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Show THEY Live High And I Get The Gout' DESERET NEWS LETTERS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ; Electors! College As Having Been Divinely Inspired TUESDAY, ; uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim:iiiiimmniiitiimi!tiiii!iiiiiniiiimni We Stand For The Consritution Of The United Stales 12 A EDITORIAL PAGE TO THE EDITOR! DECEMBER Fear of the electoral college must r.ot push America from the frying pan into the fire; popular vote has dangers too. 3, 1968 Back when the vote of the prejudiced South ran about 70 per cent to the Democrats, and splinter parties were invisible, popular vote would probably, have swung every election to the Souths viewpoint. Shame And Its Lessons Chicago-I- ts per-cen- , Arab-Israe- 4 125 helicopters for $910 million. France got into the sellers market, too, with 52 Mirage V jets and 70 medium tanks to Iraq for $1.30 million, and 200 to 220 armored cars to Saudia Arabia for $96 million. Britain's arms sales included 50 tanks to Kuwait for $15 million and an undisclosed number of surface to air missiles to Libya for $240 million. West Germany sold 775 Patton tanks to Italy recently for possible resale to a third (unspecified) country. The Institute for Strategic Studies, a British organizaVon which gathers information on world military forces, figures $2.5 billion in weapons was sold in 28 deals for which it could A Kennedy In Treasury Post ? By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK , INSIDE REPORT - WASHINGTON Chicago banker David Kennedy, a politically inactive Republican deeply concerned with providing privaie capital for i ('building the Negro ghettoes, has moved past better known names to the top of the list of possibilities for Secretary of the Treasury. most tenacious practice super-orthodo- Republican eco- Ir fact, however, neither Champion nor Stans has ever had much chance for the Treasury spot (though Stans Hercu-lran has been Nixons head-made at President-elec- t quarters in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, Kennedy Ls today the strongest possibility for what may be the most critical post in the Nixon Cabinet. Whats more, he has quiet but influential support from Capitol Hill and the financial community. efforts for campaign Nixon almost surely will win him some Cabinet post). Nor is Peter Flanigan, New York businessman and veteran Nixon political lieutenant, likely to realize his ambition of becoming Secretary of the Treasury though he may end up as fund-raisin- g 1 Kennedy, 63, budget balancer. Both x nomics. Although no firm decision Under Secretary. Rather, Nixon talent scouts have been looking for a prestige appointment who is liberal enough to satisfy proponents of the New Economics and conservative enough to reassure Wall Street a description perfectly filled by New York banker David Rockefeller. But because of indications that Rockefeller may not want to leave Chase Manhattan row that he has succeeded Champion as top man there, Nixon is looking elsewhere. Accordingly, David Kennedy has come chiet executive officer of National' Chicagos Continental Illinois Bank since 1959, is considered a moderhous-- . ate with special interest in his and black Altnough ing capitalism. overall economic views are clearly enunciated, he is by no means one of the banking communitys rigid budget balancers and is even a liberal by bankers low-co- standards. Thus, the mere fact that Kennedy has entered the final days of Nixon's Cabinet considerations may pose deep disappointment for Republican Bourbons who had been hoping for the return of a latter-daMellon to the Treasury even at the price into the picture. His credentials are impressive. After spending 16 years in Washington on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board, Kennedy went to Chicago in 1946 to begin his of recession and unemployment. association with Continental Illinois. He On Monday, for instance, a leading returned for two years eatly in the Eik right-winRepublican, Rep. John senhower administration to serve as asof Ohio, chairman of the American sistant to the Secretary of the Treasury Nixon Conservative Union, suggested with responsibility for funding' the debt, chouse from two men for the Treasury-past- : ji Inactive in politics, Kennedy was con-- , i George Champion, .just retired as1 head of the Chase Manhattan Bank, or sidered among the possibilities to be financier Maurice Stans, President. President Johnsons Secretary of the' Eisenhowers last budget director and j Treasury in early 1965 but was not ap-y Ash-broo- g With the world already an armed camp, can't we curb the both private and public? merchants of death Get Litterbugs, Too! Just when we think the worlds problems are insoluble, science comes through with another great discovery. The latest: A beer and pop bottle. A Swedish brewery says it has developed a plastic bottle that disintegrates about two months after it has been emptied. As long as the bottle is full, the plastic is stable, but when empty, a slow photolytie disintegration begins from inside. Think what that will mean to our countryside, where its a constant battle to clean up the cans and broken bottles. ' Now that this breakthrough has been made, maybe science will find a way to get at the real core of the problem. What we need is something which will make (hose heedless, people who strew the bottles and leave their also disappear Poof forever. trash behind self-center- ed ! t Afterthoughts . . . Its fascinating how pco pic twist famous phrases to fit their own prejudices: We quote Robert Frost's line, Good fences make good neighbors. to when Kiost wrote the poem wholly to justify our insularity illustrate the opposite, and put the line into the mouth of a neighbor who was mean and greedy W preached. However, Mr. Johnson did tap him last year as chairman of a special commission on reforming the Federal Budget. It was from that experience that Kennedy's present high reputation in Washington is principally derived. : f ; Accordingly, the appointment of Kenstill' a long way nedy. to Lie Treasury from being decided upon by Nixon would be a clear signal reverberating beyond the economic sector. It would not is only Indicate that tire .President-elec- t by no means the captive of the Republican. Bourbons who were so instrumental in his nomination but show a concern by him for the urban crisis that was totally absent from his election campaign. low-cla- : ; f - When Law Is Mocked Many of the news reporters suggest a somewhat n vain approach to the ilis of the world and. Ihe as they suggest a political solution to what amounts to a spiri'ual problem of disobedience and ' mockery of the laws of eternity concerning the souls of mankind. When faced with strife and civil disobedience in the land, the person or persons elected to political office are rather helpless to accomplish much good ' unless the general public will support and obey the laws of the land and principles of righteousness as ' righteousness is defined in the scriptures and by the words of the prophets appointed to serve as spokesmen for the Lord. The point is that it is vain to suppose that elect- - , ing any given person to political office will solve the piohlems of the world or nation if we remain determined to pursue a disobedient and lustful ' course in our own lives. Planned disobedience not only destroys the nation, it also destroys the soul as well so that nothing of any real worth is left to contend with or attempt to salvage. MERRILL H. GLENN JR. 264 N. State No. .9 , nq-tio- ; perron. If critics point out something that is awry with American capitalism and that needs to be corrected, they are often met with the comment that things are much worse in Russia and we ought to be glad v(e live here; r But the fact that our neighbor has pneumonia should not allow us to shrug olf our own minor illness until it Lecomes major. We consistently use communism as a for our own ills, just as a crimicop-onal who hits a lady on the head and steals her purse tries to mitigate his defense by pleading that he didn't rape next-doo- her the way the fellow in the next cell did to someone eLe. This attitude has done us more national damage than almost any tiling else in our century. It has given us a "horto hold up before rible example permitting us to preen ourselves on onr superiority and to fall into comabout our placency and own defects. ; , K Parents properly tell their children that they should not compare themselves to the worst, but to the best. And the same is true of societies. We must stop looking out, and start looking in; stop saying we're lucky to for have just, a cold and not pneumonia colds have a way of turning into pneumonia if fed by smugness, negligence and f . j j I ART BUCHWALD would be given to the prospective convicts to see if theyve got what it takes to be rehabilitated. If they can't cut the mustard, then the prison should have the , reject them. Besides the tests and the interviews, the admissions board would demand references from the candidates to see that to the convicts were of high moral character. It's also possible, in the case of federal prisons, that each congressman and senator could recommend two candidates for each penitentiary, as they do to West Point and Annapolis. In the case of stale prisons, the governor could select the ones he believes have tne most on the bull. Late Mail Again My store issues a monthly catalog to our inter-- , mountain states covering the special items that we can efficicnily supply at lower cost than if pur--, chared from rh rasiern distributors. Our mailing list is about 3.800 per month. The names and are set up by our own addressograph plate which is a mechanical and easy operation. The point now in question is Ihe postal rate: Alas, because of the high co-- t of mailing or slow in many instances our customers delivery advise. Which price should we use, Octobers or superiority. courts, nor is it the physical facilities holdihg us back, but the fact that we have not concentrated on improving the quality of the people we take in. Anyone who has ever visited a prison in this country knows that Gov. Maddox is right. For years we have been scraping the bottom of the barrel for inmates, and its no wonder they don't live up to ' our expectations. , It is only by raising the requirements a decpnt foi admission, and paying wage, that were going .a get the grade of prisoner that Gov. Maddox and the rest of us can be proud of. . j I certainly agree with the recent Deseret News editorial that Congress should be prodded into solving the postal problems. --C LAMONT FF.LT 28 E. 1st So. Misapplied Money? ; I have looked through the Constitution of the United Slates and I cannot find where die federal government was given the rigid to furnish money . for building Model Cities. , , Someone in our present administration .recins to feel that the Redwood area should he a "Model City." To dale, $336,325 has been spent to study Red- wood. If this money had been given to liie pour it could have meant construction of 34 $iO,6(IO homes.' This would have taken care of most of the pjnp housing. How much of the taxpayers money will go into this project before we are through? , , . na -S- HELDON GILES 1394 W. Crystal Ave. Stop Red Conspiracy i kink. w i September's" GUEST CARTOON After making the application, taking his tests, submitting to a personal interview and writing a composition telling why he beiieves lie would make a good prisoner, the candidate would he sent home and told he would be notified by the FBI about whether he made it or not. If he failed to get in, the candidate could reapply ag.iin after he robbed another Many people say that by being selective, we would lie making too many demands on pur prisoners: but the taxpayers are paying for them, and we should have the rigid lo have llie best convicts that money can buy. i'm sure that Gov. Maddox will be ridiculed lor his ideas on prison reform, bul lie is the first person to come along and point out what is wrong with the penI system in this country. It isn't the i . Upping Prison Requirements . ? -- himself to a person with a severe disease, and refusing to take measures to cure himself because he's already so much hcahhier than the very sick light , There are more questions that hre puzzling me: (1) Who is responsible for not allowing sufficient funds to hire the needed number of trained personnel? (2) Is it true that eight social workers ar hired at the approximate cost of 16 guards and Hi at some of the changes brought by them were of great benefit in allowing the escape? (3) If a cut had to be made, why in the maximum security section? (4) If the rear tower could, only be manned two shifts a day, why was one shift during tire day? (5) With so many people obviously in error on this, why did the brunt of correcting the problems fall on the two guards? JERRY L. McGHIE Alpine By SYDNEY J. HARRIS WASHINGTON -- 1 know you're not going to believe this, but Gov. Lester Maddox of Georgia told a news conference the other day, in answer to criticism about Georgia prison reform, that Were doing the best we can, and before we do much better, were going to have to get a better grade of prisoner." Once again, Gov. Maddox hit the ax handle on the head. While penologists, sociologists, parole officers and prison commissions all have been at odds as to how to rehabilitate prisoners, Maddox has come up with the simplest and, without doubt, most sensible solution. It has been known for years that prisons have been accepting a very type of inmate, some without an education, others who are unstable and some wiio are just plain antisocial. No effort has been made to attract a better grade of prisoner who would i.ot only improve the caliber of our rehabilitation programs, but would also make society treat prisoners with the respect the deserve. For too long now weve been taking cur prisoners for granted, and the standard for convicted felons has declined to a point where almost anyone can get into prison without his qualifications being questioned. This trend must lie reversed if we ever ho; to rehabilitate our prison rs. The first tiling to Jo would be to set up a recruiting drive in hgh schools and colleges to get a holier class of inniiit". This would have to be coupled with higher pay for prisoners, so being behind bars would become worthwhile. Intelligence tests have to be set up at pusons to weed out those unfit to l impi foiled. Then personal interviews 5 ' ; The worst threat of communism in our time is neither attack from the outside nor subversion from the inside. The greatest harm that communism has done and is doing to us is its role as a bad example. The existence of communism in our century allows us to use it as a benchmark for our own values, aims and activities. And it thus permits us to be a lot worse than we ought to be, or have any need lo be. It is like a family with one bad boy. No mailer what mischief the other kids engage in, they can always point to the bad bov and say (truthfully) that they are briter than he is. This is how we use communism in our family of mankind. Or. to take another analogy, it us like a pat sou with a mild disease comparing ; , I,eat humorous of all, however, was the way our officials typically solved part of the problem by finding gents, in this case the two guards, and firing them. That the guards were negligent was' probably true. However, I have some question as to the thinking behind their dismissal. If there had been no escape, would the guards have been fired if found performing their duty negligently or just reprimanded as would probably have been more in keeping with traditon? ' ' Worst Communist Threat: Bad Example ; If it were not for the seriousness of the crimes they committed and the danger the incident creat- cd, the great escape would have been rather hu- . morous. , n problem. ; No Humor In Escape Although Federal bureaucrats first regarded him with suspicion, they came to respect Kennedy's leadership. Specifically, lie was able to win approval of the commission report by commission members ranging from Rep. Frank Bow of Ohio on the right to then Budget Director Charles Schultze on the left. Congressmen were particularly impressed by Kennedys toughness in standing up (p the Treasury against gimmickry in the reformed budget. , Just how far Kennedy would go in continuing the New Economics policies to avoid business skimps is unknown. One economist acquainted with him believes a shade conhe might be considered servative by government economists of era but would be the Kennedy-Johnsoquite congenial to liberal Republicans. What is known is his total commitment to siphoning private capital into the center cities. Indeed, Continental Illinois has been a pioneer of the private economy in attacking the nation's top domestic - collect reliable information. In some instances such arms sales can be justified on the grounds that the U.S. or its friends are providing an ally whose freedom is threatened with the means of protecting itself. In all too many other instances, however, the U.S. has found itself arming nations where there was no clear or present danger and the people were being deprived of lifes necessities. But still worse: The 1968 vote for Humphrey and Nixon (ignoring Wallace) was under 63 million. If 49 states had each voted Nixon a majorily of 1 per cent (and when watching this on TV, 1 per cent seemed quite a bit) this would be 630,000 votes. But the one small state of Massachusetts gave Humphrey a 696,000 majority over Nixon. With the popular vole, this one small state could ha- -e elected Humphrey, with the 49 other states each voting Nixon a 1 per cent majority. -G- OMER CASEMAN East Mill Creek cliff-hang- Merchants Of Death nation that has one. In the 12 months ended last July, the Institute reports, Russia supplied Egypt with 175 jet fighters and 300 tanks to li war. replace equipment lost in the more than 1,000 surFor its part, the U.S. sold Sweden F-Phantom jets 16 Iran missiles to face air for $8.8 million, surface to 32 Hawk and 25 Israel for $80 million, jet fighters air missiles, Joidan 100 Patton tanks and 16 to 18 jet fighters for $100 million, and West Germany 143 jei fighters and f lor-thei- r , The Institute for Strategic Studies recently issued a re- port on the appallingly brisk international traffic in instruments of destruction that should prick the conscience of any i Most southern prejudice is gone now; but othe" prejudices are blossoming: Ghetto and labor ares are reported to h ive gone 90 per cent or more I choice. , full-tim- house-cleanin- j In 1968 there were about 12.5 million votes fiom the 11 solid South stales 40 per cent majority making 5 million. If the 39 other states with about t 60 million votes in 1968 had each piled up a 5 Republican majority, this would be ) rnillioi). This leaves 39 states, larger, more progressive and' five times as populous, to be governed by a prejiJ V j diced section of the country. There never was any doubt that Chicago police overreacted to the demonstrations and riots that took place during the Democratic National Convention last summer. Or that Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley bears no small part of the responsibility because of his tough attitude exemplified by his earlier order to police to shoot to kill arsonists and shoot to maim looters. Or that television gave America a distorted view of the riots as well as the convention, making a dangerous situation even more explosive. Now its official with the release this week of the findings of the Presidents Commission on Violence following a probl e by 90 investigators. On the grounds that there was widespread interest in it, Chairman Milton S. Eisenhower released the report on the Chicago riots before it had a chance to be fully reviewed by the commission. Such apparently hasty, premature action could detract from the effectiveness of the commission in achieving needed reforms. Nor does the report come to grips with a fundamental question: If Chicago police hadn't cracked down on rioters, might not the Democratic convention have been disrupted and its delegates imperiled? The report emphasizes that only a comparatively small minority of the police force committed such abuses as attacking responsible newsmen and other innocent b.ystanders. But, human nature being what it is, we still need to make sure that what happened in Chicago is not allowed to cast a shadow over law enforcement in general. To keep this sorry episode in proper perspective, it should be realized that it happened in a city which unlike the vast has had a number of majority of American communities police scandals and a reputation for political corruption. ; To help repair its reputation and restore respect for law and order with justice, Chicago should make sure that officers who abused their authority are punished. t A g also is in order on the part of television. On' at least two occasions, the investigators confirmed, TV camera crews staged violence and faked injuries. While the commissions report didnt go into the matter, TV also gave America a distorted picture of the convention itself, overemphasizing the views of dissident delegates even though it was clear they were not representative of the mood of the Democratic Party. Finally, with this latest evidence before them on how violence breeds violence, responsible Americans need to give renewed emphasis on learning how to disagree without being disagreeable. . I wholeheartedly agree with Clyde Freeman and Laurence Kaufman that the American Inileiiendpitt Party, must end will go forward. I, too, voted for the man who has the courage to stand up M America" end expose the Communist conspiracy George C. Wallace. The American Independent Party i. going to ronlimie Irving to wake lip sleepy and apathetic America about Ihe Communist conspiracy that has neariv engulfed us. ROLAND MATHER I 715 Laconio Gjiut - Toronto y. ' " Tfl9rm J , - tn . tmmupr. ffl ' fra |