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Show u n -- 4 -- f T ynTryfty nqj I g1 jj IIIIillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliIHIIIIIIIIIII1illlul,l,l',,i'lnilllll,,'"ll"1',IU DESERET NEWS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH miiiillllIII!linillll!lIIII!lllliiiiniillIIiHllilHII!tHIllilili!Sil111ltltllillIlil!mul!HI!ll We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States Right-To-Wor- As Having Been Divinely Inspired ISA Vote k Postal Preceding the recent enactment of the battle Reform Bill of 1970, the classic was fought again. As in past years, the Utah deleof the gation was divided. Among the leadership nrcponcr.ts were Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, and Congressmen Laurence J. Burton end Sherman P. Lloyd. Against right to work was Sen. Frank E. Moss. principle proclaims Succinctly, the that it is violative of basc human rights to require any individual to jc;n or not join a labor union as a prerequisite of his employment. Since 1955, Utah has had a law enunciating that principle. right-to-wor- k EDITORIAL PAGE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1970 right-to-wor- k To Labor, On Sts Day: A Reason To Cheer Labor Day 1970 is many different things to many Americans. To the motorist it is a right-to-wor- k differ-fe- st well-earne- d get-togeth- er - six-ye- soft-ped- wage-earne- ar al rs See You At The Polls Although its hard to recall a duller primary election than current the one, Utahns will regret it if they dont go to the polls Tuesday. The lack of glamor stems from the lack of contests for offices. top Democratic incumbent Sen. Frank E. Moss has no opposition in the primary. Neither do Rep. Laurence J. Burton nor Clyde B. Freeman, his challengers in the Republican and American Independent parties respectively. The contest between Democrats Gunn McKay and J. Keith Melville, who are seeking the nomination to oppose Republican Richard Richards in the First District congressional race, also has been comparatively quiet. But theres certainly nothing dull about the school board contests, where some interesting new faces are in the running, or about the contests for sheriff in Davis and Salt Lake counties. On the outcome of these and similar races depends the future of Utahs schools and the quality of its law enforcement. Dull or not, theres still no excuse for any qualified voters failing to inform themselves and vote their convictions on Tuesday. At stake, in addition to the contests already mentioned, are a number of county posts and seats in the State Legislature whose occupants will determine how much Utahns pay for grassroots government and how much service they get for their money. Without a respectable turnout at the polls, the election can be decided by narrow, unrepresentative insterests. See you at the polls Tuesday. Still Works Self-Hel- p Ellis Island, the gateway to America for 16 million immigrants, wiil have a new lease on life as it demonstrates that p programs can work well. The island was taken out cf use in 1954 by the government and its future has been the subject of numerous suggestions since. Now a decision has been made. special-usThe federal government has issued a Reconstruction and Economic Growth to National the permit Organization (NEGRO) to use the island for a rehabilitation center for drug addicts, lormer convicts and welfare recipients. p black group which has developed a NEGRO is a Bound record of accomplishment. It generates economic growth and job opportunities by creating and operating businesses. At present it operates a, bus line, a number of factories, a hospital and several farms. According to Dr. Thomas W. Matthew, president of e island. NEGRO, the group will invest $10,000 in the It will clean up the place and start a variety of business ventures which it hopes to operate profitably while training those it is designed to help. Each year Americans see the cost of our welfare programs climb while witnessing failure after failure of ponsored programs. Perhaps those in government charged with welfare should go to Ellis Island and see how NEGROS contributprograms turn welfare recipients into ing citizens and make a profit doing it. self-hel- five-ye- e ar self-hel- 25.7-acr- government-s- self-hel- p tax-payin- g, du Sa the we anl du bk non-rig- Labor No matter what the almanacs say, Labor Day is summers end. Here in the Blue Ridge Moun SCRABBLE, tains, it is Mans Future Day-A- rid VA. JAMES J. KILPATRICK au- men ever see a printed word. Only during the last four has it been possible to also. Dark leaves measure time with any precision. Only in are falling from the last two has anyone anywhere used the gum tree, and a cool wind brings an electric motor. And the overwhelming the snarl of power majority of ail the material goods we use saws: Men are in daily life today has been developed cutting wood for within the present, the 800th, lifetime. winter fires. I have been sitThis accelerative thrust, in Toting on the porch, fflers view, has impelled us into a society Mr. Kilpatrick to the listening in which changes occur with bewildering quail with one ear and to a Beethoven speed too swiftly for man to adapt to concerto with the other, watching the them. If we are the beneficiaries of leaves and reading Alvin Tofflers Fuamazing inventions, we are their victims also. And it is the ture Shock. It is all true shockingof cumulative change that Toffler impact what Toffl-e- r has termed "future shock. ly true, depressingly true says of the thrust cf change in If the changes were merely technologour lifetime; but there are offsetting ical, from a kerosene lamp to a three-wa- y truths also, and it does no harm to mark bulb, few problems of adaptation would arise. But Tofflers point is that them. the thrust goes deeper. What leaves us Tofflers thesis is sound and his stimud and stumbling, is confused, lating book ranks among the best of the a change in values. year. If the past 50,000 years of mans One such value is, or was, permanence. existence were divided into lifetimes of 62 The chair I am sitting in was handyears, he notes, we might measure crafted 150 years ago by some New Engmans progress in terms of 800 lifetimes. land artisan. He pegged it lovingly toSome 650 of these lifetimes, he observes, gether, fitting its spokes precisely in were spent in caves. their sockets; he meant that chair to last. Michelangelo with his chisels, Rem70 the last lifetimes has Only during brandt with his brush, Eeethoven with it been possible to communicate effechis pen they created for the centuries. tively from one lifetime to another as What has become of that value? We writing made it possible to do. Only during the last six lifetimes did masses of have traded it, says Toffler, for a tumns beginning half-blinde- You CAN i pa right-to-wor- k the voter and the politician, Labor Day is the time when election campaigns get under way in earnest, as candidates open up with oratory at picnics, parades and other observances where there are votes to be gathered. To workers it is a holiday when nice things are said about them by government and community leaders. Among those leaders saying nice things about labor on Labor Day is one Richard M. Nixon, who has invited about 100 labor leaders to attend a gala dinner at the White House on Monday. And to President Nixon, this Labor Day will represent a major challenge to his powers of diplomacy. Here is Mr. Nixon hoping to persuade organized labor, whose heart has traditionally belonged to the Democrats, that it can find true happiness with a Republican president. And here is George Meany, head of the AFL-CItelling the Nixon administration just before Mondays that labor inflation of has little to cheer about this Labor Day because and recession and that the administration is to blame. By the governments own figures, living costs are still rishigh of ing nearly 6 pet. a year, unemployment is at a 1 is 5.1 poc., and workers purchasing power nearly pet. below increases. a year ago despite wage If the administration is to woo labor successfully, it clearly will have to do more than throw White House dinners, push criticism of the industrial safety legislation, and part that exorbitant wage settlements have played in stoking inflation. Since most Americans are working men or women, the is inseparable from that of the naprogress of tion as a whole. That being the cae, theres more to cheer about than Mr. Meany thinks. Never has a country produced so high a standard of living for so many of its citizens. Never has a nation pledged itself so fully to the principles of democracy and humanity. To all Americans, Labor Day 1970 should be a time for rededicating ourselves to overcomp the gap between aspiration and attainment and make sure that all share in our progress. sc g fade. To ws David S. Sen. Moss and then-ReIn 1965-6King supported repeal of federal legislation permitting right to work. Sen. Bennett and Rep. Burton initiative to force opposed them. The Moss-Kinunion membership failed. As regards the Postal Reform Bill, Moss voted, first, for the Javits Amendment to force postal employes, previously free from mandatory unionism, states, such as into unions even in Utah. When the Javits effort failed, Moss retreated to voting only to have compulsory postal union to work states. membership in Fortunately, the Moss effort failed. The Postal Reform Bill, as passed and signed by President Nixon, continues voluntary unionism for postal nt traffic jam that frays the nerves as millions hit the highways for an outing on the last major summertime weekend. To the vacationer it is the end of the season. By Tuesday morning summer camps will be deserted and still. Many public swimming pools will be closed and drained dry. A large part of the countrys small boat fleet will have been hauled out until next spring. Many of us will notice for the first time, with a pang of regret, that summer tans are beginning to coast-to-coa- a w y 1332 Yet I cherish a notion, and offer the thought for what it may be worth, that the terrifying trends of Tofflers book are not necessarily irreversible. My own guess is that the values of permanence, stability, and place are not dead, but only stunned. They will revive. The wonders of instant communication may make it possible, indeed, for men of the 21st century to work at home. A revulsion against the temporary may create a vast market for things that endure. A society gorged upon sex may rediscover love. If I am not mistaken, some such already are in motion. The whole movement against pollution stems from an insistent demand to put cur lakes and rivers back the way they were. A great part of the young peoples rebellion is a rebellion against a faceless technology. The easy rider may be searching, in his heart, for a place to stop. Summer ends but autumn always comes along. The record player may not last, but Beethoven will. s Change Human Nature eating people. We use this cliche as an excuse for not making ourselves better, and the world better. But we dont really believe it. As Professor John Platt points out in his book, The Step to Man, all our vast educational activities would be absurd if we actually thought there was no possibility of changing human nature. This thing called human nature, as I conceive it, is like a musical instrument say, an organ. Now, it cannot be changed, in the sense that the range of notes is given, and we cannot play the instrument outside that range. But the range of possibilities is large enough so that we can play a nearly infinfite number of melodies. We can play harmonies, and we can play dissonances. We can soothe or deafen. We can play war marches and love songs and lullabies and hymns. How we use the instrument depends largely upon social conditioning, upon the kind of culture we grow up in. It is not necessary to change human nature in order to get Svveeter melodies out of the organ. It is only necessary to change the social order so that more people will have an incentive to press the keys and push the pedals that make melody, rather than discord. We have within us an enormous range of possibilites for behavior, unlike all other animals, which can only behave one way in any given situation. Education is ihe way in which society selects the kinds of possibilities it wants to enbut educa courage in young people she un: cn fee chi SHEARER Harvard Ave. Legislator Pensions ' legislator pay schedules are an issue in this primary election. Comparisons with other states are being made but the information as to session days, proportion of people to legislators, expense allowances, retirement benefits is lacking. Here in Utah the public is not aware of a dispute involving legislators pensions. In 1967, the Legislature voted for itself a nice, juicy persion fund. The then Attorney General Phil Hansen issued an opinion declaring the pension as unconstitutional on the grounds that this was an unauthorized pay increase. Present Attorney General Vernon Romney issued an opinion declaring the same to be constitutional. Therefore, it is essential that this matter be resolved by the Utah Supreme Court. Regardless, for a measly contribution of $20 per year four per cent of the legislators salaries of the then $500 yearly pay), a pension of $10 per month times each year of service (with a minimum of 4 years service required) can be received by each legislator starting at age 65. Starting retroactively in 1961, a legislator serving 8 years (through 1968) can receive a pension of $80 per month. Compare this with the-- state employe who may be earning $4,200 annually. At the same contribution rate of four per cent (or $168 per year) for the period from 1961 through 1968, the employee would be eligible to receive a mere $28 per month starting at age 65. This is, relatively, a gross injustice to the regular state employe and a fat, juicy bonanza to the legislators. People should be aware of this. People should inquire further about this and should act to end this irreverent abuse. -S- AMUEL S. TAYLOR 3682 S. 5th j ass sin Ne An 28- - I An she wh the sur of On sioi ser cal wo and for ' sw nai East Tired of Peaceniks By SYDNEY J. HARRIS The one cliche I cannot bear above all others is that human nature doesnt change. I am sure that is what one cannibal said to the other cannibal, when some daring soul proposed that they stop lui bla -- ALICE Another great value was place. Conservatives, especially, have tended to honor place home, village, region, deep roots, old trees, familiar scenes. No more. We have become a restless people, incessantly moving, packing bags, meeting planes; we are citizens of nowhere. What are the symbols of our age? The bottle, the mobile home. counter-trend- dei workers. to a third term, But one wonders, if whether Moss will continue his relentless assault upon the right to work? Or will Moss opponent, Rep. Burton, displace him, thus assuring that Utahs law will continue to be respected in Washington? culture based upon an utterly different value the value of transience. Paintings disintegrate, sculpture collapses into kindling, hit tunes leave no residue behind. throw-awa- mo tion, to be effective, cannot be limited to the schools. It must be the whole example society gives to its young people. Human nature will always contain badness and goodness, enmity and love, destruction and production. In this sense, we cannot change, we cannot eliminate, the possibilities of evil. But we can piace a premium on the constructive, the creative, and productive impulses of man by rewarding these impulses, end penalizing the sour notes. It is a difficult task, and it will never be wholly successful, but we must not blame our failure so far. on the fact that We human nature doesnt charge. know we can change it for the worse as some societies have done and so we can change it for the better. Our first step is to agree upon what kind of people we want to have; and, as in most things, the first step is half the distance. I was interested to read the recent account in your paper of the address given by Mrs. Esther Petersen to the Utah State AFL-CIconvention in Salt Lake .City. At one point, Mrs. Petersen said that the defeat of Sen. Moss would be as disastrous for the country as was the defeat r Sen. Ralph Yarborough of Texas. I think that Utah voters should remember that Sen. Yarborough was one of those senators that voted against the Supreme Court nominations of Judge Clement Haynsworth and Judge Harrold Carswell when President Nixon attempted to bring a conservative balance back to the court. Yet, this is the same man who was a strong supporter of Abe Fortas, who resigned from the court because of his unjudicial behavior. It is interesting to note that it was also this same Sen. Yarborough that has never given President Nixon an ounce of support in his conduct of the war in Vietnam, even though President Nixon is bringing troops home and starting to clean up the mess that was eight long years ir. the creating. Sen. Yarborough, like Sen. Moss, was financially supported by leftwing groups that obviously didnt represent the feelings of the voters of Texas, just as they do not represent the feelings of the voters of Utah. -R- EBECCA MORRELL ultra-liber- School For Luggage Handlers MARTHAS VINEYARD, MASS. -Many air travelers have noticed that their luggage has been getting more of a bashmg recently than it has in the past. This is no Most a c c ident. airline luggage handlers must now go to school before will an airline to allow them touch a piece of baggage. I was fortunate to visit the Dent Airline Luggage and Freight Handlers School in St. Louis last week. The Dent school trains most of the airline baggage handlers in the U.S. Mr. Dent, the founder and president of the school, took me out on a large playing field the size of a football gridiron. Several classes were in session. The teachers all wore baseball caps and sweat shirts and had whistles around their necks. The pupils were dressed in white coveralls. The first class we stopped to watch was throwing pieces of luggage to each other. All right, lets throw them a little harder, the coach yelled. What are you guys, a bunch of cream puffs? You there, Pitowsky. Youre not supposed to catch every bag. Drop a few. Pitowsky dropped the next one and it broke open scattering clothes ali over the field. Beautiful, the coach yelled. Now youve got it. We use real luggage, Dr. Dent said We simulate every possible sitproudly. uation a luggage handler will face. Rwm, youre catching the bags with ART BUCHWALD course, running the Mr. Dent on the luggage, the men then have to throw a bag 15 yards, kick a cosmetic After stomping said, the coach yelled. Youll never break any that way. How many times have I told you to use only one hand when trying to catch a piece of luggage? We walked on down the field and came to a tower. Several men were on the tower, dropping boxes marked fragile to the ground. The object of this exercise, said Mr. Dent, is for the men to get used to dropping fragile packages from great heights. But nobodys catching the packages, I said. Of course not, Mr. Dent chuckled. We went over to the coach who was inspecting each box after it dropped. Claremont, he yelled up to the tower, these scientific instruments are still intact. What are you using for a throwing arm? Threw them as hard as I could, Claremont yelled back. Well, put some spin on it the next time. Claremont threw another box and we heard the glass shattering. The coach nodded his head. two hands, Good boy. The next group we came to was running ar. obstacle course. Pieces of luggage were strewn cn the field and the men had to jump from one piece of luggage to another without their heavy boots hitting the ground. The hinges were broken on most of the bags and the locks wer crushed. 555 Needed! Tourist Parks 100-yar- d yards and thrust a sharp object through a canvas suitcase, blindfolded. Youre doing a wonderful work here, I told Mr. Dent. When a mail finishes our school, Mr. Dent said, as he picked up a broken camera that had fallen out of a bag, he is certified to work as a baggage handler for any airline in the world. case 25 GUEST CARTOON ' E. 1st South, No. 403 On Sept. 1, 1 read a very interesting article by Lee Jorgensen, director of the Utah Travel Council, on the seven million travelers who drive to Utah. This number of tourists could be doubled if we could elect to the state legislature some g men who would set up a system of public recreation areas for highway travelers. They could copy from Oregon and other progressive states which have set up a system of parks. Oregon operates its parks and maintains them with state rangers, for the small sum of $1 a day. Our trailer and camper tourists have to pull oft the side of the road at night. Parleys is packed overnight and other canyons are the same. Silver Creek Junction park has not been restored. Lets get the next legislature on the ball ar.d get some public recreation and overnight camping places for the tourist and stop fighting over a few pennies that we can sock them to park their cars on the city streets. right-thinkin- state-operate- d -F- k RED 2636 'Ht If rei I doc Wn eas fer em phj W. BENTiNE S. 17th East 0x3 aid Thanks To Saftair Group to According to the newspapers Saitair is seriously being considered for restoration. Happy day. Saitair is known and talked about the world over. Tourists, when out there, thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and when they got back home again they always remembered the good time they had at this ha: hoi isti OVi s resort. Great Salt Lake is unique to the entire world. Thanks be to the Saitair, Inc., group for keeping the Saitair restoration alive. Without their interest and enthusiasm, Saitair might well have been completely torn down. world-famou- High school kids on dope? Where do they get these wild ideas?" i Chrlitun Sdinct Monitor sin OVi me ovi cai -- GLEN DENTON 66 Lemon Flacij Th. Itc r |