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Show lyrum 2C DESERET NEWS, Friday, July 31, 1970 ypiwpf .. ,.ib Don't Let A Good Cop Down' Ju e By GARRY WILLS Two very good cops James Severin, Andied last week in Chicago, thony Rizzatc men who volunteered to go into the toughest neighborhood, hear its gripes, convey a desire to help, play ball with its kids. The two men were on their way to such a ballgame when snipers got them. It seems senseless, I heard one lady say, reading the headline. That depends on what the killers wanted. Their act makes very good sense if the goal was trouble. The greatest threat to troublemakers is a good cop. If the death of Severin and Rizzato can scare other cops away from community projects of their dbrt, can harden lines on both sides and pre-vecommunication, then the forces of darkness will have scored a great victory. But if rfiore good cops fill their place, pick up their Work, Severins and Rizzatos deaths will give life to others. nt ti!h. And the honor given him is not nearly as great as that we give to soldiers, many of them forced into their work by the draft. 1 pay, better education, higher respect for the idealists (which means tougher standards on corruption). The white-wasapproach of the Birchers, which simply denies there is any police corruption or brutality, weakens the position of those cops who resist the temptation to go on the take or to go out later and get em. ..Many of our problems cannot be instantly solved, only survived. The survival Itself will retake s problem more tractable, later on. But wo cannot onrvivo unless the front line defenders of civil order are heroic. And we have no right to ask heroism of them without massive improvements in pay, in education, in W'ork conditions, in the civic honor accorded them. Until we face up to this all our talk and to how much it will cost of law and order is a trivial game of Lets Pretend. Support Your Local Police said the old John Birch bumper sticker. But Birchers did not support them. They undercut the good cop by crying for retaliation, for some deaths when there is looting, for mass arrests in the i$idst of rioting. The good cop knows that arrests at such a time just tie ids own men up, take them off tjie street when he needs them most, to protect his own life as well as civilians lives. I There are many cops who want to retaliate. Supporting them is a way of letting the good oop down, making his role difficult or impossible. At the giant July 4 rally, when kids at the smoke-i- n moved Washington Monument down toward Bob Hope on his stage, D.C. (Jhief Jerry Wilson threw a detachment of his men between the two groups. Soon pop bottles Were flying, and riot helmets had to be run in for the cops. Wilsons crazy, one policeman 2 h Hit Power Is Up $ 'i i i i i To Programmer 4 ' j By RICHARD ROMNEY Young Americans Writer A 7 i Cyprus Officers Author Best Seller Terri Jenkinson, left, Dave Slack, Shawn Rees, Beckie Peel, Annetta Papanikolas, Rick Coon, Lynn Harding, end Luanna Slack, Cyprus student body offcers, check through 1,500 names to eliminate errors in their school's the student directory. g publication The amateur phone book also contains school constitution, regulations and dress code. Student leaders throughout Utah are now prebest-sellin- paring for their coming year, long before schools Open. Young Americans' Art Contradicts Tradition Americans from Young coast to coast have contributed to a project set up here in Salt Lake at the University of Utah. entries of the Winning 69 Museum Americans Young of Contemporary Crafts are on display on the fourth floor of the Park Building and you can browse through Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays, p.m. until Aug. 31. 2-- 5 According to one of the national judges Peter Selz, the winning pieces contradict for VACANCY Fill mer conceptions that most people are not at their creative height until after age 30. (All entrants are between the ages of 20 and 30). Included in the Young Americans 69 art show are weaving, ceramics, carpentry and metal work. Of these objects Mr. Selz writes: There is relatively little conventional work in pottery and an almost absence of traditional carpentry and metal work. craftsmen Instead, experiment in free form and funky pots, and painted ceramics. Up Communication Void If you're from East, South, Kearns, Layton, Highland, Granger, Brighton, Judge Memorial, Bingham or West High schools, forget it! But if youre not, you have the opportunity to try to become a Your schools Young Americans correspondent for the quickly approaching school year has gap-fille- r. not yet been selected and that leaves you the possibility of filling a vacancy in more than one way. First, you can fill the gap in our staff by wilting the Young Americans offices, P.O. Box 1257, Salt Lake City, 84110, or 9 to request an phoning application and eventually become your schools correspondent. Then you can continue to cross crevices by bridging the creditability gap between your school and the newspaper, and by crossing the gorge to totally schools publicizing your activities throughout the coming year. Speed is of the essence in as completing applications, the deadline for restaffing from each school in Davis and Salt Lake counties approaches should quickly. 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If you order Any Eye Doctors Prescription Accurately Fifled Open Daily, Including AH Day Saturday GO hlfrwwff mu r jf - " y, Carpenters It is amazing that under with the public such a system stations across Which buys and the country generally agree & 3 listens to it. on what songs are obvious one There is j duds, and which are likely r(ian at each Fortunately, pop radio stathe station programmer and tion in the Salt the listening audience usually Lake area who agree on what sounds good. determ i n e s But when they don't, what can What music will the listener do about it? Unbe aired, with less he wants to call in what frequency, and indirectly determines what requests all night, he can purchase the record and play it position a tune will capture on as he wishes. ten chart. tjie local top If the hearing the i The programmer tries to be broadcast objects violently, he to be an aube given some consideramay thority in his field, and usualtion. But one local station said ly has had a lot of experience it pays no attention to single in broadcasting. He consults objections must complaints national magazines, carefully swarm in multitudes before observes weekly request and action is taken. sales charts, checks "tip The majority supposedly sheets on what other stations starules. For in the nation are promoting, tions. this is good. Stations 4nd in some instances retrying to attract a small, unceives direction from usual audience never rake in programming consulThe programmer must tants. He listens to sugges- cash. the listener or quickly please tions of other DJs at his stalose popularity. tion, talks to national promotThere are three types of ers for each record, and local youth-appestations. wades througn piles of preon the lighter side, release propaganda on each KALL, pays no attention to requests. new artist. KRSP the currently heaviest Then he decides which sound, has request lines but schedule a strict songs will be given the opporobeys tunity of trying to please the arranged with an listeners, and how otten they programmer. KXAK and will be aired. K C P X, Often he must rely on intuieagerly respond to audience tion, particularly with new. desires. But in all three cases, unknown groups. Established one man has final decision Musicians often hit the charts listeners can only request naturally, but occasionally a from among the tunes the proSong wont take off as fast as grammer schedules for was hoped. So, when a final decision is made, it comes down to the educated opinion of one man. He may try to pick an qbviously local hit which has little chance for national success (Salt Lake City, by the Beach Boys). He may discon-Bnu- e a seng considered even though other stations are playing it (such )as the case with The Bal-- . of John and Yoke, which THE TASTY, atedly used Christ and tourify). 'PJ a 2. Make It With You The disc jockeys of this nation have the power to propel c song into gold record country or to leave it to gasp and gutter by the wayside. In order for a record to even get air time, it must make it with the stations pro- grammers i i Those who cry for Mood are sending the police into civil strife and slaughter, making them die for a Much of loudmouths, for the politicians who pander to loudmouths. The rlassle instance Is Mayor Daley, attacking his ow police after the April riot of 1968 for not hooting enough looters. Before that time, Chicago police were thought of as one of the nations best forces, perhaps the best. It had been trained by Orlando Wilson, the noted reformer. But Daley egged on its men to become the nations shame in August of 1968, at the Democratic Convention. The way to support police is with better mev&n-wm- t - them. t The good cop is aa extraordinary mixture f savvy, gats, and insight. He has looked at tho seamiest side of human life without becoming cynical, ffe remains compassionate Without going soft or unrealistic. 4 He lives with a more constant pressure of ganger, over longer periods at a time, than ttiost mea who servo in Vietnam yet he must protect the rights of those he grapple mi y, muttered, sending us in here with soft hats. Where is Wilson? I asked. Up front, grandstanding, I guess. He knew where he would be where the bottles were thickest. Wilson, tall, an easy target, walked around calmly, sticking his bullhorn up to fend off an occasional bottle, still in his officers soft hat. He came on a group of cops griping at how heavy the barrage had become. This? This is nothing, he said. Not nearly so bad as I expected. He passed on, sipping coffee, but I stayed to listen to the cops reaction. Its ok, one young policeman said to the others, "well get em when the show is over and the lights go out. But they did not, by and large, get em. Wilson saw to that. The Jerry Wilsons are men who can create and thus impride, discipline, and morale prove the performance of police. If we let Universal Press ijip .if iiiiiiyr Offices in Znlss Jeweltri 129 SOUTH MAIN Phone 363-389- 4 Dr. J. Lew Stevens Optometrist COTTONWOOD MALL Dr. John R. Hunter ror Phone 9 Optometrist 278-261- |