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Show 'Off To a Great Trip-- riiiiiiiiwmnm',.lmiiiiiininiiiuTirniiwmi)iiinnninmiiimniwiiimmiiimimi One Around To'Help With The Luggage' No DESERET NEWS ' ' LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. -- 1 SAIT LAKf cmr, nRiimtrotuiNnimHiiainnHnnminnnnniHUiiiiiflttiiiiiRMimHmiuHtiHnmi UTAH Mss Widener Supporter Wo Stand For Th Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired I read Miss Widener's article several days ago in the Deseret News with . great interest' and I heartily endorse her suggestion of an American Family Association. I would be willing to support it in any way possible. The fust place such an association should bring pressure to bear is on Congress This great country should have a government worthy of it, that sets an example In honesty, morality and, particularly, truth. Senator Dodd and Adam Clayton Powell are Just two examples on the surface of many others ,, . equally as guilty. In Greet Britain, when th Profunto scandal broke, pressure forced him to resign his position and his political career was finished. The same rules should apply here, py scandal involving an. elected representative or a civil servant should mark the end of his career Thic snould ainlv to all levels of government federal, state, county and THURSDAY, APRIl 6, 1967 Time For Action On Great Salt Lake The Senate Interior Committee's recent favorable report of Senate Bill 25 to create a Great Salt Lafte National Monument raise real hope for early action on a development But the bill will have littl, chance of success unless the Utah delegation is united. So far, it is not Senator Wallace F. Bennett has raised some Im port ant points, in suggesting that creation of th monument b delayed at least two years. He contends: 1. The dispute over reliction lands in Great Salt Lake involves lands around Antelope Island where the monument long-neede- would be established. This should be settled befor taken. , d city The saying that "politics is' a dirty game" should be a thing of the past With a moral and honest legislature, laws would soon be passed to dean up many of the other ills of our society. -A- - action is property-owneproperty, do I respond as as a parent who wants better schools, as a Democrat or a Republican, as an urban dweller who knows the city needs more money to render better services, or an absentee landlord who merely wants mors profit from his property? r, loop-roa- d my suggestion that the view of human nature is just as In the opposite direction. The distorted ideakst often makes the mistake of believing that men are better than they are; but the realist makes th contrary mistake of believing that men are worse than they are. The realist is fond of pointing out that But he people act in their is Incapable of seeing how fuzzy and even tautological this statement Is: It says so much that it really says very little. For is not as dear, and unified as he thinks it is. It realists Check Pilots Better Airline passengers must have shuddered at the news that a hispilot had successfully concealed an of diabetes tory of heart trouble and a 31 history successfully, that is, until the plane he was piloting crashed last April and killed him and 79 other persons. -- A Civil Aeronautics Board report this week sajs the failure heart probably caused the crash. The CAB said pilots It is possible for such ailments to remain undetected in the physical examination given pilots by the Federal Aviation s certificate. And it disclosed, it is makAgency for a ing efforts to remove legal restraints which prevent physicians from revealing information about their patient which could affect aviation safety. The pilot, it should be emphasized, was the owner and eporator of a small charter airline, and was not associated with a major airline. But apparently there is no difference between, the FAA examinations he took and the one regular airline pilots take. This is scary. Surely it must be within the capabilities of modern medical science to detect, by competent examination, disabilities like heart disease and diabetes. And surely the medical and legal code should be flexible enough to protect the public against such falsification of medical records as the CAB charges this pilot practiced. Federal aviation officials owe the public an immediate g and investigation of these problems and a report n their findings. Secondly the rtftxhn that people act their Implies that people know what their truly is. But history is replete with th tragic instances of people acting against their real under the illusion, that they were favoring it Moreover, the Interests of people are numerous and complex, often contradictory. Hardly anybody has an obvious, Interest in unequivocal and single-faceany important issue. Each of us is a r, multipl- e- person r, citizen, parent, and many other functions. And to suggest that our In st t. 18-ye- ar d st wage-earne- First of all, what is the self? When e on my I am confronted with a home-owne- tax-rais- first-clas- That One-Man-- O HENRY HAZLITT amazing how little respect our liberal reformers have for the Constitution when it gets in the way of one at their pet reforms. On June 15, 1964, majority at the Supreme Court tortured the equal protection of th laws clause of th 14th Amendment to mean that the members self-style- d of both houses ka. In other words, gets 74 times the representation to the U.S. Senate of each voter in New York. And th original Constitution nailed this provision down. No state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in th Senate." of every state legislature must be elected In a manner to all voters give equal In the face of this, toe Warren court amended th Constitution te forbid the states to continue the same apportionment representa- tion. This was th Hope For Addicts mous decision. th Neither New Yorks Gov. Rockefeller predicts that his states 80,000 drug addicts more than half the nation's will become rare as tuberculosis caW within 10 years. He makes his prediction on the results from a new program that began April 1 which will compel addicts to undergo treatment at public expense. New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission will have 5,000 of a projected 7,741 beds available in existing mental institutions and prison as well as in 48 treat- ment. fa- - phrase nor the Mr. Haslitt concept occurs In and since the Constitution.." Before the original adoption of .the Constitution, nearly all of the state have had bicameral legislatures, and In nearly all case one house has been elected mainly on a on population basis sndhq other mainly a territorial basis. There is not shred of evidence that Congress when it submitted th 14th Amendment intended to change this arrangement The Supreme Courts ruling flouts the explicit constitutional provisions tor elec-- 1 tkm to the U.S. Senate The Constitution provides for two senators from each State, regardless of the comparative popV ' , ' t, st long-rang- We are hearing much about our undermanned police department of Salt Lake City, and no one seems to have any solution as to where the money will come from to build the department up. Can we afford to build monuments to our heritage of pioneer ancestry and let our present generation run to the streets killing each other with autos, drugs, liquor? Yes, we need more police and can afford them if we cut down on less essential services, such as free golf courses paid by your money and mine. How ridiculous we and some of our public servants can be when w say we dont have the money te stop crime. Too many parents are too busy having fun. -L- YNN R. MORETON 836 Lincoln Street Best Left To Courts at. Slogan tion and to amend toe Constitution to suit itself, Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois an amendment explicitly sponsored authorizing the states, to apportion one house of their legislature on some basis other than population. On Aug. 4, 1965, this proposal failed by seven votes to obtain the necessary vote In th Senate., Inconsistently, a substantial minority of senators voted to deny to any state the right to apportion its upper house by the same method to which they owed their own Jobs. two-thir- On March 22, 1967, Governor Rampton vetoed toe drug control bill because it was "clearly unconstitutional. The governor vetoed the Sunday dosing bill because he thought this bill was patently unconstitutional and that he thought it was not in the best Interest of the people. Th primary duty of the Chief Executive of th state to to enforce the law which ha been developed by elected representatives of the people, not to decide whether or not' it is constitutional. The constitutionality of a law is to be determined by the judiciary. The best interests of the state would be served more effectively if the governor would leave questions of constitutionality to the courts and questions of what is best for the people to th legislature. - --J. L PARKIN -- 3839 S. 2520 West GUEST CARTOON Then Sen. Dirksen and others quietly resorted te another method of amendment. Article V of the Constitution also on the applicaprovides that Congress, of tion of the legislatures of the several states, shall call a convention tor proposing amendments. .This today would require toe application of 34 state legislatures. And opponents of any such amendment were suddenly startled three weeks sgo, after th .Illinois and Colorado legislatures acted, to discover that 32 state legislatures, only two short of the total needed, had already called for such a convention. two-thir- ' . via a aa fin If system as th federal government the equal representation doctrine to mandatory for the states it should be mandatory tor the federal government. Then the U.S. Senate has been tovalidly elected," and not a stogie member of the ulation of the states. was me Court whose . .This means, for example, that (on toe to Jto LlhatSenaiejAentitted. ratieL b? senatorstoe two 1960 of toe census! -- 'basis from New York represent nearly 17 mit lion people and the. two senators from Alaska only .226,000. Each voter is Alas- - More Police Needed g ne-Vo- fe Its hard-hittin- . self-intere- economic gain is always the motive is to fall into th Marxist trap of economic determinism. The maxim that people act In their is tnie only in the most blurred and broadest sense. We might say that the martyr who willingly goes to his death for a cause is acting in his because he believes htat this deepest self is best served by sacrificing himself for an idea and Ideal he cherishes beyond life. Is a useless This is why tautology as an explanation of mens motives and behavior. Nobody is only one self, and nobody has only on interand est. We are a mixture of impulses the idealist merely suggests that we can e change the mix to favor our and benevolent interests rather than our - short-rang- e - and greedy ones. This .is realist to laugh nothing for the immediate over-ridin- . - To counter this flagrant usurpation by toe court f the power to enact tegisla- - Opponents f the Dirksen amendment are now making desperate efforts to prevent such a convention. They want to call toe state petitions invalid. They pro- test that "if such a convention took Race there would be no way to confine it to the reapportionment question. It could go on to . . . drastically alter other provi. sions of toe Constitution. This may be true. But there is a, way to avert such-- a danger.-L- et the Senate, whDe there to yet. time, reconsider and . approve the proposed Dirksen amendment ."But on th ; - a act avi da go; pri pei bu lat ba at De Ty no CO thi fis be w Enjoyed 'Boys' The 'Realists' Need Not Laugh The man who thinks of himself as a laughs at th man he calls an idealist. He looks upon the idealist as someone with a distorted and Inflated view of human nature. ing hat pi, All Are Equal realist ere thr w f f w I Eureka, Calif. ' m a of S. COOKSON PPMANN WALTER . California has had compulsory treatment of narcotics addicts for six years. One of five addicts treated has stayed away from drugs for at least two years after parole. This is " considered agood'Yecord, given the high rate of 'recidivism ' treated addicts, . I ; among York governors prediction is overly-- Perhaps the New California ecordThe results will be optimistic in light pf the until approach to' the probnow, worth watching pince, of one lem has been primarily punishment rather than treat- LAN Thanks to your organization, along with and th for vie The Young University, KSL Radio-TBrigham example, president, The vice presidents reception in LI for encouraging the produr' on Era. doubt the no in with Improvement announced Europe, ennot but most correct, has been of better movies by selecting an annual "Family beet intentions, that we are in favor of thusiastic. Yetrif bi chief practical purMovie of tiie Year. of also Atlantic a and the community to perpose is ? ' We" seldom attend movies any more because I sued s' The Ger- arateness f Europeans from Americana' detent with Eastern Eurepe. To a con-nine times out of ten we are disappointed. We enmans and Italians Obviously enough, th outstanding one la temperary European these two objecThe Sound cf Music" ynanv t,mes. and the war in Vietnam which is so deeply tives, however sincerely held and, well joyed to accept th nonfound Follow Me Boys to' be most refreshing, disliked all over Europe that meant, are Incompatible. and treavividly proliferation confident diplomaic relaand were sorry to fmd the engagement didnt run ' If you are going to consolidate th Atty, it is reasonable any thinglike longer. We are looking forwe dto s re ii n ento suppose that In tions are impossible as long as it lasts. If lantic Alliance, you will consolidate along the vice president has not learned this, gagement, and hope the movie industry will b the end they will with it th Warsaw Pact, so say the connot him have converted to making more of this type of entertain- entertained who those have It. accept temporary Europeans. Two opposing miP ment But that assent talked frankly. detente. alliances cannot make -- MR. AND MRS. JACK C. GROESBECK which will be given There are, to be sure, a small number itary need, as the recent of both They history and seven additional signatures, will of highly placed officials and personages reluctantly, Wasaw of the end NATO Pact shows, Lippmana all of Salt Lake City certainly not alter who speak out openly for the American fear and antagonism to keep them tobetween modem position in Vietnam. But they are not s the great difference As the s detente, consequence, gether. majority or anything like it, and they are which most Europeans want and seek Europeans and contemporary American emand even in and in their reluctant who are drifting apart apologetic polides persistently, assumes the erosion and barrassed defenders of our course. th world. dissolution of the pacts. Richard D. Brown's letter to the March 27 cot The British, for example, who have a The Europeans do not doubt or underlimn challenged the concept expressed to the DecWhether some greater European comestimate the power of the United States penal national Interest in pleasing th laration of Independence that all men are created all no on from this, in military affairs and economic affairs. administration, do not applaud and munity may emerge equal. The inequalities he named are very real today is able te say. defend only with great difficulty the This power is fully recognized in Europe. ones. However, we cannot afford to discredit th offensive But the political and moral influence of extended bombing against noble purposes of those great patriots who wrote The most important question about North Vietnam. the United States, the willingness of Euthe Declaration of Independence by suggesting that the vice presidents trip is whether he ropeans to follow the leadership of Washin order to have equality we must be Identical Th other great cause of the separatehas listened and what he has learned. ington, has decreased dramatically in th Isnt it possible that In that day. those men were ness between Europe and America is For the place where the renovation and past several years. concerned with the power of the British nobility to that the thaw in the cold war is much the revivification of our relations with relation to the commoners? Europe, which in this respect include yiore advanced there than it is in the Europe must begin is in the minds of our the Soviet Union, is moving in a direction United States. As a result, our official own officials. The critical question is how Besides, we are all equal as to the fact of our of its own, not, to be sure, against the much they have learned and been able to spokesmen no longer speak in the lanbeing individual persons. The wealthy, the IndiUnited States, but apart from it and in guage of contemporary Europeans. Vice adjust their policies from what was propgent, the industrious, the lazy, the skilled and all are President Humphreys speeches sound er m the 1950s to what suits the contemspite of it unskilled, the chronically 111, the healthy There are two main causes of the sep porary condition of the late sixties. curiously out of date. people created equal, regardless of race or religion, in this sense: each person may choose to do, or choose not to do, that of which he is capable, L. -within the framework of his own opportunities. Any other kind of equality, which some would force upon us to th maximum, would curtail th freedom which most of us need, but do not always recognize. --M. B. COX Bountiful By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Utah legislature passed a bill providing for devel opment of a state park on the north end of Antelop Island, which removes the need for early action for a national monument. 3. Nothing must be allowed to Interfere with Utahs right to develop the mineral resources of Great Salt Lake. 4. The Federal government, faced with deficits and inflation, should not spend the $11 million or so necessary to acquire and develop the island as a National Monument These arepertinent points. They have been thoroughly, considered "by Utahns, particularly officials of Davis and Weber counties who long opposed national development of th Island, preferring a state park instead. Many meetings and much study later, plans have now been hammered out for joint development of the island, and these have satisfied most of the opponents. . State officials point out that the reliction lands around the island pose no great problems. They total some 15,000 acres and are valued by the State Land Board at no more than $3 an acre, being useless for mineral or chemical extraction. Thus, the question of locking up mineral resources through a National Monument is largely academic. A simple by the state would remove these lands from litigation over the much more extensive and valuable reliction lands plse-here. As for holding up on a National Monument to see what the state can do, the Legislature deliberately shaped its legislation so the two could go ahead together. It provided that th Great Salt Lake Authority can develop a state park either by leasing the land from the federal government if the entire island is acquired for a National Monument or by securing land by eminent domain in event the federal bill Is not passed. Obviously, the states limited funds will barely cover acquisition of the needed lands on the north end of the island, with nothing- - left for development. Moreover, if the state should acquire its lands by condemnation, it would have to pay damage for making the rest of the island less valuable for grazing. There would be no such problem if the federal government acquired the entire island and leased land to the stat for a state park. Moreover, federal-stat- e partnership in th development would allow a complete access, rather than the single road out from Syracuse. Great Salt Lake is potentially one of the states most valuable tourist resources. It has been neglected and wasted far too long. Now that action appears in sight at last, lets not fail to seize the opportunity. quit-clai- - Gap Widening U.S.-Europe- an 2. The ment centers. 1 other hand, they jujt might. have something." The Uvitvtlle Cavrltr-Jwm- Li (a VI m Hi m in w th m P' SI ti, w P P ir n ei n h P v ii li tl tl v a c |
