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Show J I . To have and to hold . . .?" ", mumi nni i nmimnnnmnuimpi DESERET NEWS SALT LETTERS ' Dead But Not Buried As Having Been Divinely Inspired EDITORIAL PAGE A TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER The article on the Hippies made me realize how glad I am that we all arent like that It a foreign power could accomplish that, they could walk right in and take those Hippies and put them to work in the Salt Mines, then they and they would miss couldn't have their Love-in- s us honest, taxpayers. I have been married 21 years and have 3 nice children and the same wife. I call this living the life as God would have it. True, there are many disturbing elements but they work out eventually. I think these people are mixed up completely, or weak, and from what I read, are actually dead but not buried yet Their cause only weakens a great connation that was founded on a very freedom but it can be abused and then viction it becomes something else slavery. RAY C. BIZEK 5, 1967 Utah Should. Bolster Vocational Training hard-workin- g With summer drawing to an end and schools opening, s where the demany young Utahns have come to a cisions they make will affect the rest of their lives. What should they do with their lives?, they ask themselves. Will it be school, the armed forces, or a job? If school, will it be college or a vocational school? If the latter, what problems and prospects does vocational education hold for them, and what help can they expect from Utah in meeting their goals? If the term vocational education calls to mind d rooms with vacant-eye- d students running obsolete machines, then you are behind the times. Unfortunately, a great many Utahns are behind the times when it comes to vdcational education. : involves education vocational from Today everything learning to program highly technical computers to food preparation in mechanized kitchens. With the technological advances in industry and commerce, the lieed for talented people with sharply honed skills is unquenchable. ' That fact 'shoots down another fable about vocational that the vocationally trained are on the bottom of training the economic ladder. Technically trained persons today often receive higher salaries and have better working conditions than many persons in the professional and managerial areas. The Utah State Board of Vocational Education has for years been urging that training in technical and vocational areas be upgraded and given the status it deserves for the role it plays in the economy of Utah. The board has prepared studies, sponsored detailed research, made specific recommendations. Much of the findings have gone unheeded. One of the studies shows that of every 100 ninth grade students, 83 will graduate from high school and 17 will drop h school out. Of the 83 graduates, 28 will receive no will 100 walk into 45 of the original training. This means that todays highly technical job market with virtually no skills to offer. Thats where vocational education should come in. T In some states 80 per cent of the funds made available for school educational purposes are spent on 20 per cent post-hig- h of the students those who attend college or university. While the figures for Utah are not so high, there is still a disparity between the amount of money spent on academic and technical-vocationtraining. Yet more than half of the students in school today will find employment in vocational fields. Why not bring curricular offerings into harmony with this reality? Certainly there is no shortage of detailed recommendations on which to base a program for vocational education in Utah. It is time that parents, educators, students, and state officials realize that successful vocational education lies at the very heart of Utahs continued progress. hard-foug- cross-road- - dark,-cluttere- post-hig- al We would like to comment on the editoral ap- pearing in your paper Saturday, August 26th, entitled "Should U.S. Fanners Go On Strike? It Is' obvious that you are misinformed as to the purpose and goals of the National Farmers Orga- k meet didnt thousand farmers e nization. Thirty-fivin Des Moines, Iowa, for fun. You may find it diffiholding action cult to take the threat of an all-oseriously, but there are others who do and right- Wisconsin To Test LB J brW vacation T BfvmmenR It en (Rewa Rav't column It tw Earl Mazo, itaff writer ef ttie RaaOer'i Oltett ) ROSCOE DRUMMOND By EARL MAZO A cunning refinement of the Presidentialprimary system is set for implementing in Wisconsin next spring. And it could well cause more consternation in the White House, infuriate more ington level Democrats, and amuse the voting citizenry more than anything heretofore offered by political pitchmen in the winter and spring of primary carnivals and battles. ocrat Lyndon Johnson as President of the United States, and as a man. If Mr. Johnson is unopposed in the party preference ballot, voters will merely choose between "no and yes printed below the Johnson name Should former Democratic Governor George Wallace of Alabama seek to challenge Mr. Johnson in the primary, the referendum format will be revised to add four protest words as a third contender. In that event, to be recorded as the voter but not checks the third line. To smoke out coy aspirants for the Republican nomination, the revised law follows the Oregon practice of listing all who are generally advocated or recognews media as candinized dates for President That will insure Re- ' ly so. Next you mke the statement that earlier milk and livestock withholding actions flopped. What facts do you use in making this statement? We know that the milk holding action was successful and the government knew it also. They filed suit made. They against NFO to halt the progress being the charged violence, but in the six months since suit was filed, they havent been able to come up with one single Incident of violence connected with the milk action. The farmers are receiving more Livetoday for their milk because of this action. stock is definitely higher because of NFO meat in Wisconsin. Crusades for clean government and politics have been among, Wisconsin's most numerous activities for generations. In fact, the Presidential primary system is a product of Wisconsin reformers. Their goal was to purify Presidential politics by reforming the nominating system Thus, Presidential primaries were designed to take control from the entrenched party bosses, and entrust it to the people. Wisconsin became die first Presidenpublican activity in Wisconsins primary tial primary state some 60 years ago and its reform crusaders proceeded to spread on April 2. the primary gospel from state to state. But the anticipated contest between Progress was slow. And soon flaws in towering political figures like former Vice President Richard Nixon, Governor plan, human frailties, and other troubles began to surface. George Romney, Governor Ronald ReaAnd in 1912 Theodore Roosevelt, the gan, Senator Charles Percy, and Governor Nelson Rockefeller would be hard popular and rambunctious former Presiput to match the public attention or camdent, won virtually all the Republican paign in vehemence of Democaratic Presidential primaries but lost out on the at Democratic nomination at the convention. shrieking "dovep hawks, and vice versa. In short, the bosses still prevailed, Whether the referendum idea was primaries or not, and Teddy, the peoples conceived as a serious election reform or choice, suffered the consequences. The Innovation is heralded by Wisconsin's Republican Governor and Republican legislative leadership as a most significant advance in the cause of democracy. And it is so easy to grasp as to be foolproof for the Badger States 1,691,815 voters who can read the words no and Actually the updated and revised primary law touches several important aspects of the process by which the Republicans and Democrats choose their Presidential nominees. One improvement may well wreck one of the most commonplace the deceptions in politics clearly false and demeaning disclaimers by committed candidates who hope to sneak an advantage of one kind or another by posing as But the prime change is unmistakably President Johnson. pointed at one man In effect, it creates a statewide referendum in which grass roots Democrats will pass Judgment In secret on the Dem ' top-lev- with this supposed income. The NFO is trying to get the farmers to usa their backbones instead of their wishbones by takto conduct ing a stand to solve their own problems, their business in a businesslike manner, setting a for this price. price on their products and holding This is the same method used by every busmensdo How newspapers many in America today. man you sell below the quoted price? MR AND MRS. WILLIAM HEPWORTH MR. AND MRS. DANIEL WALTON MR. AND MRS. JACK DUNCAN Rupert, Idaho By SYDNEY J. HARRIS be safe from nuclear holocaust, treaty such as the one draft- there must be a ed recently by the U.S. and Russia. d It has taken five years of negotiations to achieve just the tentative draft, and much more delicate bargaining before a formal agreement can be adopted by the hard-heade- Geneva Disarmament Convention, and eventually by the United Nations. The treaty would prohibit any of the five nuclear nations the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, France, from giving nuclear weapons, information on and China 'how to build them, control them, or even encouragement Jn their construction, to any other nation. nations signing the treaty would In addition, be prohibited from receiving or controlling nuclear weapons or receiving assistance in building such weapons from the nuclear powers. If such a treaty is to be effective, all nuclear nations will have to sign including the recalcitrant Chinese and French a workable inspection system must be provided, and non nuclear nations will need guarantees against nuclear black18-nati- on - non-nucle- ar ' mail Unless some such treaty is worked out, however, the next li war may involve nusmall conflict like the recent wont be small any more. and then it clear weapons Arab-Israe- philan-throph- the Job should not be done. We recognize' that in every human being there reside two tendencies: toward good and toward evil. The. task of society is to encourage the former and dissuade the latter. The task of the Devil is to persuade us that good cannot prevail. The people Safety l4ie importance of tires in highway safety is so obvious that it's astonishing that automobile manufacturers and their dealers didnt demand uniform and adequate standards before federal regulations on tire safety became necessary. d standards have been At last, however, some formulated for all types and sizes of new passenger cars, and will take effect next January L The new federal safety standards, formulated after long consultations with tire and car makers, seem to be no tougher than they should be. For example,4 under the new standards all new cars must be equipped with tires suitable for the weight of the vehicle. The fact that they havent been is a disgrace, Under the new system, each new tire is to be labeled on v both sicfewalls with the size, maximum permissible pressure, maximum load rating, makers name or identification, compo-sition of material used in the ply cord and the exact, number of plies in the sidewalls and tread. The main aim of the proposed system is to guarantee that owners can be .certain that their vehicles a fe equipped with tilts designed to carry their fully loaded weight, and that the will permit a safe stop by controlled braking from speeds up to 60 miles an hour. Most 'motorists welcome safeguard? along these lines. Additional standards are still being prepared much-neede- for retreads and truck tires. . will the and benefit if satisfactory Both industry public be agreed upon In a constructive spirit ' safeguards x x I say cant You change human nature dont really believe it. Otherwise, they would not educate their children, support their community or defend a way of life that seems morally superior to them. Actually, in a real sense, there is no need to change human nature. The requisite goodness is already there; it is a matter of shaping a social order and an ethical climate that provide incentives for this goodness to come to the surface. Man will always have selfish and evil y Return Trip Tickets motives; nobody denies this. But the Devil insists that these motives must prevafl. We who belong to the other party believe that man's capacity for virtue is as strong as his capacity for of Here are some suggestions for the handling Lake Salt Valley; in ft? the bus riding public and incorporate a Organize, franchise, finance, new bus company under the Utah state statutes for the purpose of providing more and better transportation service for the bus riders in the Salt Lake wickedness. Human nature is somewhat like an undeveloped photograph. How we treat it in the darkroom of society determines whether it will be clean and sharp, or, dirty and blurred. If a social order puts a premium on greed or violence or treachery, then it will develop people in which these characteristics dominate. If, on the other hand, we repay honesty and decency, then these traits will master the personality. Man is a potential creature, with the freedom to turn either way. Die Devil would like you to forget this divine truth. t If vtr ft word Qladiator befitted nyone It doe He fight and full flavor to Evaratt Dirfcun foouantiy Yet ha is tough But during the toughest of hu battles, on the labor front for axamoie, I have seen him and powerful labor leader talk to each other with animated respect In recant year ha has campaigned against labor s Increasing influence, and for an educational system In-- which student and educators could iom in prayer If fhty wished Now he feels strongly about the on man, one vote issue I asked him why Hera it his raptv. !utic VICTOR RIESEL provided to all area political subdivisions and Interests in the state. ' This court decision says in effect that, The Preamble WASHINGTON, D.C to the Constitution of the United States We the people begins with the words: of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union and for other purposes, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Unit-e- d States one-ma- of one-ma- one-vot- e t of the one-vot- fair representation. The mischief inherent in the court In 1964 the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Reynolds vs. Simms. It dealt with uie composition and apportionment of state legislatures. The decision was the tagged as promptly rule. Strangely enough the real of the decision .became significance somewhat sidetracked. . real issue was and Is whether under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution states can be deprived of the power and the right to determine the composition of at least one branch of its legislature so that fair representation is provisions population and population alone. One effect of the high court decision is e that the principle is now sought to be applied to political subdivisions of the stages. That is to say that it should be applied to county boards, school boards, park boards and other elective bodies without regard to the many diverse factors which must be considered to achieve the objective of I wonAmerica. der whether we can sUU honestly Sen. Dirksen say, We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union? he the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution which reserves to the states and to the people the powers not expressly delegated by the federal government, the states must and shall comply with the clause in the Fourteenth Amendment which assures equal protection of the laws, and that In respect to apportionment of state legislatures this means that the basis for apportionment must be By EVERETT DIRKSEN U.S. Senator From Illinois v de- cision Is bound to go on and on and sooner or later it must have attention by the Congress and the people. A resolution providing for a constitutional amendment to deal with this problem was submitted to the United States Senate and voted upon April 20, 1966, and commanded a substantial majority of the votes of the Senate. In facf, the vote was 55 to 38. This, however, failed short by seven votes of the required While the attempt to obtain Congresof a constitutional sional approyal amendment wuunder "way, a parallel' two-hird- K .V One of the many articles in the paper defending the Warren Report ends something like this; If it turns out the government has lied . . . Uncle will have a hard time showing his face. It would be so simple to cut down the Lant 5 by producing the sealed evidence except that Mark Lane is probably correct, and to release this evidence would In all likelihood reveal a conspiracy not of foreign governments, but a cancer right in the heart of our own. -L- -- LOYD DAVID LAMOREAUX 1090 E. 3300 South GUEST CARTOON J.. . Y- - , "Sure Is r Giving Us An Education, Eh? Svffil Ivtning NrM I I V -- In Our Own Heart Whose government is this anyway? If it is not the government of. for, and by people, it is one of the single phenomena of our public life that candidates supplicate the people for their votes and, when elected to office, all toe often promptly manifest an eloquent distrust of the peo- It is high time to find out from the people whether they approve of these encroachments, on their powers. The most satisfactory way to ascertain the peoples' will is through a constitutional convention. Wf can then determine whether we can still honestly say: We the people of the United States fk order to fqrm a more perfect Union . , do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.- - , - 4 ' . s, endeavor to have the necessary states petition the Congress for a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of submitting such an amendment was also under way. In fact, 32 of the necessary 34 states have already filed such applications. This right of the states to require the convening of a convention for the purpose of submitting amendments to the Constitution is guaranteed by Article V. This effort came under immediate attack. Every fantasUc contention has been dreamed up to fortify the argument that the people cannot be entrusted with their own business. The very purpose of the second part of Article V of the Constitution was to assure the people that if a hostile refused to submit Congress amendments to the states, the people through their legislatures could petition Congress to do so and it was made mandatory. The article states that the Congress' shall call a convention on petition of the necessary Yiumber of states. ple. r Valley. Bus company employes should also own stpc$ in the bus company for which they work. By beinf t employe-ownerthey will provide the best possv ble bus service both as employees and owners the bus company. Return trip tickets should be issued to bus' riders. By this, I mean that when a rider enter the bus and pays the full fare plus an addition! J fare of 10 cents he asks for a "return trip tickeC which can be used to return to where the rider boarded the bus. This return trip ticket would be good only on the date issued. Return trip" tickets could be used on a trial basis of several months. If they did not work out, then "return trip tickets could be discontinued. -G- EORGE J. BLESSING 665 S. 9th East Whose Government Is This? notwithstanding At Last-Ti- re who -- -- Advocates Of The Devil The Devil has many favorite phrases, but I am convinced that (he one he uses with most potent effect is You cant change human nature. People who are fond of saying this are the Devils advocates, whether they know it or not. They make the comfortable which excuses their transassumpUon that this human nature is gressions basically bad. But every creative social effort springs from our instinctive feeling that you can change human nature. This Is why ue train children to curb their greed and respect the rights of others. This is why we provide religious instruction. This is why we have erected all the institutions of education, and correction. They may sometimes do the Job badly, but we do not say that, therefore, -- marketing arrangements. You compare our 1966 Income with 1947 ana since this was the Imply that we should be happy second highest on record and per farm Income set a record. Who else do you know working for less in 1966 than 1947 other than farmers? The 1966 income figure of 16.4 billion Is padded. their penWashington farm economists sharpened cils and decided that farm families should be given $600 per year credit for living in their own homes, Another $600 per year for the use of their car (M car families were twice as lucky; they got $1200 credit per year), $133 per year for the firewood we are supposed to burn cooking our meals plus a food grown in our very liberal allowance for the Add these figures up, for is real!) (This gardens. of farm families left multiply them by the number and it amounts to quite a sum. Try paying bills anti-Johns- , yes. to create mischief among Democrats and embarrass President Johnson, the imaginative innovation is of historic importance. And its impact, if the vote is favorable, could generate a contagion of sorely needed support of Johnson policies while an unfavorable tally could end in disaster. It is not surprising, and entirely fitting. for this political reform to originate , Lease On Life Kearns Farmers' Defense -- If the world is ever to TO THE EDITOR uiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiunuuiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiuiiiniiiiiiiiiNiuiiiiiiiiii LAKE CITY, UTAH We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States 12-- tnmmiunnnmremnnnigmimnmmmiinni U T- . |