materials we u-- e are tested and the formula is one that is lecommended by the Asphalt Institute in Denver. I would also like to request that if Mr. Smith has a formula that he thinks is better than the one we use. that he send it to me as I am sine both the State Highway Depaitment and Silt Like County would also he interested in n. I would also like to suggest that if there is a methixl of patching asphalt in the winiei-tini- e better than the one we use, I would also lik" to imeive this and 1 would be glad to nass it on. I would also like to point out that even the stickiest material will not adhere to Forum Rulei Public Forum letters must not be more than 230 wonts in lenetb, must be subn ittetf exclusively to The Tribune end beer writer's tull name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld tor pood reasons on others. Preference will be given letters permitting use of true name, and ta those which are typed doubespaced) and short. worked 25 hours continuously and without sleep to try and do a good job for the citizens of the dty without much appreciation from people like John H. Smith III. GEORGE B. CATMlLL Commissioner, Streets and Public Improvements Rafferty Logic Editor, Tribure: I felt compelled to write after reading an article by Dr. Max Rafferty, in which he discusses dirty lhetoric tnai "bores the bejabers The Federal Corrupt Practices Act make's to campaign funds may be made, directly or indirectly, by corporations. Labor unions are also prohibited from contributing, but they have organized separate committees which canvass labor union members for political donations just the same. Prohibited by Statute it clear that no contributions By Our Readers soft-drin- Do these woids sound vaguely famil- Pakistan. Ayub Kahns decision not to run again was an effort to end three months of violence in which at least 62 persons have been killed in street fighting. Like President Johnson, Kahn has become a symbol for many of Pakistans foreign and domestic ills. Both men are times. partly the victims of And both displayed the political good sense to step down in the face of almost d ft- soft-drin- of tngei a . w Final Piece Still Missing From Land Puzzle Politics has been defined as the art of compromise. Former President Johnson liked to call it reasoning together. And Bismarck said politics was the doctrine of the possible, the attainable. Each of these views were justified in negotiations between Gov. Rampton, legislative leaders ahd officials of the University of Utah and the Division of Parks and Recreation to parcel out 593 acres of surplus Ft. Douglas land conveyed to the university primarily as a research park site. Controversy between the university and the Division of Parks and Recreation became public with introduction of HB1S1 which would have allocated 99 acres of the proposed research park to the division for expansion of Monument State Park. Removal of such a big chunk of flat land from the research park would have greatly limited the research parks potential. Key to the final compromise was 156 acres of land owned by the General Services Administration and located north of Monument State Park. Of this total some 40 acres are flat and suitable for planned park developments. This reduced Monument State Park demand for university land to the agreed upon figure of 64 acres instead of 99. Additional contiguous flat land for the research park was gained by moving the proposed Bonneville Scenic Drive closer to the steep foothills where it would no longer bisect the research paik. Gov. Rampton has asked the legisla-tui- e to approve a resblution permitting There is a strange exWASHINGTON inteiest which doesn t confliu of of ample seem to have caused any dismay In Congress. M ybe this is because it has been going oil for a long lime. The House and Senate Democrats have sei up an annual fundraising dinner for Monday, M?v 12, and the Republicans have arranged for a similar dinner on April 2. to collect money for their respective 1970 campaigns. The Democrats have put a price tag of $300 per plate on their dinner, while the Republicans are asking $1,000 per plate. A UPI dispatch says: Many of the tickets are bought by lobbyists, and generally the same lobbyists can be found at both dinners. The recent uproar about conflict of interest was related to the possibility that new appointees of the executive branch of the government would still retain stock ownership or Other ties with companies where previously employed. The argument was made thit the award of government contracts might have a relationship to the firms with which the officials had been connected and to which they may return. No (Qualms in Accepting But apparently members of Congress do not mind receiving money for their political campaigns from individual lobbyists who have a direct interest in legislation. Many of the lobbyists patronize Republican and Democratic dinners because they want to maintain friends on both sides. They never know when something that concerns them will come up and will be handled by persons of influence or power in one party or the other. Labor unions are more likely to participate in dinners of this kind that are held lq: members of Congress who are favorable to But that cant solve the real problem eleven make a serious dent in it After all extras are eliminated from essential government services the pi ice tag is still so high that present revenue sources cant match it. Taxpayers marching on the Capitol to protest increases, and their sympathizers grumbling at home, are failing to face the facts. Policemen and firemen and teachers cost more this year than they did two years ago. So do school buildings and fire trucks and patrol cars and jails and even billy clubs. Legislators who refuse to provide the city and state with sufficient funds are shirking their duty by refusing to face a problem that must be faced now if state and local governments in Utah are to remain vigorous and effecitve. Cutting taxes is fine when economic conditions warrant. But raising taxes can be noble, too, if raising taxes is the only way to face fiscal reality. Salt Lake City and other municipalities urgently need the additional cent sales tax. State government must have an additional one cent. The Legislature cannot, in good faith, deny this equitable and eminently sound request. one-ha- Lawrence out of him. lie states that the Chicago demonstratois and juvenile who used the repulsive language were uneducated and mentally lazy. After studying the Walker report and seeing language used by the police, one may conclude, using Dr, Rafferty's logic, that a large proportion of the Chicago force is uneducated and mentally lazv BRIAN JENSEN In the case of the congressional dinners, money is being collected directly for an election campaign. Presumably the lobbyists are not contributing company funds, but , the sums may in some instances be paid for by their employers namely, corporations, labor organizations, nude associations, etc. In view of the recent raise in salary which has been given to members of Congress, suggestion! are being heard that pet haps political dinners should not Ik necessary and that the members of the House and Senate should be able themselves to boar the ex penses of their campaigns. It has also been suggested, of couise, that the government should finance the campaigns of the members of Congress. No Solution There But this doesn't solve the problem, because rival candidates who are not in public office would expect to get the same assistance . from the government. , The idea of the government providing funds for political campaigns has often been advanced before, but to no avail. So the custom of collecting contributions from individug dinneis conals and through tinues. It is natural for the inference to be drawn that the federal law has been circumvented and that corporations and others are, directly or indirectly furnishing money for political campaigns. fund-raisin- Mike Rovko Listen, You Jerk. Baldness is Beautiful! This has been Brotherhood Week, when downtrodden minorities are taken to lunch. I received an invitation from a youth who said: Some of us feel it is our duty to take an old person to lunch this We week. are trying to understand thp problems of your generation. At first I hesitated, feeling I should not push myself where I am not wanted. As it turned out, though, he was di'cent, and quite liberal. As we walked into the coffee house and were seated on our part of the floor, several young people glanced in our direction. Don't be nervous, my bearded host said. They just aren't used to seeing you people. rinklcs By the I don't mind," I said, but won't this cause you trouble? I dont care what they think." lie said, I don't defiantly. judge people by the wrinkles in their skin. I mean, just because someone is over 30 doesn't mean he isn't a human being." I wish there were more like you It's stupid to say that jus because a person is over 30, he's a hard-wking, g TV watching, slave of the Establishment." There are those kind, 1 won't deny it." Sure, but I've known a lot of wondeiful, unclean revolutionary decent, jxsiple over 30." oi -- home-ownin- g, Personal Quest inn takes all kinds. I gue-- s " Could I ask a personal question without oiiending you?" "Mire. I'nt hat's it like ? Huh?" Being ovei 30, 1 mean." Oh, you get used to it. Remember, we've been at it for thousands of yeais, cooking It thick-skinne- i your food, sweeping your lloors, changing your diapers. Were used to the dirty jobs." I mean, when did you realize you were diflerent? "Well, right from the stait I knew I different: Receding hairline, baggy' eves, paunchy waist. But when did you iealue what it really meant to be over 30? "To be honest, I didn't know until 1 was over 35." You're kidding. sheltered Lif I was sheltered, I guess. I didn't go hear l allies, coffee house', pot parties, art movies. But one dav it happened. How?" "I walked j vast a campus and they called me names." "Such as?" The usual genoiatum slurs i pact lonaiy fascist pig, tool of the Establishment." But yon seem happy now." "Sure, because learned to appieciale my e own mic identity. You know, baldness is beautiful, y power. 1 started leading histoiy. Did you know that a lot of sailois in Columbus' crew ver over 30? Aie you suip?" looked dle-ag- pnt-hcli- Errol's Last Fling "Positive. And tha Biahms was over 50 when he wrote his first symphony, and that Ettol Flynn was over 50 when he had his last ' scandal?" "You're putting me on." I was amazed at the tilings people over 0 had done, and pi mul that their tired old hloi.d Hows in my veins " ' Interesting.'' "Sine. And I even started wearing t ho t'a diiional gai b lean white shirt, tie. eufls mi my irnuscis. And look at niv 'nalmal' - -no sideburns and let the show. " Y nil mean you ate baidspotN doing your own thing?'' Rigid. Thai is why I an sit tight heie unlay find look you in the eye as an unequal, and tell you I think you arc a jetk." |