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Show B!tiiiiiuiutiiii:nt!tiii!i'iiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiHiHti!iiniiiiiiiiiinniniiiiHii!!iiiiiniiiitiiiiii Tug-- DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITT, 0 f Peace -- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR UTAH BllllilllllinilllllllllllllltllllllllHIHIinilllllinillHIIIIIIinillllllllllltllllllllllllllllllin Recheck The Record We Stand For The Constitution Of The United Stales As Having Been Divinely Inspired 22 A EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY, OCTOBER are quoting people in states who claim that there is not an increase in juvenile delinquency resulting from juveniles drinking hard liquor. What about the juvenile delinquency that will occur from the increased alcoholic consumption by of parents, resulting from the hotels and restaurants selling liquor? If oeople want to know about the brutality, broken homes and increased juvenile problems due to alcohol, they need only talk to school counselors, social workers, juvenile judges, and the priests, rabbis, pastors, and bishops of various churches. They can tell quite a story. It is difficult for me to understand the ca'lous of liquor approach to the increased distribution which the promoters are trying to foist upon us. The liquor promoters liquor-by- - 24, 1963 Why Postal Reform Needs To Be Pushed e What does it take to get Congress to bestir itself into streamlining America's system for delivering the mail? Last June the Kappel Commission, headed by a former chairman of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and ashorse-and-bugg- y sisted by five leading management-consultinand accounting firms, concluded after an exhaustive study that the U.S. Post Office Department viol ".03 virtually every common-sens- e principle of modem management. To cure what ails the postal department, the commission recommended that it be turned into a public corporation like the Tennessee Valley Authority or the Export-ImpoBank, with authority to manage its own operations, borrow capital funds, set rates, and engage in collective bargaining. Since then, however, so little has been heard regarding follow-u- p action on the Kappel report that theres room for wordering if it is being purposely ignored and whether Congress needs to be prodded into acting. These observations are prompted by this weeks action of the Reader's Digest, as one of the nations largest users of the mails, in endorsing the Kappel Commission recommendations and urging Americans to write their Congressmen to counter anticipated special-interelobbying against overhauling the postal system. If anyone doubts that public support for such streamlining should be generated, let him consider some of the more telling points made by the Digest and the Kappel Commission: Item: Congress, not the Post Office, rules on all important labor matters. As a result, postal unions dont bargain they lobby. Item: Incentives that are commonplace in other industries are unheard of in the Post Office Department. Because seniority rights cannot be transferred from one postal office to another, 99 per cent of postal workers never leave the office they start in, and postal officials are drastically limited in their ability to put the right man in the right snot. Item: Although modem equipment is available that could streamline postal opeiations and save money, the Digest says there is no capital investment program in the Post Office. As a result, the overwhelming bu'k of mail is still sorted precisely as it was 150 years ago. Item: The Post Office is the only major organization of its kind in the country a natural monopoly like the public whose prices are set by Congress rather than by utilities regulatory commissions consisting of experts who conduct careful audits. Yet, the article observes, Congress does not have a single persor on its staff who studies postal rates full time. These and other shortcomings, it should be emphasized, do not constitute an indictment of particular postal workers, but they are an indictment of the system that holds those workers captive. And they are an indictment of Congress for failing to come to grips with year after year of mounting postal deficits, higher postal rates, and deteriorating service. If Americas vital postal system is ever to be put on a business-lik- e basis, it will have to be taken out of politics. How about it, Congress? the-drin- k -- L. ROLAND WERRETT 2747 E. 3600 South g A rt Spiro Agnew's Worst Blunder WASHINGTON As part of campaign, Republican presidential candidate Spiro Agnew been attacking hard-hittin- g pseudo - intellectuals in the United States and blaming them for most of st Laxity On Pesticides When a government agency, charged with protecting Americans from such things as faulty chemical agents, apparently abandons its responsibility, explanations are in order. Such was the case recently when, in checking the performance of federal agencies for Congress, the General Accounting Office found that the Agricultural Departments pesticide regulation division had done nothing to enforce the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. The divisions inaction subjects American health to extreme dangers, as was the case with hospital disinfectants" cited by GAO that disinfected neither hospital surgical instruments nor rooms. Furthermore, it is a drain on the pocketbooks and patience of taxpayers who finance the special divisions 12 laboratories and pay salaries of 150 workers. The divisions budget last year was $1,6 million; surely thats enough for the division to provide At bricans with protection against misused pesticides. By law, the division is supposed to prosecute r recall products if any are found to be misbranded, adulterated or unregistered. The GAO, however, found that not only had no prosecutions been made, although in 1967 there were 1,147 violations found in the sampling of 4,958 products, but that the division had not even obtained enough data to track defective products to different parts of the country. The final blow came when the head of the enforcing agento GAO that We cannot disagree with these admitted cy findings. Is it too much to expect that somebody should mind the shop, especially when lives of so many could be at stake? y 4 the countrys woes. This has caused a great dpal of bit-- t e r ness among Americas pseudointellectuals, and Mr. Bnclmald its possible that Agnews strategy mi ;ht backfire on him. Mr. Hillary Hazeltine, president of the Pseudo - Intellectual Antidefamation League, hpld a press conference last week where he defended the role of in the United States and warned that if Gov. Agnew continued his attacks, he would lose millions of votes. do not While usually vote as a bloc, Hazeltine said, they are very sensitive to criticism and certainly would not vote for a man who treats them with sc much contempt. Asked how large the pseudo - intellectual vote was in the United States, Hazeltine replied, Its hard to say, but were the ones who subscribe to Time magazine, belong to the Book cf the Month pseudo-intell- pseudo-intellectua- ART BUCHWALD Club and watch Leonard Bernstein on television. We drive Volkswagens and go to foreign films and buy bullfight posters. Agnew is crazy to mess with with us. Why would he? He probably doesnt even know what a pseudo - intellectual is. We attend filmed lectures on Tahiti and buy tickets to Edward Albee plays and write letters to the editor of our local newspaper and never miss a PTA meeting and listen to records by Henry Mancini. Hazeltine continued, I dont know who Agnew thought he was attacking, but hes stepped on the toes of everyone in this country who quotes David Suss-kin- d and owns a Hi-stereo record machine. We may not watch Ed Sullivan but we do watch the Smothers Brothers and Laugh-In- , and whenever Marlene Dietrich sings, we buy the house out. Then what youre saying, Mr. Hazela reporter said, is that Gov. tine, Agr.ew unknowingly has made fun of the same people that Richard Nixon is appealing to. Exactly. Were the fut gotten Americans that Nixon is always talking about. We pay our taxes. We work for our money. We dont get involved in crime. The only thing we're trying to do is improve our minds. We might have gone for Nixon if Agnew hadnt given us all that jazz. Why do you think he did it? He probably got all mixed up. What he wanted to do was attack the intellecu-tals- , but he was afraid to do it, so picked on the pseudo - intellectuals instead. If he had attacked the intellectuals in the United States, he might have lost 53 votes. But when he went after the pseudointellectuals, he took on about 10 or 15 million Americans. What does the Pseudo - Intellectual Antidefamation League plan to do about it? We're going to be fair about it and give Agnew a chance to retract what he said about us. Do you think hell do it? Why not? Hes retracted practically everything else hes said. And if he doesnt? Then we shall notify our membership through The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Harpers and Playboy that Spiro Agnew is an antipseudo - intellectual and we will warn them that a vote for Agnew is a vote for Lawrence Welk. Well let our members take it from there. The Foolish Tyranny Of Labels By SYDNEY J. HARRIS I have been pondering the melancholy fact that people often object more to the words for certain things than to the things themselves. This summer, a young husband of the set was quarreling beautiful people with his wife about the purchase of a station wagon. With three small children, she wanted him to buy one so that she could cart children and packages arojnd more handily than in their l'tde coupe. He refused to buy one, because a and substation wagon is middle-clas- s urban and connotes a great many things he dislikes about society and family life and so on. I happened to be present during the tiff, and suggested innocently station that they buy a British-mad- e wagon. What difference would that make? the husband inquired. I said, In England, its Well, and its original called a shooting-brake- , use was for hunting over rough terrain during the shooting season. Its not called a station-wago- n over there. I could see this patrician idea taking hold in his mind, and refrained from saying anything further. Sure enough, this fall the family Ls the proud owner of which an imported shooting-braksatisfies the domestic needs of the wife and the snobbery of the husband. This is merely a somewhat ludicrous and exaggerated example of what most of us are like in our relationship with certain words. We believe more in the magic of terminology than we like to admit, and many a man has swallowed a business demotion when it was sugar-coate- d with an impressive but meaningless title. Until a year or so ago, my older son wouldnt eat cheese in any form, and wouldnt even consider eating anything that had cheese as one of the ingredients. Goons Grab DETROIT My good friend Milovan rebel, soon will Djilas, the anti-Titdiscover that in these United States there is a new, new class. This is the poverty establishment. Not the poor. But the well-paiprofessionals who inherited them. This is an entrenched class, responsible for the dispensing of billions of dolsome of which is being stolen or lars misused in globs of $10,000 to half a million dollars to $900,000. This is a sensi-tiv- e d class. It resents intrusion. 1 1 angers when told that some of has the money been used by killers, by karate iby nstructors, Maoists, by by Cas-troite- s, the street gentry who chant Ho Ho Ho, and by virulent using what the ghastly Joseph Goebbels ca'led the schreck krieg" (terror war). And because of the new, new class sensitivity, thousands or young poor are being deprived of education, job training, cultural rehabilitation and the decencies anti-Semif- 's of life. So vast so unbelievable is this misuse of funds, so intricately tunneled through mazes of regional, sectional, municipal, neighborhood and street subsid- iary corporations and agencies, that even the skillful U.S. watchdog General Accounting Office has had to ask for additional months to bring in its secret report on the Office of Economic Opportunity paymaster. OEO inspectors and FBI agents are slushing through the same labyrinth. Inquiries at OEO's Washington headquarters beget snar's and heat but little enlightening. National OEO spokesmen Lame the mayors of the big cities for Cheese made him sick to his stomach, he averred. Then, suddenly, he and his friends began patronizing pizza parlors and he came home demanding that we serve pizza for dinner some nights. What?- I said, dont you know that pizza has a cheese base, and that you abhor cheese in all its forms? He looked appalled for a moment, then recovered: Well, I still dont like cheese but pizza has the Italian kind of cheese thats different from the rest. We acquire a fixation against a name, and then treat the thing like the name. In medical science, the outstanding example has been the word leprosy," considered a revolting and highly contagious when, acdisease since Biblical days tually, the ailment is now most treatable and tractable. But leper maintains its ancient connotation, despite all efforts, including its change of name to Han- VICTOR RIESEL sens disease. Cash Guevara, responsible use ol the poors money? There are several such The money in one instance offices. was to go for Project Method, to train impoverished Brooklyn youth to be useful citizens. There is definite evidence of this in the hands of the New York City Council. Is the use of some $10,000 by Cleveland rifleman Fred Ahmed Evans reuse of U.S. dollars? That sponsible money was part of a $1.6 million OEO grant to the Hough (Cleveland) Community Development Corporation, and was to improve specifically programmed It was antiNegro youth culture. poverty money which went to Ahmed, who allegedly started the lethal shoot-ou- t there. Reports have it that he purchased a station wagon and went on an organizing trip to Akron, Pittsburgh and this auto anti-pover- the criminal and mulching of federal money. After its funded, it seems to me, the OEO truly doesnt wish to hear of local looting. anti-soci- Here in the auto city, for example, some months ago, the state legislature set up a committee to probe violations of fundings and ethical standards. The committee chairman sought national OEO assistance. In his own words, heres what Chairman James Del Rio reports: When this Investigation was two months old, I called Sargent Shrivers office and spoke with his top aide, telling him irregularities did exist and asked him for an investigator to work with us in this investigation. I suppose after he discussed it with Sargent Shriver (now U.S. Ambassador to France VR) he then returned my call and told me the Chicago office would be getting in touch with this committee. We waited several weeks and we talked with the Chicago office and its director several times. Not only did they not send investigators or request Washington to send investigators, they did not even send us a copy of the community action guide. This has been my experience, too. Word from the national office, most surly of late, is that the money is being used responsibly and that such criticism and exposures will destroy the crusade for the poor. Well, lets talk bluntly: is the use of federal funds for a storefront karate school responsible use of government money or aid to the poor living just a few hundred yards away? There is such a school, probably more ihan one, in New York. Is the use of money for headquarters in which hang large phoos of Ho Chi Minh, Mao and Che y y Ise-tun- g I cannot understand why some persons seem to suppose that prohibition of alcoholic beverages is a step back, just because our forefathers were not big or courageous enough to abide by the possibility of having a dry state. Both sides of the current LBD issue admit that there are associated evils conne:ted with the consumption of alcohol, I therefore submit that there is nothing good about the practice in any form. The issue seems to be not so much a matter of adopting a good law as it is a quarrel over how to regulate or control an evil praclice. When any society begins to adopt laws that pacunder ify and, in fact, encourage the guise of being enforceable or realistic, the iCal picture to be faced is that the fabric of that society is rotten to the very core and cannot be patched up with anything less than an abrupt about face in values and goals. Few men ever rise above the laws they choose to adopt for themselves, so lowering standards tends also to lower potentials until life becomes a downward trek from the cradle to the grave. --MERRILL H. GLENN JR. , 264 No. State Problem in Disguise Do you know Old John Barleycorn? You ought to. Hes been around a long time. Hes pretty hard to recognize, though, because he comes dressed in so many different cloaks. Right now he has a new which has been garb identified by some as respectability. Always, he seems to wear the cloak of respectability. Hes a fancy dresser, all right. When he appears In public he is always decked out fit to kill. This new cloak he is wearing this liquor-by-th- e drink means more liquor, doesn't it? Something taken in small doses doesnt mean that there will be less of it Let's see, what is the appeal? Utah hospitality, tourist attraction, building the economy, keeping up with the Jones, etc., etc., etc. If we have nothing more original to offer visitors than a drink of liq- uor shipped in here from some other state, we ought to hang our heads in shame. Wine is a mocker the wise old sage says. It mocks reason and it mocks truth. It is not only a mocker, but it is a killer, too. It leaves its casualties all along the highway. --J ' . ' ARBON CHRISTENSEN Logan, Utah Speak From Fact A few people are constantly quipping, Liquor by the drink, or liquor by the drunk, implying that people who like their drinks consume more when purchasing by the bottle, but they never stop to think through what they are saying. Only a comprehensive survey of a representative group of drinkers would be competent evidence of any such contention. To do this, first their consumption experience would have to be measured under a package circumstance with laws similar to Utahs present law, and then their consumption experience would have to again be measured after adoption of a liquor law with provisions identical with Initiative Petition No. A. Any statement as to lower personal liquor consumption not predicated upon such a survey is not only meaningless, but totally irresponsible. J. RULON TEERLINK Salt Lake City , Hurrah For Judge Good for the Federal District Court of Utah. And especially Federal Judge A. Sherman Christensen. For the second time during the past several years, the judge and the court have come to the aid of a little guy at the bottom of the heap. Recently the judge upset a decision rendered by the Utah State Supreme Court that denied a young fellow his Constitutional rights. And it was a four- decision at that. Can you imagine four learned men sitting on the highest court in. the state being overruled by one man sitting just a little bit higher, who thought the four venerable judges could have done a better job of giving an individual a fairer shake? -R- OGER L. GOUDIE 1320 E. 5th South, No. 408 , to-o- GUEST CARTOON alley. There are many instances of misused funds in the District of Columbia or New Haven, Chicago or Des Moines, and points east and west. The gentry of the new, new class are sensitive. They disclaim any knowledge of depredation. They tell you to go to City Hall. And that once they find the money, the dollars are used locally. Nonsense, which puts it politely. The OEO has seven regional offices. They have units. Presumably, they if theyre not too busy read the press and entranced by the revolutionizing of the streets. sub-distri- Those poverty billions are federal dollars and should be monitored. The poor are getting a bad shake. So are the many millions of citizens who want to ease the burdens of the poor -- - not the bureaucracy. My friend Milovan Djilas should take a look at the new, new class. In the U.S., he wont be imprisoned for searing critiques. Not yet, anyway. , -- - Anti-Pover- ty o Mrs. Valeria B. Young With the derih of Mrs. Valeria B. Young Tuesday at age 92, Utah not only lost one of its prominent citizens, but a woman of exemplary ability in communicating with people. Mrs. Young, the widow of Elder Levi Edgar Young, former president of the First Council of Seventy, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, had a simple formula for establishing good rapport with students, Church workers, politicians and others. It was to be informed about enough subjects that she could meet each person in his own sphere of interests. From the time she began years ago as one of the first teacher trainers at the University of Utahs Stewart Training School, to serving as president of the Utah Womens Legislative Council, and working in important Church positions, Mrs. Young strove to reinforce her approach to assignments with knowledge. Her widespread interest in reading everything from great literature to current events once caused President J. Reuben Clark Jr., of the First Presidency, to idenwoman in the Church. tify her as the best-rea- d Mrs. Youngs example of both acquiiing and disseminatwill be missed not only by her family, but by a culture ing host of friends, former associates and students who cited her S3 the most marvelous teacher they knew. his vice has the Step Backward? Looking for the ones j that got away' ' Newfay t , |