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Show it Isn't Everyone Who Can Lay Brick. An And EggAt The Same Time DESERET NEWS " LETTERS TO THE EDITOR We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States EDITORIAL PAGE MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, column is a real breakWe think the out of this through in bureaucracy and red tape work. world. Please, never stop your good Its like hot on a a fresh wind day. 1967" , y y 1 Safety In The Skies Needs More Effort When I had my sons eyes examined last Saturday I learned something that was a little frighten-- 1 , An eye examination is required for a fevers license but not necessary for a hunting license! It if chilling when one contemplates the number of hunters who, due to blurred vision, cant tell an ante- - Since the Boeing 727 crash and fire that killed 43 persons Salt Lake Municipal Airport' nearly two years ago, Utahns have been painfully aware of the need to make air travel &t safer. lope from a canteiope about this? fire-pro- ' Is there anything we can do -(- MRS.) i FAA-controll- Orem Rebellion The Census Bureau is getting ready to find out how many people of what age and sex live where in the United States. " ROSCOE DRUMMOND . The purpose is provide Congress with the in- just gives up before he can count them neces- And you can go to Jail if you dont answer the lot Fortunately, some members of Congress are beginning to wonder whether this is all necessary or even wise and one Congressman, Rep. Jackson E. Betts to formation sary aU. to decide oil the basis of population how many seats in the House of Represenatives to each shall go state. Mr. Drummond think that- - the questions to be asked by the census-taker- s could be numbered on the fingers of one hand. Not so. Apparently the census staff has been sitting up nights compiling a massive array of questions to acquire information which somebody wants but which has absolutely nothing to do with the original function of the census and is unneeded by Congress to reapportion the House of Representatives. You and I might think that five questions would do the job, but if Congress does not stay the hand of the Census Bureau we are going to be receiving a each page 12 questionnaire inches by 11 inches probing into more than 60 different subjects with so many different questions, secsubquestions, tions, subsections, and squares and circles for alternative answers, that one Mr. Betts is frank enough to admit that, if the census has got out of hand, it is more the fault of Congress than the Census Bureau because Congress has in the past granted the Census Bureau pretty much a free hand in devising its questionnaires and has exercised little supervision. Now he aims to call a halt before it is too late. For the life of him, he cant see why the census should ask whether you share your shower, how you enter your heme, where you lived in a certain month several years ago, whether you have a flush toilet or a deep freeze, whether you prefer a shower or a bathtub, and what Is your mother tongue and do you speak it in the hone up to 20 pages with suband questions, sections and circles and squares for alternative i - WASHINGTON Secretary of State Dean Rusk announced last week at his press conference that the real reason we Another bomb exploded. I wish there was another way of doing it, the peasant said. Thats the trouble with you, Dao. You never can see the big picture. If the United States doesnt show that its willing to honor its commitments in Vietnam, then every country In Southeast Asia will faU. A bomb hit a hut about 100 feet from the foxhole. 1 handicapped could hardly be aeen than the picture drawn this week by the Utah Office of Rehabilitation Services. The report discloses that during the last fiscal year, 968 handicapped individuals received some form of training for - Okay, I grant you that the Free World has a great stake in Vietnam. But even to I dont enjoy being bombed. Nobody likes being bombed. But once you understand toe reasons behind It, then it aU makes sense. If this is really a contest between toe' On the radio. You see, the reason why toe United States is fighting in Vietnam is to contain Chinas expansionist ambitions. This is Americas way of tell--( Ing China to keep her hands off South- east Asia. The Budgetary toe Rep. Wilbur D. Mills chairman of toe House Ways and Means Committee, deserves toe countrys gratitude for declaring that there must be halt in the growth of federal spending be--' fore Congress can eves consider a tax in- ' Winnow the questions able proportions. to manage- 2 Make the answers to about seven simple questions mandatory. 3 Permit the answers to the other questions to be voluntary. As to what questions should be asked, I see no reason why the director of the census shouldnt say to Congress all right, you decide. If toe Census Bureau takes this attitude, Congress will learn something. It will learn that the'tensus Bureau rarely expands the ques henna ire on its own initiative. It responds to the earnest pleas of businesses which want the kind of data in the long questionnaires I have cited. Questions also come from cities, social agencies, and academic groups. The voluntary questions might produce so many gaps in the answers as to make them useless. But what better way to find out than try it? Refusing to cut or give up a single Great Society program, Mr. Johnson tauntingly throws toe responsibility on Congress: They control toe purse. We cant spend a dune unless they appropriate it. And he points out that Congress even appropriates more billions than he Mills has performed a double public service. He has buried the tax bill. And he brought attention from the necessity ing taxes real has recommends. national back Mills retorts that this is The greatest threat, he declares, is toe proliferation of federal We want to government activity pause in this headlong rush toward ever Our foremost need bigger government Ann control over the is to establish amount and character of federal spending in the future . . . The first step would be the Administrations formulation of recommendations for basic changes in federal programs.. Onfy the Administra- tion is in a position to undertake this chore efficiently' and expeditiously. The Congress job then would be to evaluate and to act upon these recommendations. Chairman dubious of raisto the necessity of buck-passin- ... slashing expenditures. President John-MHaxBtt son tells us that unless his tax bill Is passed the deficit in the current fiscal year may be $23 billion even if his pro, or even 329 billion,-Yposed 37 billion tax bin. were passed, it would stUl leave a deficit of 316 to 322 billion. This would be the largest deficit -in 22 years. . ' Mr. Johnson refuses to concede that timated-administrative this - present spending of 3143.5 billion in this fiscal year could be seriously cut Yet it is 347 billion' greater than even his own first fiscal year's spending in 1965 and 318.4 billion greater In nondefense spending r. et alone l t i2 f J( - This statement gets dose to the heart of question ;yet it falls short in one crucial respect. In trying to pass toe buck bade to toe President it reveals the weakness In our .present budget system. InAs.long as Congress has the 'power to crease the appropriations for which the fa - President asks, or to add appropriations --ROD - - ROVEN - 468 3rd Avenue - , Appreciates Teacher , 9 Yes, there are teachers who will get involved and we are fortunate to have one of them at Northwest Junior High School. Leslie Johnson, mathematics teacher, invited his students to join him to view the eclipse of the moon. As this was to take place at 2:45 a.m., he asked that each student have a chaperone or if he were unable to do so, he would be glad to pick him up and deliver him back to his home. " - U About 10 students and four mothers gathered with Mr. Johnson at the back of the school in these wee early hours to view not only the eclipse but also Saturn and stars within and without our galaxy1' through a special telescope which had been provided. As the weather was crisp, Mr. Johnson had thoughtfully brought blankets for the students to use and let the heater run in his car so that we could rotate warmups with gazings. This was a memorable experience for these students, and I feel Mr. Johnson is due a special thank you for his dedication and thoughtfulness in providing his time and talent for the benefit of our young. --MRS. BETTY W. HARRIS 1216 N. 14th West Rob Peter, Pay Paul United States and China, why dont the Americans bomb China instead of us? . Because that would get China into toe war, and toe United States doesnt want China in toe war, stupid. Dont call me stupid. I dont see why we should be bombed just because toe United States doesnt want to bomb China. Good grief, Dao, do you want to remain a peasant an your life? Secretary Rusk has spelled It out as clearly as possible. Hes even willing to stop toe bombing if Hanoi will go to the conference table. Why wont Hanoi go to toe conference table? - Because If it does toe Chinese wiU lose face. I was afraid of that Another bemb exploded a few feet from the foxhole and dirt fen on both men. Dao said, When did Rusk say the Chinese would see reason so he wouldn't have to bomb us any more? He said he wasnt sure, but possibly in the next generation.. , Buck-Passe- rs HENRY HAZLITT crease. . -- Im just selfish at heart, Dao, Im surprised at you. There are 1 billion Chinese people and they are committed to taking ever 1 billion free people, and If It werent for the United States bombing .us, they would do it tomorrow. Several fields caught on fire. No kidding, the other peasant said, hugging the earth as a bomb exploded. Where did you hear that? which: They increased their average annual income from $708 of 581 per cent. per person to $4,113. Thats an increase Of 213- persons on welfare roles plus an additional 23 some welfare assistance only 33 remained on received who the roles at the end of the year. This is a savings to the stats of more than one third of a million dollars. And these statistics are only dollar measures. ' Nothing is said since there is no way to measure of prothe value of the lives that have become more meaningful, -- worthwhile. and ductive, purposeful. happy, were of course, Not all of the handicapped persons, placed In gainful employment. Nor did the training become sucfully effective in every instance. But the great degree of cess achieved is a signal accomplishment deserving the highest commendation of those responsible for the program. ' ' Employers already familiar with the fact .t rate a than often higher produce that handicapped persons normal workers are the first to offer such individuals work opportunities. More employers would do themselves and the tommtfjiity a valuable service by hiring the handicapped guess Dao said. I really cant get too excited about what is happening in toe rest of Southeast Asia at the moment Mr. Bochwald huddled In a foxhole during a bombing raid. Say, said one of them to Ihe other. Did you hear the good news? This war has nothing to do with us. Its really between China and the United States. - A more dramatic illustration of the value of training the three things: By ART BUCHWALD non-whit- es Hire The Handicapped: one now being readied, was 5,000,000. What will happen with the new one? Will people have the patience and willingness to put hours into this kind of thing, perhaps for somebodys benefit but certainly not visibly their own? Betts proposes to do Congressman T- i since 1950. Much of the upward mobility was due simply to the departure of more and more workers from agriculture. But the entered fact remains that between 1955 and 1965 rate than a faster at technical and employment professional whites. Admittedly the Negro still has a lot erf catching up to do. or anyone else But where else except in America would he and as fast? as to far go for that matter have a chance This kind of thing may have gone so far that it will fall of its own weight The margin of error in the 1960 census, which wasnt as complex and exhaustive as the 1 Regarding ESP, the Bible states: (Jeremiah vision out of their own they speak heart, and not out of the mouth of the eternal. In There shall not be fount Deuteronomy 18:9-1among you anyone that maketh his son or daughtei to pass through the fire, or that useth divination oi , an observer pf times or an enchanter or a witckoi a charmer or a consul tor of familiar spirits or wizard or a necromancer, etc. r . It is interesting to note that on the front covet of This Week magazines Words To Lfve By, tht editors didnt finish the Proverb text 29:18, which should have included Where there is no vision, ths people perish; but he that keepeth the law happy is he! 23;16) Teaching Red China A Lesson Progress Report te to do something about it. You would A One-thir- Is proposing ), i By returning a guilty verdict in a major civil rights case for the first time in Mississippis history since Reconstruction, a jury there has demonstrated that America is still a land of progress where wrongs get righted. That goes for economic progress as well as political progress, since there have been some important gains in the economic status of the American Negro in recent years. ' For example, Whitney Young Jr., director of the National d of the $3.5 bilUrban League, has pointed out that lion we spend today as a nation for public aid, education, and constitute only 11 per cent of , housing goes to Negroes who the population. A recent analysis of census returns by two Columbia Unimoversity manpower specialists showed much more upward male workers white than among bility among In Caldwells story I Can See Tomorrow," making predictions for the next 12 months, she states she doesnt believe in astrology, and yet, at- tempts to associate various signs under Virgo that both she and Pres. Johnson were born under. We Face A Census 'Monster ed safety. i non-whi- Millie foster cheesman of first-clas- - ! - An important step in that direction is being taken Tuesas the first of a new series of rules governing air travel day into effect go safety "" v The new rules generally cover interior furnishings and improvements in evacuation facilities and techniques, and should help bolster confidence in air travel. One of the shocking aspects of the Civil Aeronautics Boards report on the Boeing 727 crash in Salt Lake City was that the burning interior of the plane helped spread the fire and contributed to the dense black smoke which was the chief cause of death. After those going Jntoeffect now, the new rules will be Implemented" at intervals of 12, 18 and 24 months. The changes involved will cost the airlines some $75 million. This is much less than the $2 billion estimated by the industry when the Federal Aviation Administration proposed the new standards last year, but then the rules have been modified at the industrys request. Regardless of the expense involved, safety should come first. r Thanks to the commendable safety efforts on the part of the airline industry, travel by domestic schedule airline is four to 20 times safer than by automobile. But theres still room for arguing that efforts to improve the safety of air travel could go further and faster. . For example, many of the new rules now going into effect were proposed as long ago as 1961. They grew out of the crash of a DC-- 8 at Denver in July, 1961. On landing, the jetliner skidded off the runway, struck a truck, and began burning. All 41 passengers in the s cabin escaped. But of the 81 passengers in the tourist cabin 16 with only one exit died. In the past six years, the FAA estimates, 174 passengers in commercial airliner died in what are called survivable crashes on plane landings or takeoffs. Many of these lives might have been spared if the new air safety rules had been put into effect by the government earlier. Why werent they? Then there's the disturbing report that of the 547 airports used by commercial airlines, Only 262 have control towers, and only 133 have radar systems. Federal Aviation Administrator William F. McKee says the White House let the 'FAA ask Congress for only $28 million of the $73 million the and the administration has not spent agency felt it needed all the funds appropriated. President Johnson has ordered a comprehensive and costly improvement of the nations air traffic control system, but it has been criticized as appearing to do more about the air traffic problem than it actually does. Despite the progress being made, the need for greater air safety efforts seems bound to grow as aviation itself grows. In the past five years air traffic at airports has doubled. It is expected to triple again by 1977. Aviation" should guard against the dangers of growing faster than the1 technology or the money to implement it. As Americans strive to fly farther and faster, we also need to concentrate money and effort on' getting there with the utmost - 7 Chilling Prospect As Having Been Divinely Inspired 12-- A - L v miiiiuiiiiuiniiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiilllilillllllllllinililUimilUlinilllllg SAIT LAKE CITY, OTAH 1 for which be hasnt asked, toe blame for spending and deficits can be shifted back and forth 'between Congress and the President The voters do not know whom to hold responsible. I have never heard of such thrift, conservatism, nor forethought, as I read and observed an article News, Oct. -- 12. While President- - Johnson wants a tax hike to cover . . . the bills, the House, on the other hand, passes a bin to give all postal employees a 6 per cent raise, and aU the federal workers if 4.5 per cent pay raise. In turn, postal rate increases will finance some of toe raises! The national debt has gpne well into the bil- lions, and if the present trend continues, an extra $30 million wiU be added to the biU. in-t- he above his recommended -- What would my neighbors say if I went over to them and told them I wanted a raise In my husbands monthly salary, and asked them to foot the bill? It undoubtedly would sit with them toe same way the postal rate increase and toe government employes raises sit with me! The article was headed, Pay Raise Bill Draws Fire. Well, It should. --LILLIAN WILLIAMS Richfield ' Vasted Space? About a week ago there was a complaint by someone concerning motorcycles parking in the red zones at the ends and middle of blocks. Several' days ago I noticed parking tickets attached to sev- eral motorcycles in several red zones. I was ready to congratualte the person who may have stimulated a change in toe place where our one thousand motorcycles can park in toe city until today when I noticed some of them using meters designed for one car. Lets all try a little harder to waste more park- -' ing space. -B- RUCE EVANS GUEST CARTOON The minimum remedy for this would be a constitutional amendment giving the President power to veto any individual item In an appropriation bill, or any in- crease -- appro-- priation, without being compelled, as now, either to accept these additions and increases or to veto the entire bill. , This is known as the item veto. The s of the states have' governors of this power. It is the irreducible requirement for fiscal responsibility. . It would be preferable to go much further, as many states in fact do. For example, if Congress passed any appropriation larger than or in addition to that asked for by the President, It could be' vote iu required to do so by a both Houses in the first place, with a s vote required to pass the increase over his veto. , ,, , The political prindple is dear. Competitive spending must be stopped. must be stopped If the vo ers are to be able to fix responsibility, and toe' taxpayers are to be protected against increasing confiscation, both Congress and toe President should have dear power to reduce or prevent excestoe other. sive pending by four-fifth- . tj ';? T m.r, - - - two-thir- three-fourth- Buck-passin- g -t tinitt? f v "Uphill all the 4 i - way ' jt Staux City Joursw i |