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Show ' Differences of opinion are healthy-- !' m glad to hear you disagree ll!l!lllllllllllllllllllllll!lll!i,ltllilllllllllllllllMIIIIIII!IIIIIU!INIIIHIIIIIilillllllllll with my offer to quit.' DESERET NEWS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Vv'e Patrolling Too Close Stand For the Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Div 'y Inspired 14 A EDITORIAL PAGE JULY FRIDAY, 1 31, 1970 To Save Utah Taxes, Pool More Purchases The Utah Taxpayers Association performed a valuable public service this week by calling attention to the savings that could be realized if more local governments would pool their purchases with the state. In all fairness, Utahns should know that Utah is not particularly unusual in this regard. The establishment of centralized ourehasing within individual cities across the nation has advanced much more rapidly than cooperative purchasing arrangements among cities and other units of government. 'Indeed, there are times when a city or county can purchase more advantageously on its own than by pooling its purchases with the state or other governmental units. Some pooled purchases may entail shipping costs that might not be involved when an individual city or county can obtain the Eanjie items from a local merchant. Moreover, Salt Lake and some other Utah counties say they are moving to take greater advantage of the savings that can be realized by making joint purchases in bulk through the State Purchasing Department. Even so, Utahns should raise their eyebrows over the report from the taxpayers association that, of 248 local governmental units polled about participating in a joint purchasing and not all of those reprogram, fewer than 40 responded sponses were favorable. When tax dollars are involved, public officials should constate-locstantly look for ways to save, and the adoption of start. to purchasing certainly looks like a good place In the average government, purchasing expenditures constitutes 20 per for supplies, materials and equipment cent to 30 per cent of the total operating budget. When those purchases are not centralized or pooled, a government is likely to fill its needs at retail prices. By contrast, the pooling of purchases results in larger orders, which may frequently be filled at wholesale prices and which facilitate the use of standard specifications and competitive bidding. Such pooling, moreover, often permits the employment of professional buyers skilled in the prediction of market trends and purchasing techniques. When free of political interference and efficiently administered, centralized purchasing can result in savings of 10 per cent to 15 per cent. Cities, counties and other governmental units too small to justify having their own purchasing agencies can realize substantial savings by pooling purchases among themselves or through the state. Likewise, where purchasing agencies are already established, savings already being realized can even be increased when several such agencies pool their purchases, as California, Milwaukee, Ohio, and other states have demonstrated. Even the state gets lower unit prices by increasing the volume of its purchases. Thats why, in the words of one authority on the subject, function. This being the case, purchasing is a Utahns have a right to expect gicater use to be made of the state-locpurchasing program. to stop to avoid running over someone's legs. Most closest to his line of travel were of those sitting childien. Then on one occasion, as he passed very close, one of tiie children with us. Curt Hansen, gave a sharp cry. His leg had been badly gouged near the knee by the officer's motorcycle (he did not stop). The leg was bleeding profusely and we were forced to rush the boy to the University Hospital where two bad gashes required 15 stitches. The irresponsible behavior of this officer was inexcusable. Before the incident occurred, others in the crowd were commenting on how dangerously close he was driving his cycle to the children sitting on the street. A To Court: How Soon Is Possible? in March, Chief Justice Warren . Back Burger filed an unhappy memorandum in the Memphis school desegregation case. His marily ' in the case. So did Justice Potter Stewart. But Justice Thurgood Marshall was then in the hospital with pneumonia. Justice Harry A. Blackmun had not been confirmed. The court was limping along with seven members, and it seemed no time to tackle the whole knotty problem of school segregation again. But Burger didnt like it. As soon as possible," he said, the court ought to resolve the "basic, practical problems of desegregation decrees. It is time to ask the Chief Justice and his colleagues, bluntly but with no disre- spect: How soon is possible? The higli court adjourned June 29 for a vacation of more than three months. Granted, this is not pure holiday. Members of the court do some loafing, of course, as other men do, but they also work on petitions or appeals and spend hours in research and reading. Nevertheless, the effective work of the g JAMES J. KILPATRICK c had sumreversed the Sixth Circuit, and then had ordered the District Judge to get on with his job of decreepromptly ing a 'unitary system. Burger wanted to hear argument al tax-cuttin- court the hearing and deciding of cases has ground to halt, not to be resumed until October. Meanwhile, in the schools, chaos. Burhimself may believe that the suggestion that the court has not defined a unitary school system is not supportable. Bosh! He would be hard put to find two federal judges in the country who agree on the term. The court also has demanded that school systems must be "nonracial. But from Norfolk to Los often reluctantly Angeles, trial courts are applying racial criteria. The court has further demanded that all traces of discrimination be eliminated root and branch. It is a fine phrase, but who knows what it means? As Virginias District Judge Walter Hoffman recently made clear, all but five of the 50 states have some "roots of racial discrimination in their law. In such states as Indiana, these roots manifestly have contributed to the location of existing school buildings. The black pupils of Gary are far more segregated than the black pupils of Norfolk or Richmond. Yet such is the confusion in the field of the law that Garys segregation is regarded as de facto, and thus to be accepted, while Virginias lesser segregation is residually "de jure, and hence to be condemned. Both Norfolk and Rich- ger mond face Draconian orders to destroy their neighborhood schools through the By SYDNEY J. HARRIS ,nM Reform Congress Now "Congress in committee is really Congress at work, as Maine's Representative William Hathaway observed the other day. Yet committee work is inordinately slow, shrouded by secrecy, and riddled with inefficiency through the seniority system. A bill that would change all this, the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, is in danger of being shuffled into oblivion 9 because of the upcoming Aug. and the fall The bill House shelved the this week, to take up elections. othpr legislation between now and the start of the recess. i. If Congress is to work effectively and efficiently, it should quit stalling on needed reforms and get down to business. It should lower the veil of secrecy now covering many of its? committee meetings which are more for the convenience of Congress than for national security. .. It should make public major votes taken behind closed committee doors, and curb the use of votes on major amendments. ' It should award merit more and seniority less in determining committee chan manships. It should give more consideration to the minority party in assigning staff personnel. Congress also should iccognize that the computer age is here and speed up its conations by replacing the present method of taking loll call votes with modern electronic voting equipment. The present House bill, with several amendments since its introduction, goes a long way in the light direction. A quarter of a century has passed since Congress overhauled itself. That is more than long enough. t. d time-consumi- pro-pqgc- In one of G. K. Chesterton's delightful Father Brown stories, a crime is successfully committed by a waiter in an exclusive private club because the guests and the waiters are both dressed in tuxedos, and cannot be told apait except by their actions and attitudes. Chesterton is making the point that people who dress the same are looked upon the same, until they begin to function. I thought of this story in relation to tiie hippie costume that is so popular among the young today. The hippie costume has been a blessing to a whole generation of misfits, losers and rotten eggs. For the first time, they are now able to disguise themselves as hippies, permitting the hippie movement lo take the blame (in the public eye) for all their neurotic misconduct. I 'nt il the adoption of this regulation uniform a few years ago. the losers had nothing to identify with and no place to WASHINGTON ings banks har gi business m a big wj d Senator Jacob K. davit, ot X. w has introduced a. and important bill m Cuugrcss. Under the bill, all pm sons m no count m buying new automobiles would be required to di posit from S2.", to Sot) ,1 (depending on the cat with the f( government as assurance that the car will novm- be abandoned and become an i ovc-soi- It is a somewhat drastic tcmcov hut it might well prove the most effective solution to what has become tional ' e. a growing na- First proposed by the governor of Maiyland, the "burial tax" on new cars seemed intended to be applied to states. Next picked up by the president of the cw York City coun' cil, it was to be made applicable only to cities. ' Now Mr. Javits seems to have conic up with the better idea of extending it to the entire country. The permanent plate Mr. Javits proposes should msun that the owner will either get his car to a junkvaul to get his money back or that some governmental agency m an area can pay, at the owners expense, to have it hauled away. For that permanent plate, of course, remains with the ear arid is paid for with the automobile no matter how many times , may be sold or resold. It is the sad reminder, from assembly line to junkyard, that Jll things made by man must depreciate away. ft" v The nation's into the free gilt In order to attract d e p ositors. the banks are giving e sa-t- a wa y everything from color TV sets to lawn mowers, and the competition to give away is gifts getting fierce. I went into a bank the other day to d t Thanks Police have just completed an outstanding Day's 24th of July Parade. Without the help of the Salt Lake City Police Department and particularly the excellent work and cooperation of the Traffic Division under the command of Captain Don D. Roberts, it would be impossible to stage a parade of this magnitude. I hope through your paper public credit can be given to Captain Roberts and to every man in his department who always do such an efficient job for the parade. We of 47 --C. OSCAR DRAKE Parade Traffic Chairman Cure For Crime Senator Frank E. Moss advocates fighting our present crime wave with more and better trained police and through penalties for armed crimes. He blames a Democratic-controlleHouse of Representatives for having failed to act. even up to now also, poverty, unemployment, drug addiction, poor housing and broken families. He admonishes families, churches and schools to build a better society and pleads for time and much money or we will have to make the bitter choice of anarchy or supd pression. I am sure everybody has tried hard and more money than ever has been spent by our government and the end result speaks for ifself. Our law enforcement agencies are better than ever but handcuffed, as criminals of all kinds do as they please and politics flourishes in our courts. Every judge interprets the law accordingly, giving the excuse, if the judgment wasnt right, you can take it to a higher court. Drug addiction is alarming, as our youth want lo forget a hopeless situation and conditions which confront them in a most materialistic nation and world where everybody looks out for himself. Poor housing is all too often plain laziness to maintain the premises and a lack of for substance. form ownership. ways mistakes mere crime and all our other difficulties lies This is why the movement has to die notCuring in having more time and money to build a betbefore very long. In a year or two, only ter society, but in substituting the teachings of the still be will sub teenagers affecting Christ for the wisdom of must costume, just as they pick up the dis- seek out and vote for men learned men. Wehurnii-ltof inspiration and a adolescents the of couple carded jargon those who have the spirit of our pioneers. of years later. The older youths remain-F- RED W. SCHWARZ and the be will in costume ragtag ing 971 y. 2nd North bobtail of hoodlums, sadists, oddballs, hide. They were forced to take individual responsibility for their behavior, and were not condemned as part of a youth bloc. Now, by the simple subterfuge of adorning themselves with a few beads or belts, they can be their old noxious selves and pass the onus along to the movement they pretend to belong to. The ranks of the true have become so infiltrated by these plastic hippies that I doubt if more than 50 per cent of the youth wearing these costumes have even the remotest conception of the original principles that animated the movement. Or care at all. flower-childre- n Simply by masquerading as hippies, they feel they can get away with the most outrageous conduct, in violation of all genuine hippie beliefs knowing that the straight public cannot discriminate between them and the real things and al y, paranoids and perverts. But, cultural lag being what it is, the No Retaliation public will continue to condemn somehippie movement During Piesident Nixon s July 24 appearance in thing it calls the long after its core has disintegrated. For fiont of the Church office building, a group of it offers an easy and obvious target, a peaceful demonstrators assembled to express their safe means of discharging aggression feelings against the Vietnam War. These people and frustration and anxiety and hate. In were subjected to hair pulling, shoving. hitting. and different ways, the movement has not a host of other verbal and physical abuses by the n people who had also assembled there. only been a boon to the misfits, it has been a hlessing to the perplexed public, Not once did any of these demonstrators attempt who otherwise might have heen forced to any physical retaliation. They chose instead to turn look inward for the causes of our their backs on violence. They would not have been allowed to do so had it not been for. the interventroubles. tion on several occasions of the plainclothes Salt Lake City policemen who were stationed throughout the crowd. The fact that these men were there to see who "H'i causing the trouble, and to send them on their way, was the only reason that a potentially explosive situation failed to ignite. With this letter we we'll get tough." he said. "We'll give you wish to convey our appreciation to the Salt Lake a private plane, a Rolls Royce. and Echo City policemen on duty for this particular occasion Rebozo's home in Key Biscayne, Florida. lor a fair and conscientious job that 'was indeed well done. That's our final offer. 1 took tiie $20 back in disgust and went -D- IANA HIRSCHI --KIT 'WEEDMAN across the street to the other hank. But I -- MARGRET S. TAYLOR was blocked at the door by four FBI -C- LARKE E. TAYLOR agents. -B- RUCE DICKEY Whats going on? 1 asked. -L- ISEN SMUCKER the one of a There's been holdup." Salt Lake City FBI men said. "The rohbers got away disa with three phonographs, garbage posal unit and an elertric blanket." Free Bank Gifts For All Burial Tax For Cars much-neede- madness of compulsory busing. Gary is immune. Such a dual standard of .justice, as Virginias Senator William B. Spong remarked the other day, is morally and constitutionally indefensible. Whatever the Constitution requires of our public schools and no one knows, for the Supreme Court offers little but ringing gibberish the Constitution presumably inquires the same thing of all states. Is gibberish too strong a word? Consider. The court's definition of a unitary school system is one within which no person is to be effectively excluded from any school because of race or color. All clear? Yet in Norfolk alone, 6,000 pupils would be effectively excluded from the schools they normally would attend because of their race or color. The court has insisted there be no black schools and no white schools, but Great. What are just just schools. schools? Why, says the court, they are schools in which race is not a factor. But race has become the sole factor in recent lower court decrees. Tins intolerable mess was created by the .Supreme Court. It can be resolved only by the Supreme Court. Justice Marshall has now recovered. Justice Black-mu- n is seated. If Burger will roust his idle brothers out of their hammocks, any one of a dozen pending cases could be swiftly scheduled for argument at a special sitting of the court. It seems little enough to ask of nine men who collectively are paid $542,500 a year to function as the highest tribunal in the land. Certainly much more serious injury could result if a child suddenly stretched out his legs in front of the cycle possibly upsetting it and yausing the officer to lose control. The possible consequences are not hard to imagine. -L- EWIS T. NIELSEN Professor of Biology, University of Utah Subverting The 'Hippie Movement al 1 non-recor- would like to call attention to a very unpleas- ant incident, involving a police officer. I was witness to at the Pioneer Day Parade on July 24. I was watching the parade with friends. We were sitting on Main Street between South Temple and First South on the west side of the street. Two officers were patrolling the street on motorcycles to keep the crowd tack. One. 1 recall, had a moustache twisted at the ends. He exercised commendable caution in keeping a safe distance between his motorcycle and the crowd. The other officer, however, continually drove his motorcycle dangerously close to the crowd, sometimes so close that he had break a bill, and as ai lived .11 hie window, the cashier banned me a piessi :c cooker. "No.'' said, "i don't want a pi essui p cnokei, just want lo. . . "All right. We'll give you a clock radio that lights up in the dark." "Miss, don't want to Ire ungrateful, but all I need is change for a bill. The cashier pressed a button and suddenly two bank guards were standing on each side of me. "Come this way. please, and don't make a fuss. They escorted me to the desk of a 'ice piesident and stood on each side o! tie. their hands on their revolvers. "Dnesnl want the prpssinp innkei, he sie.mi iron or the (link ladio. on' of the guaids said. Tiie vice piesidenl said, "I'm ship wp an work something mil." "Good," I said, handing him the bill. he said "Put you. money array. angrily. Then lie look cut a catalogue. hed- "Wqyld you settle for r. lluee-pieci I 1 1 i ( ART BUCHWALD room set? I shook my head. "All right, we'll put in a new kitchen for you, but you'll have to keep the $20 in for a full year. "I don't want to deposit the $20. 1 just want change for it. The vice piesident looked at me quizzically. "Keep an eye on him," he said lo the guaids. Then he disappeared into an inner office. He returned 15 minutes later l with another man who introduced as a senior vice president. "I see Collins here has heen offering you a lot ol junk. IPs obvious you're a man of taste and olegancp." "Thank you, 1 said. I held up the bill. tiie senior vice "Come this way, bill. president said, taking my He ushered me into his office which was covered with paintings. "Now we tan either give you this original El Greco, or the Van Gogh, providing you don't withdraw the $20 in the bank for iwo years." "Tlieyie veiy nice, bul 1 need the liim-sel- Up With Cycles II GUEST CARTOON was a pleasure lo see last Friday's. Deseret present the sport of motorcycling in its true light. I .mi aware of the guidelines necessaiv to News control any activity that involves so many people. There aie over 50.000 s motorcycles, trail and in Ltali. Owners are doctors, lawyers, businessmen and sportsmen from all other walks of life. I am sure each of them also appreciates the honest, objective view of motorrycling presented by the Deseret News. FERR1L DAVIS Granger, Utah mini-iiike- Thanks To Firemen Gihvnn's Discount Centers wish to thank Fite No. 6, Ll. Murray, and its men for the ilendid job performed at a.m. on July 17. A fire piinklci wcnf off in our Glendale store, causing wider damage in our camera dmiarlmeni. The consideration showed by Ihr.-- men enteiing the building is grpidiy appreciated. as there was no damage caused by entering. The men worked to remove water and the store was ready to open as usual on time. -- BOB CORNETT, MGR. lion money." 1 You are thffinill. arent you? Would vou consider a qiinrier interest in the Pan Am Building'. Fe ilia! you would have lo leave the $20 in for five years. I was 1 said, getting angry. "Look, "1 do not wish to open an account in your bank, ff you don't want to change my Ill hill, 2All right, if across the street." youre going to be tough, go If it flies better than i'll buy it." Christian a MIG, Sconce Monitor Gibson's Discount Centers |