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Show file Balt gali H ibttitt Page 12 Wednesday Morqing, December SO, 1964 David Lawrence Prophetic Words Appear In Columns ' 4-Year-- County Levy Boost Needs Explanation The anticipated levy increase for Salt Lake County is certain to bring taxpayer questions at the public hearing this mornIning. Some of the projected crease can certainly be justified additional money for flood control and to assure success of the auditorium project But a increase for general county purposes cleafjy calls for some explana. tion to taxpayers. County Auditor David P. Jones says - he has included in his tax estimates a 5.51-mil- l. 3.1-mi- ll flood control 1.6-mill levy, increase to Initiate a long range program for adequate storm drainage throughout the county. Mr. Jones says he expects the commission to accept the recommendation of a Citizens Advisory Committee on Drainage Problems that the flood levy be Increased from this years .90 mills to 2.5 mills. - y Interest . Also, following appeals of the Civic Auditorium Board, the County Commission decided to permit interest dn deposited bond money, to the extent of $567,659, to be used, to pay the board's operating expenses so as to leave bond money intact for site purchase and construction. This decision, for the purpose of assuring satisfactory auditorium project comple- tion, requires an additional levy of .77 mill, to pay interest on the bonds. An ad- ditional .04 mill is required for other interest payments, making the total bond interest-sinking fund levy 1.81 instead of-mill. We are sure there are some other progressive moves included" in. this budget in the fields of open space land purchase, health and recreation, for example. Nevertheless we think taxpayers are entitled to ask why the levy for general county purposes must be increased from 12.90 mills this year to 16 next, 25 Per Cent Increase This is almost a 25 per cent increase in one year in general county expenditures, not including flood control or bond interest and sinking fund. And this comes on top of a substantial increase (1.8Q mills) year. One problem in the budget pointed but by Auditor Jones is an anticipated loss in county hospital revenue of $660,000 when patients are transferred the middle of next year to the new university hospital. It would seem, however, that much of this loss Should be offset by reduced cost in s operating the hospital. Admittedly the hospital next year, and perhaps for at least another year, will be Problem Is Economic Surplus Christmas trees so much in in yards along the Wasatch Front created a more serious economic problem than a conservation one. State Forester Paul Sjoblom estimated the surplus at retail Christmas tree yards in the Salt Lake City area at between three and 28 per cent, but said much of the surplus resulted from dumping on the 'local market just prior to wholesalers. Christmas by These and the trees stocked by dealers were often of low quality. Many of them would not have been sold under any conditions. The dumping and the operators forced prices down and raised hob generally with legitimate dealers. Numbers of unused evergreen trees do not necessarily mean that ground cover has been damaged or topsoil exposed for undue erosion. Tree's taken from areas evidence ! out-of-sta- te ht fast-buc- k under sustained yield management leave more light and space needed by remaining trees. This is true in most national forests. Few evergreens from national forests are marketed here, however. A larger number are pinon-juniptypes and they may come from private, state or Bureau of Land . Management land. These often are not removed selectively but on a wholesale basis and may leave the land exposed. However, this need not -be bad if the vacated land is seeded into range grasses,- - which provide a superior ground cover. Actually, pinons are often removed wholesale in preparation for range reseeding projects. Many trees marketed on the Wasatch Front came from private tree farms in Montana and Idaho and some farther east Their loss would be no more serious than any other harvested crop. er , Visiting Cartoonist - past en National Dignity The Mexican government has been opposed to the extension of the bracero agreement because of national dignity and also the resultant urbanization of the rural peasants who crossed the border v to do the work. There will be heavy pressure on the 89th Congress to enact a new bracero legislation but, in the face of this countrys own unemployment problems and in view of the obvious affluence of the growers, it would seem foolish to resume a program which has degraded the Mexican workers and denied our own needy citizens a chance to gain remuneration for a job instead of getting money from welfare. Red Deal in Italy? crisis over-t- he Italy has ended a election of a president by choosing Guiseppe Saragat staunchly term. But the final outfor a seven-yea- r come is far from assurance that the political confusion which precipitated that bruising battle will be relieved. ' It could lead to greater problems for ' Italy. This is because Saragat was only -- elected with the support of the bloc of 250 Communist votes in the National Assembly, consisting of 963 senators, deputies and regional representatives divided among nine parties and even still more feuding party factions. The major party split is in the nations biggest party, the Christian Democrats. Not once in the 21 ballots were the leaders of this party able to unite all and in voting members on a candidate the final vote at least a hundred Christian Democrats cast blank votes rather then support Saragat. This alone would not be too serious, for Italy has managed to put together coalivarious combinations of center-letion regimes which have given the country reasonably stable government. But Rome is buzzing with the possible terms of a backstage deal with the Communists on Saragats election. It is reported' the Reds, won a promise for an end to what they call "discriminations against Communists. To the Communists this means an end to the present government ban on Communists in career posts In government, police and military forces. If .thats the deal, It could ultimately lead to a Communist takeover. The Communists, with over a fourth of the votes in the electorate and the Chamber of Deputies, are already far too powerful in Italy. If they are permitted to infiltrate those posts which control internal security, the way might be paved to the kind of Communist takeover which bccurred in Czechoslovakia. We hope President Saragat and other Italian leaders are alert to the danger. ., 13-da- y pro-Weste- rn - oceur-- r the standpoint of hindsight, and to try instead to gauge evehts on the basis of what was being said at the time Mr-- Lawrence they actually were taking place. This correspondent the other day came across some dispatches he wrote prior to and during the Democratic National Convention of July 1960, and found in them some comments, that seem pertinent today, particularly a quotation from a. statement by Lyndon Johnson which reads as if in certain respects he" had anticipated history. , Johnson's Statement It all began When we inarched on the U.S. Embassy demanding renegotiation of the Panama Canal Treaty ' tion laws. This will undoubtedly work some hardship on the growers since they will then have to pay minimum wages for the stoop work of picking, which is both skived and unpleasant. This means that in California pickers will be paid at least $1.40 an hour instead of the old rate of $1. The powerful Council of California Growers has recently relaxed its push for extension of the Bracero Act but spokesmen for the group continue to say that Americans (United States variety) will not do the stoop work and that some produce growers will be driven out of business. histori- c e s from y Work Some Hardships Only if domestic labor is unavailable will farmers be permitted to bring in foreign workers under the regular immigra- of -- ans who usualevaluate ly Bracero Law Runs Out ist At od The Public Forum7 . The Flying Saucers Editor, Trib1meJust how long is an apMljenc public going to play hiu&and-see- k ostrich style in relation to constant evidence proving the reality of UFOs, or flying saucers, under intelligent control? Two current editions of two popular magazines, True, and Rate, carry stories showing that UFOs are of mysterious origin and under intelligent control. Finally, the Socorro, N.M., sighting should alert even the most skeptical. Something phenomenal has been happening since 1947 and we should be waking up and trying to be a little concerned. MRS. KENT CLARK Pocatello, Idaho U.S. and Sukarno Editor, Tribune: I wish to commend you for the editorial pertaining to U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia H. P. Jones in The Tribune of Dec. 26. I visited Indonesia as well as Malasia and the Philippines last spring and early summer. I spent almost a month in Indonesia and never have I witnessed a more disgraceful representation of the United States. At the time of my visit, and this was at a rather critical time, the American ambassador was on a sailboat relaxing. Riots were fermenting all over the islands. I think you have done a wonderful job in publishing the d facts about the representative of this nation. I wish it would be possible for you to go a bit farther and explain to this misinformed nation that we have been active in keeping the Sukarno government in power through our shipments of food stuffs and materials. As you can see by the composition of this letter I am an ordinary citizen who is fed up with the fuddy-duddway this government is taxing us to feed our enemies. To put it in a nutshell, we, through the United Nations, are supporting the Sukarno government; and I don't think we should pay the bills for the This is, after all. the sensible tiling to do. If you give your money up to the less for- To say tunate, and yet are assessed for that money, you will soon become recipients of charity yourselves. This would put the government to the task of supporting you in addition to those less endowed whom you would be no longer able to sustain. This new law is in effect saving the government money. And to those who have been up to this time financially barred from the various table organizations which require more than 20 per cent of your income-- with your now more generous tax break you may be able to crash their gates. - Washington bumbling. the least, the Aibber companies and tin interests, through their Washington agents, are taking the people of the United States to the cleaners. All of Southeast Asia is cov- - Forum Rules To be published In The Forum, letters must he submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writers correct name and address. Names must he printed on political letters ut may be withheld for compelling reasons on others. Preference Is given letters printed with signatures and those not over 250 words, letters are subject to condensation w hen space limits require it. ered by a Chinese radio station that saturates ;the people with Communist views. We dont have anything either af- loat or ashore to inform the Indonesian people of our ways and viewpoints. JIM SPICfiR East Ely, Nev. Drunks on Street Editor, Tribune: I wonder why the 500 block on West Second South cant be pa- -' trolled by police. Drivers get in their cars so drunk they can't stand up. On Christmas night three hit and run accidents took place. It isnt safe to drive down the streets anymore. LEE ANDREWS Charity Tax fuzzy-minde- y By Our Readers Editor, Tribune: I desire merely to call to the attention of all those who have been hesitant about previously being charitable above the 20 per cent of income mark. This letter is especially for the benefit of those who missed reading the newly broadened tax deduction for charity above the 20 per cent quota. You may now turn even more than 20 per cent of your earnings over for the benefaction of others without qualm or apprehension of being taxed for M I , , The dispatch of July 6, 1960, referred to a statement by Sen. Johnson at a news conference held the week before the convention, in which he had said: After July, the bandwagons will be silent. The dark . horsesr will be out to pasture. e And we will stand with whatever destiny this century holds for, us with one man as our leader, the one man that we choose this year, the one man standing out in front to lead us . . . There will be little time to learn this job. We can only anticipate that the next president will be greeted by the threat of a Russian submarine base in Cuba, less than 100 miles from our- shoreline. He will be met by efforts to penetrate internally into the republics of this'hemisohere. He will be met by new ultimatums over Berlin. He will be met by attacks upon the secubases rity of American throughout was indeed all .the rudiments of , optimism except theof sparkle stimulation. , No in Mr. Johnson. Puts Idealism First President modern times . has a faced new year in the White House in which the general circum- stances seemed as auspicious and the major problems seemed as finely Inevitable Clouds Inevitable clouds, some of them no larger than a mans hand, dot the horizon that is seen from Washington. Some of these clouds bear a sombre cast but none seriously threatens to obscure the sunlight. Economists can point to prospects of deceleration in the expansion. Labor specialists can point to inflationary dangers in the steel negotiations. Experts on race relations foresee new pres d. th Mr. Johnson has strength ened this hopefulness since the election by the balance which those close to him have perceived in his reaction to his victory and by signs that he aspires to subordinate political manipulation to idealism in the period ahead. One evidence of this aspiration is being found in his approach to filling major vacancies in the government The search for a secretary of the treasury, always difficult for Democrats because of the lack of banking taleiit in their ranks, is being aimed at individuals of Impressive standing. The President's ' assignment of discerning men like John Macy to pursue new officials ras dimmed fears that MrTJphnson will be parochiAl y i 1 t President-elec- Hubert Liberals expect Mr. Humphrey to exercise considerable influence with President Johnson, just as the latter was supposed to do with President Kennedy. The role of Mr. Humphrey, of course, will be to try to improve the liberal position, whereat Mr. Johnson in 1960 was presented as sympathetic to conservative prineijes in the hope of holding Now that five states in the South have gone Republican, it is an open question how far President Johnson is willing to let Vice President Humphrey , go in achieving some of the liberal, goals of the Democratic Party. in- Telling him something" for his own gsjjjl never does a husband any. Isaiah Jr. The BridgeQfulLMeetg Honestif, relations is that they're all so darned ppor. After all, most children are descended from a long line their mothers once listened to. - gfsometimes I think my husbands stubborn- ness isnt stubbornness mental retar- der that the merchant might give her a gift for which she to risk the hazards of Utah streets and highways, miss lunch and suffer the slings and arrows of an outraged husband who had no desire for an extra Coleman gas lantern. the wise" modern Surely merchant could say thank you to customers in a less painful way. Maybe he could offer lower prices. E. JANE SHOWERY yie have more poets than' judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. Montaigne. its dation! Anyway, a week ago today his doctor ordered him to drink a glass of milk every hour on the hour and chew antacid tablets on the half hour durHam Park ing his waking hours. In addition to that he was to eat three meals a day even if he wasnt hungry. Thep if the pain in his stom-- . ach hadnt gone in a couple of days, he was to go to the hospital. Well, he didn't to go to the hospital, but hes still drinking about" three quarts of milk a day. This morning I noticed a rather c'oying odor whenever I got near him. I knew it wasn't lotion because he shaving doesnt us jt, and, besides he hasnt shaved for a week. So I asked him if he were using a deodorant? He said that every now and then he'd be drenched with perspiration, and he thought he detected a kind of bovine odor to it. so he was using some of that stuff that keeps you safe from being close because he didn t want people to think he'd been close to a cow. Imagine! A fellow-- f e e I i n g makes one wondrous kind, I said, quoting David Garrick. said Doug Gill, Unless. the fellow is feeling in your pocke for your wallet. In his essay on compensation, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: The only way to have a friend is tp be one. Note that he didn't say is to buy one. "... Poem for Everyone I think 10 times a day. A You say Or fifteen times or twenty. And even more. Well, anyway, You sure repeat it plenty. But pause and ponder half a wink, And start your brain-cell- s clinking; I think, you say, but do you think Or only think youre thinking? How often is the tiling you've thought Out of yourself created, And not a dictum youve JScen taught And simply imitated? Into a reverie you sink And like an "Owl youre paralleled prosperity we're said to be in, but we are no better off today than we were 25 years ago when my husband made about half what he gets now. Suppose the GNP that means the Gross National Product is the highest in the nation's history? So is the national debt! And so is the cost of living! When I was a little girl thriftiness was considered a virtue. Today, at least as far as the government is concerned, its a sin. and spendthriftiness is a virtue. blink-'in- H But do you actually think Or only think youre thinking? Anon. Girls, I dont know how you feel about this period of un- Few believe that Mr. Johnson will be as cautious in his new program as he has indicated. He is suspected of deliy berately painting a backdrop that will render his proposals more vivid when they come. But a misgiving that persists is that the President, clearly intent upon ratal n i n g his remarkable breadth of support, may tend to shrink from full confronts; Shall we cut for deal! tions with problems like Sou Viet Nam or the shortcomin 1,. Notes on Cuff Department The trouble with our foreign of elementary education. low-ke- Vice is somewhat the case of By Ham Park demolish the toy in ten minutes he was surely sick). All the strikes were against the consumer. She had paid more for her groceries in or- Deliberate Low Key in Senator From Sandpit te or partisan in his appointv. ments. This is important because he is being denied the services of some successful teams of the Kennedy era. The economic team of Douglas Dillon, Walter Heller, and Robert R o o s a, whose consensus proved itself, is extremely difficult to replace. The Justice Department team, still partially intact, will miss Robert Kennedy and Burke Marshall. Mr. Johnson realizes that his best inheritance is the secretary of defense. He recently exclaimed, I need four McNamaras. The situation reversed today Humphrey. Ke sures for equality. The Middles southeast Asia and the Congo remain. But the optimism that these challenges and malaises will lend themselves to practical solutions is fortified by gathering confidence in the destiny of the United States and by respect for (he aptitudes of Reversed Situation the outset of his administration with the threat of Soviet t of the tion if offered to him. from confronted Con- ... A True Prophecy It was a prophecy that came true.. For President Kennedy Editor, Tribune: At least one trading stamp company: will never be able to redeem itself. This past Christmas the company did strike at the heart of the consumer. It anticipated the hordes of charging housewives, bellowing children and many thousands of carefully, pasted stamps. Regular .merchandise was out oi slock. The catalog was out of date and the value of one book had been sliced. The store was lined with towering columns of junk toys and diagnostic demolition toys (if Junior could not of of . us in Well, many where. Painful Gifts LBJ Instills Rudiments 6f Optimism Washington by session Johnson camp felt he just had to get in there and exercise a We restraining influence. told him he just had to accept the vice presidential nomina- sults to the American flag and embassies abroad by indignities against our citizens any- , Johnson a to have in instilled the world coming gress and later on? - Charles Bartlett WASHINGTON Approaching a new year and a hew pre-- s i d e n t i a 1 term, President the face-to-fac- ABRAMS MORGAN Kaysville, Utah . submarine and missile bases in Cuba, with a crisis in West Berlin, and with episodes in which insults were hurled at the American flag at embas sies and legations in different parts of the world. But one of the most Interesting excerpts of prophetic nature was quoted in this correspondents dispatch of July 20," 1960. It reported that, when word was being pa ssedTa round the convention hall that Lyn-- , don Johnson' had accepted Mr. Kennedy's offer of the vice a presidential nomination, close adviser of the Texas senator approached this correspondent and said: Force for Restraint I know you will be surprised about 'this, but last night several of us had a talk with Sen. Johnson and discussed very frankly what we were upagainst. Bear in mind that tile labor leaders fought Johnson for the top place on the ticket, anil they dont like him. Bear in mind that Jack Kennedy will make a campaign on virtually a socialistic platform. He may be less ical if elected, but he "will be plenty radical in the campaign. What is that going to do to us in the South during Some- times its an informative experience to disregard the meth- . ft Tripping Across the 20th Century t Explanation Is Needed One of the most controversial statutes in the United States book will expire.xvith the old year Thursday. . This is the Bracero Law, which permits farmers, especially in California, Texas and Arizona, to import cheap labor from Mexico during the harvest season. Congress has been unwilling to extend the 1951 Bracero Act because of unemployment in this country and a number of organizations, including labor unions, have been opposed to an extension. Beginning the first of the year, crop growers will have to pay higher wages and meet newly established working conditions for the migrant pickers instead of depending upon the ignorance and poverty of the Mexican pickers. . WASHINGTON This situation, however, ought to be clearly explained to taxpayers, as indeed should all the increased costs which would require' such a substantial increase in the tax levy for general county, purposes. We believe the proposed increase from .00 mills to 2.5 mills for flood control, and from 1 mill to 1.81 mills for bond interest and sinking fund can be justified. But commissioners the increase in'general county levy from 12.90 mills to 16 mills. must-justif- Use Bond Money 01d in a period of transition. Not until the grounds are sold, an extended care center built next to the university hospital, and operations completely closed down at 21st South and State, will it be possible to determine the final balance between the cost of operating the county hospital and of operating or paying for hospital and health services elsewhere. , . Soaper Says The coach of our alma mater, the college that doesn't pay its players, thinks the boys would behave splendidly in a close game, but theyve never been able1 to get close enough for him to be sure. . Our friendly bank has a campaign on to persuade peo-'pto bring in, badly needed coins out of their piggy banks. And as a prize they are giving out piggy bank. le |