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Show v 5.r? ir 4 ft . (Jli - DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, We Stand For The Constitution ' UTAH ' 'or cou&e MS1Z 1b TH BUT bOU'T To mis ' ms Of The United States m C0tmw$lt strip mm $URC. wetsr mot ? 9 EDITORIAL PAGE UllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllimilltllllllllHIIIIIIIIIimiilllHIfHb Touts qmmoit As Having Been Divinely Inspired 10-- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLUJTF WffFR BUT Urttf ALL THE BQiZFtTS OF SUL P&CMS- - KSIMUCKUPM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1967 sun nmfactors FOR QOOblZS WAT. . mot Should U.S. License Medical Labs? For the first time, Congress seems well on its way to requiring federal licensing of certain clinical laboratories " and for good reason, As President Johnson noted in his message to Congress on consumer protection earlier this year, Most clinical laboratories render outstanding and dedicated services to patients and doctors. But the substandard clinical laboratory remains outside the reach of the law. It remains outside the reach of the law because in the past the federal government has stayed out of this area of regulation. But so have the states. Only 13 states, have laws on the subject. Utah ,is one of the states without a law, but a spokesman at the State Department of Health emphasizes that there have been no complaints about Utahs labs. When such a vital service goes without government regulation for so long, its ordinarily a good indication that it doesnt need it. But some disturbing reports have been made recently about clinical labs. For instance, according to a Public Health Service official, about 25 per cent of the lab tests made by the natjpns 13,000 to 14,000 independent laboratories were inaccurate. That figure seems too high to be believable, but there is other testimony that tends to corroborate it. A survey found that 40 per cent of New York Citys 350 clinical laboratories were unable to isolate and identify common bacteria; that 30 to 50 per cent failed basic chemical procedures tests; and another 15 per cent were incapable of testing and matching blood accurately. Such mistakes can lead to incorrect diagnoses, unnecessary surgery, and sometimes death. Then theres the case of Straybourne Betts, who was recently licensed as a lab technician through the mail for a $15 fee. Straybourne Betts is a dog. On the basis of such evidence, its understandable that Congress is seriously considering federal licensing of some clinical and other diagnostic laboratories. But since the bill would apply only to labs operating interstate, theres still no substitute for corrective action at the grass roots level. The best such action would be for the profession to do a better job of policing itself. While human error cant be outlawed, there is obviously room for improvement in many laboratories improvement that could come about simply because of the publicity that has been given the problem. Indeed, such publicity has prompted 13 more states to consider legislation to ensure the accuracy and safety of clinical lab tests. Congress should give the states and the clinical laboratories themselves a fair chance to correct the situation before passing federal legislation. More ' Welfare Rights' totem am m m alums mmss MUiBRZmL THIS . Saints. In this role of partner, the Relief Society is a vital, responsive organization, ready to meet todays problems and tomorrows needs. Originally organized in Nauvoo, 111.,' in 1842 to care for the poor and the ill, the Relief Societys compassionate service remains today one of the major concerhs of the organization. But the organization also has grown to meet the challenges of spiritual development, intellectual and cultural pursuits, and improved homemaking needs of the women of the world. That the challenge is being met with zeal can easily be determined by watching the membership of this great society as it meets on Temple Square Wednesday and Thursday. There, members will be instructed in leadership and administration, in teaching and homemaking, in personal and group relationin short, in how to be better women, mothers, and ships wives. With high standards of morality and integrity challenged today as never before, the Relief Society stands firm and resolved to strengthen the lives of the women everywhere. Many Congressmen are saying they wont vote for a tax increase because their constituents dont want them to. But they certainly cant use that argument to explain why they have failed to widely pass the urgently 1 needed, law. demanded ROSCOE DRUMMOND before Salt Lake's Metropolitan Hall of Justice was completed, there were warnings that it would not be big enough , for future expansion. from resulted this over whether for room Theres arguing or a prudent effort to keep Salt Lake Valley living within its limited means. But there can be little doubt that citizens will not stand for substantial additions to a structure that is only four years old. Already there has been one expansion for the sheriff's office at a cost of nearly $800,000. The final cost of the Hall of Justice was $2 million beyond the original estimates. Nor does it seem advisable to move operations in the Hall to offices in buildings elsewhere. The Hall of Justice Justice gf short-sightedne- ss was built so various city and county operations particularly could gain the benefits of coordination law enforcement and consolidation that should come from being under the same roof. So when Sheriff Delmar L. Larson says that his agency will need a completely new headquarters building within three years, the idea is out of the question. That leaves one alternative to alleviate any crowding in more elimination -- the county sheriff's and city police offices of functions. consolidation and of duplicate services Until Salt Lake Valley adopts a. metropolian area government,' it wont be easy to merge the police and sheriffs opera tions. But since the city, and county are moving to consolidate their health services, surely they can do more to consolidate their lavV enforcement operations,' to. - V - . . - -J- AMES WHEELER 3407 South 3570 operation there more than seven percent n of purchasers had criminal records and they were not allowed to buy them. More than 540 Individuals were denied licenses to buy guns because they were criminals, alcoholics, or drug addicts. buying. legislation has been before Congress for three years and The lobbyists The evidence is that their constituents ' nothing has happened. have succeeded in preventing action. The do want them to. public has been denied the additional Public support for a meaningful meassafety which the law would have proure to keep lethal weapons out of the vided. criminals, drug addicts, wrong hands And the need for gun control mounts has youngsters w' been constantly all the time. The use of firearms in dangerous crimes is going up all the time. growing. Opinion The Federal Bureau of Investigation renow show polls f that fully 70 per ports that during the first six months of this year there was a 24 percent rise in '(ij, 'cent of the people the use of guns in aggravated assaults. want Congress to Gun-contr- gun-contr- But without a Federal law they can still buy them by maiL lobThe weak case of byists is illustrated bv their extreme accusations. They contend that the proposed law is part of a Communist conspiracy to disarm the nation. $ act. There is a lot of talk in Congress but no law yet. The immediate need is to stop interstate mail-ordpurchase of firearms by individuals, so that the states which have tight controls within Iheir boundaries will not have their laws vitiated by lax regulations in other states. President Kennedy was assassinated r rifle shipped across with a state borders. The demented youth who killed and wounded 44 people from atop the university tower in Austin had a footlocker of firearms which he had no difficulty in I find it difficult to believe that J. Edgar Hoover is either a conscious or unconscious agent of a Communist conspiracy and Mr. Hoover, out of his experience with crime and criminals, pleads for a much stiffer law than the President is proposing. And while the use of firearms in dangerous crimes was increasing by 24 percent, the volume of all crime rose 17 percent during the first half of 1967. And where is the Federal bill? It languishes in I think. Hoover says, that mailorder firearm purchases should be banned, interstate transportation of firearms controlled, and local registration of firearms required and enforced. gun-contr- congressional com- mittees. No one argues that a Federal law is a panacea for all crime and violence. No one argues that criminals and psychotics wont be able to get their hands on lethal weapors. But it can be made more difficult for them to do so and there is proof that when there is a strong law it helps. It has helped in Philadelphia. It is working well in New Jersey. During the first six months of its mail-orde- Those Little Undoubtedly any effective gun control is going to put some inconvenience on sportsmen, but the law is not aimed at ripens from obpreventing taining firearms. Isnt the safety of people, Isnt the prospect of reducing crimes of violence, worth some inconvenience? It is easy to wring our nands about mounting crime. It would be better to do something about it Downfall Coming Is it going to take a full scale economic fall in this nation for the people who fail or, even more realistically, refuse to realize that a vast socialistic empire is accumulating in our free society? What does it take for the seemingly mindless citizens in d this country to realize the freedoms we are to enjoy are ebbing from within their grasp? The absolutely fantastic sums of money appropriated for the subsidy of attaining equal distribution of wealth from the all powerful state is totally ignored by the bulk of United States citizens. In the past 30 years, 3421 billions were spent to solve the solution of the underprivileged in America. The planners" of these fraudulent operations Mill fail to realize, or perhaps they wish to hide the fact, that the outcome of effectiveness of our tax dollars was simply that it accomplished nothing. It has inevitably led to a state of serious complications by establishing an addict effect upon social parasites (the common welfare recipient). If the people don't alert their apathetic minds and stimulate their pathetic positions as pseudocitizens, then the end result of our rapidly decadent society will have absolute justification for its downfall ! ! -G- EORGE M. KALMAR Chairman. Salt Lake Young Americans for Freedom privi-ledge- g Verbs Anglo-Saxo- n Enjoyed Lecture Compliments and appreciation are due the Utah Heart Association, the Utah medical profession, the L.D.S. Church, and all who contributed to the fine discussion and lecture presented by Dr. White. It was particularly wholesome to hear the preventive aspect of the problem accented. In this respect it would seem most fitting and useful if a sequel could be arranged in which die details of this prevention would be discussed and recommendations made that could be immediately practiced, especially in the dietary or nutritional area of this form of public health. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS -R- OGER 2565 Perhaps, some day, the newspaper of the future will be so designed, physically and typographically, that the poor headline writer will no longer be confined to the curt Anglo-Saxo-n verbs he is now pretty much limited to. A good deal of what is called shock and sensationalism in daily newspapers is due to its physical makeup, rather than to its editorial policy. Headlines, as a whole, tend to be more stark, more violent, and less qualibefied than the stories beneath them cause only short and active verbs will fit the acute limitations of a narrow news ure may merely object to its adoption; and a legislature that kills a bill has decided against it. Quiz is an infinitely better headline word than interrogate, even though the former may carry too strong an is a breaks implication; likewise, handier verb than withdraws;" despite the fact that the former tends to make the UN, for instance, seem more like a boxing ring than an assembly of parliamentarians. Since the British Royal Family decided against (doomed) Capt. Townsend's courtship, there has been a renewed movement to disestablish the Church of England. If this movement succeeds, I slays, breaks, looms, dooms, lashes, kills, fires, cracks, nabs, grabs, grills, quizzes, curbs, blocks, foils. This is the language of violence and dispute, of anger and intemperance. Almost all are Anglo-Saxo-n verbs, which in distinction to are brief and active their Latin equivalents, which are long and judicial. One politician who slaps a colleague could be said to take issue with but not within the confines of a headline. And the colleague who hits back is probably remonstrating which is a dull and polite word almost never found outside the grim austerity of the New York Times. A judge who dooms a murderer may simply have refused to review his case; while a man who flays a meas- n column. Not a days issue passes but that our eyes are assailed with some, or most, of the following verbs in news stories: Hits, slaps, traps, raps, rips, flays, look forward to the headline of the centuPeers Kill Antidisestablishmentar-ianis- ry: Bill." nation" usually boils down to a belief bloc is in Moscows that the pocket, and that together, these groups control events. The Soviet Union is working liaid to produce this state of affairs, and maneuvers to give the impression it has als are ready happened. Some embarrassed by the fact; others consider it a healthy form of pressure on the West to appear, and indeed on occasion to be, allied with Moscow. s When the really want to get results, however, they still come, sooner or later, to the West. Many Arabs are currently doing so in the Mideast deadlock, realizing, that as distinct from Washington has real verbal leverage on Israel. WILLIAM R. FRYE Election of a Communist, Romanian Foreign Minister Oorneliu Manescu, to preside over the United Nations General Assembly at its 1967 session is bound to raise anew the cry of Red domination" Afro-Asia- too but it did not woi k out that way. lobbying by the United States, a display of backbone., by the Latin American bloc, and the eloquence of Israeli all secForeign Minister Abba Eban onded by unrealistic Arab diplomacy turned the tables. ; For years, right wingers and other types have professed to see red tints in the blue flag of the world organianti-U- zation. Even in the decade from when the United States had an overwhelming majority available on virtually every major phase, they cried Communist domination!" ; The charge today is less hut still inacc1945-195- The net result was not a demonstration of Soviet control, but of Soviet miscalculation. The Assembly proved to be n relamore of a boon for tions than for ties.. The only other thing the Soviet Union urate. Soviet-bloreally has gone all out to get from the UN it did acmcve, but this was a negainfluence has intive victory. Moscow prevented the Unitcreased. but Mosed Stales liom enforcing Article .1.9 of the cow is a long way Charter, which deprises dues delinquents from etfective conof the right to vote. trol. This dues tight, which was really over The United and which is States has ....been . VUN peacekeeping power elbowed out of the by nt means finished represents the r mark of Soviet influence. driver's seat. No Moscow has succeeded in blocking the one now controls Mr. Frye the UN; though the development of UN teeth." African bloc, with 31 per cent She has also put immense pressure on Sc cretin y, General U Thant to hire more of the votes, can put together .a majoi ity more readily than most others. (What Communists in the Secretariat, and to they have in the end, however, are often put them in more influential posts. Thant paper resolutions of little practical signif-- . has given way, reluctantly and by inch' es, to this pressure. icance.) ft On most other issues, the Reds are Russia put its prestige bn the line this past summer in the Mideast crisis, summaking more noise and creating more stir than in the past, but getting few remoning the General Assembly into emergency session in the obvious belief that it sults. Only when they clipib on someone could deliver majorities for the Arab elses bandwagon and portray ft as their do they win victories." awn states. , Af.the core, the myth of Red' domi- Marty other delegations" thought1 soArab-Wester- Most Alricjins still look to the Unito. States and Britain for decisive pressure on South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal, the white rulers of the southern fifth n the African continent. They know the United States. Britain. Canada and one or two other countries are virtually the only sources of significant development capital, and that these countries finance most of the UN's , high-wate- 4 . t . . . t 4 Duress There are two sides to this adoption furor. People who question the judges decision are approaching anarchism, and the judges have been able to see that we have not always been fair to these poor girls, most too poor to sue. Do you think a frightened girl approaching the Valley of Death can make a binding contract? We give the baby and its unearned parental friends a full year after placement to make up their minds about legal adoption, yet we hurry the lonesome convict" into signing a paper at once or else. What duress! I sometimes question if married mothers' are competent near delivery or before. -- D. RICHARDSON Salt Lake City give-awa- Much is being said about Governor George Romney and his statement about being brainwashed. Brainwashed or not, he would be a lot better President than the one we have now. Speaking of being brainwashed: if you ask me, the biggest majority of the Americans were brainwashed w hen they voted the last presidential election. --MRS. JOSEPH DODGESON Detroit, Mich. Afro-Asian- c J. n Afro-Asian- Arab-Sovi- . WILLIAMS Fargo St. Who Is Brainwashed? Soviets Win Little At U.N. 1 East would-be-gu- m the UN. Merge, Don't Expand letter regarding welfare violates principles of logic which most college juniors could immediately recognize. .He states, "Regardess of how great or serious the need of any person is, the person does not have the right to have that need corrected or satisfied at the hands of someone else. This is the same as saying a person has a right to steal. For under either circumstance the lruit of the labors of others is expropriated from them' to satisfy the needs of the thief and the welfare recipient. Following the principles of logic, the syllogism would read, "All persons who expropriate satisfaction from the fruits of the labors of others are thieves. The fallacy in logic is revealed! If we believe what he says, we are all thieves for all of us in this complex society are dependent upon and expropriate a certain amount of our satisfaction from the "fruits of the labor of others. How many of us could build our own freeway or hire our own police force or the myriad of other services provided not only by government but also business, family, and Christian neighbors. I dare say, not even Mr. Morrison. Fred W. Morrison's rights, though The Case For Gun Control Partners In Progress In a very special sense, the Relief Society of The Church Saints stands as a partner to of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Church. the of the Priesthood Together, the one emphasizing the roles of men as fathers, husbands, and brothers, and the other the roles of women as mothers, wives, and sisters, the Priesthood and the Relief Society carryforward the porgrams of the Church. Together, working in harmonious partnership, they seek to develop a home life that will touch the lives of all members in producing strong, faithful families of humble Latter-da- y iiiimmmi'imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiuiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiu activities. ' Hard realities such as these are not changed by Soviet bluster and posturing, While may play ball with Afro-Asia- , Moscow on occasion to. get resolutions passed and to embarrass or pressure the West, they do their real negotiating with the United States. Russia is a long way from dominating tlte glass houseon the East River. On oc-- . caslqn, these days, it is a bgll game; 'but there is no sign the Russians are going Jo win wry much of the lime. w- - .S CONFERENCE NOTICE Semi-- , The One Hundred and Thirty-seventannual Conf'iemv of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, to which all Church members are invited, will convene in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City', Utah, Friday. Saturday and Sunday. September ?9th and 30th and October 1st, 1967 with general sessions each day at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. h y The General Priesthood meeting will be held in the Tabernacle on Saturday. September 30th, at 7 p.m. Only those who hold the priesthood are invited to attend. It is understood 41131 ward Sacrament meetings wdll ,be held Sunday evening after the close of the Sunday afternoon general session of the cohference, where practicable. ' - ' . . THE FIRST PRESIDENCY David O. McKay Hugh B. Brown N. Eldon Tanner Joseph Fielding Smith ' .. 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