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Show 'It's from Breihnev-H- e wants to send us some MIGs' CONFIDENT DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Saichmds Philosophy We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 14 A EDITORIAL PAGE FRIDAY, JANUARY It seems to me tou many people these days are afraid of growing old. of being put out to pasture. They live their lives with that constant fear. People will say to me, I cant find another job now, Im over 50. Or Im 55; its just plain too late for me to start again. These people are thinking so much about the end of life that they are unable to enjoy even a moment of living. Ive known a great many people who never really got going until they were well past 50. Oh, they kept busy; they used their talents. But they never found remarks. But the the final satisfaction, the one thing they tha quote particuwanted to do, until they had tried a lary impressed me was made by Louis really And when they found Armstrong, old Satchmo. one of the great many things. talk of quitting or of no was there it, this has greatest jazz musicians country too old." ever produced. Heres what Louis Arm- being A of mine at 83 still maintains friend he said he how was when asked strong felt about being over 69. My belief and an active, busy schedule each day. When satisfaction is that, as long as a person you talk to him, his thoughts and ideas breathes, they still have a chance to ex- are always about whats happening now and what is going to happen tomorrow. I ercise the talents they were bom with. And then he added, Theres no such once asked him why Id never heard him his more than 80 years thing as being on the way out as long as reminisce about of living. No time for that, he replied. you are doing something interesting and Past experience shouldnt be talked good. You are in business as long as you about. It should be put to good use. Take are breathing. what youve learned from the past and What a remarkable and sound philosoput it to work on tomorrow. is. us of Too artificial phy that many put I think thats what Louis Armstrong is limits on our lives in terms of time. We will do this by the time we are 30; sometalking about, too. Exercise the talents thing else by the time we are 45; and, you were born with. Do something interwith luck, well retire early at maybe 55 esting and good each day, every day. or 60. Isnt that missing the whole point And use that experience to make each of living? Each day of our life should be new day of your life more meaningful. spent using our talents and abilities to How can you really grow old with that the utmost. Every day should bring new kind of momentum going for you? How could you even think of quitting? The opportunities and new excitements. Age should have nothing to do with the proconly thing you should fear is the possibiess. If you try to divide the experience of lity that there may not be enough time to living into smug little compartments, you do all the things yov want. As Louis stop the whole wonderful process of Armstrong said, You are in business as growth and learning. long as you are breathing. A fascinating article in a recent issue of one of our national magazines contained some interesting comments by leading Americans. All were in their seventies. They indicated what words of advice they would like to leave behind for the generations follow that will them. I thoroughly enjoyed many of the 16, 1970 Model Cities Report: A Case For Merging Salt Lake County is integrated socially, economically, and geographically, but is segregated governmentally, with politics and local prejudices preventing needed change. With at least 42 taxing units, Salt Lake County has its financial resources dissipated and there is much friction, duplication, and segmentation. Despite the proliferation of taxing units in the county, there are still big gaps in local government services. Sound familiar? It ought to. These are more or less the onclusions that have been reached by just about every study that has been made of the need for governmental reorganization in this valley, including most recently the Local Government Modernization Study. This week the same conclusions were reached by still another report. The new report presents not just what expels think but the views of ordinary citizens whose knowledge of local government comes not out of books but from their personal contacts with it. Moreover, while the new report focuses on the area bounded by Redwood Road, 2nd South, and 33rd South, its findings carry implications for the entire valley. We ere referring to the analysis of problems in the Model Cities area that was reviewed Thursday during a meeting bey tween Governor Rampton and a team from the Regional Council. Coordinating 'Here are some of the specific complaints of residents of t he Model Cities area about how local government operates in their neighborhood: Many people feel that Salt Lake City is double taxed for municipal services provided in the county. There is expensive duplication of services, too many units for taxing purposes, and not enough coordination and communication between existing governmental agencies. Officials seem to be oriented to their own convenience rather than the public they serve. Many governmental agencies are understaffed. In areas outside of Salt Lake City, residents pay more for home, fire, and theft insurance because of the higher quality of fire and police protection and the water distribution system provided in the city. Salt Lake is one continuous area from the Davis County line to the Utah County line, and all conditions within this valley equally affect all of its residents. While the Model Cities program is designed to bring about greater cooperation and coordination among various government operations, the need for such closer meshing dearly extends far beyond the boundaries of the Model Cities neighborhood. The Model Cities report, then, adds up to a persuasive case for consolidating Salt Lake City and County government, as recommended earlier by the Local Government Modernization Study. c 5, Inter-Agenc- 'Hiding' Power Lines refreshing when a company goes out of its way to help preserve the environment from unnecessary and ugly scars as Utah Power and Light Company plans to in building trans-Uta- h e its power line in conformance with new government environment standards. The largely voluntary standard; of the Department of Interior, over whose land much of the line wall be built, show some novel changes from the old school of straight-line- , clear-eartutility lines. As published by the department in July, the standards out of sight, out of mind. To accomemphasize location notes in his column on the fiWoodward Don as this, plish nancial page today, lines hopefully will: Stay away from historic, recreational, or areas of high esthetic value. (The UP&L line will not cross any state or national parks or national monuments.) y so that no more Minimize clearing on trees or ground cover are removed than necessary. Take advantage of saddles in mountain ranges and avoid a straight line through the terrain. If they cross major highways, it will be at a right angle rather than paralleling the highway. Avoid a silhouette line on the crest of mountains or hills. Since the UP&L line will be one of the longest terminal to terminal lines in the nation, its adherence to these environmental priorities could have a considerable influence in the construction of other such facilities in the U.S. Its 370-mil- high-volta- ge Let Hess Go Free On the outskirts of Berlin there is a gloomy prison called Spandau containing 600 cells and until recently one prisoner. Suffering from stomach ulcers and mental instability, he is currently in a British military hospital in West Berlin where he recently saw his wife and son for the first time in 28 years. British. American, ami French doctors who have examined him think he needs surgery. But a Russian doctor disagrees, and so there is no operation. Many westerners, too. would like to free him on the grounds that he has already been punished enough. But again prisoner as a the Russians disagree, seeing the little chance seems So of Nazism there symbol of the defeat so British do loose the unless unilaterally he will be turned now that he is in one of their facilities. The man is Rudolf Hess, who parachuted into Scotland in 1941 in the bizarre conviction he could persuade King George VI of Britain to throw out the Churchill government and sign a peace pact with Adolf Hitler. Hess never saw the king, and at the 1946 Nuremberg trials was sentenced to life imprisonment as a war criminal. Since Hess let himself be captured and spent most of the war behind bars, theres room for wondering if he should have been given such a harsh sentence in the first place. Moreover, since his condition means he can derive little pleasure or profit from what life he has left, further punishment seems pointless. In the name of simple humanity, the western powers should make a concerted effort to get the Russians to forget their vengefulntss at. this late date and let Hess go. niiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Nixons Unheralded Revolution By ROSCOE and GEOFFREY DRUMMOND WASHINGTON President Nixon is launching a political revolution. He is acting to shrink the unworkable, overgrown federal bureaucracy and to decentralize its power to state and local government. Public opinion has long demanded it. Politicians in both parties are beginning to favor it. Richard Nixm has begun to do it. There will be less federalism and more localism. For the first time since the New Deal, political power is no longer flowing to Washington. If wont he long before the tide begins lo flow away from Washington. The attempt tb run so complex a nation almost entirely from Washington has broken down. This is why the Nixon revolution to bring about a new balance in the federal system is at hand. At the latest count there are at least 1.315 federal assistance programs costing $25 billion a year, and the man who produced these figures, Rep. William V. Roth Jr., of Delaware, found 225 more programs this year than he was able to discover last year and estimates there are 100 to 200 programs still unreported. The federal bureaucracy simply cant handle them. They are a mess, and nearly everybody in Washington is beginning to realize it. They are not doing their job. They are poorly administered on top and do not reach adequately those on the bottom who are intended to be h right-of-wa- LIVING THE DRUMMONDS R. Drummond LETTERS is their mutual conviction that another federal program is not the automatic best answer to every problem. Far from it. Moynihan started blurting out the truth, to the dismay of some of his liberal friends, two years ago by summing up the whole thing: The federal government has proved itself good at collecting money and bad at dispensing public services. That is the key to the concrete measures Mr. Nixon is beginning to unfold as the means of bringing about this political revolution. The generating power of this political revolution will be money: Richard Nixon is preparing to ask Congress to allocate a lot of federal money to the states and local communities to plan and initiate and administer programs near to where the social problems exist. He is asking Congress to appropriate about $G million this year to finance a supplegreatly expanded welfare-wag- e ment program, the whole cost of which will be borne by Washington. He is asking Congress to approve a relatively modest but potentially substantial federal revenue sharing program which will provide the money so that the states can provide more of the needed public services they cannot now afford. He is urging Congress to cut away strings which many of the programs. hamper so many federal-gran- t These are the significant, lirst building stones with which the President aims to erect the foundation for a new Ameri- G. Drummond Today, liberal and conservative political leaders are alike coming to see that a new balance of federal-stat- e powers is needed not just in theory but to keep the federal bureaucracy from tumbling down in a state of chaos. Mr. Nixon is not only committed in words but is beginning to act. But how to do it, how to get the planthe adminisning, the decision-makintering of needed public assistance close to the people most affected? Can it be done? Will it? President Nixon believes it can, and he intends to give it a terrific try. The one thing which most brought the conservative Republican Nixon into close working harmony with the liberal Democratic Patrick Moynihan now the Presidents counselor for domestic planning can federalism. Inflation And The Good Guys WASHINGTON Since everyone seems to be interested in what will happen to the economy of the United States in the Seventies. I invited a distin- guished panel of the nation's leadbusinessmen, ing labor leaders, e c onomists government casters to a and foremeet- ing In Washington, D.C., to discuss die subject. The meeting was held in the shadow of the White House: in a boodi at a Walgreens Drugstore, to be exact. Here are some excerpts from the discussion: Elias Endicott of the Banking Institute of Compounded Quarterly Interest The challenge of was very optimistic. the Seventies will be closely tied to the monetary policies of the government. If Washington gives the banks permission to raise the rates of interest on money to a reasonable 18'j per borrowed, cent, and at the same time permits us to pay no more than 2 per cent interest on money deposited by our clients, we could send the inflationary spiral into a downtrend by 1975." the small society ART BUCHWALD Sheldon Carbon, president of the Recall Motor Co., believes the key to the fight against inflation is labors attitude toward wage increases. Labor must be responsible and realize that any demands for wage increases will only beat up the economy. No one is more sympathetic to the rise of the cost of living of the average worker than management. At the same time, labor is only hurting itself when it makes unreasonable wage demands at a time when everyone should tighten his belt. To show that Recall Motors is serious about wanting to keep inflation from getting out of hand, the Recall board of directors has voted to increase the price of their new 1971 models by only $891.50 r, which still makes a Recall at $10,890 one of the best buys in the country. two-doo- four-cylind-er Rock Sloboda, president of the United Match and Sandstone. Picture-Framin- g Federation of Labor, felt that the Seventies would be an opportunity for everyone to show good faith. We want to keep our demands in the Sloboda told the panel. ball park, Therefore we will not ask for a three-houfour-daweek, with doulle time for breakfast breaks. We will stick to the Typewriter, r, y lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllil!!ll!!i)lllll!l,H,n Curb Sensationalism As we join with you and your industry in reviews of the past year, and assess the prospects of the year ahead, our organization of 83,009 members, parents and teachers of our youth, wish to express concern. deep During this past decade, especially the nast year, we have been impressed with the growth and influence of media presenting public information of which you are a respected representative. Without doubt, great pride can be shared in the refinements of presentations and the insightful psychology of appeal. But with it all, we are also giver, cause for wonder and concern about the directions the media are going as they appeal to the public. We feel that in the industrys desire to reach its various publics there has been a resorting to quite unnecessary and undesirable means of both facilities and people. The explosion exploiting of sensationalism now being experienced, we feel is damaging both to the industry and to our young people. Because of your constant analysis of the past, present, and future, we feel you, too, honestly are aware of this. Today the media are suffering because of the growing lack of confidence in accuracy and reliability. The take with a grain of salt attitude is unhealthful, negative and indeed damaging. The emphasis on the spt macular, the sordid, the sexy, the more than ordinarily needful attention to the insignificant, and the general exaggeration may be desirable but public attitude is commercially becoming less and less complimentary. The effects upon our young people give cause for increasing concern, particularly to those of us who look to the future of our children, families, and society. Especially are we concerned with the growing exploitation of sex drives, sex curiosity, and the human body. same demands we made last year: a three-da- y week with a paid vacation every year. If management agrees to what we believe is the absolute minimum our members will accept, we see no reason for industry to increase its prices in the next 10 years. four-hou- TO THE EDITOR two-mont- r, Alexander Bell the XII, the telephone companys vice president in charge of public relations, said the phone company was working on more efficient and cheaper phone service than the American public had ever had before. To provide this cheaper service the phone company was asking for an increase in rates for the early Seventies of only 33 per 1-- 3 cent. Charles Fairweather, President Nixons adviser on inflationary trends, said the Administration still felt the solution to inflation was a full unemployment program. he Without belaboring the point, the basic reason for told the panel, inflation is that people have too much money to spend. If they are not working, the problem of inflation will take care of itself. While the panel members came to no hard conclusions, they all agreed that the causes of inflation were other irresponsible forces at work in the country, who unlike them did not have the best interests of the United States at heart. by Brickman As an organization we dont wish to get on a soap box, lead a protest march, or resort to violence. We, as parents and teachers, deeply desirous of promoting emotional stability, physical development, social and cultural refinement, believe you w ant these same things. We earnestly solicit your cooperation in the new year, in the next decade, in our programs to enhance the perspectives of human values to provide healthful opportunities in a healthful environment for all children and youth. We feel this will improve our society. --MRS. IRENE C. McGREGOR, President, Utah Congress of Parents and Teachers Buy Postal Building It appears that the Metropolitan Hall of Justice will be too small again, and within a short time. Hindsight would suggest that the structures located on that block were inadequate before the architect sharpened his pencil. But on the other sid of things, perhaps foresight can change this prolm into a blessing. I wonder if it would be possible to let the sheriff have full possession of the Hall of Justice. Then Salt Lake City could arrange for the purchase of the Post Office building and remodel it. The city must be sure to buy before the Postal Service becomes a corporation and expects a regular business profit. In the meantime we could make room for the courts in the new Salt Palace. And to put the finishing polish on the apple, which is the Salt Lake Police Department, we could rent for these men in blue a full floor of the Kennecott Copper building. -B- RYANT NUNLEY 2911 S. 8th East Solution To Smog Smog can be solved by passing joint city, county, state and federal laws for its control. The federal, state, county and dties can give tax relief in form of deductions for any monies spent toward smog control, by our industries. Any one who blames autos for our smog problem, is swallowing an elephant and coughing on a gnat. The industries by law, should be made to control the smog that comes from their smoke stacks. The smog problem can be solved and industry can do it. smog-makin- g -K- ENNETH L. ENGLISH 439 N. 2nd Wes 1 I f |